@@lexkanyima2195 Santana was one of his referents since he was a child, but Prince reached higher than his masters. Prince could play as Santana, as Hendrix and as the best blues & funk players. Google prince + thenameyouwant to check it out. Santana and him shared stage a few times and he loved Prince too. And no, this is not his best guitar solo as is not the solo in Purple Rain.
@@CheckingYourRealityForYou “People say Prince is great” “You need to listen to more guitarists”. So if I listen to more guitarists, people will stop saying he’s great. Makes ~perfect~ sense, if you’re high. Put down the crack pipe & try to be coherent. Or maybe even be original & try not to be a typical troll.
No, that’s fair. Prince because of the times had his shtick, so he really pigeon holed himself. That was the 80s on throughout the early 90s so his incredibly mind blowing talent as a guitarist was overshadowed by his showmanship. If you’re a guitarist and follow that expression of talent it was no secret but most laypersons wouldn’t have known. What’s more incredible was he could play the Bass, Keyboards, Drums and a few other instruments as well.
That solo was outrageous but also had F***Y** written all over it - especially at the end when he just threw his guitar away and walked off, that all just seemed to say "Follow that!!!" knowing full well no-one EVER could.
I don't get tired of watching the solo with Prince and it is my favorite. I loved the look on Dhani Harrisons face when Prince stepped up and burned up his guitar. Dhani loved it and had a big grin. I'm so glad that Prince did that for the world to hear. All the musicians are very talented, but once Prince started playing, there was no comparison of the king on the stage.
Prince played MANY instruments and wrote over 1000 songs. The man was truly an icon. His personal style was always ridiculed and overshadowed his talent. I have "While my guitar gently weeps" on my playlist and I get chills Everytime I hear Jeff, Tom and Prince together. Sign of the times when addiction takes the ones we admire before their time.
Rolling Stone also rated Michael Jackson the 85th greatest singer of all time which makes me think of the David Lee Roth quote " Most music critics like Elvis Costello because most music critics look like Elvis Costello " .
Prince was from another planet. There has never been a musical artist with such brilliant mastery of so many instruments & never will be…The music, the songs, the lyrics, the perfectionism, the stage presence, singing in multiple keys…there will never ever be anyone on his level musically.
This kinda reminds me of an experience I had before. I was part of a band and the manager gave me the song Purple Rain. I spent days learning it and coming up with a guitar solo of my own (Sort of), and then the day of the performance, the manager said he was giving the song to his son! I spent a lot of time getting that song polished just for that shit to happen?! He says he did it because he couldn't trust me to learn the song due to my busy schedule, but the truth is, he gave it to his son because in his eyes, God forbid anyone other than his son gets to shine on a song as popular as that! I will never forgive that stunt he pulled. A few years later I got my payback, by playing that song with other bands, giving it more of a soulful and emotional playing style.
GEORGES SON LOVED IT . ASWELL AS EVEERYONE THAT WAS THERE . ASWELL AS ALL THAT HAVE SEEN THE PERFORMANCE ‼️‼️‼️ THE BEATLES‼️‼️‼️‼️ THANK YOU PRINCE 👑. YOU ROCKED THE WORLD‼️
He definitely was trying to prove to the world that he belonged on the list of Rolling Stone 100 greatest guitar players. He snubbed. He knew it. Anyone being honest knew it. He melted everyone's face off that night. All you have to do is look at the faces of the guitarists on stage with him. They knew they were in the presence of greatness.
I've brought this up so many times. It is a classic "Butt Hurt" when Prince dropped of the list. He didn't want to be a "Guitar God" and stepped back for a while. Lack of new tunage dropped him from the best of list and he was not thrilled. He had a blast here and the other musicians are trying so hard to cue him back in..."Guitar Drop" See Ya!
