Listening to the first 2 Time albums and I just realized Prince played the electric guitar much better on those albums than his early albums...

The ending of Get It Up, 777 9311 are just amazing guitar solos, much better than anything from For You- 1999 in my opinion...

Does anyone else feel he played the electric guitar "better" on the Time albums than he did his first 4 albums?

I've never considered this and will check it out.

thebanishedone said:

Prince played great guitar solos on The Time Albums but he also had great solos on his albums also.

Yes I agree, and I'm not saying he didn't have great solos on his albums... But when you listen to the guitar work Prince did on those first two Time albums... The energy, the sophisitcation of those solos especially the ending of 7779311... Surpasses technically IMO any guitar work he's done on the albums from For You - 1999 with the exception of the ending of Lady Cab Driver... IMO of course...

thebanishedone said:

DP you think his solos on Get IT Up and 777 9311 are better compared to Automatic,Ronnie Talk To Russia,Jack U Off,Why U Wanna Treat Me so Bad? I would says solos are longer,not better.

Personally I think the guitar solo on 777 9311 has more energy than any of his guitar solos on For You, Prince, Dirty Mind and Controversy.

thebanishedone said:

DP you think his solos on Get IT Up and 777 9311 are better compared to Automatic,Ronnie Talk To Russia,Jack U Off,Why U Wanna Treat Me so Bad? I would says solos are longer,not better.

I think the 777-9311 is not long enough. That is some lustful communication going on there

The little guitar screech on Sexuality "Mama R U listening?" rrrrrreeaarrrrrr

is better than the Get It Up solo. It's wicked, and not enough

P

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solos 2 hear: Drive Me Wild (extended) Let's Work (extended with Morris on drums) Sexy Dancer (extended) My Stick (the Time) and I love the guitar work on Make Up(Vanity 6)

funksterr said:

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I recognized that back in the day. It seems like on his their records the guitar is on top & a little more in ur face & on his records it's kinda in the background. Maybe he did to kinda give them a different sound (kinda sorta). LADY CAB DRIVER!

I think it depends on your style preference.

On "777" Prince was deliberately mimicking Jesse Johnson's guitar style.

777-9311 is one of his best guitar solos, laid down in the studio and put on record, imo.
I'm Yours gets my love as well. The guitar skills were strong at an early age.

Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad and Bambi, are incredible too!

Its Weird when people use words like 'BEST' ..

These songs are only cared about and known by a tiny handful of Purple fanatics..

ask 99.9% of the world if they know or care who played guitar on the Time's early 80s albums...

Ego101 said:

Its Weird when people use words like 'BEST' ..

These songs are only cared about and known by a tiny handful of Purple fanatics..

ask 99.9% of the world if they know or care who played guitar on the Time's early 80s albums...

Same can be said about his "best" songs... Ask the general population if they ever heard of Anna Stesia or Joy in Repetition, or Crucial or Moonbeam Levels...

none of the songs that you mentioned would be in my 'Best of Prince' collection..

and nobody gives a damn!

feeluupp said:

Ego101 said:

Its Weird when people use words like 'BEST' ..

These songs are only cared about and known by a tiny handful of Purple fanatics..

ask 99.9% of the world if they know or care who played guitar on the Time's early 80s albums...

Same can be said about his "best" songs... Ask the general population if they ever heard of Anna Stesia or Joy in Repetition, or Crucial or Moonbeam Levels...

Ego101 said:

none of the songs that you mentioned would be in my 'Best of Prince' collection..

and nobody gives a damn!

feeluupp said:

Same can be said about his "best" songs... Ask the general population if they ever heard of Anna Stesia or Joy in Repetition, or Crucial or Moonbeam Levels...

Yes.. Since those are such bad quality Prince songs...

Planet Earth puts those songs to shame...

I never said all that!

Those songs you mentioned are cool... Great even... compared to crap like Planet Earth,AOR and whatever the last Josh produced crap was called!

I'm into Prince's early stuff... ALL OF IT! but i LOVE the Funk!

Head.. Sexy Dancer.. Let's Work.. Data Bank... DMSR.. Lady Cab Driver.. The end of 'I feel for you' .. ect..

feeluupp said:

Ego101 said:

none of the songs that you mentioned would be in my 'Best of Prince' collection..

and nobody gives a damn!

Yes.. Since those are such bad quality Prince songs...

Planet Earth puts those songs to shame...

Militant said:

I think it depends on your style preference.

On "777" Prince was deliberately mimicking Jesse Johnson's guitar style.

Jesse Johnson's "style" was that of a generic 80s dude without the shredder technique. It seems clear to me that Prince was having fun goofing around with techniques he would never do on his own records, (tapping, for example - which he's not doing super-well on the Time record). I would say Jesse STILL doesn't have a style in terms of lead playing. If you sat Jesse behind a curtain with any number of modern dudes playing in modern R&B kind of shit you'd be hard-pressed to identify him. What is a defining part of his style? There isn't one. He might be able to write and produce some songs, but as a lead guitarist he's always been pretty unremarkable.

thebanishedone said:

During that period a lot of RNB artist didn't use a lot of lead guitar in their muziq. It wasn't needed.

felt ore safe using it on his protege projects. He knew what he was doing. But LIVE he didn't hold back.

Who played the solo on "Jungle Love"? I've always thought it was Jesse, it sounds like his syle of playing. But someone recently told me that it was actually Prince playing it. Can anyone shine any light on this?

so Jesse better than Prince?

Mindbells9 said:

Ego101 said:

Its Weird when people use words like 'BEST' ..

These songs are only cared about and known by a tiny handful of Purple fanatics..

ask 99.9% of the world if they know or care who played guitar on the Time's early 80s albums...

it's prince.org. this is where you go to ask about obscure prince songs. nothing weird about it.

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I agree the soloing on those albums is jaw dropping and I suspect it was aimed at Jesse, Prince felt challenged when Morris was like "Look at this cat, he can play, look at these Marshall amps and stacks of whammy bar" and Prince was like - well I will show you.

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Of all the solos, I love the Get it up one most, but kind of like the solo on The Stick, 777 9311 and melodic guitar in I don't want to leave you. Prince was a big bad axe man.

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Has anyone mentioned the synth solos though, is it Fink like most people think or is it Prince playing those too, like I suspect. Especially as most books say that first and even second album was Prince doing everything and Morris singing vocals over Prince's guide vocals. Plus the bit in DMSR by Per Nilsen, where Prince comes in, throws a tape at Jesse in 1982 and says "Here's the next album, Jesse you play really well here" and smirks.