"WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS" AT THE 2004 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME CEREMONY (reaction)
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- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony!
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Damn! He is good. Throws his guitar, says nothing, walks out and goes home. That’s Rock and Roll.
Prince was schooling the room, stole the show. George would have loved that.
Legend has it that George invited Clapton to play the solo on the original recording because Prince was only ten at the time 8-P
😂😂😂
Eric Clapton was asked what is it like to be the greatest guitarist in the world, he replied "I don't know ask Prince"
It's NOT a legend, it's FACT, Eric DID play the solo on the original recording on the Beatles WHITE ALBUM. I am an avid Beatles fan since Dec. 1963 when I was 16 years old.
@@patticrichton1135 it's just a joke, as in Clapton played because Prince was too young
When you watch the newer directors cut, which has a little more footage of Prince, you see Tom Petty AND Jeff Lynne grinning like Cheshire cats back at Prince when he is shredding. Such an emotional performance, O(+> sings through his guitar like no other. Miss him so much. 💜💜
Yep I noticed that too they paint across the stage and everybody in the band got a grin on their face. They knew what was up.
The story I heard was that this was Prince's F 'U to Rolling Stone Magazine for not putting him on their top 100 guitarists list.
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Wow, the talent on that stage is nuts!
Was the greatest band ever assembled in the WALDORF ASTORIA history for the Rock Hall. Missing those souls that are gone but never forgotten. Rest Easy All 😞😞😞
Not only was George Harrison's son ok with it, so was Tom Petty and everyone else. This is what Rock was all about. It's not a goddamned funeral, it's a tribute and Prince was honoring what Rock was about and what George Harrison was about in the context. Lighten up people. If Tom Petty was alive, he'd tell everyone to go take a dump in their hat. Prince nailed it, at The Rock & Roll hall of fame honoring a deceased. This is not the society of morticians.
Yes!
😂😂😂 that is exactly what Tom would say
Yes, very true.
I was disappointed in Danni many years later saying negative things about Prince and his performance. I think he just listened to too many haters and took the thought on board. Either way, it’s a truly magical performance, never to be repeated or bettered. O(+>
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"Gosh. Well...maybe Dhani will understand when he's inducted into the R&R H.O.F."
Prince beat Mozart, he mastered over 20 instruments by age 12, he could dance, sing any note, rap, he wrote, arranged, performed ALL his music, including wrote hits for other artists, he has covered almost every genre, Metal, Punk rock, hip hop, pop, r&b, soul, jazz, blues, country, ambience, classical. The Multi-Genre God. He could play anything, and your favorite artists have been deeply influenced by him. Corey Taylor, Steve vai, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, worship Prince to just name a few. Prince recorded his first 2 albums at 16 all by himself, all instruments, arrangement, composition was all by him. He was such a prodigy, that music executives wanted proof, they would fly across country just to see if he could really play all instruments, because it was so unheard of. Prince has over 50 official released albums and when he passed, they found over 10 thousand unreleased Prince music in his vault. He then came into the business and was the FIRST to fight for artists rights, and he WON. He would write "slave" on his cheek and go to meetings protesting against the industry. Prince was also the first artist to sell his music on the internet. You are talking about the most talented artist we will ever see.
LET ‘EM KNOW JROCKLOVER!
FACTS... rip Prince
Mozart never shot free throws on stage either
Yeah and most modern instruments weren’t invented in the 1400’s but you already knew that cos youre an expert
Prince was the greatest musician of our century. I am always wondering... How can a person be SO talented. Nobody ever come close to him.
No one ♥️
"Golly. I was just gonna say that."
Prince was amazing but I feel Frank Zappa edges him out simply because he wrote a more diverse catalogue. Frank received 1000% more backlash and hate for his musical statements than Prince did. Prince was the mainstream genius but Zappa was the Universal under the radar genius. ✌️ and ❤
This is the best reaction to this song that I’ve seen. You guys nailed it!
Thanks Bob!
And that's why Prince was THE MAN. Love your comments especially about Tom Petty.
We love em both! Glad you enjoyed!
Prince masterclass #1- how to shred a 🎸
Prince with no rehearsal!
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Amazing video and I really cannot understand how I have not seen it before now!!! I've watched it about 20 times today!!
The look of pure joy on Dhani Harrison's face....
Prince is such a HUGE part of my musical life and growth, due to the sheer amount of work he produced and styles he played in. He opened my eyes to what music was all about, and I’m so grateful for it, and him - he’s sadly, and sorely missed 💜
P.S. Regarding the throwing of the guitar at the end - he’s not throwing it up into the rafters, he’s throwing it above the eye-line of the camera so it appears that’s what he’s doing.
