This video gets passed around at least once a month in one of my various social circles, might as well post this here for those of you unfamiliar.

The backstory: George Harrison and Prince were both inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.  This is one of George’s signature songs obviously, and to have one of the great electric guitarists doing the solo…hell, that can’t go wrong right?

Well…’rumor has it’ that the Purple One didn’t show for rehearsal and Tom Petty (one of George’s real life best friends) didn’t take too kindly to it. And then ‘rumor has it’ that Prince didn’t take too kindly to that.  That’s all rumor though, here are the things you can definitely see with your own eyes in this clip:

• Tambourine player in the background foolishly thinking he can upstage anybody on that stage.
• George’s son Dhani chilling and grooving at first, then when Prince starts going off, Dhani becomes us: ‘Holy sh–, he’s going off!’
• Prince doing one of those solos only Prince can do while throwing in more than a couple of those sweet ass side glances that only Prince can do.
• The first time (to my memory) this fool throws the guitar off the stage at the end and pimp walks off the stage.

This still doesn’t go higher than third on my favorite versions of this song, but still.  Enjoy: