Country Guitarist Reacts George Harrison tribute of While My Guitar Gently Weeps_Prince Guitar SOLO! 

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If you know the whole story behind all of this, pay attention to Dhjani when Jeff Lynne's guy is playing and he is looking at him like MF I didn't want you doing any of that, but then when he turns to look at Prince he has the BIGGEST smile on his face because he KNOWS something special is gonna happen when Prince steps forward and it does. LOL

Dhani asking Eric to play in tribute to his Dad could've been awkward, in my humble opinion. George's 1st wife Patty Boyd divorced George, for Eric Clapton. Eric wrote "Layla" about Patty. Granted that happend decades before Dhjani was born. 🤷🏼‍♀️

YES! You articulated exactly the statement that I struggled with, “Not too much….” Prince’s performance, ( as always), was ALL THAT, but “not too much.”.. thank you

Apparently this is an urban myth. Clapton never said this

@@skygazer6898 yup! I’ve heard it about Trey Anastasio too. Clapton is not that humble.

@@skygazer6898 it was said, but it was Jimmy Hendrix that he was referring to!

Clapton never said that and was never asked. But Prince surprised me, awesome

It was when someone asked Hendrix what it was like to be the greatest guitarist, and he said ask Roy Clark.

Blu ray? where can I buy that?

@@NelsonMontana1234 first what?? Not following your point

after disappearing from rehearsals, he only told geoge's son "I will try to put asmile on your face". hands down

His son sure dug it!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@@NelsonMontana1234 They said he was a multi-instrumentalist. Not first.

nobody cause simply its impossible to stand up next to him... its very difficult

Great piece of insightful info!

Duh & or , of course he is. He has mad respect for Eric Clapton & George Harrison......

He absolutely has respect for The Beatles ans George. People saying he never heard the song before the solo are so ridiculous😂. Yeah prince never heard awhile my guitar gently weeps. Give me a break

great comment thank god

@@el34glo59 prince fooled all too... Prince didnt say he did not heard it he said he didn't knew it to play to audience.... the day before...he worked it the next day after the ... kind of rehersal which did actually just nothing .. and made history by saying "dont worry"

Mine too!

He's the "Best Guitarist Ever!"

You need to see his live performance of Empty Room.

Mine 2, but it also makes me cry, because he is gone. 5:31

Where did the guitar go, it went up but never came down.

Where did the guitar go, it went up but never came down.

I do love young Mr. Harrison's reaction...

envy is a bad advisor from critics and so to documentaries... When Jimmy Jam took his drums after listening prince killing the drums ..he gave up and he did so for the bass after prince took his bass...thats history in MIN world music culture

What if that was Slash show boating…what if Eric Clapton did that…it would be a celebration. First that they moved from the super still pose they normally freeze during their solos….and secondly because no one would ever believe they could move like that while still playing. Prince walked in like a pimp and just put it all in everyone’s face…he was making a point…

@@RBHADD agreew with your...they did a video tribute & had speeches right before this performance, & the tone was very sad, serious, & somber, so going into this perfornance that was kinda the mood of the room -- in that context at the time, it did feel like he was showboating, & I was afraid that this would be the criticism he would get

"I remember feeling like Prince was showing off a bit too much & that he would get criticized for it..." Well all I can say to that is ...when you invite Prince to play...YOU GET PRINCE! He was sort of a FAFO type personality.

@@RBHADD "and just put it all in everyone’s face…he was making a point…" Yes, for sure. Couple days prior Rolling Stone Magazine put out a Top 100 list of all times, and he wasn't on it. He showed them how wrong they were ;-)

Exactly

Not Billboard ... it was Rolling Stone Magazine

Rightly so, it's crap

There’s no way Petty was on that list. My mom loved his music. But as a guitarist he was pretty basic. If he made that list and Prince didn’t? Not even Tom would agree with that

Thank you for that breakdown 😃

Nice one!! 🎸🎸🎸🎼🎼🎼🎼🎸🎸🎸

When this show first took place & was broadcast on HBO, they in fact did list & acknowledge all of the other musicians involved, spefically Tom, Jeff, & Steve since they were the main performers..And many subsequent articles about the event mentioned Ferrone & Preston & the rest...It's just that over time, Prince'ssolo has taken on mythic & legendary status, rightfully so

That is not Billy Preston on the keys, it is Jeff Young.

Prince answers: "You want a solo? Just hold my Beer!" 🍺🍺 Look at his guitar. No Gibson Les Paul, No Strat. No expensive Shit. Only an cheap, simple Telecaster and a man who knows to handle it.

Urban legend, although Prince is better than Clapton.

This is wrong. Harrisons son told in an interview, that Prince was VERY HOLDING BACK during the rehearsel. And THAT maked the producers nervous about the performance, because everybody knew that was not Princes way to perform....

​@@AustrianJager You are incorrect as well. Story is, during rehearsal another guitar player continually try to out due Prince during rehearsal, either due to he felt he should have been lead player, he just didn't like Prince or was just a typical A-hole, whatever the case may have been Prince didn't make a fuss over it, left rehearsal & told the producers not to worry about it. And clearly as the end result showcase they indeed had nothing to worry about. I also believe that's why he put a lil extra stank on it to show that other player that basically disrespecting him exactly who he is & what he's capable of.

