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From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Prince != Jimi Hendrix
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 12:53:21 EST
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> 
> Any similarities are purely intentional, but not quite real.
> In the movie Purple Rain, Prince is NEVER actually shown PLAYING
> the guitar!!!!!! There are shots of his mug, looking suitably tortured,
> while some nice guitar playing is going on in the background,
> but he is never shown ACTUALLY playing the thing. Given the hype (not from
> Spray's article, but from other media) that would making Prince
> into the new god of electric guitar, I feel I must point out
> this small fact.
> 
> Marcel Simon

I don't know what movie you saw, but I only remember one number by the
Revolution when Prince WASN't playing the guitar! ("Darling Nicki")
The shots of playing may have been short, but they were always there.

BTW, I'm old enough to remember when Hendix came on the music scene.
The HYPE over HIM was because he was doing something that had never
been done before, NOT because he was good.  We know better now, in
retrospect.  Maybe you will feel the same way about Prince, N years
removed.

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