Could this have been a tip of the hat to Clapton? After all Eric did say when asked, how does it feel being the best guitar player in the world? Eric replies with, I don't know, why don't you ask Prince! I play this iconic video on UA-cam all the time
Thank you. Ages old fake quote attributed to a few musicians/guitarist over the years. What bugs me the most is the tendency among some of Prince's more hardcore fan trot out this type nonsense as a way of validating his prowess as a musician. Prince was a damn good musician as a whole IMO. I knew this without having an amen corner or standing in the echo chamber of his fandom. Nor quotes(real or fake) from his contemporaries
At 14 is still disrespectful, Prince is no doubt top 10. My opinion is top 5. Eric Clapton was once asked how it feels to be the best guitarist alive? He answered I don't know go ask Prince
I've just discovered this version of the song and his solo two days ago, and I really believe from now on, this will be my personal "greatest one" among all, probably along with one or two others that don't come to my mind right now.. But still, one of the 3 best ever!! I've been struck at hearing it and had to play it twice to digest the genius..
Anyone with half a brain knows damb well. Prince is in the Top 5 of all Guitar Players of all time. And within the Top 10 if you're a hater. However the Rolling Stone's Editor was a know Racist. When fellow musicians say Prince could out play them on almost every instrument. Then there is little else to say!
I like all the musicians that participated in the George Harrison tribute, (being a Southerner, I particularly LOVE Petty! Lots of respect for him! R.I.P.) That said, Rolling Stone (and the like), as well as Rock stations in general, have always snubbed black Rockers-- particularly guitarists, (how ironic, huh?). It's almost as if they go out of their way to do this. I've heard guitarists most will never learn their names (other than, say, an Eric Gayle) that would COMPLETELY annihilate a number of the 'celeb' types and personalities that have been lauded for decades! In any case, appreciated the video. Cheers, (RIP, Prince and Petty.)
Same here, brother. Well said! I grew up in Memphis in a family of pro musicians, so I've seen LOTS of amazing, lesser known guitarists. (Like Eric Gayle and Shawn Lane) My own little brother was a prodigy. From the time I started teaching him guitar to the time that he surpassed me was a matter of months - and I'd been playing for years. He was playing SRV & Hendrix _flawlessly_ by the age of 13. Legends like Derek Trucks and Buddy Guy knew my little brother and would always hang out with us when they'd come through Memphis. After a year of practice, my brother could play slide guitar just like Derek. He got so good by age 15 that he started learning hardcore Jazz because shredding blues solos and playing slide just wasn't challenging enough. Lmao When he was 19, he severely damaged his right arm and was told he'd never use his hand again, let alone play guitar. He refused to accept that and just re-learned how to play guitar from scratch with a partially paralyzed right hand. He's STILL better than 97% of the guitarists I've seen in my life. ..and that's just my little brother. There are many others like him. There were even others like him in our own city. Lol My point being: Human beings are incredibly talented and always will be. This idea that "real music" died after the 90s is absurd. ..and so is the idea that we should judge the overall state of music by what's popular in the mainstream. ..or "rank" musicians in top 10 lists like they're athletes.
My 2 favourite guitarists over time and of all time, were both criminally underrated in their lifetimes - Prince and Gary Moore. ( Maybe with Rory Gallagher and Bonnie Raitt in top 5 too of Rock and Blues in partic.) They created beauty as well as playing with tremendous skill and feeling. Not just musical machismo which leaves me cold about some of the R & R top 10.
I'm a petty bitch. I fully admit it and am not ashamed. I adored this man before but after hearing this I love him. This is no one better. His musicianship will not be surpassed in my lifetime. Rest in power.❤
Prince remains one of the greatest modern-day, electric guitar .and a hellava bass hook player balling perfectionist ever witnessed performer /instrumentalist and multi musician, singer and timeless angelic voice of underrated world class performer ever known in a wealth of muilti talented, mainstreamed entertainment ..
if anyone is putting shade on Prince's guitar playing in this clip, 'as not that special' - riddle me this: in all the year's that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been going, with all the inductee performances and all the all-star band performances, why is it that it is the Prince one that's the only one with the millions of views and the only one that people mention or comes to mind?
You should hear Prince's version of the National Anthem. Done with only the Guitar and no vocals. As a Guitar player my self. I don't know of a better one in my lifetime. I love many other great players.
He made a hundred better solos before. Ever heard about 1999 or Purple Rain album and movie? There's some guy playing guitar! Prince is in the Top 5 of best guitarists.
