Not sure if this has been posted before but here's Sonny T playing with Cory from Vulfpeck.....

https://www.youtube.com/w...l=CoryWong

Insane fingerstyle playing from Sonny on a track very reminiscent of Tower of Power and in fact Sonny's playing here reminds me of Fraanco Rocco Prestia

Nice ! Thanks for sharing.

Do you happen to be a bassist as well ?

Because I am not and I would like to know how Sonny was able to teach Prince on the bass even though he played left-handed and with five strings instead of four. That´s something that I , as a non-bass-playing layman, never quite understood.

Also, vice versa, how was he able to play Prince´s bass guitars during tours? Were they restringed for him for playing left-handed?

............Nassy Bass!!! Sonny T. is the GOAT of Minneapolis Bass!!!!

KoolEaze said:

Nice ! Thanks for sharing.

Do you happen to be a bassist as well ?

Because I am not and I would like to know how Sonny was able to teach Prince on the bass even though he played left-handed and with five strings instead of four. That´s something that I , as a non-bass-playing layman, never quite understood.

Also, vice versa, how was he able to play Prince´s bass guitars during tours? Were they restringed for him for playing left-handed?

Prince was alrady a Bass player. What do you mean teach Prince on the bass?

Also Sonny T had his own Bass Guitars...

[Edited 8/17/21 13:01pm]

Astasheiks said:

KoolEaze said:

Nice ! Thanks for sharing.

Do you happen to be a bassist as well ?

Because I am not and I would like to know how Sonny was able to teach Prince on the bass even though he played left-handed and with five strings instead of four. That´s something that I , as a non-bass-playing layman, never quite understood.

Also, vice versa, how was he able to play Prince´s bass guitars during tours? Were they restringed for him for playing left-handed?

Prince was alrady a Bass player. What do you mean teach Prince on the bass?

Also Sonny T had his own Bass Guitars...

[Edited 8/17/21 13:01pm]

Prince repeatedly called Sonny his biggest mentor and hero on the guitar and bass .

I´m not saying that he learned to play bass from Sonny but even André has said this a couple of times.

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I don´t remember the magazine´s name or date but there was a Prince interview where Prince praised Sonny and said he considered him one of his mentors or heroes and Sonny himself reacted very humbly and surprised when he was told about this by the reporter but I´m just paraphrasing here and may have to look up the exact wording again.

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And yes, I know he had his own guitars but I was referring to the four stringed ones that belonged to Prince, not Sonny´s five string bass guitars, though I can imagine he owns and plays four stringed bass guitars, too. That bass with the Gold lyrics painted on it for example belonged to Prince, but Sonny often played it in 1994 & -95. Or the Auerswald Cleo bass he played on stage, see link below.

Not saying he didn´t have his own bass guitars but just wondering, as a non-player myself , whether it´s difficult to play those same basses as a left-handed player, that´s all.

mrjj71 said:

Not sure if this has been posted before

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This site has a search engine.

https://prince.org/msg/5/465916

I don't know much about bass, but I do think the reference to Prince's idolizing Sonny or learning from him (in whatever ways he expressed it, and it did come up multiple times if I remember correctly) was directed to their younger days, like their teen years, back in the 70s. He knew how to play back then, and impressed our young hero. He stayed good, but I think Prince is talking about those early impressions more than anything else. No ideas as to the intricacies of left vs right-handed playing.