He’s actually throwing it up and towards the big guy at the front of the stage who held him up when he leant backwards off the stage during his solo.
This would definitely be one of Prince’s guys because there’s no way he’d do it with a ‘normal,’ crowd because he wouldn’t know how it would go, and it’s not going to look good if he gets pulled into the crowd mid-solo.
If you notice after he’s thrown the guitar, Prince looks down to this guy to make sure he’s caught the guitar (his favourite Fender!), before he turns and walks off the stage.
The camera angle is slightly off at this point as well so it looks like the guitar is being thrown straight up, when it is actually being thrown up and outwards.
If you watch the newer directors version/cut of this performance, you can just about see it coming down right at the end (but you’ve got to be quick to catch it! 😉) 👍
Thanks for this great information!
Jeff Lynne's vocals and harmonies with Tom are amazing
He was a GENIUS! Love you Prince……
Love this one 👍😁
Prince is one of my guitar heroes.
Really Really good.
Thanks guys, good reaction 👍😁❤
Thanks Peter, we’re glad you enjoyed!
The list is infinite with the masterpieces he did. This is just apotheosis but the guy change the musical world
No one can fill the spot in short time if never will be another one like this. SUPREME artist
I respect Prince, but I've never been a particularly big fan of his music. That said, I never had any clue that he was this good a guitarist until I saw this performance.
He was a literal virtuoso!
Yes you can go deep with his guitar skills and his underrated music. It's a journey
This is the clip I show to people who say that.....
Sure glad U finally got a clue...YEECH!
This performance and Prince tossing his guitar up then strutting off the stage was Prince's middle finger to Rolling Stone Magazine who had days before snubbed him on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists. This performance cemented him as one of the 5 greatest guitarists in history, a place he had always deserved to be. There were a ton of stink faces by Rolling Stone Execs that night. 😂Nice reaction!
High as a kite
Wow...doesn't Dhani look like his dad..
Prince is the guitar god
I like that Prince's slides on the guitar matches when the palm glissandos on the organ happened. So he was very intune with what was happening everywhere with the song, not just the progression, which is always required.
Prince was also inducted that year so I think it was OK that he made it about himself a little. Petty and Dhani didn't seem to mind. I saw Prince 3 times. Purple Rain, Musicology, and with his 3rd Girl Blind band and there's no denying the guy was an amazing musician and put on an amazing show everytime. Dan, the same guy that caught him caught the guitar also. The camera angle made it look like it just disappeared. You should check out his own performance at the same induction ceremony. RIP to George, TP & Prince.
Thanks Billy! RIP to the greats indeed!
Prince is well-known for having omni-present & over-bearing bodyguards to catch both he & his guitars -- He has more security than POTUS LoL
Loved your reaction! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Billy : This stage is no place for your personal shit, man!
The Kid : That's life, man.
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😎!
Ego, yes. .... They gave him the closing solo spot, and he went for it.
Did God catch the guitar at the end. Prince was pissed off at rolling stone magazine for leaving him out of the top 100 guitarist
That list is good and bad. there are many on it that are mediocre compared to Prince. 😆This sounds like something personal between him and the voters or him and the magazine.
Prince's passion came through his guitar solo, best player ever. He owned it AGAIN!
Thank you for caching the chemistry between Prince and Tom - spot-on. Being saying that for years!
Two legends
When you see Dahni laugh, Prince said to him " watch me blow their mother f**King minds."
Subscribed and liked because of this video hell yeah epic baby
Thanks Casey!
With George's son being there it may be about 2 1⁄2 wilbury's
these reactors don't even know the rest of the 'legends' as they called them. Amazing.
Lol besides Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, and Dhani Harrison, please let us know who we missed oh great rock scholar
@@SightAfterDark only George Harrison
Let the video play all the way through good times
See the version from The Concert For George from 2002, with Eric Clapton, who played the original guitar solo on the Beatles album. Guitarist Marc Mann, who played the original Clapton rhythm parts on The Concert For George version, duplicated Clapton's original album solo before Prince played. Concert For George had many of George's musician friends paying tribute to him by playing his songs, (plus Monty Python and an Indian music segment), and the tone was that of love and respect. The concert had many high points, such as Clapton and McCartney covering "Something". George's son Dhani Harrison has said he isn't thrilled by how the original spiritual intent of the song has been overshadowed by guitarists using it as a vehicle for showing off, and trying to top the original solo. On the other hand, George himself said he liked Jeff Healey's cover. Here is what Dhani said in a radio interview :
czcams.com/video/zQLPd-aw_mM/video.html
Thanks for the info!
Phenomenal. And it only took 25 people to recreate what George Harrison made sound so great. :) But yes, this was phenomenal.