Who was the guitar player trying our duel prince

@@BegodeEx30 who did that

@@munroe40 The player in the gray polo style hat that had the 1st lead, he's to the left of everyone.

Right in front of the execs from Rolling Stone who initially dissed him. Bamm

With no rehearsal

I heard that the magazine 'Rolling Stone' just put out it's "top 100 guitarist's of all time" list and Prince wasn't on it. Obviously, this peeved Prince and he supposedly decided to show him how wrong they were! I don't know if that story is true, but it sounds like a Prince thing to do. Supposedly, the people who wrote the article from Rolling Stone were in the audience that night as well. Gives me an inner chuckle when I think of that.

This is not true

I'm not sure about that but certainly he would have been exposed to a lot of it in Minneapolis. He had a great sense of humor and did do that Hee-Haw skit on The Muppets Tonight where he was jokingly playing country music, but it was very brief.

LIES. Well, it wasn't anything like that. The producer and director of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Joel Gallen, wrote a letter to Prince asking if he’d consider performing during George Harrison’s induction. It was Gallen’s “dream” to have Prince come on stage to do the guitar solos in “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” However, Prince was his characteristic self when deciding to take Gallen up on his offer. “I got a call from one of Prince’s guys, a week or two later, saying that Prince was in L.A. and he wanted to have a meeting with me,” Gallen told the New York Times. “He said, ‘You know, I got your letter, I liked the idea, I’m going to listen to the song a few times, and I’ll get back to you" BUT once at rehearsals, lead guitarist Marc Mann was a jerk to Prince, interrupting Prince's solo everytime. Gallen: “They finish, and I go up to Jeff and Tom, and I sort of huddle up with these guys, and I’m like: ‘This cannot be happening. I don’t even know if we’re going to get another rehearsal with him. [Prince]. But this guy cannot be playing the solos throughout the song,'” “So I talk to Prince about it, I sort of pull him aside and had a private conversation with him, and he was like: ‘Look, let this guy do what he does, and I’ll just step in at the end. For the end solo, forget the middle solo.’ And he goes, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ And then he leaves. They never rehearsed it, really. Never really showed us what he was going to do, and he left, basically telling me, the producer of the show, not to worry. Prince’s 3-minute solo became one of the most iconic moments in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame history.”

@@horrorpowerfilms9481THIS IS DOCUMENTED FACT.

he was already in there, but this helped open many rockers eyes to Prince's skills

bambi Live Tokyo Dome 1990

Haha cleaver, but it was a first.

Wow!!! Thank you so much!

George Martin never ever produced ELO. Jeff Lynne produced all of ELOs albums.

I only cared to hear "Prince!"

@@ceiananunez1892 massively overrated. Could play guitar but didn't write a single decent song🤷each to their own.

@@richteezer1 Very opinion-based and 99% would say incorrect, because Prince had more hits than most people had total songs.

Nice! Love Radio Head but I can only imagine.

Oh yeah, that's my favorite Prince cover.

Check out Prince's cover of " Just my Imagination" on youtube.....It is out of this world.

My favourite cover of anything by anybody is Princes cover of his dear friend Joni Mitchells "A case of you" from the 2002 album One Nite Alone - he recorded all instruments (beautiful piano playing) and backing vocals for that song at home alone in one night. Maybe that was the reason for the album title.

Don't do that. Everyone knows about his pain. He was no druggie.

@@missy652 Thank you

Prince dealt with chronic pain. His choice of remedy was a problem but he did not use to get high.

@@lisajones1187 When they find you dead in an elevator it doesn't really matter why you did the drugs, you're still dead.

@@robertkees6048 You are making a moral argument here. Prince had serious pain and dealt with it ultimately killing himself. Judging someone for that is cruel.

YES and it is beautiful!

Yeah that's a great version!

😳🤣

well MJ always had second thoughts of whos best.... Prince never cared he could absolutely kill guitar and piano..who cares about moonwalking...Prince could moonwalk on his high heels alone with his drumbeat when doves cried ripping his guitar during intro and piano soloing in the end alone...with no base too

He played it since the beginning of his career. It’s in the video for “1999” for example.

sorry but you said your own you dont know prince

Prince was inducted into the Hall of Fame that night also - his first year of eligibility.

Don't invite Prince if you don't want Prince to show out.

Disagree. If you are at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame being inducted and paying homage to one of the great early Rock n Roll pioneers, you better rock. And since the song is using a guitar weeping as a metaphor, and playing the solo section which was originally done by Clapton, Prince certainly did justice to the song. As a guitarist, I love that he showed out and made that Hohner Madcat Tele cry all the way to the heavens. George caught the guitar and is playing it in the heavens right now.

I've seen many concerts but "Prince" concert is one of the best, next to Elvis!

Ahhh not even close to Floyd’s

Facts

@@ChasingAnthems total mistake on my part. Was responding to a complete unrelated posting.