ThreadBare said:

whatever

ThreadBare said:

Actually, I thought Dhani wanting to hug Prince was quite sweet. He obviously was extremely impressed by Prince's guitar playing (who can blame him?) Dhani sure is the spitting image of his late father, isn't he? The resemblance is amazing!

One funny moment during the show for me was when someone said to Mick Jagger that the Rolling Stones are the best band ever. I was hollering at the TV, "NO THEY'RE NOT, PRINCE IS BETTER!!!" The Stones ain't got SHIT on Prince.
[This message was edited Mon Mar 22 6:14:48 2004 by psychodelicide]

let's get one thing straight, people...Prince has always been a COMPETITIVE player....and last night was no different....and for those of you who wanna say he was hamming up and taking the spotlight off george...I disagree...if anything, Prince's solo was a wonderful tribute to a wonderful song...I dont understand how some of ya'll can by cynical, I mean damn....they OBVIOUSY enjoyed having him up there, and I dont see any evidence of tom or dhani or anyone else being put off....so stop reading shit into things and just enjoy it for what it was, a kickass performance...I'll tell you what, if people didnt realize how good a guitar player PRince was before tonight, they realize it now...and if you STILL wanna act like you dont know, well that's your fucking stupid problem...

Damnit people. With all this hype you are making me want to download a clip because of a frickin guitar solo !

OH MY GOD!!!!!
being in the uk i hadn't had the pleasure of seeing the man's performance on his induction so imagine my excitement when i just downloaded the guitar solo of while my guitar gentle weeps. now i had heard how good his overall performance was by all u guys here at the org but wow 2 say ive just been blown away is an understatement. im mean we all know how prince can play the damn thing but most if not all non fans don't realise the extent of how good a guitar player he really is. i just glad he finally choose to show the world his incrediable talent if only 4 1 song. as powerful statements go that was 1 hell of a statement. am really hyped now for the upcoming tour even thou i won't get 2 see it until he tours europe.

that was fereekin great.

Now I know why they say sleep is the cousin of death. I fell asleep midway through the show and missed this. I am going to watch it tonight though even if I have to cut off my eyelids! I saw a short clip of it though and I can tell by yall's reaction I am going to shed some tears to this solo!

SquarePeg said:

i don't think he was stealin anybody's thunder, cuz everybody had a piece...i just thought he was showin his tail off a bit. plain n'simple.

The whole show was great.

I just want to clarify something though...someone said that Paul McCartney was there? I believe that was Steve Winwood up on the Hammond organ. (I said organ )

I thought it looked like Paul at first too but it wasn't.

ThreadBare said:

see, but this is what i like about prince. he's nobody's bitch, he gets up and doesn't hold back. I don't care whose song it was, Prince got up there and made it sound like magic. perhaps he was showing off but i think it really brought that song to life and was doing george more of a favor than anything else. At the beginning of the song i was a bit bored, it just seemed like a bunch of old men whining. I'm not saying that these old men are not musicially significant, just that the song sounded a bit...dead. then prince came with that solo and i was floored. and when he threw up his guitar and left i was like, "that's my boy!" It was truly an amazing performance, i wish i could have been there to see it live.

Ok...let's just end it all now and start an official proclamation:

That solo was the MF'in bomb!

please feel free to co-sign this and let's just make this thread a prince.org classic.

we all have our favorite prince solos, etc., but i swear that solo was on another level. at one point i swear prince was getting the holy ghost or something.

you would need a nonce word to describe that guitar solo. period.

That sound you're hearing today is the sound of guitar players everywhere putting their guitars DOWN!

SquarePeg said:

That's the IT I was referring to. The moment was bigger than George Harrison and that's just what George Harrison was all about. I can't help but think that GH was, where ever he is, going A song he created so completely rocked, long after he is gone. It wasn't about hamming it up or being cool. It was about Rock n Roll.

I've been a hater in recent years...and that solo last night kicked me straight in the ass!

Like others have said, it reminded me why I put up with all the crap that sometimes comes along with being a Prince fan. I don't think I have ever been more proud to be a fan than I was last night...I was watching it with a group of people and kept telling them that Prince is about to whip everyone's ass onstage...even that warning didn't do it justice. Most people in the room had no idea he could play like that...in short, Prince made believers out of a lot of people last night...new AND old.

The complete control he showed with the guitar last night was unbelievable...how many different techniques did he work into the solo anyway? I'm still awestruck, and I thought I knew about his talent...

