what solos of our hero still bring tears or chills 2 this day?

i will
i hate u-gold experience
live 4 love
pink cashmere
i'm yours
why u wanna treat me so bad
sign o' the times
the question of u

live 4 love
bambi
i'm yours
i could never take the place of ur man
the cross (sign o the times movie)
purple rain (syracuse)
gold

I hate U
Shh
Bambi
Let's Go Crazy
Endorphinmachine

I've got a whole bunch

Shh (album version and the 2003 performance in Hong Kong)
Purple Rain (can't have a list w/o this... the first time he made me cry )
Gold (my favorite of all Prince songs... and one with guitar )
Alexa de Paris (that song is chock full of AWESOME guitar work )
Live 4 Love (one word: INCREDIBLE! )
Computer Blue (Father's Song section )
Little Red Corvette (not so much the guitar as the choreography in the video )
Planet Earth (at the very end... it gave me chills when I first heard it. That song wasn't quite complete without it )
Man o' War (made me fall in love with the song after much ado)
I'm Yours (only heard it once so far... but blew me away. Given that it was on his first album)

...I could add this list
but there's a whole bunch of possibilities for this list his guitar work is awesome.

L4OATheOriginal said:

i'm glad 2 see i'm not the only 1 who appreciated "live 4 love" lol i bet we fans thought he told his childhood in "purple rain", but when i heard that song i knew that wasn't all...

all of the above plus 3 chains of gold

God instrumental
Purple Rain
Just my Imagination - new!

God created woman
the question of you
why you wanna treat me so badd

so many, but i never see the guitar solo for Holy River make the list. One of his best and of course the studio version of Joy in Repetition.

Bambi ( i see we all agree on this one)
Purple Rain
Shh
Joy in Repetition
Little Red Corvette
GOD

Live 4 Love
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Joy in Repetition.

Dolphin.

and While My gutar Gently Weeps.
That's just silly good.

None of them. Very few solos do. Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb. A masterclass on choosing the perfect notes.

I can generally hum/sing most guitar solos from famous songs (or from the music I listen to at least) but for some reason I just don't think Prince writes a good solo. If I had to think of one the only one that would spring to mind would be SexyMF.

I generally keep an ear out for a solo too, having been playing since I was 16 (21 years now). I'm old

prince don't wright good solos sorry but you don't have a clue.if pruince solo contains anything it always contain great and sometimes unusual melodies.
prince is very melodic lead guitar player examples of solos you can hum,whistle:

i could never take the place of your man
computer blue
holy river
shhh
dinner with delores
my love is forever
bambi
just my imagination live from small club
joy in repetition one alone live
pink cashmire
alexa de paris
god instrumental
cream
dolphin
gold
3 chains of gold
i can go on and on,one things we all know that prince's guitar solos always have great and strong melodic content.
give me example of one his guitar solo that don't have strong melody?

West-sends chills up ur spine

just adding from the many mentioned above...anything from the undertaker, space live

the Question of U

Either I forgot, or I was 2 busy dancing to remember to answer this question someday.

thebanishedone said:

Are you confusing a good solo with being able to play within scales and modes? The latter is the easy part.

I Like It There. How's that for a dull bit of soloing? You mention Cream. Would you be kind enough to state at which time of the song the solo is? I've listened but sure can't find it. And Dolphin? Please tell me you're joking?

I love Prince. Hardly a day goes by without playing his music. I love his guitar playing and find it unique (we won't mention his over-reliance on Boss affecting his tone). Going to the O2 last year to see him for the first time was a pilgrimage for me so please don't label me as someone who dislikes him. But I can't accept that he is a good writer (wrighter?) of guitar solos. Great guitarist? Yes. Great soloist? No.

Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers), Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, Billy Gibbons, Robin Trower, David Gilmour (God), Robert Fripp, Adrian Smith, Peter Green (wow), Chuck Berry, Joe Satriani, Brian May, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd, BB King (how fucking good?!), Gary Moore, Eric Clapton, Larry Carlton, Al Di Meola, George Harrison, John McLaughlin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) Sonny Landreth and Angus and Malcolm Young (ACDC in case your head's still stuck in your arse).

Well those are just a few names I've picked from my iTunes library. Now feel free to compare Prince's most melodic and competent solo with one of theirs.

And besides 'thebanishedone' the post asked for "favourite" solo. See you next tuesday

diamondpearl1 said:

yeah live 4 love reminds me of I'm yours and how that solo just signals the end of the song is brilliant!!! and sonny's bass solo is wicked as well!!

L4OATheOriginal said:

The playing in Live 4 Love is quintessentially Prince. But is there a solo?

I'm not gonna let this drop until you guys realise that Prince doesn't play a solo per se. He solos, but he doesn't produce a solo in the standard manner ie: middle of the song and a song within itself.

ilove you annie you are talking nonsense.
ok maybe cram wasn't the best example but all others are.
prince;s songs always contain strong melodic content

thebanishedone said:

Are we talking about his songs now then? Well if we are then I can't argue with that. But I still fail to find many, if any, examples of Prince playing a standard solo. I think you are missing my point

hate U

One Of Us

Shhh

Purple Rain

iloveannie said:

okay i guess u have never listend 2 that guitar at the end of the song then. a solo doesn't necessarily have 2 b after the bridge or 2nd verse of a song.

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iloveannie said:

Nooo? I'm shocked. Shall we clarify then that we are not talking about a standard solo that appears within the usual structure of a song and also one that may or may not be more a case of guitar soloing faded into or out of the main composition? If that is indeed the case then I still can't think of a case where Prince has created a solo that has captured the spirit of people to such an extent that it is classed as one of the greatest examples of electric guitar playing since Leo Fender thought of a good way to spend an afternoon off.

Okay maybe Let's Go Crazy. I'll give you that one. It sure made me want to play more as a wee nipper. But even then it's more a case of widdling away which let's face it we all do once we've been playing for more than two years and have learnt the pentatonics and modes. Oh hell, I'll chuck in some minor licks to make it sound all lovely.

I'm not saying that I find Prince a bad guitar player. He's not. Far from it. In fact I love the way he plays. But it's the little fills and rhythm work that he does that I find fantastic. Yes he can solo but I still believe he hasn't written (wrighten) a solo worthy of the Great Guitar Solo Hall Of Fame. When it appears in Guitarist, fully tabbed and on the accompanying cd, I will gladly eat the pages. Until then I'll argue till I'm blue in the face that he can not and will not ever come close to creating something as beautiful as David Gilmour did with Comfortably Numb. Neither the first or the second solo within that song.

I'm shutting up now. I'm in a shitty mood and it seems to be coming out here.

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L4OATheOriginal said:

well i think one of the problems u might b having is thinking prince "writes" his solos which i don't think he does. it's just a moment in time and with repeated practices, some of the notes stick in his head. so when he's in concert, the solos r based on the recording but xtend 2 another level.