As good as Prince is on the guitar, Ive always thought he was masterful on the Piano. Does anyone know if he has a recording of him playing Purple Rain on the piano? (aside from the snippet he played on Oprah in the 90's)

I know when it's played on the piano in the movie, it sounds suspiciously like 'Faithfully' by Journey.

There's that one scene in Purple Rain where P plays the first bit of Purple Rain on piano and it's just awesome. I assume he recorded a full version for the sound track and if you were motivated enough you could find it. That being said, I have an MP3 file with the title "Purple Rain Sound Track" with a lot of the backing music from the movie, but of course it's missing the piano part. (I've also been looking for this one for a while lol)

BriaVelveeta said:

ONLY in your mind. I've played it and love Journey as well and they do NOT sound or play the same.

Pick up any boot of the ONA tour, he use to play the piano and take out the guitar solo and just play the piano while singing the OOOOO OOOH OOOOO part. It was great! The Oakland show was fantastic, everyone just AWWWWed when they heard it.

I love the piano version of Purple Rain

Wildboy said:

I've played that scene over and over again...love it!

There's a bootleg called "Intimate Moments" it's all piano and him singing.
The track listing is below.

Improvisation
Purple Music
17 Days
Purple Rain
A Case of U
Mary, Don't U Weep
Strange Relationship
International Lover
Let Me Tell U What I Might Do
Cold Coffee and Cocaine
Mama

HonestMan13 said:

I love this!! I listen to it at least twice a day. I just can't get enough of it.

rudedog said:

Chord progression is almost the same.

PR is in A# (which leads me to believe PR was written on, and for piano, as this key isn't very guitar-friendly), Faithfully is in D. Same progression though. The melody and arrangement are different though, of course.
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There was a thread (a while ago on here) about "Faithfully" and "P.R" sounding just alike. It also said in that thread that Journey's camp and P's camp even settled some financial business (out of court) claiming that P ripped off Journey.

Don't know how true that was but the songs both have some similarities.

rudedog said:

they do sound similiar.open your ears.

kenlacam said:

It's funny that this topic came up. I was just listening to the spin magazine free purple rain tribute album, and I couldnt help but think that the start of the song sounded like Faithfully.

BTW, incase people didnt know you can go here: http://spin.com/articles/...ce-tribute and enter in 'keyboardist' as the answer to download the free album.

Maybe Prince will officially release a piano album someday...

Hey...There's a 3-fold 4 U...Guitar on one side...Piano on the other...and just Vocals in the middle...????? I'd buy it.

Tame said:

What about "One Night Alone"?

rudedog said:

Dude, they're so much the same song that Prince called the guys in Journey and apologized for the similarity. The Journey guys said, "No prob, we've done as much with the melody as we can, and good luck to you".

quote]There's a bootleg called "Intimate Moments" it's all piano and him singing.
The track listing is below.

Improvisation
Purple Music
17 Days
Purple Rain
A Case of U
Mary, Don't U Weep
Strange Relationship
International Lover
Let Me Tell U What I Might Do
Cold Coffee and Cocaine
Mama[/quote]


Is this not the one with crap sound quality?

Krid said:

Is this not the one with crap sound quality?[/quote]

Actually my cd of it is pretty decent compared to the vinyl version I have.
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HonestMan13 said:

Actually my cd of it is pretty decent compared to the vinyl version I have.
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I have one on vinyl (but I think it also got a very bluesy Alphabet St on it), and the sound version really was crap. But I did like the music...

ronnwinter said:

Yes he is ... piano sounds beautiful on his hands

love his piano based songs more, still adore the ones with the guitar (or both)