Prince was unique. He felt the music, check out his solos on Red House, Just my Imagination, She's allways in My Hair, or anything from the funky period of power trio Undertaker era. Prince is still up there jamming the he'll out of the guitar. He was great guitar player.
The thing most people leave out about this performance was its true purpose. It was a tribute to George Harrison. I don't have an issue with Prince's performance. He's a great player, and his solo in this tribute was equally great, but he just walked off-stage while the last notes were still resonating, completely disrespecting George Harrison. Prince made it about him when it was supposed to be about George. Very bad form!
@@dwb73watch the whole video of Dhani Harrison running after Prince shouting “where’s Prince? I wanna give him a big hug” Absolutely everyone was delighted and it was Prince night too because he was inducted in the r’nr hall of fame that night. Even Keith Richards speech said Prince was dynamite As soon as Prince starts soloing the whole audience stood up. Maybe you are the only one that doesn’t get it 😂 It’s only rock’n roll 😂 George loved music rock’n roll and a big show because that’s what is it about. People going crazy and …well, I don’t think you understand anything if you need an explanation 😂😂
🎸🕺🏻 Prince is #1 best ever guitarings, but his guitars on my gentles guitar weeps at rocking rolls hall of fame 2004 solo, doesn’t work to argue that Prince the #1 best at guitars, to all who just laugh at the rocking rolls fame 2004 video for proof. They need to put out all best Prince guitarings solo videos for all the haters, making fun & dismissing on Prince #1 guitars ever! 🎸🕺🏻
That is the best live guitar solo I have ever heard. Nobody can listen to that performance and maybe a few of him doing purple rain live and say he's not top 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He might be top ten
As a Prince fanatic, I wouldn't have placed him in the top 30. Now as far as that one solo? Yeah, that is a top 10 great solo. He was str8 up funky with rhythm, but never wrote a composition that guitar lovers of every era plays, like Stairway to Heaven. & while Lets go crazy & Purple Rain had awesome solos, how does that compare to the solos of Malmsteen, Vai, Satriani, Vivian Campbell, Kirk Hammett, Ace Freely, Toni Iomi? And we have even touched Jazz LOL! Prince is a top5 great performer. In fact, I think Jesse Johnson & Ernie Isley , Eddie Hazel of Parliament as black guitarists rate higher on rhythm, chords & solos.
Rolling Stones' "Top N Best X of All Time" lists are complete crap. They should be called, "Author's Top N Favorite X of All Time." And, Prince's solo was good, but not even close to the best solo of all time, or even the best live televised solo of all time.
This was easy stuff for Prince. What made it great is the way he plays it so effortlessly and the whole mannerisms and even the way he was dressed. He wanted to see the stage before the performance so he could wear the same colours
Prince was one of the most legendary instrumentalist out there.. his guitar playing was phenom... but everyone praising his rendition of this solo is laughable... 1. Its an iconic solo .. so im some way most guitarist know this and have some knowledge to play it .... 2 the solo is how old.. prince is playing this solo in hindsight of the original so yeah 40 years later theres going to be ways to improve it like any other guitarist will do just like clapton has done to his own solo.. prince has done far better solo in solo work .. those solos should be examined .. not this one .. anyone 40 years later with guitar Knowkedge could played better tgan original.
Rolling stone is a joke. Prince is a great artist hands down and very talented even though im not a huge fan of his style, but prince is not even in the top 100 for greatest guitar players not even top 75 for his time.
I was thinking about this again. I was around when this came out. The best Prince solo is not this from this concert. It is his peformance of "Fury" on SNL in 2005. I know I cant convince you to go hunt this video down, as all youtube has is sound... so I pose this question to any guitarist that has seen any guitarist: I have played for a long time myself. Seen everything. Tell me what single demonstration on guitar, ever, is more impressive... more mind numbingly "wtf?" than his legato climbs as he solos in that song? It is ****ED. No guitarist has done that, no sweep picking master comes in the ballpark of being as impressive, from any metric. If you truly think you have seen the best of guitar, you have not. You are close, as this was a time Prince was surging in guitar based music (Super Bowl was good too), but it is unquestionably the above video, and I challenge you to prove me wrong. Show me anything as impressive as that. Never been done, and if you cant find it? Maybe never seen again!
