Anyone still doubts Prince is not a master on guitar? Ok, let's check it out. Here you have Steve Vai talking about Prince. Conclusion? Steve is a Prince fan, like all of us.

Here the link:

http://www.ballbusterhard...2/vai.html


You can read the full interview, but here you have the "most interesting part".

Vai: (...) Like I adore Frank Zappa. I really love Prince.

Q: Did you hear Prince's version of Tender Surrender? (Prince covered this song of Steve's live in concert and the show ended up on a bootleg cd)

Vai: Oh yeah!

Q: Did that blow your mind?

Vai: Blow my mind are you kidding? I almost died!! I was in Japan and I found this bootleg, and I remember seeing that there was a song called Tender Surrender, and my first thought was "of course there is a song called Tender Surrender on here, because it's a really cool name, and It sounds like something Prince would come up with!" All I thought was is "Prince is going to get credit for such a cool title!" Then later, I was listening to the cd, I just forgot about it, and then the song came on, and I just thought "No. It CAN'T be! It CANNOT be!" I just stopped, I got up, my wife was with me, it was four o'clock in the morning, and I said "you are NOT going to believe this!!" I turned the light on and looked at the cd an it said Tender Surrender (written) by Steve Vai. I started pacing the hallway! I was like "this can't be happening!" Then I remembered that I had sent (him) a copy of Tender Surrender.

Q: Didn't you play for Prince at Paisley Park, but he watched from some booth or something?

Vai: He was watching us on a video (monitor) while we played.

Q: Then didn't he just send someone down to get your number?

Vai: Yeah.

Q: So you never even met him?

Vai: I did meet him a while after that on the last G3 tour he was playing in town also. He held court in a club. I got in.

Q: Talk about heavy cats!

Vai: He's as heavy as it gets!

Q: I'm SCARED of him!

Vai: I'm scared too. He was an unbelievable gentleman. He really made me very very comfortable and happy.

Q: Did you ask him about Tender Surrender?

Vai: I kind of started to, but it was part of a bootleg, and he's really against bootlegs so...

I really enjoyed that. It was a good read...alwayz cool 2 see a artist like Vai give a slice of his thoughts life and feelings regarding Prince.

He's held "high" with Vai with much respect. It would B nice 2 see other players like him give up the contest 4 a second putting down the cockiness 2 pay respect without being selfish.

G3 Tour, would have love 2 had went. I got tons of respect 4 all 3 of them cats. If anyone went and seen Satriani Vai & Johnson...would love thoughts on that show and maybe who U thought was the best 2 U.

who would win a guitar duel...

i think prince never played "tender surrender".
i'm pretty sure prince played .
"villanova junction" beutiful jimi hendrix instrumental.
steve vai tryied to copy villanova junction.
but he never did it great.
steve's version is way too polished,
hendrix version
and prince's are pure emotion.

Tender Surrender ? What boot are we talking about here ?