The album debuted as 1 on the Billboard 200, the Canadian Billboard, and US Top Rock Albums and was nominated for the 2015 Grammy category Best Rock Album, losing to Morning Phase by Beck. “Everybody wonders where that guitar went, and I gotta tell you, I was on the stage, and I wonder where it went, too. That is, until the release of what would become their 13th and last album, Hypnotic Eye in 2014. “I just saw it go up, and I was astonished that it didn’t come back down again. “I didn’t even see who caught it,” he says. Even Petty’s drummer, Steve Ferrone, remains confused about it-and he was onstage. You could feel the electricity of ‘something really big’s going down here.’”īut what about that disappearing guitar? Once it leaves Prince’s hands, it never reappears, and the video shows no one catching it. “I remember I leaned out at him at one point and gave him a ‘This is going great!’ kind of look. “You see me nodding at him, to say, ‘Go on, go on,’” Petty said. The smile on the face of Dhani Harrison-George Harrison’s son, who plays acoustic guitar on the number-shows how much he was enjoying Prince’s star-turn on his father’s song.

His slick stage move at 4:43 and his guitar face at 5:05 are as enjoyable as anything he plays.and he plays up a storm. From that point on, the show is entirely his. Though Prince is onstage the entire time, he stands off to the side until the end, when he takes center stage. It became one of the most satisfying musical moments in my history of watching and producing live music.” “Never really showed us what he was going to do, and he left, basically telling me, the producer of the show, not to worry. “They never rehearsed it, really,” Gallen says.

He told the producer to let Mann take the first solo, and he would perform the extended outro solo. There wasn’t time to get it right, but Prince assured Gallen everything would be fine at the performance.

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