"Literally the greatest musical genius of the last century"

Uh, Robbie Van Winkel might have something to say about this...

Top two concerts I've ever seen!

One of my all time favorites.

I feel fortunate that is gotten to experience his brilliance.

Very sad....

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Wow, Bowie and Prince. As mentioned - huge musical geniuses. Not only that but Prince to me was the embodiment of what "rock star" should be. I wasn't even a fan of much of his work but appreciated the artistry in it all, and the performances.

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Great point....and I hope everyone knows and appreciates how talented he truly is.

I mean this is a guy that musicians (and I mean the great ones) bow down to. and he is not all about just R&B, funk, soul, or whatever., not even pop...the dude can flat out rock. He can play ANYTHING better than almost anyone.


Here is a nice sampling for you. This is the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. In the final number with an ensemble of the honorees (including Jackson Browne, Jeff Lynne of ELO, Steve Winwood of Traffic, Tom Petty, George Harrisons kid) and several others in the backing band.....They perform George Harrisons "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Its a great song and a great cover....but check out about 3:20 into when the lead guitar part is handed over to Prince. Holy Hell. Dude just freaking shreds it and brings the house down.

This might be the greatest performance of this song ever done including by Harrison or anyone else. Watch that next full 3 minutes or so till the end...dude is owning the song, the stage, the crowd, everything and he knows it smiling and just showing his emotions.

Sidenote: At the end he does something I cannot even figure out to this day....he throws his guitar up in the air seemingly straight up and walks off stage...but the guitar vanishes. It never falls back down. Some say George Harrison caught it in heaven. Its really weird check it out.

But THIS is a rock god!!!!!!!

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Quote:2016 has been utterly brutal for artists with transcendent talent.

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agreed...this unreal. how many of my idols can you take in one year. ugh.

Maurice White
Glenn Fry
David Bowie
Prince

some of my all-time favorite performers/bands. geeze. feeling damn old.

plus Paul Kantner and Keith Emerson.

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Merle Haggard as well.

What a crazy year for losing musical legends and it's only freaking April.

all of these greats gone, and somehow Nickelback and the Kardashians live on.

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Wow, Bowie and Prince. As mentioned - huge musical geniuses. Not only that but Prince to me was the embodiment of what "rock star" should be. I wasn't even a fan of much of his work but appreciated the artistry in it all, and the performances.

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Great point....and I hope everyone knows and appreciates how talented he truly is.

I mean this is a guy that musicians (and I mean the great ones) bow down to. and he is not all about just R&B, funk, soul, or whatever., not even pop...the dude can flat out rock. He can play ANYTHING better than almost anyone.


Here is a nice sampling for you. This is the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. In the final number with an ensemble of the honorees (including Jackson Browne, Jeff Lynne of ELO, Steve Winwood of Traffic, Tom Petty, George Harrisons kid) and several others in the backing band.....They perform George Harrisons "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Its a great song and a great cover....but check out about 3:20 into when the lead guitar part is handed over to Prince. Holy Hell. Dude just freaking shreds it and brings the house down.

This might be the greatest performance of this song ever done including by Harrison or anyone else. Watch that next full 3 minutes or so till the end...dude is owning the song, the stage, the crowd, everything and he knows it smiling and just showing his emotions.

Sidenote: At the end he does something I cannot even figure out to this day....he throws his guitar up in the air seemingly straight up and walks off stage...but the guitar vanishes. It never falls back down. Some say George Harrison caught it in heaven. Its really weird check it out.

But THIS is a rock god!!!!!!!

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I remember watching that and was in utter shock at what I'd just witnessed

Sorry, meant thumbs up

Always love seeing this clip. Such an amazing guitarist.

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lol....no problem. yeah that and the greatest SB halftime performance of all-time have always stood out to me....

also just from last year the after party stories from the SNL 40th anniversary party are great. Lots of people played including McCartney and Taylor Swift and many others in various unrehearsed jams. Jimmy Fallon talked about it though and said at the very end he heard Prince was in the house and basically dared him to come onstage. Jimmy and Questlove talked about how electric that was, the whole place came alive they said unlike with any other performer and there were so many big names there. He came up there and played Let's Go Crazy and they said Jay-Z and Beyonce and everyone else there was basically on their feet and going nuts too.

there are only snippets of video from it as it was not recorded.

Full Sketch

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/6e4hjo/chappelle-s-show-tyrone-biggums-s-red-balls-energy-drink

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! I am in shock, wow. Incredible artist, I was lucky enough to see him twice, and both were top ten shows for me, having seen hundreds and hundreds of concerts.

I just can't even, just damn. RIP to a musical legend who was gone wayyyyyy too soon.

Wow. Heard he was taken ill suddenly but damn. Kind of a weirdo, but loved a lot of his music. "Let's Go Crazy" always reminds me of Fish Camp. I went August of 1984 and Purple Rain had come out earlier that year.

RIP Prince

Supposedly he said at his last concert on Saturday when people said they were praying for him regarding his illness, he said:

"Don't waste your prayer's on me right now, wait a few days."

The extended version of Computer Blue is one of the most amazing pieces of rock music I have ever heard.

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Wow, Bowie and Prince. As mentioned - huge musical geniuses. Not only that but Prince to me was the embodiment of what "rock star" should be. I wasn't even a fan of much of his work but appreciated the artistry in it all, and the performances.

