They're after seeing him in the RR HOF performance, the SNL performance, and someone linking to the American Bandstand performance when he refused to talk to Dick Clark...there's even a video of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as played on a ukulele.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/49028


Favorite quote:

"I'm not a fan of prince's music (with certain exceedingly rare exceptions) but if I saw a flyer for an all guitar wailing night of prince performances, I'd sell a nut to go. The man, when he wants to be, is simply inhumanly badass. Imagine being that full assed badness, and HIDING it, except for incredibly rare live performances where you just unleash the ass of badness on an unsuspecting crowd, just so you could be like, "Yeah, I got that, too."

I mean, I'm a straight guy and everything, but DAMN my panties got wet watching that."


If this has been posted already, whoops...

I think lots of people think like this guy and would have the same reaction after ´While my guitar gently weeps / Fury´ stuff:

"Wow. Prince is a fucking badass on guitar. I had no idea. I remembered the wankfest at the end of "Let's Go Crazy", but I never thought too much about it as it seemed pretty pointless to moving the song, and didn't demonstrate any more proficiency/taste than the average metal guy that hangs out at Manny's on 48th street and demos guitars all day long.

I have heard, as we all have, the old "Prince is a musical genius" saw parroted for as long as I can remember, but it never meant much to me. I always associated him with lightweight, oversexed pop. Not my thing.

What he's playing on this link (as well as the SNL link) is extremely tasty. I'd even be convinced to pick up an album of his if it contained more guitar oriented stuff. Can anyone make a recommendation?"

LOL, some funny comments. Here is one:

"I feel like I've just been hit by a Mack truck made out of rock!"

Two of my recent faves are:

“Prince is the Chuck Norris of Rock and Roll delivering roundhouse
kicks to your ears with his sweet ass guitar!”

and my most recent signature, which I had to abbreviate so that it would fit--here's the whole quote:

"Prince is just a badass pimp mother fucker. That's it. HE MADE THE GUITAR PLAY ITSELF!! He's such a badass that I'm not even disappointed he didn't appear in his own sketch. I just figure it's part of his master pimp plan. If he had gone into "1999" after the last song I would've came right there on the spot, swear to god. Prince owns my ass and yours. That is all."

Wow, thanks for this link. I hope he has an idea about how much he kicked ass that night. One quote: "I'd watch it again, but I'm afraid I might die."

And you KNOW it's true!


And jone70, that is the quote of the year! My sig is from the same board I think, it warmed my heart reading that!

I added that link to my favorites and will now look at it every day.



In fact, when I'm done surfing the Inet I WILL watch the RnR HallofFame again...

You should send this guy the Prince performances on the Undertaker video, if he wants badass guitar wank. Also, the crazed gittar on the NPG music club release of him doing The Question Of U/Fallin live from Paisley.

Holy shit, I don't see one diss.

2freaky4church1 said:

There are several on that thread, keep reading...lol

calldapplwondery83 said:

I got it from: http://www.aintitcool.com...i?id=22378 It's a little past half way down the thread.

I also saw a funny one the Bruce Springsteen site (the link was posted here--I'm not down with the Boss) that said something to the effect of, "Bruce isn't even qualified to be Prince's guitar tech."

Yes, I loved the comments on that board.. "it's part of his master pimp plan!"


As good as everything I read on this site!

Just my luck, you have to pay to post there. shit.

Byron said:

Thanks for the link!! That thread also has some classic posts. I love these:

"Game....blouses.

"Also, when he tossed his guitar in the air, where the fuck did it go? This Prince; he's Magic"

"While my guitar gently, but very very quickly, vaporizes."

"After watching this video for the second time, I think I've figured out what it is we're all respoding to...Prince plays guitar the way we do whenever we daydream about being a guitar player. I swear I played that exact solo the other day waiting for my laundry to finish." <-- this one especially cracks me up. Boys are funny.

Someone from here really needs to log on and explain about Takumi (or whatever the guitar tech's name is) catching the guitars. They are all convinced it vanishes into thin air! Poor naive kids.

It's great to see people finally realize what most of us here already know--that he's a maniac on the guitar, but it's also frustrating he's been around for 35 years and so many people have no clue what they're missing.

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