prince

would watch Michael Dorn's tribute to Prince

oh shit

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_22377287/prince-performing-at-dakota-jazz-club-this-week

New drummer already? What happened to the hot blonde one?

cameras and cellphones will not be allowed inside the club -- a phone check will be available, according to the Dakota website

New jam is solid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvrXnZQfD9Y

Its good to have the sexy Prince back. I wonder (u) if there's going to be a full album.

This song is really great.

yeah, this is solid

ah fuck

well at least until whatever the hell happens in the final minute

The chipmunk voice is awesome.

this is terrific. spottie otm

yeah, squirrelmeat vocals are totally vintage prince

http://daddyrockstar.tumblr.com/post/43885486088/susan-rogers-on-princes-sign-o-the-times-part-1

This is awesome^

otm ^^^

OTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CKWNcf6dukE#!

god bless that man

What floors me isn't just how awesome Prince is live, but how he can simultaneously suck fermented farts in the studio.

that's true of a lot of people who lost the magic touch as writers but still have a catalog to fall back on

omg@ that sofatruck link

so sick

not feeling that Fallon performance (bar rock mode, new songs), + #guitargate2013

do you not fuck with "Bambi" as a song?

the verse is pretty nice, but other than that doesn't even have a nice groove to ride on.

but

but

BAMBI

such an asshole

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/195134/prince-smashed-someone-elses-1961-epiphone-on-fallon/

oh my god, wow

at his shows there's always someone to catch the guitar after he tosses it in the air and walks away. in my imagination he just assumes that someone will take care of it, or better yet has never even thought about what happens to the guitar after it leaves his hands.

if all that snapped off was the piece of the headstock that's hardly "smashed"

God catches Prince's guitars obviously

Why is he so weird!

Wouldnt even sign it?! WHATADIIIIIIIIICK

It looks like the guitar was supposed to travel further than it did, I think the chord got caught up on his pedal board.

at his shows there's always someone to catch the guitar after he tosses it in the air and walks away. in my imagination he just assumes that someone will take care of it, or better yet has never even thought about what happens to the guitar after it leaves his hands.

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dying @ this

"Look up in the air, it's your guitar . . ." >>>CRASH<<< "Well, it WAS your guitar."

haha

"Bambi" is awesome, fuiud. i love how the first 2 albums, while obviously not as amazing as the best '80s LPs, still TOTALLY demonstrate his range from the start, the mix of slow jam ballads and screaming guitar rockers and funk workouts, it's so cool how that plurality was built in from the start (compared to a lot of artists who start with a pretty specific sound and then branch out).

"Bambi" is awesome, fuiud.

^^^

oof just watched "bambi", his new band is terrible. also are ppl like required by law to freak out every time prince comes out and does some guitar center theatrics?

xpost ^^^

"guitar center theatrics" fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you >:(

I wouldn't mess with that Roots guitarist guy, he is the double of Miles Davis and does a mean Eazy E impersonation.

someone struck a nerve

also are ppl like required by law to freak out every time prince comes out and does some guitar center theatrics?

tbh with that attitude I'm surprised you haven't been kicked out of MN

My guitar teacher, who absolutely loves Prince and thinks he's a genius, revealed to me the other day that he actually doesn't really think much of him as a lead guitar player, saying he coasts a lot on effects but pretty standard issue technique. Which often is still amazing and definitely effective (like in Purple Rain or I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man). But his fave Prince guitar stuff is actually his rhythm playing, particularly the stuff at the end of "Lady Cab Driver."

when people act all blithe about the flashy, slightly tacky way in which Prince's guitar playing is awesome, i wonder if they've noticed that that's how he's awesome at everything else too

ppl are jerks imo

I think his real genius is in writing, arranging and singing, not playing. But I personally love his playing.

that's the thing though, prince's lead guitar playing is like the cherry on top of amazing songwriting, singing, band-leading, everything else. when it becomes the whole point, it's not as exciting.

xp

it's too bad Prince doesn't play any horns, I'd love to see him fling a borrowed trombone in the air and march off stage