{"id":923,"date":"2007-02-07T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2007-02-07T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T15:44:06","slug":"big-boner-or-raging-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"BIG BONER OR RAGING RIFF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince is SORTA in trouble for his silhouette performance during the SuperBowl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image1008\" style=\"height: 281px\" height=\"281\" alt=\"vert.rain.prince.ap.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/vert.rain.prince.ap.jpg\" width=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image1007\" style=\"height: 282px\" height=\"282\" alt=\"vert.prince.ap.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/vert.prince.ap.jpg\" width=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For decades, the electric guitar, by nature, has been considered phallic. From Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s sensual 6-string swagger to Eddie Van Halen&#8217;s masturbatory soloing, the guitar has often been thought an extension of a male player&#8217;s sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Was Prince&#8217;s pose phallic?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The short answer is, of course it is,&#8221; says Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Gavin Edwards, who points out that on Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221; tour in the mid &#8217;80s, he performed with a guitar that would ejaculate, squirting water out of its end during the climax of &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that said, it didn&#8217;t seem like a sniggering little puppet show,&#8221; adds Edwards. &#8220;I think it was one of those things because a guitar at waist level does look like an enormous phallus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ever been to a GWAR show? Water squirting out, you wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince is SORTA in trouble for his silhouette performance during the SuperBowl. For decades, the electric guitar, by nature, has been considered phallic. From Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s sensual 6-string swagger to Eddie Van Halen&#8217;s masturbatory soloing, the guitar has often been thought an extension of a male player&#8217;s sexuality. Was Prince&#8217;s pose phallic? &#8220;The short answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}