Prince died
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That sucks. The guy was phenomenally talented which is such a rarity in pop music now.
Very underrated guitar player too
Very underrated guitar player too
I saw him live in SATX; one of the all time underrated guitar players IMO (up there with Vince Gill who can also absolutely wail).
My wife and I saw him last week in ATL and the show was outstanding. He had to cancel the performance from the previous week due to the flu. He rescheduled for 04/14/16 and after the show, while flying back to Minneaoplis, they had to land in Moline, IL to take him to the hospital for dehydration and was released 3 hours later. When I called my wife to tell her of his passing, she broke down crying. He'll definitely be missed.
If you didn't click on this video, do so. Prince's guitar solo is very very impressive. I had no idea he was that talented.
Also, the young guy next to Petty is George Harrison's son (had to go to the YouTube link to figure out who he is. After I read it, I felt silly for not figuring it out just from looking at him.
Most guitar players I know have always talked about what a great guitar player he is.
Imagine Bieber trying that.
Drop the axe and walk!! How awesome.
Talk about completely overshadowing a bunch of legends. Jeff Lynne sounded amazing too.
Love Jeff Lynne. Very underrated. I didn't appreciate ELO in their heyday, but love to listen to their stuff now. I know that Lynne is very well respected in the music world, but there are a lot of music lovers who would recognize the names of 5 other guys in that video but would not know who JL is.
My kids listen to a satellite station called kids place live that plays abc song and giddy kids songs and they just played lets go crazy
LOL! I was skimming down to say, "Who caught the axe?" I loved the look he gave Harrison before he started, like, "OK, now you wanna hear some ****?"
I didn't know much of his music but his most commercial radio tunes. I knew he was a monster guitarist and could play a couple dozen instruments, but I'm afraid his death, for me, is gonna be another one of those, "Oh, X died, I think I'll buy a cd. Wow, this guy is unreal, I gotta catch a concert. No, wait. Damn."
Joni nailed it: "You don't know what you got til it's gone."
Almost my exact experience with JL. When the Traveling Wilburys formed and released their first video ten or so years ago, I thought, "Who's that guy?" When I started digging around, I found had thought for my whole life that several ELO songs were actually done by the Beatles. Felt like an idiot! I'm a big fan now of ELO and JL. They had an awesome special on PBS not too long ago that I recorded and Mrs. AB and I played it several times.
I don't want to hijack, but the JL reference made me pull up this video of the Wilbury's called 'End of the Line.' It still fits in the thread and has always been very moving to me, especially near the end when they show the empty rocking chair with a guitar where Roy Orbison should have been sitting. RO died just as they finished recording their second album. Great set of songs, btw.
I love that song! Jeff Healey's version is my favorite version of the song. Prince definitely did it right.
I worked briefly at KVRO in the early 80's (public radio/OSU) and I remember we used to get in promotional LP's all the time.
One day I came into work and all the DJ's and most of the staff were in a booth listening to this new record that had come in. So I jumped in to listen to it as well. Musicianship was incredible (found out later that Prince had done every single instrument, from drums to guitars to piano, etc.) but to say it was "out there" content wise, particularly for that time was an understatement. I don't remember it completely, but I remember the one track starts off talking about God and ends up seguing into about how much he want's to F some girl and how he loves f'ing her and on and on. Obviously, there was no way we could play that on the radio.
There were only 4 tracks on the LP, but I remember that quality wise the music itself was amazing. Kept thinking that we would eventually hear more from the guy down the road. Given that all the tracks contained "objectionable" material, the program director said that anyone who wanted it could have it and we ended up having to do a drawing to determine who got it, as about 8 people immediately jumped in requesting it. Unfortunately, I was not the winner... I'm certain it would be a major collectible as it was never released commercially.
One day I came into work and all the DJ's and most of the staff were in a booth listening to this new record that had come in. So I jumped in to listen to it as well. Musicianship was incredible (found out later that Prince had done every single instrument, from drums to guitars to piano, etc.) but to say it was "out there" content wise, particularly for that time was an understatement. I don't remember it completely, but I remember the one track starts off talking about God and ends up seguing into about how much he want's to F some girl and how he loves f'ing her and on and on. Obviously, there was no way we could play that on the radio.
There were only 4 tracks on the LP, but I remember that quality wise the music itself was amazing. Kept thinking that we would eventually hear more from the guy down the road. Given that all the tracks contained "objectionable" material, the program director said that anyone who wanted it could have it and we ended up having to do a drawing to determine who got it, as about 8 people immediately jumped in requesting it. Unfortunately, I was not the winner... I'm certain it would be a major collectible as it was never released commercially.
These recent deaths really make you think about how truly tragic the losses were of those that died early in their careers (Holly, Hendrix, Joplin, etc)
If these guys had been a member of the '27 Club', Lennon would have died in 1967, Bowie in 1974 and Prince in 1985. Imagine the music we would have missed out on.
If these guys had been a member of the '27 Club', Lennon would have died in 1967, Bowie in 1974 and Prince in 1985. Imagine the music we would have missed out on.
Never was much of a fan of his style so I never paid a lot of attention to his talent and that was really the first time I have seen him lay into a guitar solo.
Dude made that look effortless. I haven't seen a lot of folks do that to a guitar and make it look like they were barely breaking a sweat.
Caught me in a senior moment. I was thinking of the release of the box set of albums, CDs, dvd's and videos, which had been unavailable for a time, in 2007 (I looked it up this time).
Except for what I had heard on the radio in 88-90, I had missed the boat on the original albums due to grad school with two toddlers and an infant in the house. I got all wound up about buying the whole enchilada when Harrison's estate released it all.
When our age is recorded in single digits and we screw up, if we're smart, we say, "Hey, I'm just a kid!" Then we go thru five or six decades of having to answer for and correct every freakin' little mistake we make.
Then, suddenly we're sweet, white-haired, old grandfathers and we have an incontrovertible answer for every situation and it will last a lifetime: "I'm old. Kiss my ***, STFU and get off my gd lawn!"
Prince was a prominent artist on the soundtrack of my high school and college life.
This one has hit me hard. A second gut punch (Bowie) in less than four months.
Sucks.
This one has hit me hard. A second gut punch (Bowie) in less than four months.
Sucks.
There is some speculation that he has had AIDS for years, but stopped taking his meds because he thought he was cured and believed that God had cured him and he didn't need the meds anymore. When he started getting sick again, he still refused to take the meds due to his faith in God.