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  • @Guitargreg72...... thats what she said. Lmao

  • prince - next level please !

  • The guitar just ascended, it's mission on earth was complete.

  • Prince killed this thing. You can't take your eyes off of him. He's got that soul/blues thing happening. And when he walks off the stage, he knows that he's a bad ass! But, this ain't nothing new to us true Prince fans. He's been doing this shit for years. A true genius!

  • why prince tribute???

  • he tore it wide open

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  • Well... if anyone ever doubted Prince's soloing ability.... you really shouldnt after this. This is the best version of this track that Ive ever heard, bar none.

  • LOVE THIS SONG! <3!!!

  • Prince is a maestro! An INSANE GENIUS!

  • better than all the wannabes like yngwie, , dimecunt, bucketfuck et al

    NO FUCKING SOUL

  • I think Jeff L. wouldn't care for the intro. He and G.H. as well as the rest are soul mates, I still have some of J.L. music when he was Electric Light Orchestra

  • why is the title tom petty and prince? jeff lynne is there too!

  • @stevor811 and Dhani Harrison :D

  • Omg Prince, I am almost a believer again! you rock dude! xxoo

  • Go to your dictionary, look for the word "pimp" - You will see a picture of Prince wearing this outfit and walking off stage the way he did here. Also, go to "showmanship", you will see another pic of Prince being held and pushed back like in this video. Finally, look for "amazing". Again, you'll find a pic of this moherfucker shredding that damn ax!

  • George Harrison's son...looks just like his Dad!

  • When one chooses to excell as something,theres the oportunity to amaze. Although I'm a major fan of all the performers on stage.... Prince is a Jedi Master of the guitar..

    If you rip it like he just did....... It leaves everybody stoked !!

  • Some people always loved to hate Prince because of his persona, but this video showed to general public something that all his fans knew. He is a great musician, in the true sense of the word. Master producer, songwriter, arranger, multi instrumentalist AND singer.

  • prince slayed it so effin hard he threw off the guitar in victory and did the pimp strut off the stage cuz he knew he just KILLED IT

  • Prince channeling Jimi?!

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  • jeff lyne does a nice George Harrison..

  • Ok, Prince knows how to strut his stuff, it's what he does. That said,can any of you wanna-be guitarists copy this lead? C'mon guys, Prince has always been one of the most underrated guitarists of our time. He simply blew this one away! I wish I could do that! (I'd even wear the red hat!)Talent is talent....he's got a bunch!

  • 3:31 The moment when the Prince becomes a King!

  • @JoaoacsgTH

    King? Shit, GOD!

    I'm about to turn 64 and Prince showed up past my prime. Still, I always watched him for his theatrics and put him in the category of a cabaret performer. When this tribute aired I had it on as background noise and, as I walked past the boob tube I stopped to watch. Well, when Prince started to fling his slingblade, I sat the fuck down! Sure as hell opened my eyes.

    He's a master at the peak of his mastery.

  • and i just noticed... Tom Petty looks a little bit like Keith Urban

  • i heard Prince could play... but HOLY SHIT!

  • What. The. Fuck. Prince is MAGIC!!!  <3

  • Prince totally blew everyone away!

  • Is anyone going to give credit to Jeff Lynne? Oh yes, that's right, I am.

    Jeff Lynne rocks, keep it coming man

  • WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THIS SONG!

  • HATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Also tired of the ridiculous statement '' Where did his guitar go''? Are you for real? It is a pompous over done theatrical gimmick that we all should be tired of ,unless we are able to catch the guitar and keep it. And that is not happening. He has had the guitar forever.That's his baby. So please give it a rest. I have seen Prince 17 times, so I don't want to hear how I'M a '' HATER'' . I Like his playing and showmanship, but not to keen on his songs overall as far as lyrics.

  • I am tired of hearing how Prince blew everybody away. First off, it wasn't a competition. It was a celebration for all involved. Great song with great lyrics. A song which Prince probably wish he wrote( Lyrically speaking) I absolutely think Prince is immensely talented, but he does not impress me with his lyric content. He has written a handful, at best, of good songs as far as lyric content goes. Mostly for others.That is part of being a writer/ composer. Nice solo, great performer.

  • @idolhands50 i dont recall anyone saying it was the best lyrical solo ever.. it was the best guitar solo ever witnessed to mankind. George Harrison's own son was getting excited to be standing behind him blowing his dad's song away. No, it wasn't a competition, but maybe he didn't blow them away as in defeating them, but blew their minds with how well he nailed that solo. Give credit where credit is due sir. Don't try to take away from it with irrelevant arguments to points that dont exist.

  • @lookitswade Unfortunately the comment you responded to is taken out of context. It was part of a conversation I was having with someone. Didn't address that comment, so, taken at face value does seem a bit out of place with the subject matter.OOPS.. o _ 0.. My bad! However, I do find it ludicrous that you sifted through 2 months of lurid and puerile comments to address me. Atypical of an overzealous rabid music fan.The pulchritude of your comment is the psuedo - intellect you tried to convey.

  • is that the singer from elo? that sings second aND WOW PRINCE CAN RIP

  • is that the singer from elo? that sings second

  • I love it how P 'falls' of the stage, while playing, only to have his security push him back up, very morris day and the time like performance!

  • Absolutely brilliant!! What a bunch of legendary rockers!! Wish it was in high def though.

  • i like how prince throws his guitar back up to the heavens when he's done

  • I didnt know Prince could play the guitar so will

  • the best WMGW cover i have ever heard

  • Who's the squirt on the acoustic? Lucky bastard.

  • @ComfortablyMuffin George Harrison's son.

  • @steelersfan8827 Sweet, thanks.

  • Prince wasn't showing off. Prince was just being Prince. And besides, he doesn't have to. His talents speaks for itself. If he stood there and did nothing, you still wouldn't be able to take your eyes off of him. He has stage presence up the ass!

  • rolling stones left Prince off their list of greatest guitarist while including people like Kurt Cobain (who was an inferior guitarist compared to prince). This was a slap in the face by Prince to rolling stones. Alot of people didnt know that he could play like this, so yes he was showing off. Big deal. Alot of people would show off in that situation

  • To be honest... I didn't watch the video... The music just blew my mind... this cover is just beautiful!!!! Love the guitar, the voices, everything!!!!

  • To be honest, Prince just played in the way that prolly got the Beatles lovin rock & roll in the first place. Like Little Richard meets Hendrix...

  • @lyricon1963 - With that red hat he could sit still and be theatrical haha

  • Nice - great song - a real tribute to George - Great players and nice to see Dani on stage with all his "uncles" again. Why Prince feels the need to over-act like that is beyond me - he's a great player and nails that solo with plenty of expression and feel. Who needs the theatrics during a tribute? Seems a bit trite.

  • @lyricon1963 Prince has admitted that he did the gig mostly so he could play with Tom Petty, who he apparently worships. So Prince was showing off for his idol, plus he's just one of those theatrical guitarists--he gets into it and he loves to move. But mostly, I think he was trying to impress Petty. Kinda cute to see rock stars showing off for each other!

  • @paxpaul Each other? Prince was the only one showing off, begging for attention from Petty. On his knees begging. Literally. He was saying " Look... Look!..Lookie over here.. see how fast I play? that's what it's all about right? Playing fast and jumping up and down running around? You like my hat? Cool hat huh! I don't look fat in these pants do I?" Petty was not impressed. It was pathetic and needy.

  • @jackhammer111 Well, although I disagree with you--I think Prince was great and Petty liked it--I certainly can't say you're wrong, and I definitely think Prince was showing off. For all I know, Petty might hate Prince deeply. So, no argument here, just two opinions. BTW, I'm just curious, are there any covers of this song that you'd recommend as good versions? I always like to hear what others consider great music, especially when we disagree like this. Peace!

  • All that talent on the stage and Prince blows them all away. Very impressive

  • ジョージの息子おやじそっくりだな

  • @TheOtranto Yes, but a bit less hairy.

  • roger nelson!

  • SUPERGROUP!

  • Is this a tribute to GEORGE HARRISON...?? Either way it rocks :)

  • @PeaceLoveSaffron I believe it was at the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame Inductions

  • I love this video. Prince at his best......

  • My GOD!! Prince fucking rooocks!

  • This bores me. Who's up for a game of basketball?

  • @cyblur If this doesn't move you in any way, maybe you're dead . . . .

  • I never knew Prince was that talented...he blows it away....

  • @suziebhoney yea he's the man plays like 12 instruments eric clapton said back in the 90's prince was one of the greatest guitarist around

  • it's great how he makes the guitar dissapear in the end. :-)

  • Damn...damn, my forget weeping, my guitar is speechless.

  • He threw his guitar at the end to the person that was holding him at 4:52

  • @lbron123 if you look he tossed it behind him slef the guy was in front of him

  • Prince shows those boys how it's done! Stellar performance!

  • truly amazing! jeff lyne and tom petty voices are right on. and than, fucking "Prince"  he kicks complete ass! awesome solo!

