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  • i was 9 yrs 1979 he was 19

  • LOVE U SO MUCH PRINCE

  • That was dez, but he didn't play that guitar solo, it was prince, if you had a chance to see prince back then in concert, you would have seen that.

  • dez fuckin that shit up.i didnt know he played guitar on this piece

  • love the way the playback fades and you can hear them all thrashing it out.. ha ha!

  • This is the rare occurrence that you will find Prince allowed one of his songs posted on Youtube. He is a great performer and I hope one day he allows them all to be played.

  • We lost the King Of Pop, but we still have our PRINCE!!

  • @jd7779311 "gotta be a prince before your a king anyway"

  • One of the Sickest Guitar solos in a Funk-rock song ever...

  • PRINCE DO U KNOW I LOVE U

  • COOL

  • One of my favorite riff 2:51 as well as Prince songs.

  • Prince is the only black man I've found attractive. Talent and uniqueness is a huge turn on, Prince is by far the most talented artist I've ever come across and so different

  • one of his best guitar riff,,,,,,,,, this like 1978-79 Prince and sti

  • THANK GOD 4 PRINCE

  • that guitar solo at the end was craaaaaaaaaaaazy

  • Guitar solo gives me chills still

  • Prince wrote ALL his stuff early on, please re-read the back of the album. thats why he was signed to the label because of all he could do!!!

  • did he lip this? If you haven't seen "the Christ" formerly the cross and purple rain from rave unto the year 2000 it's worth it 2 of the best guitar solos ever! how does he do it? Him and Larry Graham made a perfect rendition of this and the solo in purple rain is like none you've seen before, how do I save this?

  • @micool1965 He is lipping it, and it is the album version, but he wasn't about to pick his guitar up off the floor so he passed the solo to Dez.

  • @Mizvision do you know how I can get a copy of "love sign" he did on the today show with nona gaye Bryant Gumble introduced him. it's much better then the album version and Mayte is looking quite nice. I think it was late 90's or early 2000

  • Heaps cool hair, i wish people would have good styles these days.

  • Lookit that hair...

    I'm melting.

    <3

  • OOPS!!!! guitar strap broke at :52!

  • a freakin classic!

  • GOD.

  • i seen pants like his at forever 21 recently. i shoulda bought em!!! he's so CUTE!!!!

  • Good music

  • this is the my first bought album i  play the hell out of it

  • This clip is both exhilarating and depressing at same time because the music that was being made by Prince and other artists back at this time was so ALIVE and INTERESTING musically (instrumentation, arrangements, etc) but today all of that sense of craft and creativity seems to have been lost or left behind. I was familiar with his material after Dirty Mind but never heard his second album until the late 90s and was blown away (such an amazing balance of pop, rock, ballads, and R+B). Genius.

  • one of his best songs

  • he did some plastic sugery, right? because now his face looks more like.. skinny

  • @minecabus13 Nah, he's a vegetarian/vegan so he just got skinnier.

  • To all you who thinks that Dez rocks on guitarr.. It´s a playback... And as you all know it was Prince who played all ther instruments on the first records.. So, sorry Dez lovers.. He didn´t play that rif.. It was Prince....

  • @loconess72 but on stage he did :) DEZ IS A BEAST .....don't get it twisted

  • @loconess72 true that, i think dez dis little rd corvettes riff.

  • @loconess72 well he show playin that shit on this video.i dont know it looks like dez 2 me

  • hey picposter67, Lisa is in this group. She's neen there since it all started!!!!

  • he is fine as hell here. he looks thicker

  • @bestdealer0073 And he still had his black nose and black skin color. Wish he would have kept himself like that.

  • @celestialpathway Uh, Prince's skin has always been the same.

  • @Wispifyed he's a vegan...from my understanding he doesn't even drink milk from cows.

  • ahhhh bak when lip-syncing "live" was not frowned upon.... those were the days ;) I never noticed prince is kinda bow-legged before I saw this. Any compliments given to the band members in this performance are moot due to the fact that what you're hearing is straight from the studio recording where prince performed pretty much all the tracks himself.

  • @DaBunne he did record everything on his first album

  • This isnt actually live is it?

  • Luv how the guitar dropped @ 0.49 and he did not miss a fuckn beat...thats cool

  • @Dermont1 That´s why he had to tell Dez (at 1:38) to mime the solo instead of Prince.. Dez nods ;)

  • @Dermont1 how could he miss a beat that's a playback lol

  • i love this man

  • That drummer must of smoke a weed...he was still playing after the mixer man cut off the mics and the song ended! smh

  • he was not 19 he was 21 or 22.

  • Prince is my hero!!!!

  • Prince was still pretty young here, and pretty raw with his stage presentation.

  • @frankiestage ..he shouldve been much, much bigger. He needed to get a distribution deal that wouldve allowed him to do films as well...but what happened was that Madonna became the sexual star and was able to convert the dance music via videos...Prince completely could not get that image over...Jim Brown wanted a major deal to develop black artists, and was going to team with Richard Pryor to create Indigo, which wouldve been the Motown of Hollywood...Brown thought Prince would launch it.

