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Nice
I saw a screen shot last night credited to a news station in Nashville, TN that changed the coloring of the weather radar to be different shades of purple rather than the "normal" blue-yellow-red.
Peace,
Mr DJA
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Chester
I definitely get Prince.
I don't think you are getting me.
No question: He was a great musician.
No question: Comparatively speaking, his records and lyrics should have been much better than they were.
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wonderboy
As to the 'underachiever' label, I think it's silly to focus on his lyrics when he was such a brilliant musician, arranger, performer, band leader, etc.
and there are other great musicians who didn't write great lyrics -- Clapton, James Brown, Hendrix.
And anyway a lot of the time it's not what the lyric says, but what the singer does with them. For example, Miss You has pedestrian lyrics, but the vocal conveys a universal feeling. Ruby Tuesday has a simple lyric but again, the vocal track and the music conveys a powerful feeling.
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Cristiano Radtke
Keith on Prince:
"A unique talent. A true original. So sad, so sudden and, I will add, a great guitar player. We are all going to miss him."
[twitter.com]
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Cristiano Radtke
Keith on Prince:
"A unique talent. A true original. So sad, so sudden and, I will add, a great guitar player. We are all going to miss him."
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Well, Prince made an improvement in Keith's mind (on twitter at least) since he last made a statement about mister Nelson.
“An overrated midget… Prince has to find out what it means to be a prince. That's the trouble with conferring a title on yourself before you've proved it. His attitude when he opened for us... was insulting to our audience. You don't try to knock off the headline like that when you're playing a Stones crowd. He's a prince who thinks he's a king already. Good luck to him."
Read more at [www.nme.com]
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Gaetzi
I was lucky enough to see Prince five times over the years. The show I saw at the Rio in Vegas 2007 when he was doing his residency was probably the best concert I've ever seen. (it was also my 30th birthday)-It was this in the round dinner type theater, Maceo Parker on sax, I think Sheila E was playing drums.. the whole band was just tremendous. He came on at 2:30 and played till 6 am. What a night! On stage, the man was half James Brown, half Jimi Hendrix. That son of a bitch was laying down the smoothest dance moves, the most shredding guitar solos all while orchestrating the band. It was truly a thing of beauty.
I was also lucky enough to attend two of the four theater shows he did with 3rd Eye Girl at the 1600 person Ogden here in Denver a few years back. The second show we caught was the final of the four and may well be the second best show I've ever seen. About half way through he puts down his guitar, brings a bunch of girls up on stage, gets behind the keyboards and starts DJing this Prince greatest hits dance party. The place went insane.
Aside from his song writing and guitar playing, the thing I'll always dig about Prince was he did it his way. He never stopped playing music and he never compromised. The fact that the industry and media paid him that huge respect of letting him be Prince is all you need to say. He was that highly regarded. He was his own thing
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Cristiano Radtke
Keith on Prince:
"A unique talent. A true original. So sad, so sudden and, I will add, a great guitar player. We are all going to miss him."
[twitter.com]
Well, Prince made an improvement in Keith's mind (on twitter at least) since he last made a statement about mister Nelson.
“An overrated midget… Prince has to find out what it means to be a prince. That's the trouble with conferring a title on yourself before you've proved it. His attitude when he opened for us... was insulting to our audience. You don't try to knock off the headline like that when you're playing a Stones crowd. He's a prince who thinks he's a king already. Good luck to him."
Read more at [www.nme.com]
i think he made those comments in the early 80's but i remember reading even before Prince's death that Keith did come to admire his talent
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Cristiano Radtke
Keith on Prince:
"A unique talent. A true original. So sad, so sudden and, I will add, a great guitar player. We are all going to miss him."
[twitter.com]
Well, Prince made an improvement in Keith's mind (on twitter at least) since he last made a statement about mister Nelson.
“An overrated midget… Prince has to find out what it means to be a prince. That's the trouble with conferring a title on yourself before you've proved it. His attitude when he opened for us... was insulting to our audience. You don't try to knock off the headline like that when you're playing a Stones crowd. He's a prince who thinks he's a king already. Good luck to him."
Read more at [www.nme.com]
i think he made those comments in the early 80's but i remember reading even before Prince's death that Keith did come to admire his talent
Really, Ket? Love to know where.
