prince have his style on guitar that we can recognise but does prince suprise you sometimes with something he played on guitar but you didn't think he could or he would play?

for example prince suprised me with his guitar solo on strollin' from budokan 2002 one nite alone tour.

prince usualy plays jazzy oriented licks when he plays jazz influanced music but the stuff he played that night on strollin' it was true jazz solo resembling george benson.

he also sprised me on indigo 28 08 2007 aftershow.i knew prince is great guitar player.
i have carefully to whole recording and prince played virtuoso rock guitar.

he played with fast support by cora on drums and josh on bass and he played agressive fast blues rock solos that can put some legendary power trio bands to shame.
and he didn't loose a point,every single phrase ,every single note.

He's Stellar.

Everytime I hear him play anything I haven't heard before, he just floors me. Honestly when I heard him play CREEP, I was amazed, just amazed. He gets better and better.

i'm always impressed when he tinkers with tht thing, especially when he can play AND when he does tht thing where he slicks his hair back - now tht is impressive & always 2 sexy 2 try & describe.

There's been a couple of times when Princey has surpised me on the guitar:

Anytime in the early days when he licked and/or molested it.

And the best guitar solo I've heard is the one in "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad". I remember just being mesmerized and in love with iton the record. Live is even better.

And anytime he breaks into the solo from Purple Rain--cliche I know, but classic--just the way he emotes, and wags his head and sucks on his lips and jumps around with the guitar--the man is feeling the funk.

Dayclear said:

I totally agree. His performance was absolutely beautiful. His voice and guitar playing was so amazing.

Not as much as when he sneaks up from behind me...

To be honest, a long time ago, I didn't really think he was a great guitarist. Not that he was bad, just not a GREAT guitarist.
That changed when I got..some...boot-er-stuff...
Alot of live material surprises me because he can will just lay something OUT. And I don't expect that from him.
And, its a strange thing about P, he seems like he can play guitar better than God...but doesn't.
Not often anyway. Does that make sense.
Anyway, another thing
I think that Prince has a very pretty kinda flowy style of playing, probably mostly like Santana. So when he busts out some straight up rock that surprises me as well. Theres a particular AfterShow from London last year but I forget the date. People refer to it as a mostly rock set.

pennylover said:

Agreed

Yes all the time

I am a sucker for his piano playing... but he does rock that guitar....

thebanishedone said:

I have seen him do Little Red Corvette at least 40 times since 1983 but the guitar solo at Coachella was amazing. I am never surprised that he can still stun me in a live performance on guitar - because he always has.
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TheUndulatingAcrobat said:

co - sign!!!!! it was amazing

Talkin about the song 'guitar' for a mo, he did surprise me at the 02 with that song as live it was so much better, i still had nightmarish visions of legs as guitars but even so he won through with his playing and thankfully for the most part the evil video has semi-vanished from my mind to be replaced with a much better memory of the live version!

I always loved him on guitar, but the aftershows at the Indigo left me gobsmacked.
And completely gave me goosebumps.

His versatility on the guitar is brilliant.

I love watching him live, those fingers just moving so easily and those funk faces, drives a girl insane. Up close and personal at the Indigo gave me goose bumps more than once

thebanishedone said:

HELL NO.BUT EDDIE HAZELL DOES.

pplrain said:

Me too!

Whenever I've seen him live though, his guitar playing always impresses!!

co-sign jackson35...P will even admit diggin' on Eddie Hazel's guitar licks back in the day.

Get It Up is still his best solo. America 12" and The War had some great solo work

lottielooloo1968 said:

No offense but any guitarist can probalby do that. Prince is amazing, but that's not the reason....

For the last 24 years, I have attended tens of his concerts and aftershows and I just have to say he gets better on the guitar everytime.

He was so good in the last two tours and aftershows that I saw him for the first time more as a proper great guitar hero than as the great stage performer he is.

the 2nd solo on "Joy in Repetition" on the ONA Live cd set-towards the end of that solo he did this incredible lick which just frankly blew me away!!!It seemingly came out of nowhere, and you could tell that he was really into it.

He is the master at his guitar

Just listen to Just My Imagination from the Fine Line Cafe performance and the same song from that after show party from 88

Volitan said:

actually i'm very offended cuz prince IS the master hair-slicker-backer, so 2 suggest that any guitarist can successfully perform such a manoeuver in the throes of perfection is a bit mean