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Great point....and I hope everyone knows and appreciates how talented he truly is.

I mean this is a guy that musicians (and I mean the great ones) bow down to. and he is not all about just R&B, funk, soul, or whatever., not even pop...the dude can flat out rock. He can play ANYTHING better than almost anyone.


Here is a nice sampling for you. This is the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. In the final number with an ensemble of the honorees (including Jackson Browne, Jeff Lynne of ELO, Steve Winwood of Traffic, Tom Petty, George Harrisons kid) and several others in the backing band.....They perform George Harrisons "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Its a great song and a great cover....but check out about 3:20 into when the lead guitar part is handed over to Prince. Holy Hell. Dude just freaking shreds it and brings the house down.

This might be the greatest performance of this song ever done including by Harrison or anyone else. Watch that next full 3 minutes or so till the end...dude is owning the song, the stage, the crowd, everything and he knows it smiling and just showing his emotions.

Sidenote: At the end he does something I cannot even figure out to this day....he throws his guitar up in the air seemingly straight up and walks off stage...but the guitar vanishes. It never falls back down. Some say George Harrison caught it in heaven. Its really weird check it out.

But THIS is a rock god!!!!!!!

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Thank you for sharing. I've passed this video around to friends and on Facebook. It's amazing.

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Supposedly he said at his last concert on Saturday when people said they were praying for him regarding his illness, he said:

"Don't waste your prayer's on me right now, wait a few days."

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Seeing a lot of rumors that he was way more ill than officially reported andthat he may have stopped taking meds in the last couple of years.

"Purple Rain" is one of my top 5 favorite songs of all time.

in 1984, I was in Panama City Beach with my family at a lonely beach hotel in a then undeveloped section of the "Emerald Coast" the first time I ever heard "When Doves Cry" on my Walkman FM.

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He was a musical genius.

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Sorry, but the kindest response to this is...no. Beethoven and Mozart, to name 2, were musical geniuses. Prince was, well, pretty decent to good, depending on who you ask. I didn't care much for him in the '80s -- a couple of his songs were putrid bad. A few sounded exactly like each other. But I grew to appreciate some of his stuff in later years.

Does anyone remember Vanity 6, a girls group Prince had some role in forming?

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He was a musical genius.

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Sorry, but the kindest response to this is...no. Beethoven and Mozart, to name 2, were musical geniuses. Prince was, well, pretty decent to good, depending on who you ask. I didn't care much for him in the '80s -- a couple of his songs were putrid bad. A few sounded exactly like each other. But I grew to appreciate some of his stuff in later years.

Does anyone remember Vanity 6, a girls group Prince had some role in forming?

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The arbiter of genius in music has arrived. Apparently Andy thinks it's determined by ability to compose music. Singing, playing instruments, performing not included. Take note, people.

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Prince was, well, pretty decent to good, depending on who you ask.

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Judging by the reaction of, I dunno, the whole world today, you're wrong. You know, its ok to say "I never got into his music" or "it just wasn't for me" or to not post anything at all. To actually try and make the argument that he was only "pretty decent to good" is laughable.

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He was a musical genius.

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Sorry, but the kindest response to this is...no. Beethoven and Mozart, to name 2, were musical geniuses. Prince was, well, pretty decent to good, depending on who you ask. I didn't care much for him in the '80s -- a couple of his songs were putrid bad. A few sounded exactly like each other. But I grew to appreciate some of his stuff in later years.

Does anyone remember Vanity 6, a girls group Prince had some role in forming?

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The arbiter of genius in music has arrived. Apparently Andy thinks it's determined by ability to compose music. Singing, playing instruments, performing not included. Take note, people.

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Yeah no kidding. Basing it on a few of his hit radio songs. Good lord. Listen to the dude play. Live. Listen to his peers. Look at his enormous body of work very few artists can touch how much he produced and supposedly he has an archive of hundreds of other completed and unreleased songs. Sometimes he satisfied contracts by just pulling a dozen songs from the hundreds he had in the closet. And he Influenced countless others and even launched several. He also played numerous instruments and incredibly well. He often played all the music on his albums. And produced them too. Musical genius is dead on regardless of whether you like his music or not.

If Beethoven and Mozart are the standards for being a genius, then the total number of musical geniuses in the history of the world is about 5.

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Does anyone remember Vanity 6, a girls group Prince had some role in forming?

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I remember seeing an article just a few months ago that she died suddenly as well.

Is there a more likely artist than Prince to fake his own death?

Besides Tony Clifton, probably not.

Kanye?

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He was a musical genius.

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Sorry, but the kindest response to this is...no. Beethoven and Mozart, to name 2, were musical geniuses. Prince was, well, pretty decent to good, depending on who you ask.

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Honest question, do you consider anyone from the modern era a musical genius? Like, 1930 or later.

I remember seeing an interview with Eric Clapton probably over 20 years ago. He said of Prince that where he led, the others followed.

looks like he threw it up so it'd land in the crowd or to a tech guy in the pit.

Prince truly was a musical genius. And objectively one of the coolest dudes ever.

You wouldn't know it to look at him, but the dude could ball.

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If Beethoven and Mozart are the standards for being a genius, then the total number of musical geniuses in the history of the world is about 5.

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Reminds me I need to watch Amadeus again. Love that movie.