I never considered this one of his best solos. It was certainly a great performance, but it was clear that he had every intention of making it all about him, as opposed to it being a tribute performance to someone else. But you could see the other musicians were in total awe of him. Never knew he was pissed off and out to prove a point. Mission accomplished.
Prince had moments of brilliance (especially live) but generally was understated, and just when you wanted him to turn it on would stop. His rhythm playing was great. But i think his greatest weapon was the sounds that he got,very unique
Prince will always be #1 guitarist & musician hands down, simply b/c he was genius in so many genres, not just rock, like the maroirty on that pitiful subjective list.
Rolling Stone has always left out great guitarists. I like Prince but think he - like other guitarists - has preferred styles and rifts he has in his arsenal. I'm pretty sure that any of us who actually looked through their lists will see glaring omissions of folks we thought deserved to be on the "so called" best of the best list. I think the editors who come up with the lists focus on rock and roll, or blues - and still leave out great session guitarists and titans who are great but are representing other genres.
All that and no solo? It's like talking about the greatest space journey of all time with no pictures or videos. Or talking about the greatest comedy routing of all time: "It was really, really funny. You would not believe how funny it was. Really."
What do you think is the most iconic guitar solo of all time?
Carlos Santana
His solo with all the guys celebrating the life of Harrison i think it was.
lol
@@lexkanyima2195 Santana was one of his referents since he was a child, but Prince reached higher than his masters. Prince could play as Santana, as Hendrix and as the best blues & funk players. Google prince + thenameyouwant to check it out. Santana and him shared stage a few times and he loved Prince too.
And no, this is not his best guitar solo as is not the solo in Purple Rain.
David Gilmour's in Comfortably Numb and it isn't even up for debate.
I`ve always said he was one if the most underrated guitarists ever. That was an absolutely mind blowing solo!!!
Why does everyone say he’s underrated? I’ve never heard anyone say he was less than great. (Rolling Stone is irrelevant).
gee, u need to listen to more guitarists lmao
@@CheckingYourRealityForYou “People say Prince is great”
“You need to listen to more guitarists”.
So if I listen to more guitarists, people will stop saying he’s great. Makes ~perfect~ sense, if you’re high.
Put down the crack pipe & try to be coherent. Or maybe even be original & try not to be a typical troll.
No, that’s fair. Prince because of the times had his shtick, so he really pigeon holed himself. That was the 80s on throughout the early 90s so his incredibly mind blowing talent as a guitarist was overshadowed by his showmanship. If you’re a guitarist and follow that expression of talent it was no secret but most laypersons wouldn’t have known. What’s more incredible was he could play the Bass, Keyboards, Drums and a few other instruments as well.
@@23kyd49 Yeah, at 19 he wrote, produced, and played all the instruments on an album…
And still only rated 14th??? Not just one of the greatest guitarists ever, but one of the greatest musicians and performers ever. Absolute legend.
Rating musicians is a pointless, stupid activity anyway. This isn't football, it's art.
I think he could be higher but I’m just glad he’s on the list at all.
@@clicheguevara5282exactly!
His smug look says it all, when I first saw that performance I was absolutely blown away. He told everyone who he really was...❤
a poser
@@CheckingYourRealityForYou Yes, you are. Thanks for admitting it.
@@CheckingYourRealityForYou 100%
That solo was outrageous but also had F***Y** written all over it - especially at the end when he just threw his guitar away and walked off, that all just seemed to say "Follow that!!!" knowing full well no-one EVER could.
Ha ha, that's exactly what was - well stated !
Everyone saying Prince was disrespectful?
Look at Dhani's face; you know, George Harrison's son..
Pure joy.
I don't get tired of watching the solo with Prince and it is my favorite. I loved the look on Dhani Harrisons face when Prince stepped up and burned up his guitar. Dhani loved it and had a big grin. I'm so glad that Prince did that for the world to hear. All the musicians are very talented, but once Prince started playing, there was no comparison of the king on the stage.
It's a shame Dhani has changed his story since.
He clearly enjoyed watching history.