  • great moments in rock

  • I bet he doesn't even play with his dick that good, Dam what a performance!!!!. And Danny in the backround:) I Love It

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  • Prince > Humans

  • if there was a god it would be prince!

  • Pardon my language but this is FUCKING AWESOME!!!! Peace all and Happy Thanksgiving:)

  • Tom Petty. Good to see you

  • To me one of the best musicians of all time, 2night i'll be attending a concert from Prince and I truly hope he'll give us some of his magical 'Hendrix' skills...

    Underappreciated guitarist ftw!

  • isnt the guy in the hat the leader of ELO? Jeff Lynne?

  • @mgabe71 oh yeah, that is indeed Jeff Lynne.

  • I keep hearing the Santana version of this song (which sucks) so I had to listen to this one a few times to cleanse my ears. Santana's guitar playing sounds like a roll of toilet paper compared to Prince's.

  • Prince = Bad Motherfucker

  • One of the sickest performances, EVER!

  • PRINCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 5:07 If you look closely, Prince takes it to a level previously unknown to man and actually starts to melt his own face.

  • @DHGroove no that was just charlie sheen

  • great great great!!!!!!!!! =)

  • I Cry everytime i watch this!!!!!!!!! Prince did is damn thing. Look at the faces of everybody on that stage!!! They are amazed!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!!! Luv U Prince!!!!!

  • Anybody know if this can be found on any album?

  • Wow, did not know, what a great guitar hero Prince is!

  • @Koesl -- True dat! Never been able to determine if Petty's look was sheer amazement or pissed Prince wouldn't stop (probably both). Either way, glad Dhani dug it.

  • Fuking Gently Weeps

  • Prince fing rocks out!!! Gave me the chills on that solo!!

  • Prince's guitar wasn't weeping, it was throwing a wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-n­ight temper tantrum!

  • @YinzLuvDaStillers fuck you ass hole Who is better ? (Besides GreenY)

  • wow !!!!!!!! this is a awesome video

  • This is the best version of this classic song!!!

  • People,are you serious this man (prince) is one if not the greatest musician ever he played half a dozen instruments when he was six. On his first album he played every instrument. He owns the guitar.

  • Awesome

    

  • Prince say he always wanted to play with Tom Petty, it shows!

  • @cinemainctv Yeah, you can tell that Prince was showing off for Petty, looking at him to see his reaction to Prince's playing. Awesome!

  • Jeff Lynne of ELO singing also......

  • Yeah, when Prince threw that guitar up it went straight to heaven.....for George and all other others........................­.......Peace

  • doesn't get much better than this

  • princed killed that. amazing musician

  • Prince is the Shit!!!

  • He had to pull off a solo, he was on stage with the main man

  • Fuck! I want Petty & Prince to do an album & tour together!

  • @BrickhouseB2 YES.

  • @ the end did he give the guitar to george?

  • Like many others here I had no idea Prince could play a guitar like this! Awesome!

  • Though, I love the Eric Clapton/Paul McCartney-version at the Concert For George...

    I have to say: What an amazing performance!

    Tom Petty totally knows how to send shivers down my spine!

    And Prince... I didn't know he was this good before I saw this vid.

    But, yeah. He is f*cking amazing! This solo makes me cry!

  • Believe it or not, Prince didn't even KNOW this song before giving it a listen in preparation for this performance. Amazing.

  • @imjspaceman Shows you what kind of musician he is.....

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  • I've heard that guitar is still levitating there to this day.

  • @HylianSpirit I always figured God had caught the guitar to give to George Harrison for Krishna's birthday. ;)

  • @HylianSpirit Actually, you can catch the apparatus that catches the guitar at 5:59....but that was one hell of a performance to say the least.

  • I have always been a fan, and knew that the man had more talent than he was ever given full credit for, but this......

    It has lifted me up and made me feel 'THAT' feeling of true honor and more. Thank you so much, Sire! I am blessed.

  • extraordinary

  • Woww

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  • wow i did not expect that from prince i was impressed im a 30 year player and im not worthy

  • Wow! a great reminder to the amazing musician Prince is. The man is a legend that can do it all!

  • !exelente solo!

    ¿como se llama el que hace el ultimo solo?

  • @tommybreschi se llama Prince, y es un genio que toca 30 instrumentos.

  • @tommybreschi

    Hola Tommy, este homber, es Prince., Excelente ¿no?

  • i DID NOT see that guitar land after hethrowsit up/did itfuckin disAPPEAR /that prince he is smokin'

  • @hanghang71 think he tossed it up to George Harrison up in heaven.

  • Silky Johnson just owed that shit! Prince...... A true musician!

