Matz wrote:Prince was the best frontman of all time. Watch this dvd and you'll know
I saw em on this tour.
I was never a big Prince fan, but I was totally blown away by his performance.
Only then I noticed he could really do everything, he could rock out, funk out, play some psychedelic shit then go on and sing some ballads and bring out some hits in the meantime.
There will never be another like him. He synthesized such an incredible array of Ameican and Anglo influences, was steeped in Midwestern funk (Ohio Players were legit, man), understood the true revelations of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, shredded the fucking guitar, howled like an animal in heat and crooned like a more passionate Minnie Riperton. Oh, and he played all of the instruments and produced/composed/performed/engineered his first few records and continued to produce the rest even when he started having other musicians contribute.
Prince was on an entirely different level than either perry or scott... its downright unfair to even mention him in the context of these two frontmen. he was a superhuman genius, one in a million
still, scott destroyed perry output-wise over the last 15 years.
this is what the guy was recording immediately before his drug death:
