Canny voice and everything, but she barely knew which end of the guitar to hold, and at one point I swear she was miming a rhythm part.

Kind of pissed me off when he then shouted "Real Music By Real Musicians!"

i've always been of two minds about her. there are videos that pre-date Prince where she's playing and singing well enough. There is the 'yellow gold', 'people pleaser' videos where she's pretty good. And Then yeah everything i have seen of her with P,she looks lost. there was one video where he had to trun here guitar on for her and I remeber thinking WTF! the difference in acoustic and electric is not that big but you do have to turn it on!.

wavesofbliss said:

i've always been of two minds about her. there are videos that pre-date Prince where she's playing and singing well enough. There is the 'yellow gold', 'people pleaser' videos where she's pretty good. And Then yeah everything i have seen of her with P,she looks lost. there was one video where he had to trun here guitar on for her and I remeber thinking WTF! the difference in acoustic and electric is not that big but you do have to turn it on!.

That´s something I never understood about Andy.

She did play guitar well enough before joining Prince´s band, and I liked the acoustic songs she did with Prince, and I also like her on AOA and she has this amazing song called This Feeling (with Miguel Migs, house music) but during those two years and two tours she looked so clueless on stage, whether she was "playing" guitar or drawing pictures, just very out of place and clueless even though she is obviously capable of both, playing guitar and singing. I actually happen to like her raspy voice.

But, speaking of singing...she also looked a bit nervous and was barely audible during the Melkweeg show in Amsterdam.

Maybe she was just nervous when he´s share the stage with her?

It´s still a mystery to me.

Andy definitely wasn't a strong guitarist initially, however, she has improved greatly overtime. Acoustic suits her much more than electric, however, having seen her live, it's clear Prince taught her a great deal. Let's be clear though, I'm pretty sure he took her under his wing partly because he was attracted to her, perhaps they fell in love. That's also pretty clear looking back at the W2Europe videos.

I do think for what she lacked in musicianship, she made up for in personality and she was a great collaborator. I really love Superconductor and the duets she did with Prince are classic in my opinion. Aside from the music, I think she influenced him aesthetically and he looked really happy around the 2011-2012 time period. Dare I say they looked happy together.

i confess i've given 'superconductor' another listen and most of it's grown on me. her acoustic stuff is a little weak but i love 'nothing more'.

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