>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...