  • Prince totally killed this song , Yes Clapton did a heck of a job as the orginator of the solo but princes version had hints of all his influences like I can hear Jimi,Stevie Ray, Wes Montgomery, theres rock licks Jazz build ups,etc. and some of the greatest Stage presence I've ever seen.... Prince Should be the professor of musicology at some major university like berklee.....

  • Stunning as you would expect but don't know why they didn't sing the final verse ....just repeated the first still gotta luv Tom n Jeff

  • Prince is really a God...in the calibur of James Hetfield or Kerry KIng.

  • i have to say they did this song right

  • Never thought Prince was that good! WOW!

  • @richie1905 Is a Fucking God amungst People, that man can wail on every instrument.

  • @richie1905 welcome to the dawn my friend...u r no longer asleep 2 the powers of a true LEGEND!!!!!!!!!

  • @richie1905 he's all that and a bag of blue chips dude!!!!!!!

  • OMG! That Prince solo gave me goosebumps!!!

  • I had forgotten how incredible Prince is. Thanks for posting this!

  • wow. listen to the shimmering simplicity of Clapton's work - (the first guitar player is doing Clapton's bit from the record note for note) - do the research, you lazy little monkeys. What Prince is playing is quite easy to do. Wow. Prince cares for, nurtures, and feeds one thing only. Eclectic Gregarian Oxymoron. This species is too stupid to live. George spent nearly 2 decades with the biggest egomaniacs on the planet. He had it with insecure little boys. Hint: your guitar is not your dick.

  • What are you trying to say? The only way to play this song is to copy note for note what the original did?

    What a boring world you live in if that's the case.

    Prince took a simple solo (your words), and turned it into his own simple solo (again, your words). What's your problem?

  • @bamboosa Technically to a beginner it's not so simple. If You're Prince or Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughn ETC It's simple. It all deals with the experience behind your craft. And maybe that was the plan to play Claptons part note for note. Some things are very memorable as you have proven in your statement. Apparently you knew it Was Claptons part note for note because it first left an impression in your mind either involuntary or not, when you heard him play it.

  • Prince owned the rest of this song after 3:30 on the time line.

  • the fact that No One mentioned Jeff Lynn (one of the Traveling Wilbury's) or Dhani (Georges Son) Saddens me greatly =(

  • This is some of the Best Music you will ever hear or see being played by the Master's of Rock & Roll Music.

  • Eric Clapton say that Prince was his favorite guitar player ever, I can't argue with that!

  • I LIKE THE WHOLE PACKAGE one of my FAV songs ever & this is one of the bEST versions ever this & FRAMTONs

  • Best guitar player out there. Him and paul Gilbert

  • @Imsorry110 ...All I can say to that is...Gary Fuckeeeeeeeeeeen Moore!!!!

  • @CrazyDave313 I loke Gary Moore a whole bunch as well

  • Can Prince make a gutiar talk to you or what!!!!

  • You gotta remember its a tribute, a celebration! NOT a mourning!

  • prince is the best..!!!

  • why is NO ONE addressing the fact that Prince made the guitar fucking DISAPPEAR after he was done playing it....no, SERIOUSLY, where the fuck did that thing go?! Does Prince have a dude whos job it is to catch airborne guitars? Hes got a guy on the payroll whos job it is to hold him up while he crowd surf solos so, I can believe it if he does.....I DEMAND to know where that guitar went when he chucked that thing up there! That is fucking amazing......LMMFAO

  • @vhiftyyi He gave it back to the Angels that leant it to him,...as if to say....that'll do. ;

  • He made that thing wail. Prince is a monster. No doubt about it. The boy is shorter than the guitar but makes it his woman.

  • alot of people were surprised that prince could do that .....shanme on them for not knowing

  • The things Prince do to a guitar is that legal??!!! Prince ROCKS!

  • My GOD, Prince fucking rocks!!

    My respects.

  • Prince his pure energy i love to watch him play the guitar Tom Petty is a bonus!

  • SWEET JESUS! wasnt aware prince could do that amazing.

  • there all awesome but prince works way harder than jeff or tom they just stand there but prince moves all around

  • @a456987 What do you want them to do? They're singing and playing rhythm guitar.

  • @a456987 lol he's supposed to stand out....he's doing a solo...if this were the case you'd be able to say that about every band

  • Prince just did the best tribute to the great George Harrison, thank you purple man, you have my complete respect.

  • Prince you move a grown man to tears - the Harrisons are smiling . . . and George too.

  • amazing!!

  • Prince owned this song that nite, and he didn't even have 2 sing a lick , true talent and true musician.

  • Prince is a BAMF for sure what a show he puts on