What did you think of Prince's version of "Whole lotta Love" from the live at the Aladdin DVD? The guitar solo was AMAZING!!!! At the end of the song when he plays the guitar "without hands", is this comparable to the similar performance from the Musicology tour? (I wasn't lucky enough to catch the tour).
thx!!!

Mrok said:

Yeah I didn't catch the Musicology tour eaither but I do have this DVD. I love his version of "Whole lotta love" in fact it is crazy because that has always been my favorite Zepplin song covered by my favorite artist. Lucky me!!

every time i hear him do this cover - electric, acoustic, whatever - i go nuts for it. i was lucky enough to see it with my own eyes at the chicago aftershow, but my favorite performances of it were the toronto show where he and john blackwell went nuts on it for what seemed to be about 20 minutes, and the celly acoustic set, which i thought was just really a smooth performance in general.

i was VERY impressed with his rendition of the classic...i was in love with it and what he did with the guitar (the whole funeral bit lol) he did @ the show i was at too...i love how he experiments with different effects like that, so creative.

Mrok said:

R we talking about the Led Zeppelin tune?

AsianBomb777 said:

affirmative.

SammiJ said:

Oh My God, I just got an erection.

Is it good?

It's good , but he should've used his normal voice instead of the falsetto

AsianBomb777 said:

if you saw it you'd blow your load right where you are now.

SammiJ said:

Oh no, baby--I take it nice and slow.

That's why it takes so long for me to type these posts--I'm only using one hand.

AsianBomb777 said:

you only HAVE one hand.

Anxiety said:

You're stalking me again.

I actually found this version WEAK compared to the Xenophobia Celebration version. I was stoked to see it on the dvd then was totally disappointed after seeing it. Find the Xenophobia Celebration version, you won't be sorry.

I've always loved this song, and I love Prince doing it. But I've heard him do better performances of it than the Aladdin boot - he just doesn't let loose enough.

The best version of this that I have is from Club Vega Copenhagen

Right, the Aladdin performance is so-so compared to others, especially the 2002 celebration version and European afterhows.

soulyacolia said:

ditto on that.

The celebration versions (acoustic and plugged in) are also both very good.

I dig the Aladdin version, though, it is just not as good as the others listed above.

Later

I would've liked for the song to come back around after the weird part with the guitar solo like Zeppelin does. I think that's the best part of the song.

Also he can't quite scream it like Robert Plant.

Still, i think it's cool he did it at all.

I liked the Musicology version better, but maybe just cuz i was there!

His version doesn't really go anywhere when its plugged in, its more of jam. The unplugged version though was really special.