Just watching the Brit awards. I TiVo'd it. Okay I didn't TiVo it because I have a cheaper, Canadian version of a TiVo. Should I be capitalizing it that way? I don't know really, it just seemed right. I'd be surprised if that's right. Why the hell did I capitalize it that way? Who knows, anyway on with what the hell I was going to say... what was it...

Oh yeah. Prince. He just performed on the Brit awards and did four songs. I really have to hand it to that little guy. He seems gay, but I don't think he is. He's the gayest not gay person I've ever seen. Anyway I think he's fantastic. He had an all girl band (except for the bass player; token male) playing with him, and they were so good live that I found myself really getting into the fact that they were female and so good. Why is that? Why should it make a differrence? Don't know. Hope you weren't looking for something profound there. They were hot, that's all I know. But the hottest of all was the drummer. I couldn't take my eyes off her. Then at the end of the last song (Let's go Crazy, one of my earliest rock solo guitar influences because it has this ROCKING guitar solo at the end using a crybaby wah pedal) he introduced her. It was Sheila E. Wow. I now want to go find every Sheila E. album ever made. Did she make more than one album? Who knows. She's hot, that's all I know. Great drummer too.

But what amazed me about Prince was how good he was live. His vocals were bang on (no he wasn't lipsynching, I have a very sensitive lip-synch detector) He does this falsetto vocal that cascades off into weird riffs and runs and goes right back into a scream or a softer vocal. Very cool. He was duet singing with one of his backup singers, sharing the same mic and he gave her what looked like an impromptu kiss on the cheek. I liked that. It was funny too, because the whole time she was staring at him like she was in love. I always wonder how much of that stuff is planned.

Anyway he's very short, and one of the presenters that came on later mentioned that he spotted Prince back stage sleeping in his shoe.

Cool.