Steve Ferrone Recalls Prince's Incredible Tribute To George Harrison | Questlove Supreme 

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Who ain't!!!

Yes because it hasn’t been topped.

Amen

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Could be seen as a bit showboating, but I believe it was Prince paying homage to George the best way he knew how.

@@B0Nnaaay It was showboating in a good way.

I saw it live (TV) . One could see they were all onto their music. They didn't know if he was going to bring it. Their faces....plus it was a different crowd. Different music. But when he starts playing they start smiling and one can see they all loved it!

I think that was such a cool thing for Prince to do for Ferrone! "Yeah, I know who you are, man!"

i'm still looking for the guitar!

So Scott Thurston is the one behind Prince to the right? I always tough he was the lead singer of Dire Straits. Thank you for the info, damn that was truly a super group!!!

🤘!! 👌!! Rest in peace to the legends who've passed away, 🙏 Prince, Tom Petty, George Harrison🙏 and Jimi Hendrix.

@@energyasylum997 Jim Capaldi also -- the very animated percussionist

@@Tarantulisimo I was disappointed to find out that he wrote my favorite Steve Winwood song and I knew nothing about him--after I knew, his name seemed to be everywhere!

NAILED IT

The Romans pronounced "v" as we pronounce "w". It changes the dynamic.

@@johnwattdotca no laugh emoji but if there were

The Greatest To Ever Do It!! Rest In Power Messenger!!

I KNEW IT!!!! His performance and the band's reaction tells the tale!!!!❤

Please share where to find that photos. I only knew about a sound check and none "particular rehearsal".

@@oskarobit i don't even know for sure that it was a full blown rehearsal per se, but it was definitely more than a just sound check, since they needed to make sure everyone knew their places & spots -- I've seen a photo of them all onstage at this session, you might be able to search it out

Prince did 4 hour sound checks. He wrote a song a day. If he wasn’t playing music he was sleeping. He didn’t have to practice the solo because he could, and often did, just PLAY like that. That’s what made the Rolling Stone diss so egregious. Prince was the hardest working man in show business.

The guitar went to heaven obviously

He threw it to the same guy that was holding him up when he fell backwards into the crowd.

Watch the "Directors Cut" version of this performance here on RU-vid!! It shows a person catch it. rip Prince

​@@energyasylum997🏃😃Thanks!

George and Jimi caught it. They were floating above, In The House. They held on to it for him.

@mikedavis8008 Ridiculous to say--read what real guitar players say about Prince's guitar skills!

@mikedavis8008

💜The first soloist gently wept; Prince loudly wailed 😭🤣🤣🤣💜

Same!

Do you remember the year? I didn't see the Stones until I was in my 30s--about 1989? Living Colour opened, black band, but hard rock, and so good--but not Prince good and only 1 hit to their name--and the crowd didn't boo. That band breaking up was something I never understood, but band breakups never make sense. (I married a musician 46 years ago and decided they're great people, but usually very emotional but don't think they are, and usually think they're right, so the bands fight a lot for ridiculous reasons...)

@@mollyhall2954 You're spot on . . . I'm a musician . . . Great to be understood and " we don't forget anything " .

@@rjwoodscvi LOL I went to college with guys studying to be lawyers, history professors, etc--I thought that would be a dull life. I married a musician the day after I graduated and expected an interesting, unpredictable life and that's what happened! Some thought I was silly enough to expect that he would be rich and famous--would have been nice to see him get recognition, and to have no financial worries, but success was getting to play and having the respect of his peers, and knowing his children and I were proud, I think.

@@mollyhall2954 Some persue music for fame & fortune ( of which Michael Jackson said is an Illusion , I think he would know ) . And others have a heart overflowing with music ( a musician/artist ) no matter their financial status . Some of the greatest musicians are not well-off or well-known .

Nice! thank you.

Amen!

I agree, I was also disappointed about Ernie Isley not being anywhere on it

@mikedavis8008 Where did you ever get the idea that the Wilburys didn't enjoy their star power? That's crazy! They talked about it in interviews and in the songs they wrote about their pasts! What's your motivation for hating another performer on their behalf? Do you think of the great George Harrison as weak somehow? He was not! He had to go up against his bandmates and fight for his own songs when he was in the most popular band in the world, and he did it, in spite of growing up with them, regarded as the "little brother," even while they respected his guitar playing chops! He was so brave as an ordinary man in his own home that he fought an intruder armed with a knife in the middle of the night when another celebrity would have hidden in a panic room. George Harrison doesn't need you to put down Prince playing a solo as a tribute to him, when they were both being honored, because he had enough confidence when he was alive to laugh and congratulate anybody who played like that! He admired excellence, and wasn't shy about his own! I loved that man since I was 8 years old, 60 years ago, and don't feel a need to put down Prince's tribute. You've been the second most irritating on here, but I think you loved George, so think about this--in New Orleans they have a different way of paying tribute and mourning, when they play music and march through the streets for a funeral instead of standing still and solemn at the hole in the ground. George Harrison was the first Beatle to seek out a new religious experience and stick with it--it meant something to him. He honored other people's beliefs and their ways of expressing their feelings. Just think about it for a minute. We did both love George, and he loved the guitar and good rock music. I've said all I can say.

MJ got nothing to do with this, please go away!

@horrorpowerfilms9481 MJ is relevant, he kicked down the door to MTV and made the black popstar a reality.

