we always talk about the best this,best that.
every now and then best guitar solos topic
come out by old and new orgers.

but how many times we disscused prince's guitar solo's that don't sound so good???

there is no argument ,
prince is a great guitar player ,
but even great players have bad nites.
so please,
post your thoughts
on his worst guitar solos with your comments
why you think like that.

my list of worst guitar solos is:

1) fly away(live version from rave 2000 p2p dvd)-absolutley the worst ,
no melody no structure ,it's very anticlimax,nothing.

2)automatic-very sloppy i don't sound like prince

3) purple rain (live rave 2000 dvd)-probably the worst version of purple rain)

4) loose(he could have done much better then play
old chuck berry riff over and over again).

5)come on(where are the good licks)?

this is my list for now.i also must admitt that i haven't heard bad guitar solo by prince since 2001.

so no bad guitar solos by prince?

bad guitar solo? huh?

He's obviously a great guitarist, but on the one occasion when I did get to see him play live (Wembley Arena, UK, circa 1998, I think), his improvised solos were very uninspired. Just noodling with no real spark at all. I was quite surprised - I expected to be blown away but I wasn't.

RocknRollDave said:

Was it the Jam of the Year tour?

That totally sucked.

I mean, you were really unfortunate to pick that one. Worst Prince tour i've been to by a mile.

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TheFrogSpawn said:

I think so...on the back of the shite New Power Soul album The drummer he had at the time was rubbish too - coming in between Michael Bland and John Blackwell too...tsk!

When he played The One, I swear the whole arena collectively fell asleep.

Quite an underwhelming intro to the world of Prince concerts.







...AND we ran out of Golden Drummers! Mum....it's good to be 'ome..
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well you can't win them all...he's not a puppet ya know!!

heybaby said:

Silly me, I should be happy to spend a small fortune to go and see an experienced, lauded, professional musician on the assumption that he may not be very good after all...

RocknRollDave said:

yup, i was pissed too. it was a shite concert.

Every single other one of his i've been too has been excellent, but this one sucked (Let's work perhaps the only redeeming performance).

He just wasn't on form / interested / interesting / whatever.

TheFrogSpawn said:

I have seen a few artists/ bands where this has been the case..I have seen one band in particular (naming no names) 9 times, of which some have been amazing, some quite good, some average and some useless
Prince, on the other hand, is one person I thought I could really expect to be on form every time.


To be fair, it wasn't all bad news, and I still came away glad to have seen him perform and all that, but still.....

RocknRollDave said:

heyyy take it or leave it baby!

RocknRollDave said:

name names!

is it the Manics?

i think li'l fella was going through a bad patch at the time.

A lot of the music was really sub-standard for him. He looked terribly ill and gaunt. He'd lost his child in tragic circumstances.

I dunno. It just wasn't happening. He was a totally different guy when he came back and played the One Nite Alone Tour.

TheFrogSpawn said:

Yes.

How did you get that so quickly..?

RocknRollDave said:

I just remember you mentioning them a few times in the past, that's all.

TheFrogSpawn said:

Hate to say it but even Morrissey has been a bit off form before now too...

i don't think that prince had any, all of his guitar solos were good

Thataintfunky, you talk as FUNK is the only thing that Prince can do in the aspect of good musical things. Well, your nick here explains it all.

Orgasm is a deliberately bad guitar solo , apart from that I honestly cant think of another one that springs to mind .I was never too impressed with the live version of "The One " also that someone already said.

I think some of his live soloing pre-Purple Rain wasn't all that (did he even play any solos on the Controversy/1999 tours). I don't know which one it was, NYC 1980 or The Ritz 1980, but he messes up a little there.
But I find his playing generaly pretty impressive.




... a thoguht just crossed my mind, and I'll propably be banned forever for saying this, but I don't think the Undertaker performance is all that. I mean, Bambi sounds great but that's mainly due to the rhythm section. I think he did that one much better. The Ride aswell.

moonshine said:

The guitar solo of 'Orgasm' is a sample of the ending of 'Private Joy' from the album 'Controversy' and it kicks ass!

Yes, a "thoguht" is a creepy monster from the next Star Wars and it jut crossed my mind!

Cheek said:

Oh aye , I forgot that , still not a fave of mine though

I think EVERY guitar solos by Prince are great, he never disappoints me...

you ask if prince played guitar live in the early live shows?
of course he did .not only did he play lead guitar,
he played guitar in almost every song in 1980-early 1982 time period.
i heard new york and ritz 1981 and both are great.
great guitar playing.
in that early period he played better guitar then in some latter periods.
maybe the reaSON was because in the beging he played all the time.

Well, it's too quiet in the mix on Purple Rain.

7salles said:

Prince's non-funk songs are no better than any other great songs ...
Prince's FUNK had no competition in the 80's!!!