do you find some prince guitar riffs that can go shoulder to shoulder with black knight from deep purple or some other essencial guitar riffs?
i would say

bambi-

lets go crazy

guitar

computer blue

i wanna be your lover-althought its disco

when you were mine

I believe there is a nice solo at the end of "America.." right?

not guitar solo,guitar riffs like
smoke on the water by deep purple or owners of the lonley heart by yes
or paranoid by blck sabbath

thebanishedone said:

Very good choice of tunes. They are all classic in terms of riffs.
Remember when he played that outro riff in "peach" in 1993? It must have been so classic to him that he turned it into a song : Chaos and Disorder.
There are a lot more i think...

Joy In Repetition, especially the 2nd solo.

thebanishedone said:

Yeah, maybe if The Edge hadn't written it first.

yeah chaos and disorder classic guitar riff,endorphin machine also

guitar? edge?

Kiss

DMSR

kenlacam said:

Hello? Anybody home?
Riffs.
Like riffs on a guitar.
Smoke on the water. Smells like Teen spirit.
Riffs,

notsolos, ok?

Cloreen Bacon Skin


haha so funny

NOT!

seriously though
i like it there

and many that you all already listed

There are two great ones in Electric Chair.

i like it there is great hard rocking song but riff is not that recognisable

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Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad

I don't think of him as a great riffmaker, but he has some signature guitar sounds, like:

Kiss--opening chord with the wah wah
When Doves Cry--opening line
Purple Rain--opening chords

honorable mentions

The Truth--nice blues line
Zannalee
3rd Eye
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NDRU said:

I am not a guitar player, but I think the opening of Kiss is without Wah Wah.... the Wah Wah comes in during the guitar break afer "little girl Wendy's Parade". The riff you're talking about is James Brown style chicken grease guitar.

Opening of PR is a good call. But isn't Wendy actually palying it? Since it comes from the Avenue concert (her debut) and on the PR DVD someone comments that it was Wendy's idea to play the chord as a suspended Bb (I think sus2 to be exact).

i don't belive it was wendy's iudea to play sus2 chords because prince started playing purple rain chords during 1999 tour.
and you can find recording of purple rain from 1999 tour rehearsals and dez was playing that rhythm guitar part the same as wendy did one year latter

thebanishedone said:

Really? I didn't know they exist that early.

but 1) was Dez plaything sus2? it's not always the most clearly audible difference esp on a live boot.

2) wendy was hanging around by that time and could've suggested it

3) it's what she says on the DVD so I guess you are saying she's lying
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prince's guitar riffs are often doubled with keyboards so it's hard 2 say straight out riffs over chords progressions.

so besides bambi, i'm yours and y u wanna treat me so bad it's hard 2 pick one

GaryMF said:

Listen again to Kiss. The opening chord has a slow wah effect though it. It's different from the same chord when it's played in the chorus before "kiss."

But you did teach me something. I never knew what he was saying before the solo.

NDRU said:

I'm sure your'e right; I don't play guitar. But is it a different wah-wah spped or a different guitar used for those JB style chords, compared to the really pronounced wah-wah during the guitar solo before the final verse?

GaryMF said:

Yeah the speed of the wah is controlled by a rocking pedal, like a gas pedal on a car. It's like a bass/treble knob that's attached to the pedal and you turn the knob back & forth while you play.

Also, chords sound different than a single note solo.

But there may be some other studio trickery going on. Maybe he doubled the part or added the effect after it was recorded, just to beef up the opening. I don't know.

im sure dez played b sus 2 i can hear that chord always

she's always in my hair, classic

Solos I like-

- Joy in Repetition - ONA After Show
- My Guitar Gentely Weeps - Rock Hall
- Erotic City - Practice spot for 26th Birthday
- The song right after Erotic City on that tape I forget I am tired. sorry

- Purple Rain in New York 1985
- Creep 2008

not solos ,guitar riffs

purplepolitician said:

that's a good one!

Endorphinmachine - A CLASSIC 70's rock riff

Guitar - I know it's close to a U2 riff, but I still like it a lot

When U Were Mine - Got a bit of "Walk this Way" in it

ICNTTPOYM - Not sure if a guitar plays it on the song, but it's a neat run and sounds AWESOME on a hard-rockin' set-up

Computer Blue - It will never go down in history, but *I* love it

Vavoom - Love it