LIVE ROCK CRITIC 50

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                DEAD  :  PRINCE



I have always found Prince to be a weak performer.
His undistinguished voice falsetto or normal is annoying at best. Prince did not have a real Rock voice.

 David Bowie who died recently, leaving a genuine treasure and a valuable legacy. David bowie reinvented himself with originality and style.

Prince was pompous and bizarre without being genuinely original. The costumes and the over ornamented guitars and symbols were tacky to my sense of art. I have a terrible stereotypical idea of what a Prince might look like.

Prince's vocal performance fails to hit the mark often off key and not tonally correct, always shrill and weak. There may be exceptions to the flawed vocals I have heard, I have not listened to a lot of Prince's music. many Prince tunes which I have listened to, are not very tuneful. Beloved Prince tunes repeatedly since his death a few days ago sound like noise to me, or heaped together tracks upon tracks of dissonance.

I have seen only a little of Prince piano. I have been shown and told about how great a guitarist Prince is. He was being compared to Jimmy Hendrix!  How absolutely Ridiculous!  Prince guitar solos are short weak and impotent. To me Prince is never enthralling, amazing, transporting or anything but short weak and impotent.  

The television interviewer gushed "He was so private that it added to his mystique. He had a business sense".

Oh yeah.