Really? I know a bunch of people who know him - from high school or filming Purple Rain. He is excruciatingly shy apparently and more than a little weird, but as a person, he is supposed to be a nice guy who still keeps in touch with his friends from 30 years ago. When we went to a concert in Minneapolis a few years ago, the entire auditorium was invited to Paisley Park for a post show party - just show your ticket stub.
Early on he got screwed by record deals, which is why for a bit he was “The Artist.” So on the IP front he is relentless. But that doesn’t make him an asshole.
(Now, ask me about Dylan, who doesn’t stay in touch with his friends from 50 years ago and still owes my mother in law money.)
The setlist is assembled by each schools music director and the director of each particular show. Apparently this song was released somewhere, though not in any official form.
Not only that but the solo he did in that song is hard - he’s tracking with himself, using an obvious delay effect to double the lead. That is really, really hard to do; and in this case, the approach he took sounds fresh, not like a Gilmour or Edge knock-off.
Right, but to use Frank Zappa’s memorable phrase from the PMRC hearings, this is the equivalent of treating dandruff with decapitation.
Copyright is about protecting the market. Please explain how the little shit’s market was impacted in any way by a bunch of kids covering a song that is not available for sale?
I love Prince and saw him in 88 and 90 in the UK and he was amazing, but Bienville - this blew me away! He is still so inventive and artistically restless - and what a band! Thanks for posting that, it really made my day - and I’ve had a really good day!
THAT might have pissed him off a little more than average. I guess he really didn’t want that released. Odd guy. I’ve read where people say he’s got hundreds of unreleased songs recorded.
I wonder if the directors might start taking into consideration how performers react to their material being covered, and omit those to react like Prince does. I would think being able to put the vids on YouTube would be advantageous enough that they would want to do that.
I’m pretty lukewarm to that While My Guitar Gently Weeps thing. I feel like he just fills that solo with generic self-indulgent guitar flash where the original Clapton solo felt liked it belonged in the song and fully embodied it. I’ve only heard a tiny percentage of his huge catalog but every bit of guitar soloing I hear from him is like that - it fulfills this generic flashy solo mandate without really doing anything special for me. Having said all that I still think the guy is an absolute genius. He just doesn’t speak to me as a guitar soloist.
