woogiebear if there wasn't for prince
there would never be jesse johnson,
prince bought him ticket for one of the funkiest rides ever- the time.
you said :who does PRINCE CITE

in prince's guitar playing you can clearly hear hendrix,santana,george benson,ike turner ,tony maiden from ruffus ,guitar player from rock band boston,you can hear ernie isley also.

the less notable but still present guitar players prince eches are tommy bolin(the stratus guy),guitar player from grand funk railroad.
obvius influances;
everlasting now -santana
lets go crazy -hendrix

joy in repetition from one nite alone aftershow -ernie isley

creamy instrumental-benson

rock'n'roll is alive-steve vai

dinner with dolores-solo is simular to guitar
player from boston.
also dueling guitar harmonising
that prince likes to do sometime like in why you wanna treat me so bad that stuff he picked up from thin lizzy.

so i think its very ignorant to say that prince only emulates santana in his playing.
jesse is amazing but prince is freak from another planet.

guitar is much more then fast repetition of some pentatonic scale variation.

when u listrento jesse's soloing you hear great improvisation,but when you listen to prince beside great improvisation you hear very beatuful and haunting melodies that only prince can come up with...

thebanishedone said:

yeah.....it's ignorant of prince to not acknowledge all his "influences"

and yeah.....it's true that jesse is in the time.....he's that damn good!!!!!
so good that prince had to resume to hoe ass sh*t like handcuffing the man backstage so he wouldn't "cut 'em"!!!!!
there's no denying that jesse johnson is the real deal!!!!!
point blank & simple!!!!!
don't get me wrong- i love prince as a guitarist as well. but if there were cards on the table.....all my bets are on jesse!!!!!

CUT 'EM JESSE!!!!!

i just finished listening to get it up live from roxy in la 1982 and jesse played good solo but i dont find it better then prince's original solo on get it up.

in the end we cant get to conclusion who plays better it's a matter of personal prefference but
there is one fact also,
big amount of guitar freaks and
people who dig prince and know he is great guitar player,while jesse is only known in prince related circles.
i know there are a lot of better musicians then prince but realy prince and jesse can't realy compare .

best jesse's material sounds like carbon copy of prince's music.

and it only relates to one aspect of prince's sound funk and rnb ,jesse didnt venture to 5 procent of the opus prince have in his catalog.
jesse is great but in music world he is just where he deserves to be.

torrasball prince blows all jesses career with his power trion indigo 28 08 aftershow

toras ball i agree that lot of prince guitar solos on studio cuts are simple.
but is that wrong?
prince is a producer and guitar is just one colour of the song.

for example i could never take the place of your man have very simple yet very effective guitar solo.tell me that u would change anything in that solo.
prince compliments the song with the vision he have in his had.

for example live recording of nothing compares 2 u from hits b sides ,prince could lay amazing solo because of that beautiful melody but instead he let candy dulfer wail on saxophone and she did very passionate and great solo.

but when prince wants to cut it he do it,get it up by the time.that guitar solo is one of the best guitar solos why dont you pick up that solo by ear,it wont be that simple as you say.

jesse johnson have his space in music , he had his chance to become one of the biggest names in popular music but he didn't.

many people here try to act cool by putting prince down and his music.but prince was and is respected by many serous jazz musicians that have cover or

played prince's songs musicians like marcus miller who said that prince is one of his main influances on his bass playing,miles davies ,herbie hancock,bob belden.

jesse is great great great but i wouldnt compare prince and jesse at all.

thebanishedone said:

I don't think anyone is really putting Prince down. We are all fans, otherwise, we probably would not be here. I think most of us are just giving Jesse his due. Sure, Prince is arguably the greatest complete musician/artist of our time. Some of us just believe that Jesse may be the better guitarist. There is plenty of room in the 'musical universe' to accommodate both of them.

- JD

eric clapton knows who is better beetween jesse and prince :there is one in every crowd

BlaqueKnight said:

LMAO!!!