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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
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Subject: Re: Re: Prince != Jimi Hendrix
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 08:46:37 EST
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> 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
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