I am of course referring to studio recorded music. Obviously there are songs in concert when he just humps the mic and shit and his instruments just look on in jealousy lol

TMBGITW perhaps?

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interesting question, some songs he gave to others that they rerecorded yea but I'm guessing you mean on Prince albums

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Thibaut said:

interesting question, some songs he gave to others that they rerecorded yea but I'm guessing you mean on Prince albums

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Hi,

Yes indeed. I mean on Prince albums and/or singles

There's a whole album of them - MPLSound. It's all computer generated.

Superconductor said:

There's a whole album of them - MPLSound. It's all computer generated.

Well... by Prince. So, actually, it's all done by him.


I guess there isn't. From the top of my head, I certainly can't think of any. In the studio, he usually did most of it by himself.

I can think of a few:

Power Fantastic

In A Large Room With No Light

Sometimes It Snows In April

Wasn't the extended 12 Inch version of I Would Die 4 U a live studio recording?

If that's the case then he probably didn't play any of the instruments as it's the Purple Rain tour version and he didn't play any instruments on that

Oh and Solo Prince doesn't play the Harp on it

And doesn't he just sing on Power Fantastic

chopingard said:

Wasn't the extended 12 Inch version of I Would Die 4 U a live studio recording?

If that's the case then he probably didn't play any of the instruments as it's the Purple Rain tour version and he didn't play any instruments on that

Oh and Solo Prince doesn't play the Harp on it

And doesn't he just sing on Power Fantastic

Solo was the one I thought of.

Good call on the IWD4U 12". Nice one.

I guess we could put For You and Second Coming on the list too.

The two segues on Rave...

Superconductor said:

There's a whole album of them - MPLSound. It's all computer generated.

I suppose this was meant to be funny. However, let's just make it clear to the rest of the orgers that the album isn't "all computer generated".

chewymusic said:

chopingard said:

Wasn't the extended 12 Inch version of I Would Die 4 U a live studio recording?

If that's the case then he probably didn't play any of the instruments as it's the Purple Rain tour version and he didn't play any instruments on that

Oh and Solo Prince doesn't play the Harp on it

And doesn't he just sing on Power Fantastic

Solo was the one I thought of.

Good call on the IWD4U 12". Nice one.

I guess we could put For You and Second Coming on the list too.

Honest Man aswell?

For You.

TwiliteKid said:

I can think of a few:

Power Fantastic

In A Large Room With No Light

Sometimes It Snows In April

Prince played the guitar on Sometimes It Snow In April. That's not Wendy or Miko.

If the videoes are to be believed he maybe didn't play on Damn U & 2 tyhe 9's

joyinrepetition said:

TwiliteKid said:

I can think of a few:

Power Fantastic

In A Large Room With No Light

Sometimes It Snows In April

Prince played the guitar on Sometimes It Snow In April. That's not Wendy or Miko.

I thought it was Prince and Wendy on guitar, Lisa Coleman on piano

same with 4 the Tears In Your Eyes

joyinrepetition said:

TwiliteKid said:

I can think of a few:

Power Fantastic

In A Large Room With No Light

Sometimes It Snows In April

Prince played the guitar on Sometimes It Snow In April. That's not Wendy or Miko.

I only hear one guitar, and I don't think it's Prince, but you may be right.

TwiliteKid said:

joyinrepetition said:

Prince played the guitar on Sometimes It Snow In April. That's not Wendy or Miko.

I only hear one guitar, and I don't think it's Prince, but you may be right.

And I always thought it was Prince on piano and Wendy on guitar

Farfunknugin said:

Solo

yeah... now songs like For You do not count as that is not what the question really is. It really is (and correct me if i am mistaken) songs with instruments in them...

It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night ?

DecaturStone said:

It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night ?

He plays the drums when he switched with Sheila

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OldFriends4Sale said:

joyinrepetition said:

Prince played the guitar on Sometimes It Snow In April. That's not Wendy or Miko.

I thought it was Prince and Wendy on guitar, Lisa Coleman on piano

same with 4 the Tears In Your Eyes

Thought so too. Depends on the way it was recorded, I guess. If it was recorded "live", I think chances are that it is Prince playing the guitar, as Wendy woud have struggled to play and sing at the same time with the precision needed for a studio recording.

paulludvig said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I thought it was Prince and Wendy on guitar, Lisa Coleman on piano

same with 4 the Tears In Your Eyes

Thought so too. Depends on the way it was recorded, I guess. If it was recorded "live", I think chances are that it is Prince playing the guitar, as Wendy woud have struggled to play and sing at the same time with the precision needed for a studio recording.

She doesn't seem to struggle in live performance, why would this rather simple song be a challenge?

TwiliteKid said:

paulludvig said:

Thought so too. Depends on the way it was recorded, I guess. If it was recorded "live", I think chances are that it is Prince playing the guitar, as Wendy woud have struggled to play and sing at the same time with the precision needed for a studio recording.

She doesn't seem to struggle in live performance, why would this rather simple song be a challenge?

Early on Wendy wasn't as good as she is now 30 years later. Prince helped her a great deal. When Wendy played Alexa de Venus live at First Avenue while Prince was changing clothes, she was awful! Very choppy and unsure of herself compared to Prince's smooth instrumental on the B-side. Why do you think Miko was brought in? 30 years later Wendy is a very good player now i.e. Reflection duet with Prince on Tavis Smiley and Fury at the Brit Awards.

Now Prince has to work on smoothing out Donna Gratis. She's also a little stiff playing and lacks feeling.

I think "Power Fantastic" may be the only one.

novabrkr said:

By the time they were recording music for Parade, Wendy was much more comfortable

To do Sometimes It Snows In April is nothing, She is the opening guitar for Computer Blue

Accoustic and Rhythm guitar she was good. If she could handle Controversy SISIApril or 4theTearsInYourEyes are easy.

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according to PrinceVault they have Prince, Lisa Coleman(piano) Wendy Melvoin(guitar)

They talked about a lot of pieces like these songs they were doing a lot with those 3 on basic piano guitar vocals

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And he didn't get rid of Wendy to replace with Mico. That relationship was about emotional/personal issues. Mico could never touch Wendy when it came to her creative connection with Prince. 2nd reason she was a woman and Mico a man.

^I think Prince is always searching for that combination of finding musicians who will be his "yes men/women", but at the same time bring something fresh to the table. This is why he likes young musicians I think. They're naive and hungry enough to do whatever he says, but at the same time can hip him to a different perspective. Most of his musos only last in the band for two or three tours.

I think we sometimes over-estimate the input that his band members actually have - especially Wendy & Lisa (not that they didn't have an influence, of course)

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joyinrepetition said:

Superconductor said: