"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Prince, Tom Petty & More | Rock Hall 2004 Induction
I saw Prince in Boston on the tour where he did a set of solo acoustic guitar. He was truly an incredible guitarist. This solo with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and George Harrison's son is one of the greatest guitar solos I have seen.
In the days after Prince died, the New York Times ran an article about the performance in which Petty and others who performed with Prince that night shared their memories. According to the paper, the show’s producer, Joel Gallen, asked Prince to play the song’s solos, since he was there to be inducted anyway. But during rehearsals, Marc Mann, who plays guitar with Lynne, took over, knocking out a note-perfect recreation of Eric Clapton’s original mid-song solo.
“And we get to the big end solo,” Gallen says, “and Prince again steps forward to go into the solo, and this guy starts playing that solo too!”
There wasn’t time to get it right, but Prince assured Gallen everything would be fine at the performance. He told the producer to let Mann take the first solo, and he would perform the extended outro solo. “They never rehearsed it, really,” Gallen says. “Never really showed us what he was going to do, and he left, basically telling me, the producer of the show, not to worry."
From the concert tour I attended...
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