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Prince Arrives to Overthrow the Show

06 Aug 2009

So you’re playing a tribute show to George Harrison, and everything’s going pretty smoothly. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and George’s son Dhani are all having a good old jam to While My Guitar Gently Weeps. But then halfway through, Prince appears from nowhere and proceeds to take matters into his own hands.

If he was meant to be there, he was surely late from a poetry reading turned threesome. Dressed in a rooster red hat, the world’s most famous Jehova’s Witness took to the foreground and began owning his solo, channeling Hendrix and other voodoo child ways. If Tom Petty hadn’t become so chilled from endless drugs in the 70′s, he might have attempted a swing at the swaggering Symbol.

Finally, Prince throws his guitar into the air and it disappears, clearly demonstrating his mastery of dark magic. Then, like Kaizer Soze, he’s gone.

Did he need to rush off  to an orgy on his private plane to Bermuda, or was he late for a nude model casting, looking for the female version of himself to live in a golden cage in his bedroom?

It scarcely matters, this was the man responsible for warning labels on albums and the crown prince of Minnesota. And his job was done.

Entertaining dinner guests in his lounge.

Entertaining dinner guests in his lounge.

Reader Comments

  • fr

    07 08 09

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    it’s quite embarrassing to watch this video: it’s so obvious he is just faking. notes and finger positions are completely out of relationship.

    he might be a Jehova’s witness, but he’s still lying… so he’ll go to hell (but he’ll be lucky: they’ll allow him to keep his fancy red dress)

    real solo is either playback or performed by someone backstage.

  • Wezzo

    07 08 09

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    He flippen kills it! The guitar in the air secured it.

  • leolabeth

    07 08 09

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    Machst nichst. So Prince is talented. Big Whoop.

    Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne were playing and singing. That, my friends, is ALL that matters.

  • CBGB Williams

    11 08 09

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    I dig how that first guy on the left next to Jeff Lynne was grimacing with concentration during the first “solo” and then you catch glimpses of him listlessly bar chording while Prince sets Satan’s couch on fire with his audacious licks. Outclassed.

  • Brendan

    12 08 09

    Reply

    You are all spot-on. Satan’s couch is on fire, indeed.

    Although hadn’t considered a guitar solo conspiracy theory, as suggested by @fr – will check with the FBI.

  • Nick

    26 08 09

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    :O Fucking sickening!!
    Spot the odd one out…

    @fr – it’s a youtube vid, that’s why it looks out of sync.

    People don’t get what a sick musician he is! I had no idea till a few months ago.

    After he left, you reckon the crowd just went home? I mean, what could the others do after that? “Thanks a lot Prince for fuckin up our show!”

  • Brendan

    28 08 09

    Reply

    @Nick – I think everyone wandered off to the bar, thinking it was the end. Despite Phil Collins waiting backstage to play his song.

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