What Brand he liked or used the most? Any guess how many Watts he would typical be using in small venue as in 6/4/2014 Hit and Run Part II Tour @ the Roundhouse - London, England (3,300 Sold Out) as compared to arena like the 1/18/2011 Welcome 2 America Tour @ Madison Square Garden in New York City (18,256 Sold Out)? And who design/made his pedal board configuration?

Slow day in Texas, today?

Nah a Purple Rain Day in West Texas. A Guitarist in Dallas is getting ready for The Purple Throwdown and he was wondering if I knew what Amp Prince liked the most : Marshall, Orange, Vox, Fender, Mesa/Boogie, Friedman, Boss, Yamaha, Ibanez, etc.???

I suppose Donna and Ida would know and some of his other past band members would know especially Morris Hayes.

It's fairly well documented. He's used all sorts of gear over his long career - Soldano, Mesa Boogie, Orange, no doubt others. No idea about the specific shows you mentioned, if it is important to you I guess you could reach out to his guitar tech at the time. His rig was generally very simple and based around simple Boss stomp boxes maintained by his tech, but of course it changed a lot over the years.

I love that about his playing - anyone can buy a "Prince guitar rig" for reasonable money, but no one will sound like Prince. It's all in the fingers

Thanks Ian. You should be added to the "7th Will"!

He played a Mesa Boogie on Purple Rain

steakfinger said:

He played a Mesa Boogie on Purple Rain

Back in 1984 for the movie and tour?

idk about favorite. he used mainly mesa boogies from the controversy tour until the nude tour. then did an ever changing rack setup from diamonds and pearls until musicology. his last known amp setup from 2014-2016 was:

Soldano Lucky 13 amp head (clean channel only)

Mesa Boogie 4x12 cab

Pedalboard:

Left Side

1. Vibrato VB-2
2. Flanger BF-2
3. Digital Delay DD-6
4. Octaver OC-2
5. Turbo Distortion DS-2
6. Blues Driver BD-3

Right Side

1. Chromatic Tuner
2. Dunlop CryBaby Wah Pedal
3. Digitech Whammy Pitch Shifting Pedal
4. MXR M-133 Micro Amp
5. Line 6 MM4 Modulation Modeler

also you can sound like prince tone wise. all you need to know is his gear. now when you play, there's a high chance that what comes out of the amp will NOT sound as good lmao.

tab32792 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Slow day in Texas, today?

[Flame snip - luv4u]

Great question & as a guitarist I too would love to know.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Slow day in Texas, today?

[Flame snip - luv4u]

Great question & as a guitarist I too would love to know.

You need to settle yourself. You get what you give in this world, so watch your mouth with people on here and be respectful. You can challenge a question without making a personal insult. That reflects your character, not mine. You should also look up the word "humor" in the dictionary. It's a wonderful word.

While you're looking things up, Google "Prince guitar pedalboard". It's been in magazines which - wait for it - are online too!

TrivialPursuit said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

[Flame snip - luv4u]

Great question & as a guitarist I too would love to know.

You need to settle yourself. You get what you give in this world, so watch your mouth with people on here and be respectful. You can challenge a question without making a personal insult. That reflects your character, not mine. You should also look up the word "humor" in the dictionary. It's a wonderful word.

While you're looking things up, Google "Prince guitar pedalboard". It's been in magazines which - wait for it - are online too!

oh do shut up. I am well aware of the form on here...where good questions are trampled on by the usual snobs & self appointed super fans. You typify that attitude. The attitude here is 'how dare you ask a question when all you have to do search the topic or google it'! FFS - why? Its a good way of engaging & building a rapport with the community....if you wnat to search then fine ..& if you want to ask a quick qestion then go ahead.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

You need to settle yourself. You get what you give in this world, so watch your mouth with people on here and be respectful. You can challenge a question without making a personal insult. That reflects your character, not mine. You should also look up the word "humor" in the dictionary. It's a wonderful word.

While you're looking things up, Google "Prince guitar pedalboard". It's been in magazines which - wait for it - are online too!

oh do shut up. I am well aware of the form on here...where good questions are trampled on by the usual snobs & self appointed super fans. You typify that attitude. The attitude here is 'how dare you ask a question when all you have to do search the topic or google it'! FFS - why? Its a good way of engaging & building a rapport with the community....if you wnat to search then fine ..& if you want to ask a quick qestion then go ahead.

I agree...I witnessed one of the"big wigs" take down one of the most interesting orgers the other day.

Tedious.

tab32792 said:

idk about favorite. he used mainly mesa boogies from the controversy tour until the nude tour. then did an ever changing rack setup from diamonds and pearls until musicology. his last known amp setup from 2014-2016 was:

Soldano Lucky 13 amp head (clean channel only)

Mesa Boogie 4x12 cab

Pedalboard:

Left Side

1. Vibrato VB-2
2. Flanger BF-2
3. Digital Delay DD-6
4. Octaver OC-2
5. Turbo Distortion DS-2
6. Blues Driver BD-3

Right Side

1. Chromatic Tuner
2. Dunlop CryBaby Wah Pedal
3. Digitech Whammy Pitch Shifting Pedal
4. MXR M-133 Micro Amp
5. Line 6 MM4 Modulation Modeler

Very interesting ...

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Slow day in Texas, today?

[Flame snip - luv4u]

Great question & as a guitarist I too would love to know.

Wonder what got Flame snip??? I saw that initial "smart aleck" reply to my thread but I played it off!

You (not you pesonally, just "you") can buy everything Prince used at a particular time - guitar, pickups, strings, cables, stomp boxes, and amps but you will not sound like Prince.

He took all that stuff and fiddled with it in every way imaginable.

He reversed stuff, and changed stomp box orders, etc etc etc. If you ever replicate Prince's sound it will be because you just got lucky.

RodeoSchro said:

You (not you pesonally, just "you") can buy everything Prince used at a particular time - guitar, pickups, strings, cables, stomp boxes, and amps but you will not sound like Prince.

He took all that stuff and fiddled with it in every way imaginable.

He reversed stuff, and changed stomp box orders, etc etc etc. If you ever replicate Prince's sound it will be because you just got lucky.

I heard that

Astasheiks said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

[Flame snip - luv4u]

Great question & as a guitarist I too would love to know.

Wonder what got Flame snip??? I saw that initial "smart aleck" reply to my thread but I played it off!

My response was based solely in humor, as was your reply which was my only goal. It certainly beat the "do you think Prince clipped his own toenails?" sorta shit we see on here. lol

As for the child who got corrected acted... well, like a child.