@@lexkanyima2195 Santana was one of his referents since he was a child, but Prince reached higher than his masters. Prince could play as Santana, as Hendrix and as the best blues & funk players. Google prince + thenameyouwant to check it out. Santana and him shared stage a few times and he loved Prince too. And no, this is not his best guitar solo as is not the solo in Purple Rain.
@@CheckingYourRealityForYou “People say Prince is great” “You need to listen to more guitarists”. So if I listen to more guitarists, people will stop saying he’s great. Makes ~perfect~ sense, if you’re high. Put down the crack pipe & try to be coherent. Or maybe even be original & try not to be a typical troll.
No, that’s fair. Prince because of the times had his shtick, so he really pigeon holed himself. That was the 80s on throughout the early 90s so his incredibly mind blowing talent as a guitarist was overshadowed by his showmanship. If you’re a guitarist and follow that expression of talent it was no secret but most laypersons wouldn’t have known. What’s more incredible was he could play the Bass, Keyboards, Drums and a few other instruments as well.
That solo was outrageous but also had F***Y** written all over it - especially at the end when he just threw his guitar away and walked off, that all just seemed to say "Follow that!!!" knowing full well no-one EVER could.
This was easy stuff for Prince. What made it great is the way he plays it so effortlessly and the whole mannerisms and even the way he was dressed. He wanted to see the stage before the performance so he could wear the same colours
I don't get tired of watching the solo with Prince and it is my favorite. I loved the look on Dhani Harrisons face when Prince stepped up and burned up his guitar. Dhani loved it and had a big grin. I'm so glad that Prince did that for the world to hear. All the musicians are very talented, but once Prince started playing, there was no comparison of the king on the stage.
At 14 is still disrespectful, Prince is no doubt top 10. My opinion is top 5. Eric Clapton was once asked how it feels to be the best guitarist alive? He answered I don't know go ask Prince
Prince played MANY instruments and wrote over 1000 songs. The man was truly an icon. His personal style was always ridiculed and overshadowed his talent. I have "While my guitar gently weeps" on my playlist and I get chills Everytime I hear Jeff, Tom and Prince together. Sign of the times when addiction takes the ones we admire before their time.
Could this have been a tip of the hat to Clapton? After all Eric did say when asked, how does it feel being the best guitar player in the world? Eric replies with, I don't know, why don't you ask Prince! I play this iconic video on TH-cam all the time
This kinda reminds me of an experience I had before. I was part of a band and the manager gave me the song Purple Rain. I spent days learning it and coming up with a guitar solo of my own (Sort of), and then the day of the performance, the manager said he was giving the song to his son! I spent a lot of time getting that song polished just for that shit to happen?! He says he did it because he couldn't trust me to learn the song due to my busy schedule, but the truth is, he gave it to his son because in his eyes, God forbid anyone other than his son gets to shine on a song as popular as that! I will never forgive that stunt he pulled. A few years later I got my payback, by playing that song with other bands, giving it more of a soulful and emotional playing style.
I'm a petty bitch. I fully admit it and am not ashamed. I adored this man before but after hearing this I love him. This is no one better. His musicianship will not be surpassed in my lifetime. Rest in power.❤
I've brought this up so many times. It is a classic "Butt Hurt" when Prince dropped of the list. He didn't want to be a "Guitar God" and stepped back for a while. Lack of new tunage dropped him from the best of list and he was not thrilled. He had a blast here and the other musicians are trying so hard to cue him back in..."Guitar Drop" See Ya!
That is the best live guitar solo I have ever heard. Nobody can listen to that performance and maybe a few of him doing purple rain live and say he's not top 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He might be top ten
He definitely was trying to prove to the world that he belonged on the list of Rolling Stone 100 greatest guitar players. He snubbed. He knew it. Anyone being honest knew it. He melted everyone's face off that night. All you have to do is look at the faces of the guitarists on stage with him. They knew they were in the presence of greatness.
He made a hundred better solos before. Ever heard about 1999 or Purple Rain album and movie? There's some guy playing guitar! Prince is in the Top 5 of best guitarists.
