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>>Still, saying he doesn't play well with others makes no
>>sense...Prince is no different than any other alpha male
>>artist (JB, Sly Stone, George Clinton ect...)
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>>These guys were cool playing ball as long as you were
>playing
>>THEIR GAME...And Prince was no different..
>
>Both James Brown and ESPECIALLY GC brought their bandmembers
>into the songmaking-procedure in a major way-George Clinton
>didn't even need to do much himself at all; Bootsy or Hazel or
>Worell or... had already written or even laid down the backing
>tracks, riffs etc.
>
>While I know about Wendy&Lisa, didn't Prince still want his
>finger in everything and pretty much control the musical
>output (songwriting, arranging, musicianship) 100%?


This is all i know...If you were not playing in the style that JB wanted...you were fined...If you were not hitting it in the correct JB musical pocket, you were fine...and if you were showing him up, you were fired (see Bootsy)....To me, JB was even more of a hard ass than Prince....But the fact that JB didn't have that strong of a mastery of instrumentation he relied on his musicians to contribute..

Onstage, Prince relied more on his musicians much in the same way as JB...But in the studio, Prince could play all the music that was in his head, note for note...That doesn't make him unable to play well with others...That just makes him a bad motherfucker...lol