“Guy sure could play the guitar”
I find it interesting that his recorded music always had a muted guitar. He underplayed his talent until he went on stage and as you mentioned, he would shred. I never saw him live (and probably wouldn’t have, to be honest) but have heard his live music and it sounded like he gave one hell of a concert.
Would have been cool if Prince could have joined a regular band and just played guitar.
Heck, he could have made a pretty good living on just being a session guitarist alone.