I like all the musicians that participated in the George Harrison tribute, (being a Southerner, I particularly LOVE Petty! Lots of respect for him! R.I.P.) That said, Rolling Stone (and the like), as well as Rock stations in general, have always snubbed black Rockers-- particularly guitarists, (how ironic, huh?). It's almost as if they go out of their way to do this. I've heard guitarists most will never learn their names (other than, say, an Eric Gayle) that would COMPLETELY annihilate a number of the 'celeb' types and personalities that have been lauded for decades! In any case, appreciated the video. Cheers, (RIP, Prince and Petty.)
Same here, brother. Well said! I grew up in Memphis in a family of pro musicians, so I've seen LOTS of amazing, lesser known guitarists. (Like Eric Gayle and Shawn Lane) My own little brother was a prodigy. From the time I started teaching him guitar to the time that he surpassed me was a matter of months - and I'd been playing for years. He was playing SRV & Hendrix _flawlessly_ by the age of 13. Legends like Derek Trucks and Buddy Guy knew my little brother and would always hang out with us when they'd come through Memphis. After a year of practice, my brother could play slide guitar just like Derek. He got so good by age 15 that he started learning hardcore Jazz because shredding blues solos and playing slide just wasn't challenging enough. Lmao When he was 19, he severely damaged his right arm and was told he'd never use his hand again, let alone play guitar. He refused to accept that and just re-learned how to play guitar from scratch with a partially paralyzed right hand. He's STILL better than 97% of the guitarists I've seen in my life. ..and that's just my little brother. There are many others like him. There were even others like him in our own city. Lol My point being: Human beings are incredibly talented and always will be. This idea that "real music" died after the 90s is absurd. ..and so is the idea that we should judge the overall state of music by what's popular in the mainstream. ..or "rank" musicians in top 10 lists like they're athletes.
🎸🕺🏻 Prince is #1 best ever guitarings, but his guitars on my gentles guitar weeps at rocking rolls hall of fame 2004 solo, doesn’t work to argue that Prince the #1 best at guitars, to all who just laugh at the rocking rolls fame 2004 video for proof. They need to put out all best Prince guitarings solo videos for all the haters, making fun & dismissing on Prince #1 guitars ever! 🎸🕺🏻
Right? This guy made a whole stupid video about this being revenge or something... and it had nothing at all to do with revenge. Prince didn't rehearse with the band. Instead, he told them something like I've got this, see you tonight. He wanted to really make it memorable and the look on Dhani's face shows how amazed and happy he was with Prince's lead.
Prince was one of the most legendary instrumentalist out there.. his guitar playing was phenom... but everyone praising his rendition of this solo is laughable... 1. Its an iconic solo .. so im some way most guitarist know this and have some knowledge to play it .... 2 the solo is how old.. prince is playing this solo in hindsight of the original so yeah 40 years later theres going to be ways to improve it like any other guitarist will do just like clapton has done to his own solo.. prince has done far better solo in solo work .. those solos should be examined .. not this one .. anyone 40 years later with guitar Knowkedge could played better tgan original.
The thing most people leave out about this performance was its true purpose. It was a tribute to George Harrison. I don't have an issue with Prince's performance. He's a great player, and his solo in this tribute was equally great, but he just walked off-stage while the last notes were still resonating, completely disrespecting George Harrison. Prince made it about him when it was supposed to be about George. Very bad form!
@@dwb73watch the whole video of Dhani Harrison running after Prince shouting “where’s Prince? I wanna give him a big hug” Absolutely everyone was delighted and it was Prince night too because he was inducted in the r’nr hall of fame that night. Even Keith Richards speech said Prince was dynamite As soon as Prince starts soloing the whole audience stood up. Maybe you are the only one that doesn’t get it 😂 It’s only rock’n roll 😂 George loved music rock’n roll and a big show because that’s what is it about. People going crazy and …well, I don’t think you understand anything if you need an explanation 😂😂
The disrespect was racial in nature and had been an issue for Prince and much of the hard rock community since the early '80s. Prince put out songs like "Bambi" and "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad", displaying his guitar prowess in the late '70s! Nevertheless, to the rock "purists" of that time, he was just another Black artist making r&b/disco music and therefore not to be taken seriously as a solo guitarist.
