jilljones said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

The Hohner will always be my favorite P guitar. Those clips of him from 80 to 85 show him wrecking shop on that guitar. When everyone else was using Floyds and Kahlers he was using

his own natural vibrato.

The tone on that guitar was raw and sharp. That's one of the things I like about Tele's. It's a hunk of wood and metal and you have to find the music in it.

I don't mind him going to Strats but I wish he would take the Floyd off.

Those strats he plays are just bastards. the floyd roses, the emg humbuckers...they're strats in name only.

I think P just digs the idea of playing a strat right now, something 'off the rack'. it'd be interesting to ponder whether putting down the cloud and symbol guitars has something to do with his deeper turn into his religion the past few years. just like his clothes got less flamboyant, so too did his guitars...I wonder if there's a connection...

....but if I continued the analogy, he still wears a ton of makeup, high heels and loads of jewelry, and I can't imagine the witnesses are too happy about that... and those strats are just clouds in disguise...so maybe ppl don't really change??

I got a suspicion that Prince is using more standard looking guitars these days as part of the look for this tour and previous tours as he's been talking about real music by real musicians, and as a result, may have it in mind that the eccentric looking guitars took away from simply listening to the music.