Why don't you ever see those kind of mudflaps anymore? When I was a kid, I'd see them on semis all the time. Not anymore. In the late '90s/early '00s, I drove an F350 dually, and I wanted to get some of those flaps, but I could never find them.
Ha! I wish my wife had tits like that. But you go to war with the army you have not the one you want. So now I'm an ass and legs man.
One of my fraternity brothers carved his paddle to give his big brother in that shape. It was awesome.
I'm going to guess nothing gay or homoerotic was done with that paddle like say smack each other in the ass in front of other men?
The various musician takes have been the best. Dave Grohl was on Howard Stern and Stern asked him if he thought Prince was a better musician than he was and Grohl said "Dude, Prince is a better DRUMMER than I am". And its not untrue. Listen to some of his early work, some of his stuff with the Time when he was playing EVERYTHING on the album, and the drum work is INSANE. Questlove was saying he struggled with some of it. Not to mention being a guitar virtuoso and an exceptional pianist. I can't think of anyone fairly well known who can touch him instrumentally, not including his vocal range and skills, AND being a ridiculous songwriter. He is just an absolute legend in every sense of the word. Someone said earlier how Merle Haggard dying really affected them, its Prince for me. I will never claim to be a diehard fan, but I've always loved his work and been spellbound by his complete persona and he'd be #1 on my list of musicians that don't fit most of my "normal" musical tastes who I love. This sucks man, cause he was still producing and performing like a boss. I heard he'd had a lot of problems with his hips, so opiates would make sense. Shit is dangerous man, and scary.
He might have been the last ultra talented, larger than life performers out there. The top 3 for me were Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, and Prince.
So was his house just an abandoned industrial park building? I never got into prince. Honestly he just used too many of the worst musical sounds of the 80s for my taste. That one George Harrison tribute concert ripped. Did he ever do an entire album of more mainstream rock?
My thoughts exactly, while I wasn't a fan for exactly that reason: the sound of his 80's stuff, the man could fucking play, at 3:27 he kicks in:
When he looks over at Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne, he's like, "Nah, dude. I got this." and just fucking throws his guitar in the audience. That's a "mic drop," right there. I remember in high school thinking that his songs that had epic Hendrix riffs or fade out jams, he'd hired some shredder like Michael Jackson would do. And, then a buddy told me, "nope. That's Prince playing." Just awesome.
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but we had an unoffcial roadie...he was actually just kind of a friend of ours that traveled with the band...that looked exactly like Prince circa 1984-86. He was also like 5'4" and had all the little Prince mannerisms down to a Tee. He barely had any personality which only added to the whole aura. The dude pulled more ass then any of us. He'd just walk into the bar and girls flocked to him. Usually it's the hangers on that pick up the band's left overs....not with this guy, many times the band got his leftovers.
There is a hell of a backstory to that video... That was the 2004 show where they were inducting Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone Magazine. Not even a week before that show, Rolling Stone released the "Top 100 Guitarists", and Prince wasn't on it. This was one big "FUCK YOU" by Prince to that list. Watch the video and see how once he starts his solo, the vocals come in 4 separate times only to be ignored while they keep playing and he continues to solo. That's him arbitrarily extending his solo time, and the band loving it. The guy behind Prince playing the acoustic guitar is George Harrison's kid, who is a great musician in his own right. The look on his face says it all... at that point in time, he's just one big music fan with a front-row seat to a hell of a show. The cap on that is the ending... just watch how Prince throws the guitar into the air (WHERE DOES IT GO!?!?!), and then saunters off stage in one big mic drop. It is one of my all-time top 5 moments in music.
Thing about Prince is that there were several guitarists who were ostensibly better. But Prince literally fucked his guitar. Joe Satriani couldn't play like that, with that much feeling. And Joe is probably the most technically proficient talent to ever hold a fiddle. Prince is taking Hendrix to a cleaner, emotional place. Thinking of "the guitar DUDES", Dimebag Darrell might be the closest. Inside the speed and aggression, there was Floods, Cemetery Gates, Hard Lines Sunken Cheeks. He could make the guitar sing (scream) too, but they were nothing alike and his later offerings were completely uninspired. Here's a bootleg of Prince playing Crazy with a cartoon apple in a suit: