Members Alecto Posted May 7, 2013 Members Share Posted May 7, 2013 Here's "Captain" Kirk Douglas' take on the night Prince trashed his prize Epiphone Crestwood. KIrk's a class act who deserves whatever success he's received, and more. Kudos to Prince for paying for the repairs, but he should have done more to make it right. :robotmad: (Thanks to Cat MacKinnon from TDPRI for the link.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dougy Posted May 7, 2013 Members Share Posted May 7, 2013 I hope his guitar is OK now. Prince is a dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted May 7, 2013 Members Share Posted May 7, 2013 Sounds like a nice guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mad Tele Posted May 7, 2013 Members Share Posted May 7, 2013 Alecto wrote: Here's "Captain" Kirk Douglas' take on the night Prince trashed his prize Epiphone Crestwood. KIrk's a class act who deserves whatever success he's received, and more. Kudos to Prince for paying for the repairs, but he should have done more to make it right. :robotmad: (Thanks to Cat MacKinnon from TDPRI for the link.) so Prince chips a crappy guitar and people want him to die. makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members k_strat Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 Mad Tele wrote: Alecto wrote: Here's "Captain" Kirk Douglas' take on the night Prince trashed his prize Epiphone Crestwood. KIrk's a class act who deserves whatever success he's received, and more. Kudos to Prince for paying for the repairs, but he should have done more to make it right. :robotmad: (Thanks to Cat MacKinnon from TDPRI for the link.) so Prince chips a crappy guitar and people want him to die. makes sense. What difference does it make if you think the guitar is crappy? That's not the point. Prince abused another musician's instument that was kindly lent to him for a performance. I think the fact that so people reached out to Kirk and called Prince out for being an a**hole was a good thing. But at the end of the day Prince could care less and the incident generated more press for him. It won't be too long before he pulls some other stunt to keep his name on folks lips. SMH..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JRicoC Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 I'll not repeat my point about Carlos Boozer's carpet, but I do find it odd that having his guitar damaged by Prince has lead to more posts on this forum for Kirk than has his actual guitar playing ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grantus Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 Kirk handled it a lot better than I would have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 I don't know if I actually have heard Kirk play. I did see the clip where Prince tossed his guitar, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 6down1togo Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 He should have thrown Prince down at the end of the performance. To treat someone's prozed possession like a stage prop is just wrong. Fact is, his nose was probably out of joint the guy wouldn;t sell it to him just because he's Prince made the spoiled little diva angry and he probably thought "if I can't have it neither can he so I'll just f**k it up on him." Just shows what a POS the guy is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wankdeplank Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 so Prince chips a crappy guitar and people want him to die. makes sense61 Crestwood a crappy guitar? Would you say that about John Lennon's Casino as well? How about a 61 Gibson? Somebody doesn't know much about vintage guitars me thinks. Actually I have a couple of guitars I paid $100 for used that I fixed up that are close to irreplaceable and priceless to me. I mean I love my MIM Fender Squier Series and MIJ Aria Pro Bobcat as much as my 89 American Strat, my US Hamers or my Gibson LP. A good guitar is a good guitar in my book regardless of price and from the article there is little doubt that the man loved, performed and recorded with that guitar. I'm afraid I wouldn't have the self-restraint that Douglas exhibited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 Any you fanboys wanna loan me your guitar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 Mad Tele wrote: so Prince chips a crappy guitar and people want him to die. makes sense. The Bluebook value of that crappy geetar (1961 Epiphone Crestwood) is $3600 to $4500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members k_strat Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 JRicoC wrote: I'll not repeat my point about Carlos Boozer's carpet, but I do find it odd that having his guitar damaged by Prince has lead to more posts on this forum for Kirk than has his actual guitar playing ... True! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Rover Posted May 8, 2013 Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 JRicoC wrote: I'll not repeat my point about Carlos Boozer's carpet, but I do find it odd that having his guitar damaged by Prince has lead to more posts on this forum for Kirk than has his actual guitar playing ... First off, I think Prince is an arrogant asshole for doing this. Its just disrespectful as hell. Like "Im Prince mother{censored}er and I can do whatever I want because Im a rich rock star". Its as if he feels he doesn't have to abide by the same standards of decency and respect for people's property as the rest of us.I will say this though, Kirk is right, the incident has gotten him a lot of publicity and name recognition. Thats basically what he said in the interview, that's the "silver lining" of all this. I, like a lot of people here, had never heard of Capt. Kirk Douglas or The Roots before this happened. Mainly because I don't watch that late night network crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alecto Posted May 8, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 8, 2013 Pine Apple Slim wrote: Any you fanboys wanna loan me your guitar? Touch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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