I'm grateful that they all played.
yep!!❤❤❤❤❤
Prince played MANY instruments and wrote over 1000 songs. The man was truly an icon. His personal style was always ridiculed and overshadowed his talent. I have "While my guitar gently weeps" on my playlist and I get chills Everytime I hear Jeff, Tom and Prince together. Sign of the times when addiction takes the ones we admire before their time.
Rolling Stone also rated Michael Jackson the 85th greatest singer of all time which makes me think of the David Lee Roth quote " Most music critics like Elvis Costello because most music critics look like Elvis Costello " .
Prince was from another planet. There has never been a musical artist with such brilliant mastery of so many instruments & never will be…The music, the songs, the lyrics, the perfectionism, the stage presence, singing in multiple keys…there will never ever be anyone on his level musically.
Talk on then!
This kinda reminds me of an experience I had before. I was part of a band and the manager gave me the song Purple Rain. I spent days learning it and coming up with a guitar solo of my own (Sort of), and then the day of the performance, the manager said he was giving the song to his son!
I spent a lot of time getting that song polished just for that shit to happen?! He says he did it because he couldn't trust me to learn the song due to my busy schedule, but the truth is, he gave it to his son because in his eyes, God forbid anyone other than his son gets to shine on a song as popular as that! I will never forgive that stunt he pulled. A few years later I got my payback, by playing that song with other bands, giving it more of a soulful and emotional playing style.
One of the best solos of all time.
GEORGES SON LOVED IT .
ASWELL AS EVEERYONE THAT WAS THERE . ASWELL AS ALL THAT HAVE SEEN THE PERFORMANCE ‼️‼️‼️
THE BEATLES‼️‼️‼️‼️
THANK YOU PRINCE 👑.
YOU ROCKED THE WORLD‼️
This Solo was amazing
He definitely was trying to prove to the world that he belonged on the list of Rolling Stone 100 greatest guitar players. He snubbed. He knew it. Anyone being honest knew it. He melted everyone's face off that night. All you have to do is look at the faces of the guitarists on stage with him. They knew they were in the presence of greatness.
I've brought this up so many times. It is a classic "Butt Hurt" when Prince dropped of the list. He didn't want to be a "Guitar God" and stepped back for a while. Lack of new tunage dropped him from the best of list and he was not thrilled. He had a blast here and the other musicians are trying so hard to cue him back in..."Guitar Drop" See Ya!
Could this have been a tip of the hat to Clapton? After all Eric did say when asked, how does it feel being the best guitar player in the world? Eric replies with, I don't know, why don't you ask Prince! I play this iconic video on UA-cam all the time
He has never said any such thing
Thank you. Ages old fake quote attributed to a few musicians/guitarist over the years. What bugs me the most is the tendency among some of Prince's more hardcore fan trot out this type nonsense as a way of validating his prowess as a musician.
Prince was a damn good musician as a whole IMO. I knew this without having an amen corner or standing in the echo chamber of his fandom. Nor quotes(real or fake) from his contemporaries
At 14 is still disrespectful, Prince is no doubt top 10. My opinion is top 5. Eric Clapton was once asked how it feels to be the best guitarist alive? He answered I don't know go ask Prince
I've just discovered this version of the song and his solo two days ago, and I really believe from now on, this will be my personal "greatest one" among all, probably along with one or two others that don't come to my mind right now.. But still, one of the 3 best ever!!
I've been struck at hearing it and had to play it twice to digest the genius..
That was a performance for the ages! None greater.
Rolling stone magazine lost its mojo years ago .. they are a shell of themselves
Prince owned it that day
He owned it every time he stepped on stage
I thought it was a tribute concert . Not an event for someone to ‘own’.
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I"ll never forget Tom Pettys face at that soloPrince blew us all away
Damn, just think-- both Prince and Tom are gone, and both died due to the same cause. R.I.P to them 😢.
And Dahni's!
Still miss this dude.
because of one hit? cool for u
Do you play any kind of instrument?😮
Thanks for this, Grunge🙂Regards, Michael M. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, 4th October 2024.
Anyone with half a brain knows damb well. Prince is in the Top 5 of all Guitar Players of all time. And within the Top 10 if you're a hater. However the Rolling Stone's Editor was a know Racist. When fellow musicians say Prince could out play them on almost every instrument. Then there is little else to say!
