This is ABSOLUTE bullshit. It doesn't even deserve a response it's so stupid. I'm a guitarist of 15 years experience and I can tell you that Prince plays every lick, one only needs to watch his hands.....fucking STUPID DICKHEADS who say he can't play!

Why are there so many morons out there?!!!!!

Bow to Me and my Eyebrows and the greatness of MrDespews

Byron said:

and isn't he part fillipino?

Anyone who truly believes that Prince fakes his guitar work on stage needs to read the recent cover story of him in Guitar Player Magazine. .

Yes. And you know what? That isn't his real voice either. it's Jamie Starrs!

VINCENT said:

Electrofunk? Man please Prince just made a few nice pop/funk songs
in the 8ties but he is not a genius. Maybe he is a workaholic but that
does not make him a genius. Get over your fixation, please.

Not many musicians are geniuses and Prince isn't one of them!

apple2 said:

My sweet, if you're gonna quote me please make it representative of what I actually said instead of leaving out my response, which was: That guy is a fucking riot!

howcomeudontcallme said:

Well now wait a minute. If the action is low enough it wouldn't take much effort at all to play hammer ons and pull offs which might explain the apparent lack of obvious movement. Possible?

I do not think that this is true at all. HOWEVER, on stage Prince has mimed his guitar to a pre-recorded DAT on the odd occasion. For example, on the livesexy video, During the redition of 'lets go crazy'. At one point, Prince is at centre stage and he is squated down to the floor with his right hand supporting the weight of his body behind him on the floor. A rapid fire guitar line kicks in, Prince is not playing his guitar though! Realising that he has missed his cue (u can tell by his reaction), he quickly resumes to mimimg the line, albeit too late.

Prince Fakes His Guitar Playing

I think Carlos Santana would disagree with that.

CynthiasSocks said:

While i dismiss the initial comments made by 'Byron' that Prince cannot play guitar, i do believe the comments made by 'Howcome' to be true having spent the time to check the evidence he has offered everybody to check for themselves. While he stresses that prince is in fact a great musician, he also suggests that prince has, on the ODD OCCASION, mimed particular parts of his guitar playing.

He has provided Solid evidence to his claim (video tape) whilst at the same time offered possibilities as to alternate explanations to the 'miming theory', and further evidence showing the weaknesses of these potenial explanations

Unlike most, i checked the evidence and saw with my own eyes that prince did in fact mime the particular part mention by 'Howcomeudontcallme'. I recommend that Doubters do the same instead of the constant and often unsupported claims that 'Prince has never mimed...he's above that etc etc...'
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I don't think anyone on this board believes that Prince never mines. Sometimes you have to for T.V and he does sing and dance and uses a back-up guitarist. I think the poster from the messge board is just flat out saying Prince mines because he can't flat out play.

It seems to be a lot of hating on P's ability as a musician amoung musicians on these boards.

I am sure that when Prince critical of miming he is refering to artist who mime 24-7 and some of them don't do any dancing.

Check the evidence provided then make up your own mind

Be warned though: Just like with your woman, it will make you sad when u find he's faking it

CynthiasSocks said:

While i dismiss the initial comments made by 'Byron' that Prince cannot play guitar, i do believe the comments made by 'Howcome' to be true having spent the time to check the evidence he has offered everybody to check for themselves. While he stresses that prince is in fact a great musician, he also suggests that prince has, on the ODD OCCASION, mimed particular parts of his guitar playing.

He has provided Solid evidence to his claim (video tape) whilst at the same time offered possibilities as to alternate explanations to the 'miming theory', and further evidence showing the weaknesses of these potenial explanations

Unlike most, i checked the evidence and saw with my own eyes that prince did in fact mime the particular part mention by 'Howcomeudontcallme'. I recommend that Doubters do the same instead of the constant and often unsupported claims that 'Prince has never mimed...he's above that etc etc...'

During that time, Prince began experimenting with samples by sampling certain parts of songs in concert and playing over the sample to make the sound thicker. Could this explain that moment in the Livesexy video? That he just forgot to play over a sampled part? If so, this is different from miming. His intention would be to use electronics to enhance the live music, not to replace it.


Check the evidence provided then make up your own mind

Be warned though: Just like with your woman, it will make you sad when u find he's faking it

CynthiasSocks said:

While i dismiss the initial comments made by 'Byron' that Prince cannot play guitar, i do believe the comments made by 'Howcome' to be true having spent the time to check the evidence he has offered everybody to check for themselves. While he stresses that prince is in fact a great musician, he also suggests that prince has, on the ODD OCCASION, mimed particular parts of his guitar playing.

He has provided Solid evidence to his claim (video tape) whilst at the same time offered possibilities as to alternate explanations to the 'miming theory', and further evidence showing the weaknesses of these potenial explanations

Unlike most, i checked the evidence and saw with my own eyes that prince did in fact mime the particular part mention by 'Howcomeudontcallme'. I recommend that Doubters do the same instead of the constant and often unsupported claims that 'Prince has never mimed...he's above that etc etc...'


Check the evidence provided then make up your own mind

Be warned though: Just like with your woman, it will make you sad when u find he's faking it

Anyone who truly believes that Prince fakes his guitar work on stage needs to read the recent cover story of him in Guitar Player Magazine. In that article, the author, who is one of the magazine's senior editors, raves about what a "shred-monster" Prince can be on stage. He also raves about the way he plays funk on this tour. If anyone can detect finger-synching at a live show, it would be a senior editor of Guitar Player Magazine.

Also, anyone who's seen the Musicology tour knows this charge is baseless. For instance, he plays different leads during "Controversy" every night. In the shows I've seen, the difference has been radical on some nights. And, as someone else pointed out, the acoustic section is different every night.

Those of us who have followed Prince for 20+ years understand that people have always tried to discredit his guitar playing. There have always been plenty of people in this country--most whom I suspect are macho white heterosexual male bigots--who just refuse to believe that Prince is as good of a lead guitarist as he is. I don't know if its because of his race or that he's not macho enough or that he doesn't feel the need to rip through a every pentatonic scale at lightning speed on every song he records, but I've known plenty of jerks in my lifetime who have just refused assess his guitar work objectively. I had hoped that this kind of narrow-minded crap died with the '80s, our country's last golden era of bigotry, but apparently it still lives.

... and i have the Roswell bodies in my backyard

and sorry i had to say soomethin;



So they DID FIND weapons of mass destruction in Iraq then? Great! where?
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PRNelson said:

During that time, Prince began experimenting with samples by sampling certain parts of songs in concert and playing over the sample to make the sound thicker. Could this explain that moment in the Livesexy video? That he just forgot to play over a sampled part? If so, this is different from miming. His intention would be to use electronics to enhance the live music, not to replace it.

Anyone who truly believes that Prince fakes his guitar work on stage needs to read the recent cover story of him in Guitar Player Magazine.



And anybody who doesnt believe that Prince HAS faked his guitar playing on stage at some point should watch the performance i mentioned earlier.