I've always wondered if these two paths have crossed? Both from Minnesota and both amazing guitar players. If you've never heard of Leo Kottke you should check him out. Most of his playing is on a 12 string guitar. Check out the album called "Greenhouse" its amazing.

I would love to hear Prince on a 12 string. Anyone know if he's recorded with one?

SexualSuicide said:

The video version of "4 The Tears In Your Eyes" has Prince playing a 12 String acoustic...

Neversin.

Neversin said:

Really?? Hmmm I never noticed...Thanks!

SexualSuicide said:

Funny you say that. I remember reading this.




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http://www.innerviews.org...ttke2.html




or some, your last record, Standing In My Shoes, stands out as one of the more incongruous releases in your catalog. I understand you disagree.

Yeah, it struck people that way. I don’t agree. For me, it’s more of the same old shit. [laughs] It’s just me again. It was a record I intended to make about 26 years ago with David Z. We were planning to do that and it would have been exactly the same record. On that album, I re-recorded "Standing In My Shoes" and "Vaseline Machine Gun"—which I wish I could re-title and I’ve tried. We did those because those were tunes David wanted to produce 26 years ago. But his career took off with Prince and it just never happened. So, the record that would have happened 26 years ago is the identical record that got made—the same kind of material and the same kind of production.



I was surprised at how funky some of the tracks on the record are.

That’s David’s thing and that’s what he was doing back then [26 years ago] too. He’d record in the studio at Sound 80 and then go check the bottom end at a gay bar downtown. It had the most reliable bottom end that he could find. [laughs] So, he and Prince would walk in there and put up their mixes and come back and tweak whatever they had to tweak. It was hard to get the subs right at Sound 80.

I recall that you had some run-ins with Prince at Sound 80 in those early days around 1972.

Oh yeah. I wish there were more of them. They were non run-ins. I would see him when he was about 16 or 17 working at Sound 80. He hadn’t released a record yet. He was just the shyest human I think I’ve ever known. He wouldn’t talk to you. It wasn’t because he was a snob—he was just uncomfortable with people. It was always a closed studio, but if he was working in the studio and you walked by him, you’d see him frequently playing with his back to the glass so he didn’t have to see people. I always heard a lot about Prince because he was the best friend of the younger brother of my best friend—a guy named Don Govan. They grew up together, so I knew a lot about him. He was in the studio a lot. He didn’t perform anywhere that I know of, but he must have been somewhere. He was a kid. Who was paying for that studio time? I still don’t know. A lot of people have recorded at Sound 80 and never let you know it. Kiss made a record there. They thought Minneapolis was too square to put on the back of their record.

Cool! Thanks for posting!!