14 best guitarist are you insane Rolling Stone, he was way better than 14 ask around other great guitarist will put him in the top ten myself I put Prince in the top 5 ever.
Rolling Stones' "Top N Best X of All Time" lists are complete crap. They should be called, "Author's Top N Favorite X of All Time." And, Prince's solo was good, but not even close to the best solo of all time, or even the best live televised solo of all time.
I was thinking about this again. I was around when this came out. The best Prince solo is not this from this concert. It is his peformance of "Fury" on SNL in 2005. I know I cant convince you to go hunt this video down, as all youtube has is sound... so I pose this question to any guitarist that has seen any guitarist: I have played for a long time myself. Seen everything. Tell me what single demonstration on guitar, ever, is more impressive... more mind numbingly "wtf?" than his legato climbs as he solos in that song? It is ****ED. No guitarist has done that, no sweep picking master comes in the ballpark of being as impressive, from any metric. If you truly think you have seen the best of guitar, you have not. You are close, as this was a time Prince was surging in guitar based music (Super Bowl was good too), but it is unquestionably the above video, and I challenge you to prove me wrong. Show me anything as impressive as that. Never been done, and if you cant find it? Maybe never seen again!
I never considered this one of his best solos. It was certainly a great performance, but it was clear that he had every intention of making it all about him, as opposed to it being a tribute performance to someone else. But you could see the other musicians were in total awe of him. Never knew he was pissed off and out to prove a point. Mission accomplished.
what's so special about him and his solo? Yeah, it's not bad, it's conventional, based on the previous history of Rock music with respect, but certainly I wouldn't call it genius.
It's ok to go ahead and say, "its the best solo of all time." I'm from the year 2099 and its just 100% accepted here. And no one is making a, "2099," version. Because we don't have a Prince here.
It was a decent and tasteful solo, but I've always said it's one of the most overrated solos of all time. You gotta do more than one standout solo in your career to be put in the category of 'all time greatest' guitarists.
He made it all about him, when it was a Tribute to George Harrison. It was out of place and inappropriate. It was a good solo that hundreds of great guitarists could have equaled. I saw it live, and when he walked off in what seemed like a "huff", I just said to myself, "oh please, spare me". That tribute wasn't set up for a Prince "look at me, look at me" moment. I lost respect for him that night.
@@sherrimusic9172 It was just petulance, it had nothing to do with "performing". He made an ass out of himself, but nobody had the guts to call him out because it's "Prince". Was it a good solo? Of course. But that particular song doesn't necessarily call out for a "look at me" melt your face off solo. It didn't fit the moment.
in my humble opinion Prince is the greatest guitarist and although there are some superficial similarities with hendrix , he surpasses hendrix hands down..I feel just as annoyed when I get compared to freddie mercury of queen
He's one of the great pop/rock/funk guitarists, but I've always hated this solo. The song is 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' not 'While My Guitar Wildly Shreds.' Massive egos don't impress me. Musicians who refuse to play to the song do not impress me.
What do you think is the most iconic guitar solo of all time?
Carlos Santana
His solo with all the guys celebrating the life of Harrison i think it was.
lol
@@lexkanyima2195 Santana was one of his referents since he was a child, but Prince reached higher than his masters. Prince could play as Santana, as Hendrix and as the best blues & funk players. Google prince + thenameyouwant to check it out. Santana and him shared stage a few times and he loved Prince too.
And no, this is not his best guitar solo as is not the solo in Purple Rain.
David Gilmour's in Comfortably Numb and it isn't even up for debate.
I`ve always said he was one if the most underrated guitarists ever. That was an absolutely mind blowing solo!!!
Why does everyone say he’s underrated? I’ve never heard anyone say he was less than great. (Rolling Stone is irrelevant).
gee, u need to listen to more guitarists lmao
@@CheckingYourRealityForYou “People say Prince is great”
“You need to listen to more guitarists”.
So if I listen to more guitarists, people will stop saying he’s great. Makes ~perfect~ sense, if you’re high.
Put down the crack pipe & try to be coherent. Or maybe even be original & try not to be a typical troll.
No, that’s fair. Prince because of the times had his shtick, so he really pigeon holed himself. That was the 80s on throughout the early 90s so his incredibly mind blowing talent as a guitarist was overshadowed by his showmanship. If you’re a guitarist and follow that expression of talent it was no secret but most laypersons wouldn’t have known. What’s more incredible was he could play the Bass, Keyboards, Drums and a few other instruments as well.
@@23kyd49 Yeah, at 19 he wrote, produced, and played all the instruments on an album…
And still only rated 14th??? Not just one of the greatest guitarists ever, but one of the greatest musicians and performers ever. Absolute legend.
Rating musicians is a pointless, stupid activity anyway. This isn't football, it's art.
His smug look says it all, when I first saw that performance I was absolutely blown away. He told everyone who he really was...❤
a poser
@@CheckingYourRealityForYou Yes, you are. Thanks for admitting it.
That solo was outrageous but also had F***Y** written all over it - especially at the end when he just threw his guitar away and walked off, that all just seemed to say "Follow that!!!" knowing full well no-one EVER could.
Ha ha, that's exactly what was - well stated !
This was easy stuff for Prince. What made it great is the way he plays it so effortlessly and the whole mannerisms and even the way he was dressed. He wanted to see the stage before the performance so he could wear the same colours
#14 was still too low...Prince is definitely top 3
I don't get tired of watching the solo with Prince and it is my favorite. I loved the look on Dhani Harrisons face when Prince stepped up and burned up his guitar. Dhani loved it and had a big grin. I'm so glad that Prince did that for the world to hear. All the musicians are very talented, but once Prince started playing, there was no comparison of the king on the stage.
At 14 is still disrespectful, Prince is no doubt top 10. My opinion is top 5. Eric Clapton was once asked how it feels to be the best guitarist alive? He answered I don't know go ask Prince
Rolling stone magazine lost its mojo years ago .. they are a shell of themselves
Prince played MANY instruments and wrote over 1000 songs. The man was truly an icon. His personal style was always ridiculed and overshadowed his talent. I have "While my guitar gently weeps" on my playlist and I get chills Everytime I hear Jeff, Tom and Prince together. Sign of the times when addiction takes the ones we admire before their time.
Could this have been a tip of the hat to Clapton? After all Eric did say when asked, how does it feel being the best guitar player in the world? Eric replies with, I don't know, why don't you ask Prince! I play this iconic video on TH-cam all the time
One of the best solos of all time.
This kinda reminds me of an experience I had before. I was part of a band and the manager gave me the song Purple Rain. I spent days learning it and coming up with a guitar solo of my own (Sort of), and then the day of the performance, the manager said he was giving the song to his son!
I spent a lot of time getting that song polished just for that shit to happen?! He says he did it because he couldn't trust me to learn the song due to my busy schedule, but the truth is, he gave it to his son because in his eyes, God forbid anyone other than his son gets to shine on a song as popular as that! I will never forgive that stunt he pulled. A few years later I got my payback, by playing that song with other bands, giving it more of a soulful and emotional playing style.
I'm a petty bitch. I fully admit it and am not ashamed. I adored this man before but after hearing this I love him. This is no one better. His musicianship will not be surpassed in my lifetime. Rest in power.❤
Everyone saying Prince was disrespectful?
Look at Dhani's face; you know, George Harrison's son..
Pure joy.
I"ll never forget Tom Pettys face at that soloPrince blew us all away
Damn, just think-- both Prince and Tom are gone, and both died due to the same cause. R.I.P to them 😢.
And Dahni's!
Prince owned it that day
I've brought this up so many times. It is a classic "Butt Hurt" when Prince dropped of the list. He didn't want to be a "Guitar God" and stepped back for a while. Lack of new tunage dropped him from the best of list and he was not thrilled. He had a blast here and the other musicians are trying so hard to cue him back in..."Guitar Drop" See Ya!