  • @SuperOmnicron , uh dude, Prince had ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. He won seven Grammy Awards,a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. I think people try to put him in a category of pop and he defied that. He also had a very different persona off stage , and was not considered ad friendly. He is a jehovah's witness, and has a much different group around him. I do know he got screwed by Warner Bros.

  • Hmmmm...Slave?

  • @invincibleironman3 he was also inducted in2 the hall again in 2007...

  • I'm not knocking, Dez, but I thought Prince wrote, arranged, composed and produced all his music back then...meaning, he wrote the guitar riff for Dez to play.

  • @majin32547 I think dez wrote the solo for this. well i know he did for little red corvette

  • @kendpurest nah bro you got it wrong! watch Prince-the view interview and then tell why would prince anyone to help him with anything on any of his albums! The man is smart and needs no help as far as music goes. im just saying.

  • @kendpurest

    Prince indeed did it all!

  • @kendpurest : About "Little Red Corvette" who can say for sure whether or not Dez had to work from a scratch track Prince played or if Dez was given space to do his own thing. I'd have to refer back to Dez's book "My Time Prince" where I'm sure he talks about it. I do remember that Dez's solo is comped from from 2 takes.

  • @majin32547

    This guitar part is Prince's! Dez guitar part was on Little Red Corvette.

  • @majin32547 Prince usually does the solo at the end, but he broke his guitar at 0:51. He leans over to Dez at 1:38 and tell him to take the solo, Dez agrees. Fate!

  • @Mizvision how can you tell this (the guitar string) it sounds almost exactly like the album version, I know he's changed in his time but back in the day everyone (except maybe him) lipped their shtuff, on bandstand Mike

  • @Mizvision I didn't even notice that, I was too busy lookin' at Prince lol. I had to go back at see after I read your post. On a different note: Prince has always looked so good to me & has a speaking voice that makes me wanna drool. Even though he is short, he is totally proportioned. If he were a foot taller he would categorically be perfect.

  • @majin32547 --- Dez doesn't get much credit for this but he was Slash, before there was a Slash as far as black rock guitarist goes.................. so much for his new career in christian music and that was Andre in there too mixing it up

  • lol this is prince at his finest, when he was broke and still flashy did you see when his guitar fell off the strap i think he taped it with ducktape and glue he stole from the school supply

  • Lovin that DEZ....

  • saw dez on the 700 club,in the 80's saying he was siny sin sinner,lol carazy ass shit,this song seems a lil slower here,

  • *sigh* if only i was 15 then in '79 than now..what an era i missed out on...

    i won't even start describing how awful the music culture is today.

    The 70s and 80s will stay with me forever..

  • If he sung this good at 18, I wonder why his first song "I wanna be your lover" didnt cut it.

  • With the way he looked and acted right here, why would that girl he liked turn his offer to go out with him down. This boy sure can sing.

  • Dez is such an amazing guitarist definitely one of the greatest ever.

  • you should change this from live to lip synced no one ever played live on this show. you can hear the difference at the end when Bobby is banging on the drums . Live songs never sound just like the records. Done to many live shows in my time.Gotten to the point I don't like the polished album recordings anymore. Give me a live show anyday that's when real talent shines.

  • thanx 4 posting this..prince back n da day

  • Prince is my man.....but back then, he was just asking to get bent over.

  • @sdrob40 Lol! Yeah he looked very ''soft'' but everyone looked like that in the 70's/80's.

  • can anybody tell me what kind of keyboard/synthesizer that is that dr. fink is playing

  • Do you have Prince performing "I Wanna Be Your Lover" from the same show too? I would so love to see that again! This is great video here, thanks for sharing!

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  • I wish they didn't make them mime. Andre threw down the gauntlet with those plastic pants.

  • this song is 4 the scandalous bitches lol!!

  • Nice seeing this. I remember Dick Clark saying in all his years of hosting AB, this was the hardest interview he ever gave because Prince was so nervous and he only answered questions with head nods, one word answers, and fingers. lol

  • damn that sucks that he dropped the guitar cus i love watching him play!

  • omg i just love seeing Prince & his best buddy bud Andre Symone!!! 2gether on the same stage. They both are so cute!!

  • IS THAT dr.fink?

  • @may301985 Yes that is Dr. Fink in the prisoner's outfit.

  • This turned me the fuck out!!!!!! Thank you Uncle James Uncle Jimi Uncle Little Richard and Uncle Sly!!!!

  • PRINCE IZ THE MAN

  • did he just kiss dude on the check @1:40 o.O

  • @lyricalheaven Naw he just told him he fugged up and dropped his guitar, so Dez gonna have to fake the last guitar solo.

  • @lyricalheaven no look closely he didn't he whispered something 2 him.

  • @lyricalheaven No, since Prince dropped his guitar he told Dez to take the guitar solo at the finale.

  • THIS A KILLER ASS SONG!!!!

  • prince played guitar on this song

  • @old64 , wow.......

  • des left because he wanted to do his own thing. he released one album that i know of. prince, brown mark, des, wendy, fink, (drummer). Let's be clear though..on the actual album Prince played EVERY instrument and sang every lyric....so what ever you see...is FAKED. Prince did it all. please remember he plays 27 instruments

  • @mspause725 it might not be faked, i mean the players can obviously learn the parts, they just didnt write them.

  • @HelloSunshine143 That was definitely lip synced. That was the LP version.At the end prince wasn't even singing on the mic he just started dancing.

  • @reggie46404 i thought you were talking about the band playing the music. like i thought you meant they were faking it. i wasnt focused on princes singing bcus i was looking for the moment when he dropped the guitar but i'll rewatch it

  • Prince drops his guitar by accident and at 1:38 you can see him say something to Dez, probably 'Mime the guitar solo cos I can't'... Brilliant performance.

  • im confused on why Des Dickerson was replaced with Wendy instead. I mean Wendy is good but Dickerson can slam on that guitar!

  • @CateyGaGa

    im pretty sure it was personal issues...

  • @kendpurest yeah, probably 

  • @kendpurest oh that's right i remember now. There was a documentary on Prince on his early years about how people in his band weren't comfortable with Prince doing a group prayer and then going on stage and performing dirty songs and raunchy performances, so they left for religious reasons, i guess.

  • @kendpurest I think he wanted more females in the group

  • @CateyGaGa He left for religious reasons and was on the Christian program the 700 club some years back talking about it.

  • @CateyGaGa

    Des found God about a decade before Prince and left the group. Wendy and Lisa then became the public image of the Revolution after Prince. The band can not reform for a reunion in large part because the girls don't want to hear Prince witnessing to them

  • @CateyGaGa Yes I agree with you that Dez was better than Wendy and Gayle was better than Lisa. Andre was better than Brownmark as well. This version of the Revolution was the best by far. I think some of the original members left on their own for solo careers or religious reasons and that is why they were replaced.

  • @picposter67 Did they ever use the name The Revolution?

  • @reggie46404 No I never went by the name "The Revolution". Why do you ask?

  • @picposter67 Not you guy. Prince and this band. When did he change his band's name to Prince and the Revolution?

  • @reggie46404 I'm not sure when the name of the band changed. They were known back then as Prince and the Revolution officially. The Revolution was Prince's background band but Prince recorded all the music and played all the instruments on the recordings. Jimi Hendrix and The Experience, Sly and the Family Stone and KC and the Sunshine Band did similar things. Everybody knew that Prince, Jimi and KC were the real stars and front men of their bands.

  • @CateyGaGa -Dez left for religious reasons. You should read his book. It's pretty good.

  • @butterp7 oh yea? alot about prince in it?

  • @kendpurest just the sexual themes began to trouble his conscience he quit after the 1999 tour

  • @butterp7 -actually yes but not a lot if insight to Prince which is my only fault with the book. He didn't want the book to be a dish up about Prince or whatever but he could've included a lot more detail about his music style and how he evolved from when they first met. That's the only thing the book misses. It did touch on the infamous "leaving the stage when they opened for the Stones.

  • @butterp7 He was so thick at this time in his life. Lovely!

  • @butterp7 Whats it called?

  • @Mizvision Dez Dickerson My time with Prince

  • @CateyGaGa dez left because he got born again,and as a born again christian, he wasnt compable playing songs about sex,head,drugs, etc. also prine wasnt paying the bamd shit,never gave them credit for anything, prince was a asshole back then

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  • @CateyGaGa Cuz Wendy rocks...

  • he makes this song sssooo hawt with how he performs it!

  • DEZ KILLED IT AT THE END!!!PRINCE WAS SO HANDSOME WITH ALL THAT FLOWING HAIR!!!

  • Dez didn't play the guitar solo at the end on the track actually. Prince was the soloist.

    

  • @TheZuluKing (GASPS) The deception!!!!

  • I know if Prince ever wished to reminisce. . .this performance would make him CRINGE. Fuckin' song is amazing. He encapsulated ALL genres within his expression. GENIUS.

  • No disrespect to Wendy and Lisa but I always felt that this was the best lineup of The Revolution with Andre Cymone and Dez Dickerson. This is Black Funk Rock at its best.

  • he drops his guitar! hahahahaha

  • It is cool but technically it was lip synched and Prince wasn't thrilled about doing it. That being said, it's one of the best lip synchs ever!!!

  • @edtx00 yea its the exact same audio from the cd

  • @kendpurest Got your point but actually don't think it's the LP track unless on the LP they laid more guitar tracks on top.  which by definition would make it not the same.

  • @dathon187 if not its very similar. the voices are the same atleast.

  • awesome post! luv this song

  • Thaaaanks!It is so cool to could see a live version of this song!Stil thanks.

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