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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:45 pm
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Whatever. I bet you can't even shred yourself. Keep talkin.


Whether I can or can't doesn't mean I can't discern greatness or have opinions. Obviously you disagree with mine. In the words of Kurt Vonegut, "Opinions are like $@!*****, everybody's got one and they all stink but your own."

I'll enjoy my odorless opinion; you enjoy yours. And somewhere down the road we'll agree on something else.


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evh1978 wrote:
Whatever. I bet you can't even shred yourself. Keep talkin.


Shredding is not a measure of musicianship.

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Why is it that the greatest living musician has to be a guitar player or rocker of some sort? Don't you think there's classically trained musicians out there more skilled then any rocker? When Prince or any other popular rocker can compose and arrange an entire work for an 80 piece orchestra, then we can talk about that person possibly being on the list.
Prince can do that with an orchestra. He's way more capable than his pop tunes let on.

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As the late great Roy Buchanan would always say.............

"there is NO #1 "


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The greatest anything doesn't exist. I always hate it when ESPN talks about the greatest highlight, athlete, or blowup in an interview, or whatever. I do think that Tiger is the best golfer, but he hasn't beaten Nicklaus in majors, but he is close.

This greatest thing is very fleeting. Prince's longevity is a factor in getting the possible title. And I still love listening to him. But he is no Quincy Jones. As for guitar, I think John Scofield or Pat Martino are light years better, but they are not in the same genre as Prince. :wink:

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evh1978 wrote:
Whatever. I bet you can't even shred yourself. Keep talkin.


Whether I can or can't doesn't mean I can't discern greatness or have opinions. Obviously you disagree with mine. In the words of Kurt Vonegut, "Opinions are like $@!*****, everybody's got one and they all stink but your own."
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Without them, We'd Bloat and Die.

After all, we're all just swirling around the Wampeters of our Karass, Desperately trying to belong to one Granfaloon or another. Why not just sit back and enjoy the Vin-Dit.

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Oh, a sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
And a British queen--
All fit together
In the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice--
So many different people
In the same device.

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What I love about what Prince did with "Purple Rain" was he introduced the world to all the crazy and cool stuff going down in Minneapolis. You had this completely race-blind world of multicolored musicians swapping out riffs and R&B stylings and beats and all in this amazing melting pot of sounds. Very unique, it's what gave Prince his sound and his ability to transcend genres and come at music from a very fresh perspective.

Including humor, of all things. I mean, when Morris Day and the Time come out and he's like combing his hair in front of a mirror on stage while tune is going on, I mean, that was COSMIC! Nobody had combined comedy with music for 40 years! And then you see all these touches of humor in a lot of Prince's later work, that is just so cool. Nobody else was doing that.

I see Prince as much as a cultural phenom as he is a musician. Partly because of where he's coming form, that wonderful Min/St Paul vibe.


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I hate to split hairs with Maruuk :wink: But, Ongo Boingo, Power Station, Taco, Falco, and Peter Gabriel were all pretty humorous.

As far as everything else, I'd say you were right on.

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Well Oingo had been around, but the film came out in '84. The self-deprecating comedy was pretty rare and fresh then. You know, what really also made the film work was that Prince's character was really allowed to be kind of a loser and jerk. Huge family issues. You really sympathized with the guy. Then he goes and screws up the whole formula with Cherry Moon!


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princes music does nothing for me, except cause boredom. Just my subjective opinion though

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probably not the best but maybe considerable is serj tankian. he played bass, percussion, guitar, and sang in his new album elect the dead. he also produced it which i think is pretty cool


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