That is the best live guitar solo I have ever heard. Nobody can listen to that performance and maybe a few of him doing purple rain live and say he's not top 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He might be top ten
That was a performance for the ages! None greater.
Prince is straight lace up there with Jimi Hendrix
He definitely was trying to prove to the world that he belonged on the list of Rolling Stone 100 greatest guitar players. He snubbed. He knew it. Anyone being honest knew it. He melted everyone's face off that night. All you have to do is look at the faces of the guitarists on stage with him. They knew they were in the presence of greatness.
He made a hundred better solos before. Ever heard about 1999 or Purple Rain album and movie? There's some guy playing guitar!
Prince is in the Top 5 of best guitarists.
Rolling Stone Magazine who? never heard of that but I have heard of Prince and rumor has it he's super talented.
Miss and love prince so much he was so awesome ! Voice and playing guitar! Was and is still the best!!
Thanks for this, Grunge🙂Regards, Michael M. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, 4th October 2024.
I like all the musicians that participated in the George Harrison tribute, (being a Southerner, I particularly LOVE Petty! Lots of respect for him! R.I.P.) That said, Rolling Stone (and the like), as well as Rock stations in general, have always snubbed black Rockers-- particularly guitarists, (how ironic, huh?). It's almost as if they go out of their way to do this. I've heard guitarists most will never learn their names (other than, say, an Eric Gayle) that would COMPLETELY annihilate a number of the 'celeb' types and personalities that have been lauded for decades! In any case, appreciated the video. Cheers, (RIP, Prince and Petty.)
Same here, brother. Well said! I grew up in Memphis in a family of pro musicians, so I've seen LOTS of amazing, lesser known guitarists. (Like Eric Gayle and Shawn Lane) My own little brother was a prodigy. From the time I started teaching him guitar to the time that he surpassed me was a matter of months - and I'd been playing for years. He was playing SRV & Hendrix _flawlessly_ by the age of 13. Legends like Derek Trucks and Buddy Guy knew my little brother and would always hang out with us when they'd come through Memphis. After a year of practice, my brother could play slide guitar just like Derek. He got so good by age 15 that he started learning hardcore Jazz because shredding blues solos and playing slide just wasn't challenging enough. Lmao
When he was 19, he severely damaged his right arm and was told he'd never use his hand again, let alone play guitar. He refused to accept that and just re-learned how to play guitar from scratch with a partially paralyzed right hand. He's STILL better than 97% of the guitarists I've seen in my life. ..and that's just my little brother. There are many others like him. There were even others like him in our own city. Lol
My point being: Human beings are incredibly talented and always will be. This idea that "real music" died after the 90s is absurd. ..and so is the idea that we should judge the overall state of music by what's popular in the mainstream. ..or "rank" musicians in top 10 lists like they're athletes.
Saying anything to discredit an amazing virtuosic performance, the man has left this Earth, let his Spirit rest in Peace!
When Eric Clapton once was quizzed on who he thought was the greatest guitar player he had ever heard, Clapton without hesitation said Prince.
Us baby boomers were lucky to have experienced Prince
Same with Gen X
He did this for Harrison's son, no other reason.
Still miss this dude.
because of one hit? cool for u
Do you play any kind of instrument?😮
Awesome Performance
This is wonderful ❤
Freaking LEGEND!
Je suis grand fan de prince c'est mon héros un super guitariste. Et les autres aussi. Il en faut pour tout les goûts 😊
George Harrison listed higher than Prince? That was a snub.
Love this story. He earned it.
I don’t know how many times I watched it.
That’s awesome
🎸🕺🏻 Prince is #1 best ever guitarings, but his guitars on my gentles guitar weeps at rocking rolls hall of fame 2004 solo, doesn’t work to argue that Prince the #1 best at guitars, to all who just laugh at the rocking rolls fame 2004 video for proof. They need to put out all best Prince guitarings solo videos for all the haters, making fun & dismissing on Prince #1 guitars ever! 🎸🕺🏻
He was a great guitarist no doubt and he stole the show that night but to say he pulled off one of the best solos ever that night........please
I never thought of Prince as a guitarist -- until I saw that performance. I was blown away by his playing. He was an amazing musician.
I enjoyed son Dhani's reaction (in the actual video), which we only see for
He said he REALLY wasn't
I miss my boo!!! But I do have a Rolling Stones magazine with him on the cover worth bout 11 grand!!!!!!
❤❤❤Awesome ❤❤❤
awesome!
Too bad we never get to hear the solo. yak yak yak.
Right? This guy made a whole stupid video about this being revenge or something... and it had nothing at all to do with revenge. Prince didn't rehearse with the band. Instead, he told them something like I've got this, see you tonight. He wanted to really make it memorable and the look on Dhani's face shows how amazed and happy he was with Prince's lead.
2004 was one of the best years for Prince and the worst for Michael Jackson.
Prince was one of the most legendary instrumentalist out there.. his guitar playing was phenom... but everyone praising his rendition of this solo is laughable... 1. Its an iconic solo .. so im some way most guitarist know this and have some knowledge to play it .... 2 the solo is how old.. prince is playing this solo in hindsight of the original so yeah 40 years later theres going to be ways to improve it like any other guitarist will do just like clapton has done to his own solo.. prince has done far better solo in solo work .. those solos should be examined .. not this one .. anyone 40 years later with guitar Knowkedge could played better tgan original.
Impressive solo indeed , pffffffff !!!!
Not the first or last time The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame or Rolling Stone Magezine got something very wrong.
Eric Clapton said he was the best guitarist ever.
Rip
The thing most people leave out about this performance was its true purpose. It was a tribute to George Harrison. I don't have an issue with Prince's performance. He's a great player, and his solo in this tribute was equally great, but he just walked off-stage while the last notes were still resonating, completely disrespecting George Harrison. Prince made it about him when it was supposed to be about George. Very bad form!
The song was over dude
@Cormac-jd2kx this is clearly over your head, dude.
@@dwb73watch the whole video of Dhani Harrison running after Prince shouting “where’s Prince? I wanna give him a big hug”
Absolutely everyone was delighted and it was Prince night too because he was inducted in the r’nr hall of fame that night.
Even Keith Richards speech said Prince was dynamite
As soon as Prince starts soloing the whole audience stood up.
Maybe you are the only one that doesn’t get it 😂
It’s only rock’n roll 😂
George loved music rock’n roll and a big show because that’s what is it about. People going crazy and …well, I don’t think you understand anything if you need an explanation 😂😂
The disrespect was racial in nature and had been an issue for Prince and much of the hard rock community since the early '80s. Prince put out songs like "Bambi" and "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad", displaying his guitar prowess in the late '70s! Nevertheless, to the rock "purists" of that time, he was just another Black artist making r&b/disco music and therefore not to be taken seriously as a solo guitarist.
Prince 🔝
Most iconic solo of all time Hendix axis bold as love
#Prince4Ever
14 best guitarist are you insane Rolling Stone, he was way better than 14 ask around other great guitarist will put him in the top ten myself I put Prince in the top 5 ever.
Rolling Stones' "Top N Best X of All Time" lists are complete crap. They should be called, "Author's Top N Favorite X of All Time." And, Prince's solo was good, but not even close to the best solo of all time, or even the best live televised solo of all time.
You just figure this out?
Prince is a top ten pick for me. He’s better than Clapton
That bar's not that high.
How do you go from not mentioned in the Top 100 to 14th? Only way that happens is if you deliberately passed over him before. They should explain.
Would've been nice to actually hear the solo instead of you talking about it.😢😢😢
lol I thought it was decent but I still would not put him in a great guitarist list . I think his talent is that he does good at everything.
I was thinking about this again. I was around when this came out. The best Prince solo is not this from this concert. It is his peformance of "Fury" on SNL in 2005.
I know I cant convince you to go hunt this video down, as all youtube has is sound... so I pose this question to any guitarist that has seen any guitarist: I have played for a long time myself. Seen everything. Tell me what single demonstration on guitar, ever, is more impressive... more mind numbingly "wtf?" than his legato climbs as he solos in that song? It is ****ED. No guitarist has done that, no sweep picking master comes in the ballpark of being as impressive, from any metric.