Just think of everyone who witnessed that live...McArtney, Petty, Springsteen, Mick & Keith, Kravitz...and then those no talent losers who must really feel completely worthless now...Kid Rock, Puffy, etc. Those guys didn't deserve to be in the same ROOM last night...and now they know why.

I hope Prince continues to ride this wave and shows more people out there just how special he really is...he's been underrated by the general public for WAY too long.

mattmcbr said:

THAT WAS BY FAR THE GREATEST GUITAR SOLO EVER BROADCAST ON TELEVISION IN THE HISTORY OF ALL MAN KIND.

SquarePeg said:

Did you work your shoulders and head when you rolled your eyes, too?

Serena said:

That's kind of my point, Serena. Other things to do. Prince snubbed the other folks because he had "other things to do." A reception? Another show? To me, it's just tacky. He always has to be the cherry in a celeb sundae. That's what put me off.

I'm not trying to take anything away from his talent. He's a wonderful performer. But his not being around for the finale or mingling backstage with the other folks, to me, seemed to contradict his speech references to friendship. Fact is, he has a record for being a no-show in that kind of scene. Maybe he's not as changed as we've been giving him credit.

ThreadBare said:

Prince isn't the first inductee to skip the closing jam and he won't be the last (remember AC/DC ..."It always sounds like a cat fight up there when there's too many of them up there, and everybody looks stupid," he says. "I think if we can go on and do two songs, that's great. That's what people expect. If they saw us up at the end all singing or whatever, I think it would be totally out of character for the band.")

The closing jam has earned a notorious reputation as a musical mess. So much so that I don't think they even bothered to broadcast it last year. I'm glad that Prince didn't participate in that. As far as him strutting off stage, yeah that had more than a little bit of attitude in it, but fuck it, it's Rock n' Roll, it should have a little attitude. He kicked ass and he knew it



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[This message was edited Mon Mar 22 10:58:05 2004 by Universaluv]

ThreadBare said:

I just said this on another topic. I believe P has calmed down and has changed to a point, but I think some of his personality is always going to remain till the day he dies. Sometimes the first time I watch him I can't tell whether or not he is being arrogant, but then I watch again and I took it wrong and I'm like oh he was ok. If he didn't want to stay at the finale fine, because him performing George's song with the guys was more than he would've done years ago. Hopefully, George's son will get to meet Prince somewhere else and get that hug he was talking about.

jpav said:

I think that guitar solo is up there with the Santana Medley guitar solo he did at Glam Slam East in 1995 and 2nigsunitedforWestCompton from the ONA Live box set Disc 3.

ThreadBare said:

There were others who weren't on the stage for the finale, not just Prince. I'd bet he wasn't even supposed to be there.

So, in order to make you happy, he should've blown off the commitment to the aftershow (which people paid good money for) and the reception (which had something to do with NYC giving him some kind of 'proclamation')? And it's not news that Prince isn't exactly the 'mingling' sort of guy....

Prince had something to prove, and he proved it.

He noticed how lame the old guys were, so he woke them up--plain and simple.

Prince now needs to funnel his vast talents into making better new music.

ThreadBare said:

I think it's amazing that people can't stop judging Prince off stage. Prince offers us his music, anything outside of that is his business. Let's put you under and the microscope for a day and see everything you do that would "put us off". Anyone who's been a fan of Prince knows that he doesn't do well in crowds and so what if he didn't mingle, he spoke volumes with his music that night and that really should be the ONLY topic of discussion.

I cringe everytime someone has to get all with really no point and they come off more Now back to the Prince worship

ThreadBare said:

oh you reeeeeally need to get over it...

EverlastingNow said:

THUMP!

As Billy Joel once sang, "It's still rock 'n' roll to me".

Yeah, that was really wonderful.

He said on the Today show that he thinks performance frills detract from the music. I think that, lately, what has detracted from the music is when he opens his mouth. When he does something like he did at the end of that show. . .show up, play his mutherfucking guitar, and leave. . .it's easy to remember what an absolute genius he is. I feel lucky to have figured that out, and I agree that prolly a few new folks will run out and discover his catalog now, which is a great thing.

Congratulations, Prince.

ThreadBare said:

Prince has never been about schmoozing and being all buddy-buddy with other musicians. I'm just shocked that he even got up on stage and played with artists other than the ones in his own band. What do you expect? He's not going to change his whole personality overnight. (not that I want him to)


Baby steps, baby steps.....