He did this for Harrison's son, no other reason.
I like all the musicians that participated in the George Harrison tribute, (being a Southerner, I particularly LOVE Petty! Lots of respect for him! R.I.P.) That said, Rolling Stone (and the like), as well as Rock stations in general, have always snubbed black Rockers-- particularly guitarists, (how ironic, huh?). It's almost as if they go out of their way to do this. I've heard guitarists most will never learn their names (other than, say, an Eric Gayle) that would COMPLETELY annihilate a number of the 'celeb' types and personalities that have been lauded for decades! In any case, appreciated the video. Cheers, (RIP, Prince and Petty.)
Same here, brother. Well said! I grew up in Memphis in a family of pro musicians, so I've seen LOTS of amazing, lesser known guitarists. (Like Eric Gayle and Shawn Lane) My own little brother was a prodigy. From the time I started teaching him guitar to the time that he surpassed me was a matter of months - and I'd been playing for years. He was playing SRV & Hendrix _flawlessly_ by the age of 13. Legends like Derek Trucks and Buddy Guy knew my little brother and would always hang out with us when they'd come through Memphis. After a year of practice, my brother could play slide guitar just like Derek. He got so good by age 15 that he started learning hardcore Jazz because shredding blues solos and playing slide just wasn't challenging enough. Lmao
When he was 19, he severely damaged his right arm and was told he'd never use his hand again, let alone play guitar. He refused to accept that and just re-learned how to play guitar from scratch with a partially paralyzed right hand. He's STILL better than 97% of the guitarists I've seen in my life. ..and that's just my little brother. There are many others like him. There were even others like him in our own city. Lol
My point being: Human beings are incredibly talented and always will be. This idea that "real music" died after the 90s is absurd. ..and so is the idea that we should judge the overall state of music by what's popular in the mainstream. ..or "rank" musicians in top 10 lists like they're athletes.
Love this story. He earned it.
Us baby boomers were lucky to have experienced Prince
Same with Gen X
My 2 favourite guitarists over time and of all time, were both criminally underrated in their lifetimes - Prince and Gary Moore. ( Maybe with Rory Gallagher and Bonnie Raitt in top 5 too of Rock and Blues in partic.) They created beauty as well as playing with tremendous skill and feeling. Not just musical machismo which leaves me cold about some of the R & R top 10.
I don't think Gary Moore was , He is a legend to other legends, like Ted Nugent is .
Rolling Stone Magazine who? never heard of that but I have heard of Prince and rumor has it he's super talented.
This is wonderful ❤
I enjoyed son Dhani's reaction (in the actual video), which we only see for
He said he REALLY wasn't
❤❤❤Awesome ❤❤❤
I'm a petty bitch. I fully admit it and am not ashamed. I adored this man before but after hearing this I love him. This is no one better. His musicianship will not be surpassed in my lifetime. Rest in power.❤
Je suis grand fan de prince c'est mon héros un super guitariste. Et les autres aussi. Il en faut pour tout les goûts 😊
Wish we could have actually heard the solo... was waiting
The greatest of all-time
I knew it was going to be this solo!
Well, it would have been nice to have heard at least, a LITTLE of Prince's guitar solo. But all we heard was the commentators mouth!
I wanted to hear it❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️
Damn, do we get hear the solo?
Who needs the opinion of these no talented jealouse hearted magazines and judges about prince guitar skills. You can see its impeccable.
Was the that same telecaster in the pUrple Rain clip?
Miss and love prince so much he was so awesome ! Voice and playing guitar! Was and is still the best!!
Prince remains one of the greatest modern-day, electric guitar .and a hellava bass hook player balling perfectionist ever witnessed performer /instrumentalist and multi musician, singer and timeless angelic voice of underrated world class performer ever known in a wealth of muilti talented, mainstreamed entertainment ..
#14 was still too low...Prince is definitely top 3
if anyone is putting shade on Prince's guitar playing in this clip, 'as not that special' - riddle me this: in all the year's that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been going, with all the inductee performances and all the all-star band performances, why is it that it is the Prince one that's the only one with the millions of views and the only one that people mention or comes to mind?
