I heard that they played 2gether growing up, and in a guitar magazine Prince stated that Sonny was the best guitarist of all time, which i found interesting.

Yeah I'm sure I've read a few interviews where Prince mentioned that he used to look up to Sonny a lot when he was younger...

I can see why. Sonny T is an incredible bassist... I miss him in the NPG... I certainly understand why Prince would replace Sonny with Larry Graham (duh! the man IS bass) but Rhonda? I never got into her style personally, and IMO she can't touch Sonny or Larry.

She's better than Brownmark tho!

Brownmark lacked in the technical dept, but he made up for that in his chops.

Listen to his funky bass playing in the Purple Rain Live 85 video, like baby im a star

notice how Sonny T is absent from Possessed the book? sounds to me like something weren't right.

ian said:

she`s different. she ain`t better. she`s different.

I know that sonny t is a top bass player

but when it comes to women the old bkoke can only use the old chat up line..."prince...i will get u 2 meet him


BLOW JOB PLEASE

"TIME TO MEET PRINCE"

SONNY T "SOORY I DONT KNOW U"


this is exactly wot happenned at NIA BIRMINGHAM at the hyatt hotel with a female freind of mine in the early nineties

bennyuk said:

Shit! This dude is even cooler than I thought! Go Sonny!

Oh, and concerning Sonny influencing Prince, I remember him saying once how he taught Prince a lot about chord progressions.

Ian,i second your points on sonny versus rhonda.
(whom i do dig...but you're right sonny was a MONster!)

mark brown was pretty good (remember he was 18 when prince
put him in after andre left) he was just green.

i've heard a lot of kind things said about sonny by prince.
i'm wondering though-why did he let sonny go in the first
place? of all of the early 1990's npg members sonny was
one of the few i really respected musically.
tommy b,levi,and micheal b were all top-notched musicians.
rosie had the vocal chops. i resepcted her for that.
(notice i didn't mention tony m!)

one question people. in most of the books on prince it was
said by prince and everybody in the other minny bands that
sonny had musical equipment and was overdubbing his voice
and stuff-which blew everybody away.
the question is-why wasn't he SIgned by anybody?

Where is Sonny by the way?