i'm addicted

I don't blame you.

This song simply rocks!!!!! ....It has great sexy lyrics and that fucking guitar solo its just an amazing song and if Prince had any sense he would play all the time in 2011.Eye prefer why u wanna treat me so bad & again Prince should do it live in 2011 but ur right Bambi f**king rocks!!!!.

It works really well live.

The version played at the First Avenue '82 gig is a monster.

Yes, great song.

Have ALWAYS loved it , ALWAYS will!

TheDigitalGardener said:

It works really well live.

The version played at the First Avenue '82 gig is a monster.

Haven't heard it yet, but I cannot pass by this thread without mentioning the Undertaker version.

Gotta be the most outrageous display of his guitar playing ever.

Harlepolis said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

It works really well live.

The version played at the First Avenue '82 gig is a monster.

Haven't heard it yet, but I cannot pass by this thread without mentioning the Undertaker version.

Gotta be the most outrageous display of his guitar playing ever.

Indeed, great version and great album.

^ Yeah.... Brilliant song, great album too.

i like it alot prince showed people from the get go he knows how to rock it out hard.

I've heard whispers that there was an actual old promo video shot for this song and it was shelved. I'd pay a grand for a clean copy!

Yes, one of my most favorite songs of all time.

SO HAPPY WHEN HE DID THIS LIVE AT THE NSJ GIG!

TheDigitalGardener said:

Harlepolis said:

Haven't heard it yet, but I cannot pass by this thread without mentioning the Undertaker version.

Gotta be the most outrageous display of his guitar playing ever.

Indeed, great version and great album.

This is the main reason I miss the ORB from LF for this video. If you know where I can find it, please orgnote me.

Pure hard core rock! That and "I'm Yours", bangers!

Fantastic, i remember hearing it the first time, listening to the album, standard disco/funk love songs and stuff, then he makes that hard left, how can that not make an impression. And who the hell sings a heavy metal song in falsetto? If we didn't know we had a genius before, I think we were fast learning that someone special was on the rise. Years before black rock was vogue, Prince was rocking out better than the white boys.

mozfonky said:

Fantastic, i remember hearing it the first time, listening to the album, standard disco/funk love songs and stuff, then he makes that hard left, how can that not make an impression. And who the hell sings a heavy metal song in falsetto? If we didn't know we had a genius before, I think we were fast learning that someone special was on the rise. Years before black rock was vogue, Prince was rocking out better than the white boys.

MOZFUNKY i love Prince but he didn't rock better then white boys.

Bambi is from 1979

and whole decade of the 70's had rock bands that would eat Prince alive

(Deep Purple,Rainbow ,Black Sabbath,Queen,Van Halen many many others).

With the album version of Bambi we can say Prince rocked as hard as

Donna Summer

and that girl can rock

thebanishedone said:

mozfonky said:

Fantastic, i remember hearing it the first time, listening to the album, standard disco/funk love songs and stuff, then he makes that hard left, how can that not make an impression. And who the hell sings a heavy metal song in falsetto? If we didn't know we had a genius before, I think we were fast learning that someone special was on the rise. Years before black rock was vogue, Prince was rocking out better than the white boys.

MOZFUNKY i love Prince but he didn't rock better then white boys.

Bambi is from 1979

and whole decade of the 70's had rock bands that would eat Prince alive

(Deep Purple,Rainbow ,Black Sabbath,Queen,Van Halen many many others).

With the album version of Bambi we can say Prince rocked as hard as

Donna Summer

and that girl can rock

i knew i'd get someone up in arms over that remark. It's the same when I say white boys don't cover Little Red Corvette with any soul, get's the sensitives hurt. However, I guess when you consider that song with the wierd drumming for a heavy metal song and the falsetto, strictly you may be right but Prince could outrock the whiteboys just like Hendrix could, at least by my definitions.

mozfonky said:

thebanishedone said:

MOZFUNKY i love Prince but he didn't rock better then white boys.

Bambi is from 1979

and whole decade of the 70's had rock bands that would eat Prince alive

(Deep Purple,Rainbow ,Black Sabbath,Queen,Van Halen many many others).