As far as I recall, Keith was still slamming him in LIFE. And he certainly didn't mention Prince in "Under the Influence." And nowhere on those lists of his favorites and inspirations that have been floating around does Prince ever appear.
So, despite my affection for Keith, I call shenanigans. It seems kind of cheap to jump on the accolades bandwagon after someone kicks the bucket.
And no, Keith isn't suddenly "blossoming" and discovering new music with an open mind. Part of Keith's being Keith is his arrogance and old mannishness around new music and artists who--for whatever reason--he ranges from dismissive to contemptuous, or seems to feel threatened. Something that Mick, despite Mick's shortcomings (so to speak) could never be accused of.
Furthermore, what virtuoso rock guitarists has Keith ever praised? None. And that's fine. He doesn't have to like or even appreciate Prince, or shout out an RIP. It seems almost like competition with Mick--or trying to keep up and appear cool. Neither is very cool.
It's as likely that Keith actually said that about Prince as it is that he personally tweeted that from his iPhone. Or maybe you can fax your tweets in if you're Keith
Meanwhile I'm seriously bumming about this. Like a lot of people who posted today, I just can't even find words.
So here's this...IORR seems still not to have fixed the "invisible YouTube video" problem...so I will try to paste Prince doing "Honky Tonk Woman" several ways below.
-swiss
Prince's version of "Honky Tonk Woman."VIDEO
video: [youtu.be]
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crawdaddy
This is a great one of Prince and Maceo Parker, former sax player with James Brown.
If anyone is on Facebook you can see it, but don't think it's on youtube.
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Cristiano Radtke
Keith on Prince:
"A unique talent. A true original. So sad, so sudden and, I will add, a great guitar player. We are all going to miss him."
[twitter.com]
Well, Prince made an improvement in Keith's mind (on twitter at least) since he last made a statement about mister Nelson.
“An overrated midget… Prince has to find out what it means to be a prince. That's the trouble with conferring a title on yourself before you've proved it. His attitude when he opened for us... was insulting to our audience. You don't try to knock off the headline like that when you're playing a Stones crowd. He's a prince who thinks he's a king already. Good luck to him."
Read more at [www.nme.com]
i think he made those comments in the early 80's but i remember reading even before Prince's death that Keith did come to admire his talent
Really, Ket? Love to know where.
As far as I recall, Keith was still slamming him in LIFE. And he certainly didn't mention Prince in "Under the Influence." And nowhere on those lists of his favorites and inspirations that have been floating around does Prince ever appear.
So, despite my affection for Keith, I call shenanigans. It seems kind of cheap to jump on the accolades bandwagon after someone kicks the bucket.
And no, Keith isn't suddenly "blossoming" and discovering new music with an open mind. Part of Keith's being Keith is his arrogance and old mannishness around new music and artists who--for whatever reason--he ranges from dismissive to contemptuous, or seems to feel threatened. Something that Mick, despite Mick's shortcomings (so to speak) could never be accused of.
Furthermore, what virtuoso rock guitarists has Keith ever praised? None. And that's fine. He doesn't have to like or even appreciate Prince, or shout out an RIP. It seems almost like competition with Mick--or trying to keep up and appear cool. Neither is very cool.
It's as likely that Keith actually said that about Prince as it is that he personally tweeted that from his iPhone. Or maybe you can fax your tweets in if you're Keith
Meanwhile I'm seriously bumming about this. Like a lot of people who posted today, I just can't even find words.
So here's this...IORR seems still not to have fixed the "invisible YouTube video" problem...so I will try to paste Prince doing "Honky Tonk Woman" several ways below.
-swiss
Prince's version of "Honky Tonk Woman."VIDEO
video: [youtu.be]
Keith was more influeced by Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters and maybe by Mick Jagger also.
Prince made a few nice songs, but he did not write HOT STUFF in 1975.
COME ON...
edit: Lousy version of HTW by the way. Lyrcics are important.Was Prince a dyslectic?
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swiss
No need to change your tune and tweet some after the fact sentimentality.
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chester
when was the last time a thread was created on this website to talk about Prince's great talent?
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chester
When was the last time anyone on this site mentioned him at all?
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Chester
Pretty sure "I Would Die 4 You'' "Let's Go Crazy'' "Rasberry Beret'' and "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World'' etc. are not going to be remembered by history the same way songs by the Beatles and Stones are, and yet everyone is mourning him as such.