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A latter day ballad classic... Prince called it his favourite song in his final years... Here's an early live version where, it honestly feels like we're a straggler that's found there way into a closed set, that was only meant for P and the band and by the looks of all their faces (especially Hannah the drummer and Ida on bass) they all know the meaning behind this song and the loss Prince experienced that influenced this song and how he's truly going for it in the last minute...voice almost breaking and quivering with emotion... It's better than the album version with the sublime NPG Hornz! Truly, a moment...he almost seems vulnerable here unlike any other time at the end...wiping his tears away... Not ashamed to say, it has moved me to tears before...I was lucky to hear him perform this rare song twice live...and no words! @D4NNY@Rovim @PatrickS77 @Fitha_whiskey

We're slowly morphing into one here TBH....

How do we know for sure he's singing? He could of been in the studio to laydown one of his famous whistle solos or some Gary Sunshine acoustic geetar for all we know....😝

Ooo memories of GNR joining MySpace with the old week before stream 😆 revolutionary I tell ya!

Perhaps he held up a speaker in Schenkers studio playing vocals from '99.... "Man that's all you get...I can't do vocals after 99!"

Not sure I've ever seen this clip - WOW "God willing, I make it to 60" Daggers to the 💜 🫤 Also, although he rejected many aspects of the Internet he was also one of the first pioneers of using it to distribute music, back in the good old 56K dial up era 😝 He was always ahead of the curve and a forward-thinker...it's really interesting looking at what he and Bowie were saying in the 90s about things that would become like Spotify, that didn't even exist yet... he was a soothsayer ...(thought I'd throw in a lil GNR reference) 😉

Haha...you think it's his inside joke...."Ya Boi....I told them the score in the first song every night" 😆

Yea...but at least Kiss put out a ton of records in the heyday and even 2 or 3 in the last couple of decades ....

Yep...as fans we've only really had 5,6 tracks since '94 to get excited about as an official release that will be completely fresh to us... We can't get excited like other "normal" bands that announce a new single coming next week and then there's genuine excitement in the lead up to what it's gonna sound like, what direction have they gone in, etc...5 or 6 times in 30 years 😮 god darn. Axl must think, for the product quantity released, he's been a damn lucky S.O.B to keep racking it in...

Plus the long term connection you develop with a sound (warts and all) you've been listening to, say, for 5,6 years before the final product...you get used to all the Audio artifacts and quirks, which in most cases ironed out later...it's a nostalgic bond to what you know, just like all nostalgia! So while, sure sometimes (weirdly in GNR's case) earlier versions with a product that included multiple producers/engineers at the wheel can and will have it's preferences with different folks, it's normally a manufactured connection in the brain that unfinished leaked demoes are better....🤷‍♀️

"Trumped up charges" literally this time 😸

I respect alternative opinions and the usual status quo that's held by many in here....but the whole old demoes from a CD-R always being better for some than the released versions is fine...until you hold the same opinion for something like The General or Monsters (which funnily enough started really positive for those thst were sure it wasn't Slash - since done reversals 😝), so where there is no evidence to digest of an earlier version (currently) of those and yet they're still adamant that mythical unheard version is better than what you've heard...that's when you loose me... Don't review a movie based on only seeing the trailer dude!

Prince loved jammin' on this early 2000s for fun.... Sure there was mutual respect there, for sure. This go sexual psychedelic 💜 Also fun fact. That time Grohl and P jammed for a bit...Prince just started jammin WLL and Grohl was like IM IN!

I remember this clip....imagine Plant in his heyday admitting he was intimated by ANYONE! 😮 Says a lot....

Yes...not new though. He didn't want to be on the stage with his rival MJ for various reasons.... He did offer to play guitar on it, didn't he? He also contributed a song to the album in the end...but MJ and Lionel were desperate to get him on the record and tried every trick in the book...I agree, he should probably of put that all aside and just done it, but whatever...that episode doesn't take away from the tons of charitable things he did in life to help underprivileged folks, which came out mostly post death...as he wasn't like MJ holding big cheques outside hospitals... #WeWillCode and lots of stuff

Type into YT Prince - Superbowl halftime documentary. It's the one that lasts 8.13. should come up first or second. Any luck?

Even the background behind the scenes is compelling...(click the watch on YT: NFL doesn't like sharing apparently 🫤)

That time Radiohead fought HIM to keep this up on YouTube.... He covered songs like he was re-writing them with purple sauce... Add: That whole Coachella headline performance needs to be released on video some day! Bug bear he never showcased and killed Glasto! This is as close to that...

Second.

Least we have some newer songs to talk of and discuss ...hoping 5 years from now we've had a fair few more and best case scenario, an album, be it a complication of these kinda tracks, a covers record TSI2 style or (less likely) a ground up Nu-Old-Guns LP...or perhaps hybrid (slightly more likely) 🤞 I'll take just about anything as a positive...as activity is better than deathly silence...

Great example too! Think he raised his game when he was next to other perceived legends in those days...as a watch and see....

Slash is keeping busy, of course! What do think the date of "last modified" is on the GNR Riffs folder? 😝 All the rage these days from mu'f'n special artists!

Axl's voice was great on any cover back in the day! Still love that performance with Tom Petty...bit of mis-match as Axl totally overpowers him!

In time ...(it's shot)

Different version to what did the rounds on bootlegs for years too...I was so used to it 😸 it's quite something that even the unreleased songs have many different alts. Seriously did he ever sleep? Apparently he was famous for the power nap, 10 minutes here or there and spotting him actually sleeping became like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow....from the same deluxe, I love how he was working on a track like this, which is the complete antithesis of D&P.... Ya know you hear fandoms of artists talk about the start of a new album campaign for their favourite artists and they often will say "Ooo I love this new track, it's a return to this era"...they talk about eras a lot...as artists often will make a record in a certain cohesive fashion and then the big selling point 3 years later is - ooo I'm doing this style now...Prince transversed all sounds in the same era, we were always kept on our toes! This easily could of been on BB King tribute LP! Not the same sessions as something like Gett Off 😸 @Axls_Moustache_Rules