​@@creditorclass6513 no he did not, MTV had on rotation Musical Youth, Eddie Grant, The Specials, The Selecter, Grace Jones, Donna Summers and Prince BEFORE Michael Jackson. Stop coming to Prince videos to try to make MJ cool.

@horrorpowerfilms9481 All of those acts put together do not outsell nor eclipse the importance of Michael and Prince as a duo. Together they shifted what it means to be the biggest star in music. Just so you know I'm team Prince but I don't live in an alternative reality where MJ didn't sell more albums than everybody.

@@creditorclass6513 WTF! may be the most WTF comment on Prince's videos. Money, sells and MJ got nothing to do with this video. I'm team sanity! 😂

@mikedavis8008 Prince was being inducted and was invited to play Both solos. A real tribute is to give your best.

What Prince played was in tune with the other guitars & what they were singing... It was about his guitar playing, but he didn't make it about him... You can see the other guitarists running up front to see what Prince was doing when he fell into the crowd... He never missed the chords nor went outside of the song & still added his sound...💯💯💯

The organizers of the show Planned for Prince to play both solos, because Prince was also being inducted that night, but by mistake at rehearsal a white guy played the first solo and Prince Did Not Cause a Scene--he said no problem, I'll just play the last solo! And then that night on tv he played the last solo, just as he should have--as a tribute to George, but doing his best, not holding back, because I think he respected George and the other guys and didn't think they needed him to hold back!

I don't think much to be honest, i personally think because unlike most top guitarists he does so much more and all at a top top level he gets overlooked regarding his guitar skills!!

If you haven't noticed colored people are very well represented in the music business.

@@Roger8176 Noticed?! That's where music started.. They get all The credit❤

@@Roger8176 009

@@stephaniewilson7718 The problem is that they Don't get all the credit and they should. I'm sick of seeing young black reactors to rock music seem surprised when they hear and say they like 60s or 70s rock music and, unless they're pretending, they don't know where those old white men got their inspiration or literally stole the songs from! I tell them in the comments, but sometimes I wonder if they knew already...

Rolling Stone hasn't used common sense or kindness since the beginning--they let reviewer Dave Marsh review the first Queen album and he said the singer and musicians were "okay" but didn't like that Freddie wrote a song titled "Jesus," calling him a leader of men, even though it was a beautiful song, from a Parsi man whose religion was Zoroastrian (which I doubt Marsh bothered to find out) so he called them creeps! Not a music review! He continued to trash them for every album, while reviews and sales around the world got better and better. He raved about Springsteen, and they let him, even though his wife worked for Springsteen so he had a conflict of interest...

@mikedavis8008 Another absurd statement--give it up, and think about why you want to lie about this man.

Good that your a fan, right? right. 🙄

In trying to solve the problem the government has made it worse and keeps the doctors from helping people in Prince's position. It should have never happened. His doctor should have been able to legally and safely help him so that he wasn't desperate. A death that could have been prevented. (Spine trauma pain here and I hate so much that this happened to him when he was so young.)

Isn't that what rock and roll is? I rank that solo with the best ever.

are you a dinosaure like TREX..you can go back...

the irony of this comment about The Rock and Roll hall of fame show, did you ever watch past editions before the Prince induction? Jagger, Springteen, Paul, Aerosmith all fighting for the mic, and I mean all those artists use to do it every year. The event was a showboating masterclass years before Prince.

@@horrorpowerfilms9481 yes i have and enjoyed them all

Best showboat ever

but dude you forgot to tell deliberately to us that prince actually paid the damages back and apologised and that member was with him the NPG and actually that guy adores Prince ....everybody can have reasons of being on a freaky tempo but your ignorance is so filled up to your butt that you cant grasp the fact that Prince could rock on a a blues guitar like Steve Vai or SRV or Van Hallen or Hendrix or Santana or Clapton or Moore... my best regards ps. you can reply his name and end the discussion if you want

@@gfanarakos well. Nice of him. The guitar will never be the same again. The guy was a prick.

@@carlosmcse Clapton said that this guy would either hate him or adore him. Clapton did not. I am OK with this

@@mollyhall2954 Yeah…Petty had no credentials….

So name another performance/solo.

@@Capgpro1 right?! typed all that bullsh*t for what? mofos really be in a rush to hate.

@@prodigalsongod 😆

@@Capgpro1 for starters Just My Imagination from Paard van Troje - The Hague SOTT Aftershow

look up a live version of Shhhhh

no music is celebration and music is influence and tribute ....if you are the best just do it... Jordan did so why Prince should not or dunking is a game for doctor J only?

@@gfanarakos Prince was talented, and it was his right to do anything he wanted. My point is that his solo (not gentle, not weeping) clearly had NOTHING to do with Harrison, or the song. In a supposed "tribute" to a dead man, he jerked himself off. . . .

@@rigelloar7474 it was time to give the finger to people that underestimated him deliberately...check out Suzan Rogers what she says about his guitar playing since early 80's ..in my opinion he did very well ..music is for evryone and is celebration and everybody has a way to bring music to eternity... Harrison is a legend and is beloved and so is Prince no matter if many like him or not. Well he did...if you listen close enough to his playing its based on Clapton performance totally and took it next incredible level. Thnx from Greece

"I'm a Prince fan, but..." No you aren't.

@@adrian-vu6gt Your vacuous presumptions are asinine, cun+ .