He came for George.
Prince does a nice solo however greater icons are behind him!
his bodyguard who held him up caught the guitar
I was just searching to see if you did this show… glad you did! Isn’t prince the best…. Masters just back off in awe & watch. Yea, I’m MPLS biased… but who rocks harder? Small clubs,.. name the venue & he blew the doors off it… eh, how about that super bowl show in the rain!
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The tribute was Prince kneeling in front of George´s son.
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Actually a saw another angle and Prince actually tossed the guitar to the body guard in the crowd.
Regarding that guitar going up, I'm pretty sure he actually just tossed it out to the same guy that helped Prince when he leaned out off the stage and was pushed back up. If you watch Prince's face carefully you'll see that he's looking out at those guys right after he threw it as if to verify that it was caught. The close up camera shot makes it look like it went straight up. That's my take at any rate. Great reaction, as always!
the guitar was caught near the front of the stage by a stagehand.
I read after George passed, that Eric Clapton for a while would not play “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”.
Can anyone enlighten me on that subject?
He was too busy weeping
Prince gives a big f you to rolling stones for not including him as one of the best guitarist.
I like the song more than the guitar, great as it was, the song is even better.
I was here to see George's son Dhani and I am GLAD that you pointed DHANI out, all the other reactors I watched for George's song, DIDN'T, they didn't even know who he was, which really surprised me because DHANI is a carbon copy of his Dad....he looks like young George up there.
He sure does! Thanks for watching Patti!
This was a performance after rolling stone magazine didn't have Prince in the top 100 guitar players of all time. So Tom Petty gave Prince the platform to do his thing. Watch it again and you will see Prince keep looking over to Petty to keep going.
Look at George Harrison's son and how much he looks like George when he was young.
Prince was amazing but I feel Frank Zappa edges him out simply because he wrote a more diverse catalogue. Frank received 1000% more backlash and hate for his musical statements than Prince did. Prince was the mainstream genius but Zappa was the Universal under the radar genius. ✌️ and ❤
Hi you two. I'd like to see your names written somewhere, as I can't figure out how they are written and so even pronounced…
We’re Sifa Graffiti and Dan Berg 😇
"Golly. Why didn't his hat fall off?"
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU SIR AND MA'AM HAPPY NEW YEARS FAMILY BE SAFE FAMILY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN JESUS CHRIST ASSURED AWESOME WHOLLY NAME AMEN
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Prince can play 25 instruments but he is King on the guitar many people called him Jimi hendrix reincarnation on the lead guitar he is also great on the Bass guitar and drums
Absolutely!
Yeah and piano and keys
Huh? Prince was a legend then. He was inducted THAT SAME night. He was specifically requested by Dhani Harrison to be in the tribute (a good indicator that Harrison himself felt the same way). How is it that folkx don't know Prince's legendary guitar play? He literally played guitar and every single instrument in ALL his albums (check his album credits). GLOBALLY, Folkx compared him to Beethoven be and Mozart in his prime (and he MASTERED more instruments than either). Every other legend on that stage ALREADY knew he was great and ALREADY had said so in various interviews in the last few decades, calling him the greatest alive. Even check Clapton, old Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Eddie Van Halen interviews where they talk about him in the 80's, the end of their lives (Vaughn and Van Halen) and through the the millennium. I'm shocked that y'all are shocked, honestly.😂😂😂 But your music is lovely too.
Prince was a prodigy that blew ppl away and shocked them every time he played. That was the power of his genius.
I’m not a real Prince guy but I like this solo quite a bit. Probably the best thing he ever did.
BEST THING?? I can tell you're not well educated in the Purple God. Prince beat Mozart, he mastered over 27 instruments by age 12, he could dance, sing any note, rap, he wrote, arranged, performed ALL his music, including wrote hits for other artists, he has covered almost every genre, Metal, Punk rock, hip hop, pop, r&b, soul, jazz, blues, country, ambience, classical. The Multi-Genre God. He could play anything, and your favorite artists have been deeply influenced by him. Corey Taylor, Steve vai, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, worship Prince to just name a few. Prince recorded his first 2 albums at 16 all by himself, all instruments, arrangement, composition was all by him. He was such a prodigy, that music executives wanted proof, they would fly across country just to see if he could really play all instruments, because it was so unheard of. Prince has over 50 official released albums and when he passed, they found over 10 thousand unreleased Prince music in his vault. He then came into the business and was the FIRST to fight for artists rights, and he WON. He would write "slave" on his cheek and go to meetings protesting against the industry. Prince was also the first artist to sell his music on the internet. You are talking about the most talented artist we will ever see.
