As you know by now Prince is dead. You have been, or will be soon, inundated with his music and non-stop coverage of the details surrounding his death. So I will spare you here, for a couple reasons. I'd be lying if I said I was a solid Prince fan. I think he's put out a fair amount of excellent music and there's no denying his massive talent. What I think he did most effectively was mix all of his influences and still manage to sound like himself. But if you listen, you can hear all sorts of things. Case in point: I happened to listen to Prince just two days ago, to compare his stuff to Eddie Hazel's work. So that's my theme tonight. Shit that I hear in Prince's music, some of his stated influences and some undeclared. Anyway you look at it, it'll be a while before we experience anybody who carried the torch quite like he did.
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