but when she did the Romance 1600 album [helmed by Prince, released in 1985], she had auditions for bass guitar. So I got to get on bass. And then when Prince came back, he said, “Haven’t I ...

Prince was performing in support of ... 3rdeyegirl members Hannah Welton (drums), Donna Grantis (guitars) and Ida Kristine Nielsen (bass) - was quickly hailed as “unprecedented” and “mind ...

in the late 1970s when Prince was at the very beginning of his solo career. The two musicians were intrigued by the custom bass guitar with hand-carved curves and swirls, which resembled a ...

It’s there, then it’s gone.” Me and Prince used to go to this guitar shop called Knut Koupee in Minneapolis that they used to kick us out of, at first, because we were kids What’s been your favourite ...

To create that object of desire, Prince reached out to Minneapolis guitar shop Knut Koupeé Music, to which he brought the bass and asked for a similar guitar — this time white with EMG pickups ...

It’s very easy and comfortable to play especially for small players or those who switch between guitar and bass. Farmer also wired the electrics for Prince, making holographic carbon fiber ...

Then, on March 10, another note from Johnson: this time, praise. “Prince wanted me to build a black-and-gold bass guitar for him,” says Farmer. “And he trusted my style in creating the ...

Prince is reported to have first stumbled across the eye-catching design in the late 1970s, when he and bassist André Cymone were mooching around a guitar shop. A bass rocking the curves and ...

Here’s how it works. Shortly before his untimely death, Prince received a custom Purple Special guitar from Gus Guitars - he liked it so much, he commissioned luthier Simon Farmer to build him a bass ...

The innovative dance hit "When Doves Cry," recorded by Prince with no bass guitar, became his first No. 1 single on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles list. That was followed by his second No. 1 single ...