Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: Prince != Jimi Hendrix Message-ID: <246@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 08:46:37 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.246 Posted: Wed Feb 13 08:46:37 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:41:06 EST References: <236@mhuxr.UUCP> <39000048@ctvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 15 > > My point was that in terms of an understanding of music and a > stage presence, there are some similarities between Little > Richard, Jimi Hendrix, and Prince. > > Rob Spray I beg to disagree. Prince strives, indeed strains, to achieve the charismatic stage presence that Hendrix achieved with no apparent effort. As for music, is it not a bit silly for Prince to put so much effort to sound like music that was made 15+ years ago... and fail? Marcel Simon ihnp4!mhuxr!mfs