Who said he can't play guitar on this thread?? I think It's been said just the opposite but anyway, all I wanted to say is that I saw a performance that I thought it was live and maybe it wasn't, just that.

I think you read the thread you want to read

He can play guitar so whats really the point of looking at all his performances of where he might of faked or had back up,next people will be looking at when he faked a smile on stage.

I think The Chronic is actually playing the parts backstage, but Chronic waxes P's ass so bad, P can't even mime that shit right! (damn never thought I'd miss that guy one day but threads like these make me)

DorothyParkerWasCool said:

But the real point of this thread is how does that acclaim prove he wasn't miming the Leno performance?

You were NOWHERE near the point with your original post. Nobody ever said he was faking the accoustic set or whatever yous said at the show you went to it was brought up that he was faking during the Leno show.

You might want to consider reading a thread before posting in the future.

people,people,people why are you getting so upset about prince faking his guitar playing? whether he's faking or really playing it, really doesn't matter because it's his guitar playing music that we hear not someone else's.so if it's prerecorded so be it.

hectim said:

You miss the Chronic , I actually think he can be found on this thread http://www.prince.org/msg/100/105413

elvis played better than prince right?

This subject is definetely going to have 2 or 3 more threads on it I can see.

Prince isnt faking his guitar playing...thats nonsense.

OK, I remember watching the Prince and the Revolution Live video from the Purple Rain tour at Syracuse and I seem to remember noticing his guitar wasn't even plugged in.

At first I put it down to the radio mic, but then you still need a jack lead going into the guitar which connects to the radio pack.

I haven't seen it for a long time so I might have to dig it out to check but can anyone confirm this?

CherrieMoonKisses said:

Have you watched the show in question or are you just assuming that we are saying he always fakes it?

ELBOOGY said:

- Typical asskisser comment. Nobody here dissed Prince as a guitar player. You probably didnt even read the thread, only the title.

AndyParkin said:

-----so what youre suggesting here is that prince was possibly faking the guitar parts for a song lasting 18mins.24secs, , THIS THREAD HAS GONE TO FAR! STOPPPPP PLZ. ITS ALL BULLSHIT.

You guys are fucking morons...Let this go and move on already!
YES, HE DOES ON OCCASION LIP-SYNC AND USE PRE_RECORDED TRACKS DURING LIVE AND TAPE PERFORMANCES. A LOT OF MUSICIANS DO IT.

Let us not forget that Prince does have another guitarist in the band. Wasn't he on Leno? I forget. He was definitely helping during the acoustic part of the concert I saw. So not every guitar sound will be made by Prince's pick striking the strings.

And on Live at the Aladdin, at the end of 1+1+1=3 his guitar is slightly out of tune. He ends the song right after this is apparent. I don't think he would pre-record out of tune in order to sound authentic.

I don't think it really matters, whether he uses samples/pre-recorded parts on TV performances. TV's a unique kind of medium for music performances anyway, so as long as he gives us viewers an interesting version of the song, which has perhaps been "recorded live" at Paisley, and a good visual performance to go with it, I'm quite happy...

I mean, jeez, if we're going to go through all the stuff on TV that's not "real", we'll be here a long time....

Hey folks....let´s just relax a bit
It was ONLY an observation about the Leno performance.
This thread never had the intention of dissing Prince´s skills as a musician. It was only a note about something that happened on Leno. I had the same feeling about SOTT movie.

AndyParkin said:

I just watched that tape the other day, and his guitar is definitely plugged in. It's amazing to watch that video and then the Livesexy video and see how much his playing improved over 3 years.

To end all this nonsense, yes of course he has pre-recorded some of these performances. Alot, of the time it is when he is breaking in a new band. But, to end all the talk about his greatness, who the fizzy was shredding the guitar during the Rock 'n' Roll hall of Fame? Who basically sent the message to all the non-believers after While my guitar gently weeps that they should burn their guitars forever forget about even strumming again? Let me help u, it was Prince!!!!! He is the greatest ever. And I'll even quote him, His only comp, is him in th past..and after seeing him here in NYC, he is better than he was back then, at least live..the studio Prince will never equal the one from the 80's. -kk

newdawn said:

Absolutely true
Few remember that he has promised never to play his hits again only to go on tour and then play them. Happened after Purple Rain and during his Slave days

DorothyParkerWasCool said:

Love your reply! But the fact that there are people that sit and watch his every and I do mean EVERY single move that closely to know whether or not he's playing live on a tv show, says waaaay more about his talent then you or I ever could!

GustavoRibas said:

No i'm not an ass kisser and i did read the thread. I watched the damn tape and since i'm a musician myself i say that the band is playing live and there is no evidence in the footage when i slowmo& zoom in on P and replay that he missed a note or that there's a backing tape playing! I don't see or hear the Phantom notes!

So, Prince may have mimed a live performance or two. He plays live at all his concerts which is more than I can say for half the morons....erm, I mean "artists" that are out right now, who are half his age. He can fake play his guitar until he's blue in the face, but we all know that he actually played the guitar on that track that he's supposedly fake stringing over. He can lip-sync his lyrics if he feels the urge, because at least he wrote them without the help of three other songwriters and 5 other producers. I'm still trying to figure out why this is such a big deal all of a sudden. This is the second thread this week with this subject matter. Throughout his almost 30 year-spanning career, he's performed the large majority of his live performances without the help of pre-recordings. Maybe he couldn't play that night because he sprained his wrist or finger in rehearsal. Does that mean that he now has no credibility as a great guitar player? Well, after that RRHOF performance, I personally could careless if he pulled a banana out of his ear and turned it into a white bunny. After the RRHOF performance, he can go on every talk show and fake play his guitar for the rest of the year and still be 10 times better than all the other "artist" that are out now. His split ends have more talent than the garbage that's on the radio now.