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yeah....you are a fucking racist....
>I think what makes it work is the moment - Prince stepping >out in his outfit in front of a bunch of establishment white >guys and just playing until his fingers catch on fire. Very >much a "look, I can do THIS" thing, and for that aspect alone >it's fun as hell to watch. > >As a piece of music though, it does almost nothing for me >except for the first 30 seconds and then a few bits later on. >It doesn't "tell a story" in guitar solo parlance - doesn't >build or climax, hits full wank mode with the sixteenth note >hammer-on stuff only 30 seconds in, and after that it mostly >feels like a technique display. And it's an impressive one, >but let's be real, there are other guys that can do that, and >more of them than you'd think. What I expect out of Prince as >a musician - the soul, the controlled minimalism dotted with >explosions of sound that take your breath away, the superb and >quirky grasp of melody (that sometimes just pokes its head up >for a few moments per verse on his funkier numbers, but other >times generated some of the biggest hit songs of my youth) - >it's mostly absent here, after a pretty solid beginning. It's >a dude rummaging all over the neck finding different ways to >freak a pentatonic scale (with a few modal highlights here and >there - wish there were more of them). > >Truthfully I always thought Prince was at his weakest as a >guitarist. Not technique-wise, but just for producing music >that blows me away. He can obviously shred, but if I might >steal a popular OKP comparison, he's more singing than >sangin'. One of his obvious models, Jimi, knew how to do >both, and his solos were works of art. Prince's solos, I >somehow never feel them like that.
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