You know what we forget about Prince? Absolutely nothing. But do you know what we forget about Prince if we forget anything? It’s that as a guitarist, he absolutely embarrasses the greatest the business otherwise has to offer. Check out this clip of the man absolutely destroying the efforts of a “supergroup performance” of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at George Harrison’s posthumous induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2004. Steve Winwood is to this day attempting to figure out what just happened. That is one reason why this collection of guitar picks fashioned into the Prince logo is not only entirely appropriate, but arguably mandatory. One senses as a sidelight, above and beyond the vaulting ambition to become the best soul and pop purveyor of the past three decades, Prince thought it might be cool to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix. And so it was done.
