T1B

smackaholic wrote:Went back and watched Petty during Prince's shred fest. The look I see during one of his rips looks more like a "damn that little niggger can shred" look rather than a "dude, you're over playing it" look.

Wait, what? :? That's not better. The word choice turns Prince from a respected colleague to an exotic token.

Papa Willie wrote:
Not even trying to brag - but I could have made myself look equally as silly in that scenario if I wanted to. Prince wasn't bad as a guitarist, but he wasn't even a pimple on the ass of somebody like Jeff Beck, Steve Morse, and a shit-heap more. Sometimes when you over-do in a situation like that, it makes you look better than you are.

You are bragging. You go from the humblebrag of 'silly' to the envybrag of 'look better than...'

So you're upset that Prince showed up your favorite guitarists, the guitarists you see yourself as wanting to be most like -- but you can't say he sucks. So you say it was inappropriate for him to be better than guitarists you feel a deeper kinship with.

You still have a general point about body language. Your phrasing here is your body language.

Papa Willie wrote:If they would have done this in a studio, there is not a producer alive that wouldn't have said "errrrr - okay - errrrrr - you're going to have to tone that down a little bit."

That's probably why Prince never had a producer. He produced and wrote and in some cases played all the instruments on his albums.

Papa Willie wrote:Prince doing his best Marty McFly.

If Prince played triangle...

haha!

Game over.


He's right up there with Jimi Hendrix and Brian May

I think part of what annoys people is the look of arrogance captured perfectly in the pic m2 just posted. It's that tough guy scowl you usually see from boxers at a weigh in hen they are trying to stare down their opponent. He had that same scowl in the video with TP. The tossing of the guitar is the icing on the cake.

Is it intentional? Is he trying to just let everybody know how badass he is?

Who knows?

Seems more a cultural thing. Balck folks and braggadocio just seem to go hand in hand. Although, I think it is bleeding over more and more into other cultures.

Fortunately, there were some pretty fair balck guitarists that didn't suffer from it. The best example I can give is Albert King. Albert is up there having the time of his life. I love his laughing out loud between rips. Dude realizes that he is getting paid to do what he loves and it shows. He KNOWS he's the man, but he doesn't have to remind the audience. And yeah, Prince can squeeze more notes into a bar, but he can't come close to Albert's feel.

smackaholic wrote:I think part of what annoys people is the look of arrogance captured perfectly in the pic m2 just posted. It's that tough guy scowl you usually see from boxers at a weigh in hen they are trying to stare down their opponent. He had that same scowl in the video with TP. The tossing of the guitar is the icing on the cake.

Is it intentional? Is he trying to just let everybody know how badass he is?

Who knows?

Seems more a cultural thing. Balck folks and braggadocio just seem to go hand in hand. Although, I think it is bleeding over more and more into other cultures.

Fortunately, there were some pretty fair balck guitarists that didn't suffer from it. The best example I can give is Albert King. Albert is up there having the time of his life. I love his laughing out loud between rips. Dude realizes that he is getting paid to do what he loves and it shows. He KNOWS he's the man, but he doesn't have to remind the audience. And yeah, Prince can squeeze more notes into a bar, but he can't come close to Albert's feel.

You are one whiny fuck.

If it wasn't for whining, this board wouldn't get 3 posts a week.

Now stop whining about my whining and go check the dryer before someone throws your shit on the floor.

smackaholic wrote:

ftfy

Wasn't he the goodfellas character always bitching about the moolians?

smackaholic wrote:Wasn't he the goodfellas character always bitching about the moolians?

Go home and get your fucking shine box.

The joke stopped being funny once you had to explain it to suckaholic, which isn't too surprising considering he needs to be explained a lot of things, particularly that it's a monumentally stupid idea to allow people to shoot up a high rise building from 400 yards away.

Papa Willie wrote: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=48564

'Nuff said.

What the fuck do you know, except sucking and being fat, considering you are...how should I say...bringing up the rear in BTPCFB pick 'em.