@@zazagirl3373 I feel about Zappa the way you think about Prince. So I understand your reverence and desire to defend him. Go for it man!
@@davetothebeard Frank Zappa is a Music God as well
@@zazagirl3373 absurdly breathlsss fangirl commentary here. stevie and elton john worship him? relax. he's one of the greats but come the hell on. prince fans are either reasonable or insane.
No comment about the beauty of the song by George Hadrrison? No mention sbout the presence on the stage if Dhani Harrison George-'s son , No comment abput the event was the induction of George into the rock and roll of fame and the people on the stage was there to celebrate him!! Prince thought of homself and his Desirée to make a show
To celebrate himself with a performance that woul never be appreciated by Geirge.
He loved Eric Clapton and Gary Moore.
I don't likeat all this performance because it was selfish and not respectful
shame one man had to make it all about him and trashed the tribute ... thanx prince ...
You obviously not familiar with Prince. He waited his turn just like everybody else
Look up the tom petty interview about this performance. Tom and others urged prince to keep going and play LONGER. No one close to George had any issues with it.
I disagree vehemently. What Prince did was disrespectful. You can show out a bit sure, but what Prince did was showing off and saying through this performance "Look at me." I matter more." He ended up making his performance about himself showing up a dead person especially the likes of an all-world icon like former Beatle George Harrison. This is horrible. No one talks of George after seeing this...it's all about Prince...Prince...Prince. I really lost almost all my respect and have very little left for the human being Prince. His work speaks for itself. At this venue, for this occasion, he was as awful a human being as anyone could be. To take away the focus and step on a dead man's honor this way is just unforgivable. To see a proper tribute to George I'll provide you with a link to "The Concert For George" tribute that was done exactly one year from George's death. I will even provide a link to this very song and how friends and colleagues truly give tribute. czcams.com/video/CrTMc2i6Lzc/video.html In case I didn't get my point across I say; "FUCK PRINCE" on this occasion.
George Harrison’s son (on acoustic guitar behind Prince) seems OK with it.
We understand your perspective, but it looks like we will have to agree to disagree.
Would you prefer that he half-assed his performance and didn’t give it his all?
Everybody knows what kind of artist he was, and, while they may not have known exactly what he was going to do, his reputation definitely preceded him.
If you should be upset with anybody it should be with those that decided to book him. Seems like a waste of energy to be upset with Prince for being Prince
We like to imagine that George would have loved that solo, and it seems like the other legends on the stage (who were mostly personal friends of George) had a great time being there.
@@SightAfterDark I'm sorry too. I did go back and edit my statement a bit to say there is a difference between "Showing-Out and "Showing-Off" That's all. Prince crossed that line IMHO. He should have just been honored and humbled to have been invited to be on that stage... I think the only proper response to my opinion on this is probably "OK Boomer" because my sensibilities come to me from a different time and place where boundaries were more sharply defined lol
Haha no need to be sorry! Like we said, we may not agree, but we do respect your opinion and your right to voice it. Thanks for watching!
@@georgegwoolston1730 even during your time there were wild performers too. It’s always the generation before the current that complains how their generation was better when the same thing been going on. Nothing is new under the sun
Never ever liked Prince. He has nothing to do with rock n roll. I think Lemmy had it right about him. Can he play? Yeah. Does he have manners or common sense. No. Good Riddance.
Didn’t know you needed manners to play rock n roll
Prince is the master of MUSIC you can't close him into a category. No way
he's not rock and roll. he's funky dude. that's why his playing guitar is always in complete connection to the rhythm. and he's not a guitarist, that's why he is always following and dialoging with melody and armony. he is a musician dude, that's what rock and roll is about, if you are not living in the seventies.
You clearly don't know Prince.
Why don't you go storm the Capitol with the rest of your inbred crew. He is beyond rock and roll. When Cats like Miles Davis the definitive artist of the 20th Century, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams the greatest drummer to ever live are into you. Who cares what some Hoosier who wouldn't know any type of high brow music if it whacked him up his head!!!
In an interview Tom Petty did , Prince didn't rehearse with them at all, he didn't get a chance to. He was supposed to do all of the guitar solos since he was being inducted as well. Every time he stepped forward to do his solo Marc Mann took over all of them. Prince told the producer to let Mann do the solos and he would do the outro. Prince left and never rehearsed with them but assured the producer not to worry. They had no idea what he was going to do. The times where Prince kept looking at Tom Petty he was taking direction to see if he should keep going. Tom said he was continually nodding his head at him telling him to go on because he knew he was making musical history. He described it as one of the most satisfying musical moment he had in his history of making and producing music. Prince also had a guitar tech catch his guitar when he tossed it and hand it to Oprah.