prince

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.

― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Monday, March 4, 2013 2:04 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

Like Angelo Moore in Fishbone!

I wonder if there's enough material out there for a crowdsourced "Prince ruined my guitar" Tumblr

lol

PURPLE PAIN

YA GOT PRINCED

Prince has ruined plenty of his own guitars.

SNL sketch where Fred Armisen goes to dinner parties, smirks and whispers to the person he came with, then leaves without apologizing for smashing the china

the artist currently known as the c**t who smashed my guitar

xp: wait are we still talking about Prince or have we moved on to Usher

(cf: people who've been on TV whom you've pwned)

haha never saw that. but all the SNL sketches about Prince involve him whispering something to Beyonce and then Beyonce announcing what Prince told her.

oh I know, I just love bringing up that story because it's hilarious

i was hoping it would end with Paul Bellini walking out from behind the bar with a towel around his waist and walking off with Usher

indisputable dick move, i am trading him off my team on madden as soon as i get home

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

― Shuwopley (some dude), Monday, March 4, 2013 1:34 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think he used to be awesome at a lot of stuff.

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 super interesting Kant story (DJP), Monday, March 4, 2013 1:32 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

full disclosure, i think living in MN and the provincial way the music press is here (like "local boys" bob dylan and hold steady, a band from new york), i get kind of just exhausted and kinda butthurt about the constant coverage and overpraise, "prince is BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER" type stuff....like i dunno, probably how lex feels about morrissey or the beatles or oasis or something

now i want to start a thread called "how does a lex feels about the oasis or something"

that usher story!