I never thought of Prince as a guitarist -- until I saw that performance. I was blown away by his playing. He was an amazing musician.
You should hear Prince's version of the National Anthem. Done with only the Guitar and no vocals. As a Guitar player my self. I don't know of a better one in my lifetime. I love many other great players.
@@andreroy8141 I'm familiar with the Jimi Hendrix version but not one by Prince. I'll check it out. Thanks, Mate!
Smooth
The young people today are so good that in my guitar club at school 14 year olds blow this away don’t yell at me. I’m just telling the truth.
Prince 🔝
He made a hundred better solos before. Ever heard about 1999 or Purple Rain album and movie? There's some guy playing guitar!
Prince is in the Top 5 of best guitarists.
I can’t say if one of his solos is better than another, but one to mention is the Purple Rain solo at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY in 1985.
George Harrison listed higher than Prince? That was a snub.
I don’t know how many times I watched it.
When Eric Clapton once was quizzed on who he thought was the greatest guitar player he had ever heard, Clapton without hesitation said Prince.
No he didn’t
One thing i noticed was that nobody else on that stage needed the reason to showboat but prince
Prince was unique. He felt the music, check out his solos on Red House, Just my Imagination, She's allways in My Hair, or anything from the funky period of power trio Undertaker era. Prince is still up there jamming the he'll out of the guitar. He was great guitar player.
The thing most people leave out about this performance was its true purpose. It was a tribute to George Harrison. I don't have an issue with Prince's performance. He's a great player, and his solo in this tribute was equally great, but he just walked off-stage while the last notes were still resonating, completely disrespecting George Harrison. Prince made it about him when it was supposed to be about George. Very bad form!
The song was over dude
@Cormac-jd2kx this is clearly over your head, dude.
@@dwb73watch the whole video of Dhani Harrison running after Prince shouting “where’s Prince? I wanna give him a big hug”
Absolutely everyone was delighted and it was Prince night too because he was inducted in the r’nr hall of fame that night.
Even Keith Richards speech said Prince was dynamite
As soon as Prince starts soloing the whole audience stood up.
Maybe you are the only one that doesn’t get it 😂
It’s only rock’n roll 😂
George loved music rock’n roll and a big show because that’s what is it about. People going crazy and …well, I don’t think you understand anything if you need an explanation 😂😂
I miss my boo!!! But I do have a Rolling Stones magazine with him on the cover worth bout 11 grand!!!!!!
Why is it worth so much?
Ok you haven’t been here long enough to place as the best ever. Then music came from us and everything else did to
🎸🕺🏻 Prince is #1 best ever guitarings, but his guitars on my gentles guitar weeps at rocking rolls hall of fame 2004 solo, doesn’t work to argue that Prince the #1 best at guitars, to all who just laugh at the rocking rolls fame 2004 video for proof. They need to put out all best Prince guitarings solo videos for all the haters, making fun & dismissing on Prince #1 guitars ever! 🎸🕺🏻
Where did he throw the guitar at the end?
That is the best live guitar solo I have ever heard. Nobody can listen to that performance and maybe a few of him doing purple rain live and say he's not top 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He might be top ten
He was a great guitarist no doubt and he stole the show that night but to say he pulled off one of the best solos ever that night........please
As a Prince fanatic, I wouldn't have placed him in the top 30. Now as far as that one solo? Yeah, that is a top 10 great solo.
He was str8 up funky with rhythm, but never wrote a composition that guitar lovers of every era plays, like Stairway to Heaven. & while Lets go crazy & Purple Rain had awesome solos, how does that compare to the solos of Malmsteen, Vai, Satriani, Vivian Campbell, Kirk Hammett, Ace Freely, Toni Iomi? And we have even touched Jazz LOL! Prince is a top5 great performer. In fact, I think Jesse Johnson & Ernie Isley , Eddie Hazel of Parliament as black guitarists rate higher on rhythm, chords & solos.
Rolling Stones' "Top N Best X of All Time" lists are complete crap. They should be called, "Author's Top N Favorite X of All Time." And, Prince's solo was good, but not even close to the best solo of all time, or even the best live televised solo of all time.
