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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood (2004)

10 comments

  1. [5]
    gpl
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    For anyone who hasn't seen it, this performance is legendary.

    For anyone who hasn't seen it, this performance is legendary.

    8 votes
    1. [4]
      zhanteimi
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      Without clicking it, is this the one where Prince is off camera until his solo, and then he comes on and owns the stage and the song, ending by throwing his guitar into the crowd?

      Without clicking it, is this the one where Prince is off camera until his solo, and then he comes on and owns the stage and the song, ending by throwing his guitar into the crowd?

      8 votes
      1. [3]
        buzziebee
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        That's the one! I believe he also refused to do any rehearsals with the rest of the band beforehand, he just listened for a while and then came out shredding.

        That's the one! I believe he also refused to do any rehearsals with the rest of the band beforehand, he just listened for a while and then came out shredding.

        5 votes
  2. [5]
    Power0utage
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    What a strange coincidence. I heard this song for the first time yesterday as I was listening to Sirius XM. OP, what were you doing in my car?

    What a strange coincidence. I heard this song for the first time yesterday as I was listening to Sirius XM. OP, what were you doing in my car?

    2 votes
    1. [2]
      NaraVara
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      If you like the song, Regina Spektor did a cool version for the soundtrack Kubo and the Two Strings as well. It's one of those songs that lends itself to a lot of cool, stylistic covers. This is...

      If you like the song, Regina Spektor did a cool version for the soundtrack Kubo and the Two Strings as well.

      It's one of those songs that lends itself to a lot of cool, stylistic covers. This is why George Harrison was the best Beatle.

      2 votes
      1. Power0utage
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        I'm having a hard time figuring out how to disagree with you on that one. After all, he wrote my two favorite Beatles songs: All Too Much Long, Long, Long They were so ahead of their time it blows...

        I'm having a hard time figuring out how to disagree with you on that one. After all, he wrote my two favorite Beatles songs:

        • All Too Much
        • Long, Long, Long

        They were so ahead of their time it blows my mind.

        3 votes
    2. [2]
      mat
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      Yesterday would have been Prince's 65th birthday so lots of Prince stuff getting played. I heard this on BBC6 yesterday too.

      Yesterday would have been Prince's 65th birthday so lots of Prince stuff getting played. I heard this on BBC6 yesterday too.

      2 votes