Wanking away on lead-guitar is one, actually writing a good rock-song is another. Outside of "Bambi" and "When you were mine" (that one is more power-pop/New Wave IMO but whatever), I was never impressed by Prince as a rocker. Of course, he doesn't need to make great rock-songs to be legendary but I think people over-estimate the rocker-aspect of Prince to make him be something he is not when it's perfectly enough to do great funk, R&B, soul-bakllads and quirky pop-songs. I guess I'm a redneck racist too for thinking this...