Prince------Yes or No?

[Shell Beau]

I say yes! Purple Rain was some kinda good!

[Orrex]

1. He's an absofuckinglutely incredible guitarist

And anyone who says otherwise is a grade-a snotbucket.

[Shell Beau]

5. He is a good guitarist.

He was #1 on the most underated guitarist by Rolling Stone.

[cemaphonic]

30. You would think that when Eric Clapton goes around telling anyone who will listen

that Prince is the best guitarists around, more people would give him credit.

Though to be fair, a ton of his music doesn't really feature his guitar playing, and his celebrity and eccentricity kinda overshadow his music anyway.

Back when he was still doing clubs in Minneapolis, the local metalheads would show up to his (non-rock) shows just to check out his guitar playing.

[Iggo]

31. Oh, I give him credit.

But he never PLAYS. Dude should shred every now and then.

In fact, I'll coin the term right here: Shred for cred.

[Jamastiene]

24. I agree.

He is one KICK ASS guitarist.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

35. Yep...as Frank Zappa would say, "Shut Up & Play Your Guitar"

You Tube: Prince blowtorches the guitar solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with the assistance of Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, & George's son Dhani:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl942_I3Wo

The Prince solo starts around the 3:30 mark...

:toast:

[mcctatas]

2. OK, but when that movie came out I lived in a little podunk town

with one theater and not much else, I literally saw that movie at least once a week for 2 frigging months! :crazy:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Brilliant musician, horrible actor.

[Shell Beau]

8. Fo sho!

[reyd reid reed]

4. Definitely.

Helluva guitarist. Matter of fact, the last concert I went to was the Purple Rain concert in Long Beach. 23 years ago? Something like that.

I really need to get out more often.

:eyes:

[Pierre.Suave]

6. undecided

and probably will be for quite some time.

[Shell Beau]

7. Well then I take that as a no!!

[Pierre.Suave]

14. you can take it however you want it...

:P

[Inchworm]

9. Even I liked Purple Rain

And I was kinda like the Beavis-like dressed kid in high school.

Prince.. not so much :D

:hi:

[Fleshdancer]

10. yes yes yes yes

I can't explain it, but yes.

[no name no slogan]

11. Hell yes! He's a hometown superstar

I've also played gigs at the same club he played at in Purple Rain (1st Avenue). The club is still around, too.

[Deja Q]

12. Well...

Overrated from the start, completely tasteless...

Mind you, without Prince we wouldn't have had this great parody of him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7lexXAzrwc

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. No. Never got him. Don't understand his continued appeal.

More like a forest elf.

Can't believe he was the headliner at the Super Bowl a couple of years.

[Bennyboy]

20. He fucking rocked the Super Bowl...

Easily the best Super Bowl performance ever. especially the visuals and the shadow screen (take that FCC!)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Meh. All flash, no substance.

By far the weakest Super Bowl headliner post Janet Jackson boobage.

[tigereye]

26. best I had ever seen as well! It was great.

[Debi]

15. I WAS a huge fan. But after he revealed himself to be a sellout homophobe

I dropped him like a hot potato x(

[KitchenWitch]

16. ding ding ding ding ding!

Debi FTW!

[Debi]

18. Whoever's writing him checks....ass.

:hug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Pure brilliance. Easily in the very small top tier of brilliant rock musicians working today.

Pure genius, brilliant guitarist, brilliant musician and artist.

[TreasonousBastard]

19. Mostly yes-- and a lotta good earworms there

[swag]

21. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

He seems to me to be so much unfulfilled potential, but that is all in terms of my musical tastes. Too many round edges and too few jagged ones.

Still, "Erotic City" was brill.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. I was going to say meh...but, you have phrased it quite nicely.

Thanks. Unfulfilled potential and round edges. Yes, that sums it up. :thumbsup:

[Jamastiene]

23. Great fucking guitarist, songwriter, musician, but anti-gay, sadly.

I can listen to his old music, but because of his stance against gay rights, I won't buy anything of his any more. :(

I still think Purple Rain was one of the best songs ever written though. I just wish he hadn't gone into this anti-gay thing recently. I liked him. :cry:

[Shell Beau]

34. I somehow missed the anti-gay thing.

I just wouldn't have pegged him that way. Shows what I know.

[tigereye]

25. yes! He's still amazing. Great writer and guitarist, and still really sexy!

[Fearless]

27. NOOOOOOO!

:P

[AAARRRGGGHHH]

29. Absolutely

I love him.

[lildreamer316]

32. Um. Yes.

Saw him from..like ten feet away.
In. Fucking. Credible.
That is all.

[Pharlo]

33. Brilliant artist.

A LOT of his later artistic potential was side tracked by his break with the established recording industry. Because he refused to give into their artistic limitations, he opted to produce his own music. This decision forced him to become more 'business man' and less 'artist'. As a result, his artistic focus was broken and we see a 'lapse' in his musical genius.

The truly sad thing is, he had more freedom to explore his artistry before he liberated himself in an effort to 'pursue his art'.

[bridgit]

36. He's written some cool songs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqymYOQeQQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVsNDjXyZs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1B_lpqwkE&feature=related