jasmine69 said:

Good god are you thick as a brick rock n roll is black music what do you think little richard chuck berry fats domino were????

Rinluv said:

I don't think so. He's probably tired of being compared to him. He said once that the only thing that him and Jimi have in common is that they are both black. Prince said that he is more influenced by Santana.

rolling said:

this guy is trolling. don't fall for it.

kenlacam said:

I was going to reply with that as well. Personally,I think he just didn't want to be compared to Jimi so he tried to distance himself regardless of his actual influence. I can here the Santana influence in Prince's use of modes instead of just pentatonic blues for soloing, but the wah and whammy bar stuff is clearly Hendrix influenced. Maybe even Eddie Hazel.

I can understand him getting irritated with the press labeling his act as James Brown meets Jimi Hendrix.

jasmine69 said:

now u done crossed the line ..[Flame snip - luv4u] AND THE BOAT U RODE IN ON ..cause i can play guitar, bass, drums and i can sing what the fuck can u do other than make racist remarks?

wtf is going on here?

no music is either "black" or "white". it was just society that made it this way, usually saying rock was white and all the rhythm stuff (r&b, ...) was black.

tell u what, i know good black hard rock bands (living color, ...) and good white drummers (simon phillips, ...). i think its just pathetic 2 say a particular music genre belongs 2 a race. its just that certain people used certain music as their megaphone, but its just a part of our history. nowadays most of us a free enough 2 b able 2 indentify with any kind of music.

rolling said:

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You need to go back and read some of P’s older interviews. In his hometown, they had one black station that only operated from sunup to sundown. After the RnB, station when off the air P said he only had rock stations to listen to and he has acknowledged the influence rock had on his music many times.

jasmine69 said:

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So why are you on this board

Dave1992 said:

When I say rock n roll is black music I dont mean they own it but they did invent it.

PopeLeo said:

that's funny, i'm hoping a ban can go with that lock as well.

wonder505 said:

Wow ..did the klan just get internet??? Whats with all the ignorant racial posts in this thread....

jasmine69 said:

wtf??

Hey I dont think its Prince having a big ego or anything like that. Its all about the environment and cutlure he was raised in. Growing up in the intercity or as an african american youth people didnt listen to much rock n roll. It was more R&B and soul music. Thats just what people where listening to and what he probably heard on a regular basis. I am only 25 but I could ask some of the older african american people i know and I bet they could barely name one Stones, Beatles, or even Jimi Hendrix song. It's not that its bad music cause I can enjoy all of those, but its just not what they listened to. Even me as being a biracial kid from the suburb I grew up on the Temptations, James Brown, Sly, Smokey, Stevie and all that. I didnt get introduced into rock & roll till my late teens. Heck I didnt get introduced to Prince music till I was about thirteen.

jasmine69 said:

Wow.....

kenlacam said:

You don't think so of what?

Rinluv said:

Don't get into it Rin...it's not worth it. Trust me. P said that shit that deserved an ass whooping regarding Hendrix. They tried to clear it up on that MTV interview he did when he was on the set of UTCM. He mentioned about how there would never be another like Hendrix and so forth. Dig this, I actually ran a thread on here a long time ago about how I thought in the song America, how P is singing about Hendrix when he refers to "Jimmy" in the lyrics. Jimmy is how he used to spell his name before he went to England and changed the spelling to Jimi. Hendrix had said in an interview that he once got in trouble at school because he didn't want to stand for the Pledge of The Alledgiance. Hendrix also dropped out of high school. Hendrix also stated that he mostly didn't feel proud about his music. Take all of that and then look at the lyrics to America. Also Jimi, being known for using drugs, P's reference to Jimmy living on a mushroom cloud is a reference to Jimi dying of a drug overdose. Just my thought and how I always took to those lyrics. Especailly how P would get early in his career when someone asked him about Hendrix. The "Well, Hendrix is dead isn't he? " is hella wild. But Prince said it. So, I don't think it's a stretch at all about the lyrics to America. I think the little black baby on the cover waving the flag is to symbolize Hendrix from the lyrics.

blackguitaristz said:

When I first heard America way back in '85, I remember thinking the Jimmy line was a Hendrix reference too, but dismissed it because of the difference in the spelling of the name. I didn't realize that Jimi had changed it - interesting.

blackguitaristz said:

Prince most def deserved an ass woopin' for that disrespectful comment. I got pretty upset when I heard it. Also I never really looked into the lyrics of America with a connection to Jimi. Thanks for the information.

Dave1992 said:

Exactly