Most iconic solo of all time Hendix axis bold as love
I wouldn’t call it revenge but the solo was absolutely a message to RS. That’s not news.
awesome!
That’s awesome
Wo ist das Solo ?
Prince at number 14? You gotta be kidding me
Awesome Performance
Why the hell didn’t you let us hear it?
Freaking LEGEND!
well I wish I could hear the bloody solo after listening to all that pap.
Impressive solo indeed , pffffffff !!!!
This was easy stuff for Prince. What made it great is the way he plays it so effortlessly and the whole mannerisms and even the way he was dressed. He wanted to see the stage before the performance so he could wear the same colours
Prince was one of the most legendary instrumentalist out there.. his guitar playing was phenom... but everyone praising his rendition of this solo is laughable... 1. Its an iconic solo .. so im some way most guitarist know this and have some knowledge to play it .... 2 the solo is how old.. prince is playing this solo in hindsight of the original so yeah 40 years later theres going to be ways to improve it like any other guitarist will do just like clapton has done to his own solo.. prince has done far better solo in solo work .. those solos should be examined .. not this one .. anyone 40 years later with guitar Knowkedge could played better tgan original.
Rolling stone is a joke. Prince is a great artist hands down and very talented even though im not a huge fan of his style, but prince is not even in the top 100 for greatest guitar players not even top 75 for his time.
Not the first or last time The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame or Rolling Stone Magezine got something very wrong.
If there was ever a perfectly performed live guitar solo it was done by Prince in front of the world,
Saying anything to discredit an amazing virtuosic performance, the man has left this Earth, let his Spirit rest in Peace!
I was thinking about this again. I was around when this came out. The best Prince solo is not this from this concert. It is his peformance of "Fury" on SNL in 2005.
I know I cant convince you to go hunt this video down, as all youtube has is sound... so I pose this question to any guitarist that has seen any guitarist: I have played for a long time myself. Seen everything. Tell me what single demonstration on guitar, ever, is more impressive... more mind numbingly "wtf?" than his legato climbs as he solos in that song? It is ****ED. No guitarist has done that, no sweep picking master comes in the ballpark of being as impressive, from any metric.
If you truly think you have seen the best of guitar, you have not. You are close, as this was a time Prince was surging in guitar based music (Super Bowl was good too), but it is unquestionably the above video, and I challenge you to prove me wrong. Show me anything as impressive as that. Never been done, and if you cant find it? Maybe never seen again!
Rip
I never considered this one of his best solos. It was certainly a great performance, but it was clear that he had every intention of making it all about him, as opposed to it being a tribute performance to someone else. But you could see the other musicians were in total awe of him. Never knew he was pissed off and out to prove a point. Mission accomplished.
This man played every single instrument on his first album. 14th is a joke. Like the entire music industry
#Prince4Ever
Prince had moments of brilliance (especially live) but generally was understated, and just when you wanted him to turn it on would stop. His rhythm playing was great. But i think his greatest weapon was the sounds that he got,very unique
Prince will always be #1 guitarist & musician hands down, simply b/c he was genius in so many genres, not just rock, like the maroirty on that pitiful subjective list.
2004 was one of the best years for Prince and the worst for Michael Jackson.
Rolling Stone has always left out great guitarists. I like Prince but think he - like other guitarists - has preferred styles and rifts he has in his arsenal. I'm pretty sure that any of us who actually looked through their lists will see glaring omissions of folks we thought deserved to be on the "so called" best of the best list. I think the editors who come up with the lists focus on rock and roll, or blues - and still leave out great session guitarists and titans who are great but are representing other genres.
How do you go from not mentioned in the Top 100 to 14th? Only way that happens is if you deliberately passed over him before. They should explain.
Prince always showed you don't f$ck with him😅
Prince is straight lace up there with Jimi Hendrix
All that and no solo? It's like talking about the greatest space journey of all time with no pictures or videos. Or talking about the greatest comedy routing of all time: "It was really, really funny. You would not believe how funny it was. Really."
You just figure this out?
I liked the part where you didn't play the solo at all,...not a bit,...as the whole video is about this iconic solo