Prince on Jimmy Fallon...

[jhale667]

I meant the 'fro, you twerps!

[Nickdfresh]

Who's the chick band?

And I think there was a bit of genius to The Doors doing "The Reading Rainbow" theme...

[twonabomber]

I like the smaller, heavier band approach, too...

I am curious to see how the older hits sound with this new band...or if he even plays them at all.

Bambi is an older song, I'm trying to think of some of the other heavy guitar stuff they could bring back.

The one Prince show I saw (maybe the NewPowerSoul tour) had Najee on the sax, and it was WAY too much Najee. I imagined it was what a Kenny G show would be like.

The new band:

Donna Gratis: guitar
Hannah Ford: drummer
Ida Nielson: bass

There's speculation that this is another incarnation of the New Power Trio, instead of the New Power Generation. New Power Trio is featured in some of the aftershows, i think the one Sesh saw was a NPT show.

[ELVIS]

And I like the fact he employs women for his band. Not enough of that these days.

Oh bullshit...

[VAiN]

I'm one of the people who don't get Prince. Catchy tunes and all - but a genius? The next Hendrix? Come on now... I just don't see or hear it.

[Nitro Express]

I'm one of the people who don't get Prince. Catchy tunes and all - but a genius? The next Hendrix? Come on now... I just don't see or hear it.

It's one thing to have a good band but how do you get people to notice that? Image. Prince is a master at getting attention with image. You have to have something different going. The brilliance of Prince was he was a good mix between substance and shock value. As he's aged he's dialed down the shock, continues to make good music but has a little something there for you. Actually having the girls playing in his band makes him seem younger and more relevant. Prince was always image smart. He knows how to milk it.

[VAiN]

I'll definitely give you that - he's good with marketing. He created a brand that's sort of mysterious.. He shows up every now & then, kills it and goes home. I guess that adds to it. I thought his Super Bowl performance a few years back was one of the better ones in a long time.

[Hardrock69]

Well leave it to the Purple Tool to amaze everyone, then demonstrate what a fucking asshole he is:

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/195134/prince-smashed-someone-elses-1961-epiphone-on-fallon/

Prince smashed someone else’s 1961 Epiphone on ‘Fallon’
By Alex Moore 2 days ago

Prince absolutely killed it on “Jimmy Fallon” Friday night, playing his new tune “Screwdriver” and the classic “Bambi.”

After Unleashing a blistering solo on Bambi he did a guitar virtuoso’s version of dropping the mic before walking off stage, throwing his guitar up into the air and letting it crash to the ground. Just one problem: the axe wasn’t his. The Gear Page points out the guitar was a gorgeous 1961 Epiphone Crestwood that belongs to Captian Kirk Douglas of Fallon’s house band The Roots. Apparently when Prince arrived for rehearsal he admired the guitar and asked to borrow it for the performance. Douglas agreed, and then Prince wrecked it at the end of “Bambi.” Douglas tweeted out this picture with the caption “Purple Pain”:



And then tweeted:

Kirk Douglas @CaptainKDouglas

Maybe it's because I'm a dad but I think framing the guitar is a little like rewarding bad behavior.

The worst part? Douglas apparently asked Prince to sign it for him, and Prince said no.

[jhale667]

WTF??? Unbelievable!!!

I'm a fan, but I will say this... he'd be in a purple body cast if he'd done that shit to my guitar...

[jhale667]

Uh, not really caring that #ItsPrince...

Small bright side I guess..

@captainkdouglas We'll help fixer up. Was awesome & frightening at the same time! #ItsPrince - @epiphone @jimmyfallon— Gibson90210 (@Gibson90210) March 4, 2013


Still pretty F*ed up of the purple one... Totally ruined the performance (which up until that point I thought was awesome) for me, knowing that he'd ended it on such a note of epic douchebaggery. If you wanna pull a Paul Stanley and buy a "beater" to smash at the gig that's one thing, but to "Hey, can I borrow your guitar?" like the dude was gonna turn PRINCE down, it'd be an honor - and then pull THAT on the dude...

[Matt White]

Small bright side I guess..

@captainkdouglas We'll help fixer up. Was awesome & frightening at the same time! #ItsPrince - @epiphone @jimmyfallon— Gibson90210 (@Gibson90210) March 4, 2013


Still pretty F*ed up of the purple one... Totally ruined the performance (which up until that point I thought was awesome) for me, knowing that he'd ended it on such a note of epic douchebaggery. If you wanna pull a Paul Stanley and buy a "beater" to smash at the gig that's one thing, but to "Hey, can I borrow your guitar?" like the dude was gonna turn PRINCE down, it'd be an honor - and then pull THAT on the dude...

I'm with J.....I'd have punted that Purple Midget like a football!

[Seshmeister]

I wondered when I saw that as I've seen him throw his guitar pretty spectacularly to roadies recently.

I think he lost contact with reality quite a long time ago, fuck knows what goes through his self obsessed brain at this point.

[Seshmeister]

Anyone know what a guitar like that is worth?

To be honest I didn't know you got Epiphones that old.

[jhale667]

I wondered when I saw that as I've seen him throw his guitar pretty spectacularly to roadies recently.

Tom Kieffer and his tech had it down to an art back in the day, where they'd each simultaneously throw the other the guitars during a switch - Kieffer never left the stage, the tech never left the pit - just (vintage!) guitars flying through the air past each other. Saw an interview where he was asked "Do accidents ever happen?" 'Oh, YEAH...' But again, those were HIS guitars, HIS choice...

I think he lost contact with reality quite a long time ago, fuck knows what goes through his self obsessed brain at this point.

Sure seems like it, because otherwise how wouldn't it occur to you that might be... ever-so slightly dickish?


Not sure how much a vintage Epi goes for... but even if it wasn't vintage... DICK move on Prince's part...

[Seshmeister]

I've posted this before but if you are curious about getting an insight into the crazy world of Prince I recommend the 40 minute chat Kevin Smith made about his experiences working with him on YouTube in 4 parts.



It was also kind of odd that Prince decided to try and charge people to view the video of his new single on the internet?

He's threatened before to stop releasing music at all because he feels he isn't getting paid properly for it. How can he not understand that if you make a few hundred grand a night on tour it's ok to view the album as a promotional item in the exact same way that conversely in the 1980s you would make nothing touring but use that to promote your album sales.

Another money obsessed religionist, it's ironic how often these things seem to go together...