With the album version of Bambi we can say Prince rocked as hard as

Donna Summer

and that girl can rock

i knew i'd get someone up in arms over that remark. It's the same when I say white boys don't cover Little Red Corvette with any soul, get's the sensitives hurt. However, I guess when you consider that song with the wierd drumming for a heavy metal song and the falsetto, strictly you may be right but Prince could outrock the whiteboys just like Hendrix could, at least by my definitions.

If Deep Purple was singing Bambi as a cover, it would probably be better than the original. However, Prince already started mixing genres this time around. He just didn't do it well before Dirty Mind imo. Dirty Mind was the album where his genre mixing sounded the most natural before he started adding alot of programming. This is why Dirty Mind is the blueprint to most of his 80s output imo.

I prefer The Undertaker version of Bambi, but the one from Prince album is cool too.

I don't know, growing up around black folks I hear things different, we have some black guitarists on these forums who I'm sure would feel the same as I do. With black guitarists like Prince, Hendrix, Jesse Johnson there is definitely a different feel, there is a groove going on that is missing with white guitarists. As good as some of the white guitarists are, and of course some of them are technically in another stratosphere, they do not have that. Prince was mixing genres early, I don't think his voice was ready for all of them before his chops were if you know what I mean. I think his voice developed later than everything else so we have that wierd mishmash of falsetto/metal which at the end of the day is pure prince. I liked Bambi more than most of the metal I've heard and i'm not a metalhead at all. Let's go crazy was closer to the real thing but with prince you never get the genre he was going for because of his artistry. You listen to You Got the Look and it's the same mishmash, guitars either funneled through something to make them sound like synths or actual synths, still it's metallish.

Harlepolis said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

It works really well live.

The version played at the First Avenue '82 gig is a monster.

Haven't heard it yet, but I cannot pass by this thread without mentioning the Undertaker version.

Gotta be the most outrageous display of his guitar playing ever.

That version is SICK!

thebanishedone said:

Skin color don't mean a thing.there are white soul singers who can sing with more passion and soul then many black singers,but there are black rockers who rock as good as white.

I've always thought it was interesting that when you say anything about white people not being quite as good at anything that they freak out on the net. It's like they can't handle any criticism and get their feelings hurt easy. Yet, there is plenty of racisim out here on the net alot worse and minorities don't respond nearly as much to much worse things. I don't know if its a matter of demographics or what, just interesting to me. Anyway, Prince, like Elvis could often match anyone in any genre he tackled and that is something very few people can do.

fantastic music, stupid lyric

gonna get flamed for this again

eelco said:

fantastic music, stupid lyric

gonna get flamed for this again

I won't flame you but I'll say I thought the lyric was interesting for me. At that time people didn't talk about those things as openly and I thought it was erotic as hell for the budding deviant that I was. These days, so much has been seen and heard that it wouldn't mean a thing. Most men are turned on by lesbians I know I am, always have been and with prince, you have a very effeminate man trying to sound macho singing in a falsetto, all reasons to see the rise of an important new artist at that time. He filled all the promise shown in songs like that.

mozfonky said:

I don't know, growing up around black folks I hear things different, we have some black guitarists on these forums who I'm sure would feel the same as I do. With black guitarists like Prince, Hendrix, Jesse Johnson there is definitely a different feel, there is a groove going on that is missing with white guitarists. As good as some of the white guitarists are, and of course some of them are technically in another stratosphere, they do not have that. Prince was mixing genres early, I don't think his voice was ready for all of them before his chops were if you know what I mean. I think his voice developed later than everything else so we have that wierd mishmash of falsetto/metal which at the end of the day is pure prince. I liked Bambi more than most of the metal I've heard and i'm not a metalhead at all. Let's go crazy was closer to the real thing but with prince you never get the genre he was going for because of his artistry. You listen to You Got the Look and it's the same mishmash, guitars either funneled through something to make them sound like synths or actual synths, still it's metallish.

Oh, well. That explains it. Some people think Linkin Park has great rapping in it even though they are not rap heads at all. Does that make the rap vocals in Linkin Park good?