If you truly think you have seen the best of guitar, you have not. You are close, as this was a time Prince was surging in guitar based music (Super Bowl was good too), but it is unquestionably the above video, and I challenge you to prove me wrong. Show me anything as impressive as that. Never been done, and if you cant find it? Maybe never seen again!
I liked the part where you didn't play the solo at all,...not a bit,...as the whole video is about this iconic solo
I never considered this one of his best solos. It was certainly a great performance, but it was clear that he had every intention of making it all about him, as opposed to it being a tribute performance to someone else. But you could see the other musicians were in total awe of him. Never knew he was pissed off and out to prove a point. Mission accomplished.
what's so special about him and his solo? Yeah, it's not bad, it's conventional, based on the previous history of Rock music with respect, but certainly I wouldn't call it genius.
#1: Jimi
#2: Stevie Ray
#3: Prince
This is why lists for who"s the best are BS whether it's a guitarist, drummer or whatever.
Number 14 No sh*t !!
Where did he throw the guitar at the end?
Play the damn song!
Okay who were the 13 in front of him y'all doing Prince like the NBA did Kobe Bryant
Water might have been wet🤔
Why the hell didn’t you let us hear it?
Game. Blouses.
It's ok to go ahead and say, "its the best solo of all time." I'm from the year 2099 and its just 100% accepted here. And no one is making a, "2099," version. Because we don't have a Prince here.
14th on the list is still and insult to Prince's prodigious talent on the guitar
Duh. This is old shit. You guys must be running out of things to talk about.
TREY DID IT BETTER
How about a little less talking and give us what we click here for, to hear the solo.
The Rolling Stone top one hundred guitarists is always so silly it completely brings into question why they even do it anymore. It is a joke!
i disagree with you do you realize who is on that stage do you know the story behind that song you totally wrong
So why did I waste time watching this rather than the actual solo performance 😠
To much has been made of this solo…
WAY too much
Number 14😂😂 Who the hell is number 1 ? And why isn’t Eddie Hazel on that list. Oh yeah he’s Black also
no way lmao
Sooo we don't get to hear the solo. Thx for wasting my time.
It was a decent and tasteful solo, but I've always said it's one of the most overrated solos of all time. You gotta do more than one standout solo in your career to be put in the category of 'all time greatest' guitarists.
He made it all about him, when it was a Tribute to George Harrison. It was out of place and inappropriate. It was a good solo that hundreds of great guitarists could have equaled.
I saw it live, and when he walked off in what seemed like a "huff", I just said to myself, "oh please, spare me". That tribute wasn't set up for a Prince "look at me, look at me" moment. I lost respect for him that night.
If they had named him as one of the best,he would not have done what he did, revenge is sweet 😅
It's called performing 😂 I think Prince showed respect to George by killing that solo in the end. It was also a good FU to the music industry
@@sherrimusic9172 It was just petulance, it had nothing to do with "performing". He made an ass out of himself, but nobody had the guts to call him out because it's "Prince". Was it a good solo? Of course. But that particular song doesn't necessarily call out for a "look at me" melt your face off solo. It didn't fit the moment.
in my humble opinion Prince is the greatest guitarist and although there are some superficial similarities with hendrix , he surpasses hendrix hands down..I feel just as annoyed when I get compared to freddie mercury of queen
I'd be mad too if I got compared to a buck-mouth flamer.
No offense guys but I think Prince is not that good I never liked this music and I think he's musically declined I don't like him at all
Nothing impressive. Watch SRV and be impressed…
He's one of the great pop/rock/funk guitarists, but I've always hated this solo. The song is 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' not 'While My Guitar Wildly Shreds.' Massive egos don't impress me. Musicians who refuse to play to the song do not impress me.
Not the greatest he's no Jimmie hendrix or George Harrison
Master poser moment with stupid pentatonic and roadie trick
TH-camrs: Epic, Iconic, famous guitar solo