While his music boasted funky melodies and groovy beats, guitar rock was often a crucial ingredient in Prince’s sonic stew. Photos: AFP
Prince was a groove machine, his music always heavily syncopated and sculpted around clever chord changes and unique melodic twists. But whether it was Purple Rain or Party Man, tightly woven into the fabric of his sonic palette was the sound of the electric guitar.
Of all the instruments he wanted to excel at (and he played at least 40 musical instruments), the guitar ranked as his top priority. Even from his early days as a growing artiste in the late 1970s, he was already compared to the great Jimi Hendrix. Eric Clapton has waxed lyrical of the enigmatic one’s abilities and Queen’s Brian May is known to be a fan, too.
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