For the guitarists out there, do you think Prince would ever consider joining G3 (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, + ?) on stage? Vai is a fan of Prince's and I'm sure he would be keen to school some guitar fans on P's talents! How would P fare up there on stage with those two?

I HATE THESE KINDS OF THREADS!

YOUR TITLE IS MISLEADING. THERE IS NO NEWS, RUMOR OR ITEM ABOUT PRINCE JOINING G3.

I wish there was an ignore button. No offense.

Prince probably does enough wanking as it is without joining these 2 fretboard masturbators.

Absolutely no. How would anyone who has the slightest clue about guitar playing (and especially Prince's guitar playing) even consider thinking about this is beyond me.

Prince is a completely different guitar player to the Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen type of guys. He is absolutely not suited to the G3 set-up, musically, style-wise, technically and is in a completely different frame of mind when it comes to guitar playing than those people. There's no better or worse, they just couldn't replace each other and this is like comparing molecules to an iPod.

Dave1992 said:

Absolutely no. How would anyone who has the slightest clue about guitar playing (and especially Prince's guitar playing) even consider thinking about this is beyond me.

Prince is a completely different guitar player to the Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen type of guys. He is absolutely not suited to the G3 set-up, musically, style-wise, technically and is in a completely different frame of mind when it comes to guitar playing than those people. There's no better or worse, they just couldn't replace each other and this is like comparing molecules to an iPod.

Not really getting it.

savvy said:

Dave1992 said:

Absolutely no. How would anyone who has the slightest clue about guitar playing (and especially Prince's guitar playing) even consider thinking about this is beyond me.

Prince is a completely different guitar player to the Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen type of guys. He is absolutely not suited to the G3 set-up, musically, style-wise, technically and is in a completely different frame of mind when it comes to guitar playing than those people. There's no better or worse, they just couldn't replace each other and this is like comparing molecules to an iPod.

Not really getting it.

If you seriously don't see, hear and feel the difference between this...

...and Prince's guitar play in Shhh, for instance, then there's no point in even trying to explain.

Dave1992 has a point (apples and oranges). Fuck Malmsteen, seriously.

But I'd be lying if I said I didn't want Vai and Prince to have a jam session. Hell no would I ever want one to sound like the other, but it would be cool to see the juxtaposition on their handling of the same instrument simultaneously.

Prince and Jeff Beck, wonder how that would/could turn out?

Yngwie just looks more and more ridiculous as time goes by.

But yeah, Prince would not fit into G3. Maybe the Crossroads Festival though

Dave1992 - you seem to assume Vai, Satriani and Malmsteen are of the same ilk, which perhaps indicates your 'depth' of knowledge. The point is players as diverse as Brian May and Billy Gibbons (not just metal shredders) have played with G3, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that a highly- lauded player like P might want to jam on 'Bambi' or 'Peach' etc with these guys since he appreciates 'real music by real musicians' and perhaps expand his market ($$$$$$!).

bigbrother said:

Dave1992 - you seem to assume Vai, Satriani and Malmsteen are of the same ilk, which perhaps indicates your 'depth' of knowledge. The point is players as diverse as Brian May and Billy Gibbons (not just metal shredders) have played with G3, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that a highly- lauded player like P might want to jam on 'Bambi' or 'Peach' etc with these guys since he appreciates 'real music by real musicians' and perhaps expand his market ($$$$$$!).

I never indicated they were all of the same ilk. What I did do is say that those three (and other former G3 participants) have something in common that doesn't overlap with Prince's idea and imagination of what guitar playing looks like. It's not just about shredding over metal beats - it's about how, what and why they show off on guitar. Prince uses other dimensions to show off his skills (way different effects, often not "healthy" for the sound in terms of making it [musically] transparent to the listener; he buries his solos into actual songs, whereas most G3 stuff is songs buried into guitar solos; he is not about progressive scale-searching, sound-development and quickness, whereas all G3 participants seem to play for a "guitar-educated" audience). In other words, Prince is funky, even when he plays hard-rock, and remains an all-round musician and arranger primarily, no matter which instruments he touches, whether G3 participants will always remain guitarists primarily, who play around (and got famous by playing around with) their instrument and expanding on theoretical and technical knowledge about their instrument.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Prince probably does enough wanking as it is without joining these 2 fretboard masturbators.

what he said

It would be actually kind of cool to see him play outside his element. I'm sure he alone would help ticket sales. And I'm sure Vai would love it. I know he's jammed with him before at Paisley.

The promoters of the "Experience Hendrix" tour wanted P to play last year but it never happened. They said they're still going to attempt to go after him to do it.

He's been on the cover of guitar mags before so why not?