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Briefly had a Nathan East CD in the car, but it's back to Big Sugar's Hemi-Vision.

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Listening to Squint by Julian Lage. Really great guitar tone and songs.

Killer BASS solo.

Rippin'!
 

Damn I always forget how good a player prince was
I didn't really care about Prince until I was in college in the early 2000's. I was doing stagehand work at the time and I worked one of his shows. Seeing him live, the show he put on, the incredible musicianship (jumping from bass to piano to guitar to whatever the hell else he wants), and his *amazing* voice sold me almost instantly. The dude was an amazing musician.
 
I didn't really care about Prince until I was in college in the early 2000's. I was doing stagehand work at the time and I worked one of his shows. Seeing him live, the show he put on, the incredible musicianship (jumping from bass to piano to guitar to whatever the hell else he wants), and his *amazing* voice sold me almost instantly. The dude was an amazing musician.
Right on! You don’t have dig the tunes to appreciate the talent.
 
I didn't really care about Prince until I was in college in the early 2000's. I was doing stagehand work at the time and I worked one of his shows. Seeing him live, the show he put on, the incredible musicianship (jumping from bass to piano to guitar to whatever the hell else he wants), and his *amazing* voice sold me almost instantly. The dude was an amazing musician.
That is so cool Joe! What an awesome life experience.
 

Damn I always forget how good a player prince was
Back in The Day, I wasn't interested in Prince at all, even though a friend was mad about 1999.
Then he [Edit, Prince, not my friend] changed his name and I thought "right, what a pretentious..."

Still, I liked "Kiss" and a couple other songs. Then I found out the name change was to get out from under a bad contract. Batman soundtrack and other things of his kept popping up on my radar and I'd seen him lay down some bad-assery on bass and guitar...

That solo sealed the deal... one of my most favourite solos ever. It builds well, has showmanship, is a part of the music instead of on top of it and then I found the story behind it... wow! Clapton clone was taking all the (note-for-note Clapton) solos at rehearsal, so Prince walked out, told the musical director to leave a spot at the end of the song for Prince to solo over... nobody knew what he was going to do, then BAM! IN YOUR FACE CLAPCLONE!

And the mystery of the guitar that never came down... he hire Penn & Teller for that bit?

What a total badass.
 
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Back in The Day, I wasn't interested in Prince at all, even though a friend was mad about 1999.
Then he [Edit, Prince, not my friend] changed his name and I thought "right, what a pretentious..."

Still, I liked "Kiss" and a couple other songs. Then I found out the name change was to get out from under a bad contract. Batman soundtrack and other things of his kept popping up on my radar and I'd seen him lay down some bad-assery on bass and guitar...

That solo sealed the deal... one of my most favourite solos ever. It builds well, has showmanship, is a part of the music instead of on top of it and then I found the story behind it... wow! Clapton clone was taking all the (note-for-note Clapton) solos at rehearsal, so Prince walked out, told the musical director to leave a spot at the end of the song for Prince to solo over... nobody knew what he was going to do, then BAM! IN YOUR FACE CLAPCLONE!

And the mystery of the guitar that never came down... he hire Penn & Teller for that bit?

What a total badass.
I just got home and had a chance to watch the video... holy wow.

He was invisible for 75% of the song and then all of the sudden he just steps in and makes it all his... and makes it look so effortless. Having the guy go in front of the stage to catch him falling back... just the confidence and power and authenticity of everything he does on stage is what won me over. What a loss. Seeing him and Tom Petty on that sage really hit me.
 
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