Listen to Child In Time by Deep Purple http://www.youtube.com/wa...fAWReBmxEs

then listen to Bambi by Prince

I think most black and white and yellow and red people would easily give Deep Purple the crown here

however I think Prince would be able to pull of some great guitar on this song, and so with the organ. He has proved to do some great blues rockish disco funk on tour with dez, dre, fink, z and gayle. I think live versions of Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad has more heavy rock attitude than what I've heard yet of Bambi.

njin said:

mozfonky said:

I don't know, growing up around black folks I hear things different, we have some black guitarists on these forums who I'm sure would feel the same as I do. With black guitarists like Prince, Hendrix, Jesse Johnson there is definitely a different feel, there is a groove going on that is missing with white guitarists. As good as some of the white guitarists are, and of course some of them are technically in another stratosphere, they do not have that. Prince was mixing genres early, I don't think his voice was ready for all of them before his chops were if you know what I mean. I think his voice developed later than everything else so we have that wierd mishmash of falsetto/metal which at the end of the day is pure prince. I liked Bambi more than most of the metal I've heard and i'm not a metalhead at all. Let's go crazy was closer to the real thing but with prince you never get the genre he was going for because of his artistry. You listen to You Got the Look and it's the same mishmash, guitars either funneled through something to make them sound like synths or actual synths, still it's metallish.

Oh, well. That explains it. Some people think Linkin Park has great rapping in it even though they are not rap heads at all. Does that make the rap vocals in Linkin Park good?

Listen to Child In Time by Deep Purple http://www.youtube.com/wa...fAWReBmxEs

then listen to Bambi by Prince

I think most black and white and yellow and red people would easily give Deep Purple the crown here

however I think Prince would be able to pull of some great guitar on this song, and so with the organ. He has proved to do some great blues rockish disco funk on tour with dez, dre, fink, z and gayle. I think live versions of Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad has more heavy rock attitude than what I've heard yet of Bambi.

never got into deep purple, I'll tell you what I've like, some of AC/DC's work, Slade was brilliant, Iron Maiden did some great work. As a musician I've been influenced by Metal too, but usually only via Prince and some of the stuff I've liked. I don't really hang with any musicians like that and think they have really nasty attitudes about everythiing, but that's not to say that some of them are not fantastic technically. I used to rehearse next to a death metal group, I didn't like any of their music but could tell you they worked hard and they were good.

mozfonky said:

eelco said:

fantastic music, stupid lyric

gonna get flamed for this again

I won't flame you but I'll say I thought the lyric was interesting for me. At that time people didn't talk about those things as openly and I thought it was erotic as hell for the budding deviant that I was. These days, so much has been seen and heard that it wouldn't mean a thing. Most men are turned on by lesbians I know I am, always have been and with prince, you have a very effeminate man trying to sound macho singing in a falsetto, all reasons to see the rise of an important new artist at that time. He filled all the promise shown in songs like that.

I appreciate your response and in some way I understand your point. My objection to the lyric however is another one. The line ''can't you see it's better with a man'' seriously hints at homosexuality being something someone ''chooses'' to be and can be ''cured'' by having sex with a man. There's my real issue with this song. I went to the 2nd NSJ concert with a'lesbian friend and just felt embarrassed by this lyric. I think it's really childish, inconsiderate even.

just my 2 cts

eelco said:

mozfonky said:

I won't flame you but I'll say I thought the lyric was interesting for me. At that time people didn't talk about those things as openly and I thought it was erotic as hell for the budding deviant that I was. These days, so much has been seen and heard that it wouldn't mean a thing. Most men are turned on by lesbians I know I am, always have been and with prince, you have a very effeminate man trying to sound macho singing in a falsetto, all reasons to see the rise of an important new artist at that time. He filled all the promise shown in songs like that.

I appreciate your response and in some way I understand your point. My objection to the lyric however is another one. The line ''can't you see it's better with a man'' seriously hints at homosexuality being something someone ''chooses'' to be and can be ''cured'' by having sex with a man. There's my real issue with this song. I went to the 2nd NSJ concert with a'lesbian friend and just felt embarrassed by this lyric. I think it's really childish, inconsiderate even.

just my 2 cts

well he was 21 or so when he wrote it. I'm surprised that he still sings it, doubt he sings head anymore. Of course he learned the value of shock early on. and as effeminate and gay appearing as he could be, he applies different standards to others, he condemned lisa and wendy to hell at one point. Prince is a freak, he's also pretty "ghetto" in some people's view. I think that may explain some of what people would call tasteless or classless.