prince

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!

real talk, that Usher story may mark the point where Matt DC became one of my favorite ILXors

m@tt, I avoid that type of "local scene" back-patting fatigue by resolutely refusing to read any local music coverage; the down side is that I really have no fucking idea what's happening here though

i haven't read much Minnesota-based coverage of Prince or Dylan but i have a hard time believing it's THAT much more reverent or excitable than press about them written anywhere else

I had never read that usher story - alltime lols

yeah it's more just prince and dylan, this state is so obsessed with being the home of prince and dylan....and the replacements, which is a band i really loved and it's worn on my appreciation of them....huskers, weirdly, not so much until recent years for whatever reason

or even, like, to the degree that press about Springsteen is more over the top in Jersey than elsewhere (xp)

i can DEFINITELY believe that the 'Mats and the Huskers are fawned over more there. but trust me, Bobby and Prince are fawned over everywhere.

i know. but in the case of prince he does a lot more stuff here so basically every time he takes a shit the local papers cover it like it's a really big deal

like his recent charging of 75 at a jazz club to watch him audition a new drummer

I would pay that price to watch that in a heartbeat tbh

djp otm

& the dylan thing is just more pathetic since he has had little interest in MN since like um 1960 or whenever he left, he maintains a home here he apparently never goes to and we just have this stalker ex-gf vibe w/dylan coverage

djp - apparently it sounded a lot like a pretty routine funk band formless jamming and prince mostly watched and or diddled around on keyboards every once in a while

(review from a huge prince fan that went)

Ha, I guess us Seattlites are spared that being that our most iconic local musicians are dead.

so basically you are telling me I can pay $75 to be in the same room as Prince, who may or may not hear me lustily making up lyrics to the formless funk jamming and be so taken by my semi-trained bass-baritone that he recruits me into his inner circle and produces a vanity album for me, is the takeaway I am getting here