He had me playing hollowbody guitars a lot.
At the end of the night, he said, “Did you enjoy that? You’ll never get to take that solo again!” ĭid Prince want you to play certain guitars? So he points at me and shouts, “Take a solo,” and I got to rip the shit out of that “Purple Rain” solo once in the whole time I was with him. He steps on his distortion pedal and he had nothing – his rig was out. If I take a distortion solo, you take a clean solo." So for the rest of the tour, distortion was bad.īut one night, an opportunity came up during the “Purple Rain” chorus. Don’t ever step on a distortion pedal after I’ve taken a solo. What do you think I should use: distortion or clean?” And I said, “Well, if you just used distortion in the first solo, then I would go clean."Īnd he goes, “That’s right. He said, “Hey, Mike, I just did a fast song and I took a distortion solo. One day he called me out because I had taken a distortion solo.
How did you two work out what tones you would use for certain songs? I would take solos that had more theory behind them as opposed to just doing crazy pentatonic stuff like he’d been doing forever.”
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"Prince was a great guitarist and he was a showman – he knew how to bring a crowd to their knees – so I would color outside the lines. “That was one of the most important things he ever told me, and there were so many moments like that, and so many things he shared that made me a much better player. I’ll hold a high note and have people screaming while you play 100 notes, and nobody’s going to hear what you did.’ “But when I would take solos with him onstage, he was like, ‘Man, all those notes don’t mean nothing because they don’t translate in an arena. “As far as a lead player, I was a little more technical than Prince was because I was listening to Return to Forever, Al Di Meola, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and stuff like that,” Scott says. Scott toured extensively with New Power Generation and contributed to the albums Emancipation, Crystal Ball, The Truth, and Newpower Soul. “He single-handedly helped me become the guitar player that I am today,” says Mike Scott, a blazingly skilled guitarist who had worked with the rap/R&B duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (among many others) before joining Prince in 1996.
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