tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post870480792317978247..comments2024-03-22T14:48:09.697-04:00Comments on Dell on Movies: My Purple Life, Part 2Dellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-9142912190813870062016-05-02T06:26:46.479-04:002016-05-02T06:26:46.479-04:00I should've reread the roster before I said it...I should've reread the roster before I said it was Clapton. Oops. Points well taken, though.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-8047407739806240422016-05-02T00:37:03.015-04:002016-05-02T00:37:03.015-04:00I've seen that video a bunch of times as they ...I've seen that video a bunch of times as they added his solo at the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony TV presentation last night on HBO to close the special as it was filmed before he died. BTW, that's not Eric Clapton. That was Jeff Lynne playing with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers w/ Dhani Harrison. Yet, I keep hearing how much Clapton praised Prince. Clapton was called God but I do love his response when someone asked him in being the greatest guitar player. "I don't know, ask Prince". And he credits Prince for making him realize there is still hope in music after he had seen <i>Purple Rain</i>. He fucking knocked it out of the park with that solo. No pedals, no tremolo/whammy bars, no effects. Just skill and skill alone. Though some of my favorite guitar players like Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine is known for using pedals and tremolo bars for noisy effects to create something new. Prince was just too cool for that. thevoid99https://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-88398560673001610102016-05-01T20:33:46.646-04:002016-05-01T20:33:46.646-04:00Thanks! Excellent point about how he makes man and...Thanks! Excellent point about how he makes man and woman equals. That's the perfect way to describe. And he's always willing to take himself down a notch.<br /><br />He was most certainly a killer on the guitar. I hope you watched that video above with him, Clapton, Petty, and co. His solo there is amazing.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227751790693713235.post-37891886767646442922016-05-01T15:21:26.140-04:002016-05-01T15:21:26.140-04:00This is fucking beautiful. There will never be an...This is fucking beautiful. There will never be another Prince. Not in terms of virtuosity but also in excitement. You're so fucking about his approach to sexuality in music and the way things are. In fact, I find R. Kelly's idea of sex in songs to be kind of laughable for some of the wrong reasons. Especially in that song "Booty" where he's singing that in the video as it came off as hilarious. It has that "I'm a guy" mentality and "I'm gonna fuck you so bad honey". Prince wasn't like that at all. I don't think he would've stood by towards the sense of misogyny that is around in some of today's music. Songs like "Adore" and "Insatiable" are the right examples of everything you said about his approach to love. He makes man and woman be equals and also he would take a peg or two on himself and make the woman be even more awesome in a song like "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World". I love "If I Was Your Girlfriend" as he's got that perfect falsetto.<br /><br />Then of course there's Prince the guitar god. Shit, I bet he, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Ronson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, George Harrison, B.B. King, and Buddy Holly right now are probably creating the world's loudest guitar jam and Prince and Hendrix are in a guitar duel. I love his solos and one of my personal favorite solos of his is the one in "Batdance". I know there's probably some that don't really like the song but when I was 8 years old and that song was on MTV and radio. I thought it was the fucking coolest thing I heard and then came that fuckin' solo. HOLY MOTHERFUCKIN' SHIT!!! The way he plays it on the video was like "FUCK YEAH!" and I still get high to that shit as I'm doing air guitar with that and the making the faces. That is what a good fuckin' rock song should be. Nickelturd can suck it! thevoid99https://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.com