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Prince Indian Gives Guitar to TMZ Staffer

Posted Mar 27th 2009 11:42AM by TMZ Staff

Hey everybody, Daniel from TMZ here. So last night Prince gave me his guitar ... and then some guy took it back.

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I was lucky enough to sit front row during a taping of "The Tonight Show." I was there for one reason, and one reason only -- to see Prince. After suffering through Paul Giamatti and Emma Roberts, Prince came on and performed "Dreamer."

As the song was winding down, Prince took off his guitar and walked out into the crowd -- I had no idea what he was doing. He walked right up to me and just simply handed me his guitar and walked away. I stood there stunned for about 20 seconds while my friend Trent went nuts. We both kinda strummed the guitar before I turned around and held it up to the crowd triumphantly.

After another 30 seconds or so, someone came around and retrieved the guitar. Now, I was all excited about this whole thing -- calling and texting everyone I can think of. But when I came to work today, everyone said the same thing -- PRINCE OWES YOU A GUITAR. I believe Harvey's quote was, "You're a schmuck for giving it back."

So here's the question, does Prince owe me a guitar?

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1. First suckas!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:10PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Teenage Toto

2. First?

Posted at 12:10PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Cassiopeiae

3. someone gives you something that you really want, you hold onto that sucker for dear life

Posted at 12:10PM on Mar 27th 2009 by omg!

4. too Slow #3, too slow

Posted at 12:11PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Cassiopeiae

5. Prince doesnt owe you anything. why did you give it to the man in the suit? he owes you a guitar.
Prince did you good so id think it a slap in the face to go around saying he "owes" you anything.

Posted at 12:13PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Ahmad

6. Hecky yeah he owes you a guitar! And I agree with Harvey, you're a schmuck for giving it to the guy!

Posted at 12:17PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Noelle

7. Prince is such a loser. He didn't even stick around to shake Leno's hand.

Posted at 12:17PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Jeff

8. You are a weirdo for liking Prince more than Paul Giamatti...you deserve to have that guitar taken back!

Posted at 12:18PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Freaks man, gotta love em...

9.
ummm...ya...that's messed up...i'm not gettin it...
if he didn't want you to keep it...he should have asked you to return it...and carried on with his gig...
otherwise...what was the whole purpose of him giving you his guitar ???

Posted at 12:19PM on Mar 27th 2009 by northern gypsy

10. "Indian Gives"
It's 2009; we should be well beyond passing obnoxious racist remarks like this off as acceptable. Use some shred of your intelligence that started the TMZ empire to come up with a better title.

Posted at 12:19PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Heltlesta Berina

11. How do you know the that took it from you worked for
Prince. If he does work for him then it's BULL SH*T.
You don't do that at a show. It's like drum sticks
they get thrown into the crowd you get to keep them.

Posted at 12:24PM on Mar 27th 2009 by mamajj

12. No dude, prince gave you a guitar, it's the freak you let take it away is who owes you a guitar. When it is all just sorted out, it probably will be some poser that took your guitar home and he was not probably even prince's staff.

Posted at 12:23PM on Mar 27th 2009 by The DUDE

13. Yes, you are kinda owed a guitar, poor guy! Now about that Lost diary you owe us.... :)

Posted at 12:44PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Terri

14. You'd have to be an idiot to think he "gave" you a guitar. Loser.

Posted at 12:24PM on Mar 27th 2009 by Jake

15. OH MY GOSH, I KNEW IT!!!...

Last night when I was watching this I was like, omg Prince is giving that dude his guitar! Then as the camera zoomed in I kinda just thought to myself hey, that dude looks like the dude on TMZ...

Seriously, I saw the dude walk in front of the camera with the guitar before the show ended, and I was like, that's totally LAME. lol. That's pretty awesome you got to hold it though... :D

Posted at 12:27PM on Mar 27th 2009 by lysmertz

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