rednblue said:

thebanishedone said:

hello.i play guitar and piano.i look at every aspect of a performance.i see guitar as a part of the arrangement.I think that Prince was not practicing guitar during that period because he was dealing with negative aspectsof his life.But interesting thing is that during hs whole career his bass chops were always great.So maybe he didn't practice because of turmoils in his private life or maybe he had less time to keep in shape on all 4 instruments that he plays.remember to maintain skills on 4 instruments you need 1 hour for each at least.thats 4 hours in totall.and what about busdiness meetings,rehearsals ,side projects,other business ventures.So yeah Motheress Child vocals are top notch but guitar playing was at his lowest

Thank you SO much for your thoughts! Really enjoyed seeing brief part of Rave New Year video where Prince is playing bass. Sounds great to me, and Prince looks like he's truly having a ton of fun communing and doing his musical conversation.

Especially poignant, because as you reference, those were heartbreaking years. I will have to look when I can get home to check Steve Parke's book, but I think it might have been Steve that described a rare Prince mention of weariness and stess. Possibly during the filming of Greatest Romance video. Something along the lines of P expressing how he felt the weight of everything he needed to keep afloat.

If you don't mind my asking, what got you into the guitar? Around what age did you start playing? Which (piano or guitar) came first for you?

yap,Prince was killing it on bass on Rave dvd.

i start playing guitar and piano at the age 14, i wanted to play only guitar,but my sister had a beautiful new piano that she never played so i start playing it.I loved that playing different instruments evokes different kind of sentiments in you.anyway if u want here you can get a video of me playing guitar solo to Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad https://easyupload.io/iqgml6 .anyway you can message me inbox because i don't want to go offtopic regarding this thread but i'm cool with us chatting via prince.org notes

i thought his version of creep was a bit bland tbh

but i prob need better audio

shame he never did a covers album in his later years

as his own songwriting wasnt really what it used to be, i think this would have been good for him to try

might have helped him learn from other songwriters more too

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

i thought his version of creep was a bit bland tbh

but i prob need better audio

shame he never did a covers album in his later years

as his own songwriting wasnt really what it used to be, i think this would have been good for him to try

might have helped him learn from other songwriters more too

Another Love is a cover + plus 1 verse written by Prince

that was the best song on that album!

i didnt actually know it was a cover until someone here told me.

but it would have been cool to hear him doing some american standards, some unexpected songs.

but that would require someone helping with A&R, not him picking his own songs.

if he did that, you would just get prince doing covers of larry graham, chaka khan and sly stone lol.

I loved "Whole lotta love" when he played it live in Hamburg, CCH ...in my memory the guitar effects were much longer and impressing than those we got on record or film.

Margot said: