PRINCE - Empty Room LIVE at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2009 | FIRST TIME SOLO REACTION |

[@JJlovesPrince]

Loved this reaction, Nick. He was licking his thumb because he cuts it at the beginning of the performance. He threw his guitars like that pretty often so his techs knew to be on standby to catch it. The commenters were asking for this one regularly, and it’s one of my favorites as well so I am happy to oblige the suggestion. As always, thanks for the reaction 💜💜💜

[@darrenmcclean5199]

This is one of my favourite performances from the Master💜

[@dragonballz4998]

You know it was a great solo when you see the crowd giving a standing ovation before the solo was even done. Prince was only 5'3 but on stage he was 10ft tall.

[@johnathansmom121]

These Montreux Jazz concerts from 2009 are awesome! Started my Prince journey in 1979 and his performances through the years got better and better. Thank you, JJ, for all of these great Prince requests. I check for new ones daily.❤

[@JJlovesPrince]

Do you have a particular performance you’d like to see Nick react to?

[@fwe2334]

@@JJlovesPrince In case the video pops up again: All the critics love you in Montreaux would be soooooooooo awesome

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

@@fwe2334 Oh hell yes!! That's another great one. I love it when he throws a curve ball into the set and just 'wings' it, arranging 'on the fly' .... a total testament to his talent and band leading skills!

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

@@JJlovesPrince I have too many JJ 🤣 Anything from Montreux 2009! I do like his version of Spanish Castle Magic. I also love ‘Push & Pull’ LIVE Fukuoka, Japan, November 26th, 2002 but it's just audio. 'Nothing Compare 2 U' live version with Rosie Gaines at Glam Slam in 1992. Dreamer Live in Antwerp 2010, not the best footage but his guitar playing is incendiary! 🔥Musicology Tour, 2004, ‘The question of u/ The one’ and 'Shhh' both from Detroit.... I could go on for days 🤣 Thanks JJ 😘

[@JJlovesPrince]

@@fwe2334 That’s one of my favorites as well. I’ll keep my eye out for it.

[@wandamanning9198]

I absolutely love this performance 💜💜

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

Oh my goodness Nick, I've been waiting for this one for so long. Thank you @JJlovesPrince Totally awesome..this is literally a piece of art. Truly phenomenal guitar playing, vocals and stagecraft. Every time I watch this I get goosebumps. And I have watched it 100's of times as I have it on DVD. My goodness, I wish I’d been there. Really miss this amazing man 😥Epic guitar solos, touching you deep inside your very soul and heart! A performance conveying utter despair, leading into frustration and anger. All emotions visible in this epic performance. He’s almost on another planet, he is so much in “The Zone” here. How he conveys this emotion is unreal. The song was first recorded in 1985 with his band ,the Revolution, after a party for the wedding of Bobby Z (his drummer). It followed an argument with Susannah Melvoin, his girlfriend, at that party. Prince left the party and then called the band in to record. So the original feelings and emotion he put into this song was in 1985 .... 24 years before this performance, yet he manages to channel the same pain! I have watched so many of the biggest rock bands live in concert over the years, yet nobody touches deep in to my soul like Prince. I always say that you don't just listen to Prince .... you literally 'feel' him. That is because he bears his own soul with every performance he gives. He literally left it all 'on the stage'. He's like an angel from Heaven , that GOD shared with us for a while. Regarding him licking his hand, it's because he is bleeding! I have watched this video hundreds of times to see where he cuts it and with my keen eye, I see at around 1.19 that he pulls his hand upward quite sharply and grazes his thumb on the metallic trim on his suit. So for the whole of this song and the other worldly guitar solo, the bridge of his thumb is bleeding. If you watch on a large screen you can see the blood actually dripping. Maybe the sting of the cut even added to the pain on display in this astounding performance? And good grief he looks so gorgeous here at the age of 51! Regarding his guitar, particularly in the 2000s, Prince began customising his Strats. He favoured a setup with EMG pickups at the bridge and neck, entirely removing the middle pickup. He’d also install a Floyd Rose as you thought. See link to his guitars and gear www.gear4music.com/blog/princes-guitars/ He was also a lover of his BOSS pedals. He was like no other, people nowadays don’t even understand. Prince was the Greatest Of All Time, and that is because he as so multi talented and multi faceted. He was just awesome at everything! Sorry for the long comment, I could talk about this amazing human for literally days! 😂

[@BettinaVogel-h1j]

I could not say it better!!! This is exactly what I feel about him! No one else touches my soul and my emotions like Prince. I just discovered him 3 years ago, so i am a new Prince fan ( at the age of 57😂), but he became the soundtrack of my life and i am so sad, that i will never get the chance to see him life ….😢

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

@@BettinaVogel-h1j glad you have come to love him as we have done for many years. He captivates you and when you connect with his soul, you never want to let go 💜 Welcome 2 the Dawn 💜

[@BettinaVogel-h1j]

​@@SallyKinley-4prn Though i listen to him nearly every day, i still haven't heard all of his albums. There are so many side projects, different versions and live performances... The Montreux Shows are so stunning! It takes a lot of time to dive deep into the amazing Prince universe, but it is a great journey and i wish it would never end...💜

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

@ going down that rabbit hole will take you years 🤣 but it’s an amazing and beautiful journey 💜

[@dancedout60]

My many 10ks of hours researching Prince - this is in my top five. I've never been able to nail down 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...just a group of five, and this is one of them.

[@danielcowan8673]

what's the others?

[@dancedout60]

@@danielcowan8673 I made a video, it's on my channel. Not fishing for views or likes, it's sucky. But those top five would be on the first page of recommendations. Now, that is for material available on KZbin...

[@dancedout60]

@@danielcowan8673 The Undertaker - 45 min one take Question of U/The One (2004 LA) Empty Room (2009 Montreux) Purple Rain (1985 Syracuse) First Avenue 8/8/83

[@dragonballz4998]

Top 5 of what

[@dancedout60]

@@dragonballz4998 Video and audio that have made their way to KZbin - NOT selections from the 113 albums he made.

[@ravinderangel860]

Licking his hands, maybe a sign saying this guitar lick is literally a performance worth licking ❤ My question, do u think Prince was underrated as a guitarist? I feel in some cycles he was 🌍

[@tonybaker55]

I always thought that Prince should have been put in the Prog Rock genre. He was good enough to be invited to play alongside the greats at the Farewell for George concert.

[@oskarobit]

That show was EPIC! I'm willing the Prince State release a decent 4K edition of this one. I think there were 2 shows the same night, he was a beast! And how not to fall in love with Renato Neto on keyboards, he's so good (IMO) improvising.

[@kali550]

I’ve been saying the same thing. It’s a shame these Montruex performances aren’t promoted. They are fantastic!

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

I believe that the Prince Estate don't actually own the rights to the Montreux shows. Montreux Jazz Festival actually does. I still don't quite understand why they don't release it though and they keep deleting clips from KZbin as well! I have both shows on DVD and its great quality, but I would still buy an 'official' release.

[@franckthibault2521]

Great performance again! Alex Lifeson uses the whammy bar a lot too and pedals.... An other actor combination I would have love to see in their prime is Jet Li & Jackie Chan!

[@kristilouque8412]

So good. Same show…”I don’t trust you anymore”…see it!💜

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

@@kristilouque8412 oh yes ‘I love you but I don’t trust you anymore’ … super emotional performance and his vocals are outstanding 💜

[@buddinganarchist]

This tune leads into the lush ballad Elixer. mmmm

[@Great-Documentaries]

Prince never played a Charvel. That's a Strat with EMG single coils and a Floyd Rose. He never played (regularly) with a whammy bar until around 2004 when he started playing a Strat for the first time. And invariably they had Floyd Rose's. And yes, he did use a Cry Baby throughout his career. He also used a Digitech Whammy.

[@NicknLex]

You can't really see the guitar in the video. Also could have been a Super Strat. I guess you mean a Fender Stratocaster. Fender Strat's are rare with Floyd Rose attached. I saw one that Sambora used to play. Pickups are impossible to see too. I appreciate the info 🤟

[@padawansound]

His pickups were EMG 85 / SA ... it's a floyd rose on a custom shop Fender strat .

[@davidt.mustbe5345]

He did use the coloursound Wah pedal before using the cry baby🎸

[@maurogallinotti3742]

Buenas chicos!! Felicitaciones por el canal, me ayudan a descubrir nueva musica para mis oidos constantemente y me encanta!! Una consulta que siempre tuve es: como le hacen para pasar las canciones completas sin tener problemas con KZbin , ya que en otros canales pasan solo unos segundos o directamente le quitan los videos. Si quieren contarme se los agradecería mucho! Saludos!

[@DonaldToran]

I think he cut his hand while playing.

[@kenneth2875]

There is a music video for this song here kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGmxfH9pf7V_Z6Msi=S4mNLqDrlcl6x2kO

[@buddinganarchist]

He only started using the whammy bar in 2007.

[@scottsilverman9948]

Interesting note about this song. There was a movie with Nick Nolte called I'll Do Anything. It was supposed to be a musical comedy and all of the sonfs were written by prince. The cast wasn't really good singers. And the director decided to pull all of the songs and make it a non musical. The songs have been heavily bootlegged, he reworked some of them, he gave one to chaka khan for her album. This song appeared on his live cd, but was never released on a studio album

[@trex70]

Green Screen

[@kenneth2875]

This song is about his ex girlfriend Jill Jones

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

Jill Jones was never his actual girlfriend! The song was first recorded in 1985 with the Revolution, after a party for the wedding of Bobby Z. It followed an argument with Susannah Melvoin, his girlfriend, at that party. Prince left the party and then called the band in to record.

[@danielcowan8673]

@@SallyKinley-4prn are you sure Jill Jones wasn't his girlfriend?

[@SallyKinley-4prn]

@ she was always around but never an official girlfriend. More like a side chick or friends with benefits.

[@dragonballz4998]

Yeah it was Susannah Melvoin break-up. We can thank Susannah for some songs Prince wrote about her and their relationship. He got hurt pretty bad and you can see that in the 1987 Sign "☮︎" the Times concert film when he performed 'Forever In My Life' mashed with 'It' Susannah is also the artist of the album ATWIAD