The Best of Prince on Bass. Part 2: C'mon Prince! Play the Bass!
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 Published On May 14, 2021

Part 2 is here. Again, difficult to choose, since several well-known clips that are on YouTube simply had to be there.
The photo at the beginning is by Brian Ach, who was Prince's photographer at the European 2011 tour - listen to him talk about the best job of his life and how good Prince was on bass here    • MUSIC MONDAYS: Behind the scenes with...  
During the 1990s, in Part 1, Prince played a bass called Warwick Thumb. At the beginning of the aughts he played Fender Jazz. You know, like a strawberry, chocolate Fender jazz, mashed potato, fuzztone, all over your thighs. That Fender Jazz. The Ida Nielsen's bass he borrowed on stage starting in 2010 looks like a Fender too. But apparently it's not; it's a Sandberg California VM4. Fun fact: it looks aged, but it's not. It comes pre-battered. The more battered you want it, the more you have to pay. And at Melkweg Prince pulled out his custom-built Auerswald Cleo bass.
Enjoy. And again, credit to all the original uploaders, and to Yean!

Tracklist:
00:00 Vega, Copenhagen, October 28, 2002
00:47 Madison Square Garden, NYC, July 12, 2004
01:58 Hard Rock Live, Hollywood, Florida, January 31, 2007
03:23 The O2 Arena, London, August 25, 2007
04:41 Bergen, Norway, October 18, 2010
07:27 Copenhagen, Denmark, October 20, 2010 – the first bass battle!
09:23 Antwerp, Belgium, November 8, 2010 – the second bass battle!
16:50 Arnhem, Netherlands, November 18, 2010 – Prince teaches Ida some bass
18:48 Paris, France, June 30, 2011
23:01 Ghent, Belgium, July 6, 2011
25:17 Perugia, Italy, July 15, 2011
30:29 Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 26, 2011
35:59 Göteborg , Sweden, August 12, 2011
36:58 Versace for H&M show, Pier 57, NYC, November 8, 2011
39:22 not sure
41:04 Sydney, Australia, May 22, 2012
48:25 Lisbon, Portugal, August 17, 2013
49:23 not sure
50:30 Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 25, 2014
52:42 Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 25, 2014
55:19 Antwerp, Belgium, May 27, 2014

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