This is real funny (to me anyway);

I was playing some guitar last night, just fooling around and recorded a 15 minute improvisation and went to bed.
Today i came home from work and listened to what i had recorded. One part struck me as a real cool composition, so i trimmed the recording to just that part.

I listened and listened and suddenly it hit me that that particular piece was an exact copy of a Prince tune down to the note (mind you , i never bothered to learn that song).

So that is how the subconscious mind works...

Now see if anyone can guess what song it is!!

http://www.bigthing.net/p...around.mp3

Purple Rain, most definitely!


Peace,
JD

...Well, my guess would be "Welcome 2 The Dawn".

Purple Rain. But, I'm basing that on the tone, effects, etc. You playin a rickenbacker? stereo chorus, you're proabably wearing hot pants and sneakers, and have your hair all combed over to one side.

otan said:

Well, no, but you are giving me some serious image pointers

And we do not have a winner yet! , i can't believe you said purple rain Jason!

Picture the chords a little faster and with some matching piano. In fact i played the tune in question again and all the notes are correct.

Funny thing is , i never really cared for the song untill now

BTW i play a Les Paul with a digitech Valve FX Beau

Eternity?

DAMN! I wish I was home so I could listen and guess the song.

PR without a doubt.

This must be harder than i thought!

Especially with 9 seconds of a song!

Slave2daGroove said:

yeah - a snippet of 9 secs and we're playing name that P-tune.
OH SHIT. A CASE OF U.

otan said:

Close, because it's almost the same chord progression.

BTW slave, the whole song is just a repetition of what i put in the mp3..., i thought it was pretty boring to put up 3mins of that without vocals... (and believe me, you do not want to hear me sing )
[This message was edited Tue Jul 22 13:00:57 PDT 2003 by BigThing]

hey BIGTHING,
put the cords on th eorg. so I can play it on my own guitar,to get a live feeling in it.

o (open)
o
6
7
7
5

(A9 or something)

o (open)
o
6
7
7
4

(A9/Ab or something)

o
o
2
2
x
2

(A9/F# or something like that)

0
0
1
2
2
0

(E)

i dunno..."4the tears In Ur 's"

My guitar player friend thinks it's God, but I looked at the sheet music and I'm not so sure.

OH COME ON MAN! Give it up! What song?

otan said:

case of you was joni mitchel

Nice tune Bigthing. I too have done this many times. Record a tune for hours, feel really pleased with it & then realise its someone elses, normally Prince

let's go down to the holy river...

A,Abm#5,Gbm7
It´s the same chords as Prince version of
"A case of U" the way he play it with the guitar
in the intro at First Avenue 1983.The same progression
I think.
/peace Manki

manki said:

It's the same progression except the First Avenue recording is in D.. D D/Db /Bm etc...

BigThing said:

So it's Holy River?



Damn, you could have given us a year as a clue! We were all hanging around 84-85!!!

Oh. a song off of Ecrapcipation.

I think I heard it maybe once. Sorry - hated that wrecka.

I'm sticking to "A Case of You", even if it's in a different key, it's STILL A Case of You!

otan said:

Yeah, i bought Emancipation at full price when it first came out, listened to it about 3 times and decided it wasn't very good.

Over the years i played it a couple of times and started to appreciate a few songs. If prince had applied some more quality control he could have squeezed 1 good disc out of it all.