Prince is not someone I automatically think of when great guitar players are mentioned.
Strange little man with a weird voice yes, but not one of the giants of the guitar wielding fraternity.
And as much as i loved Nirvana, neither would i class Kurt Cobain as anything other than a perfectly average guitarist but what do i know because the pair of them have topped the Rolling Stone poll for the most underrated guitarists.
Readers of the magazine were asked to vote for guitarists who didn’t make their top-100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time survey which was won by Jimi Hendrix.
Third most underrated was Neil Young and then George Harrison and Ace Frehley from KISS.
As Prince is popular again after ten years doing god knows what and calling himself some sort of squiggle, the strange one is back on the music channels so maybe i can catch a glimpse of what the Rolling Stone readers noticed that i never because as good as some of his songs were, his guitar playing prowess was not something i noticed.
6 comments:
That 100 Greatest Guitarists list was a joke. But then again, Rolling Stone is a joke.
Seeing Stanley Jordan in concert a second time has raised the bar for me incalculably. One may not appreciate his stylings, but no one who sees him go at it can deny that he is a virtuoso's virtuoso.
I thought I was the most underrated guitarist.
Prince is not only an incredible guitarist, he is an amazingly well-trained and disciplined musician. Like you Lucy I haven't paid a lot of attention to his popular music because it doesn't suit my taste, but I've seen the dude's chops enough to know that he's got talent in spades.
"he's got talent in spades."
Was that an ethnic crack?? :-)
Um, no...
Actually, Prince IS an excellent guitarist. Search for clips on You Tube.
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