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Who hates Brian May???
Exactly.
It’s Having Respect that’s earned.
I think he makes up the "hate". He's done this same mess for John Mayer and other guitarists.🤷🏿♀️
Not Mike. Not anymore. 😉
One of my favorites
Steve Vai once said:
"I don't think enough is really said about the brilliance of Brian May's guitar playing, inthe sense that it's overshadowed by the music itself. The Queen II album was one of those pivotal moments that just nailed me to the wall.
"He's probably one of the top identifiable guitar players, even more so than Beck, Page, and Clapton. They're all so identifiable, but Brian May has such a tone in his head and in his fingers. It speaks volumes. His contribution to orchestrated guitars is unprecedented. There was nothing like it before him. To me, it was like when Edward Van Halen came along and reshaped the sound of electric guitar. That's what I heard in Brian May's playing. It's something that's inherent in the brain of the guitar player.
"I remember working with Frank Zappa for the first time. I had just moved out to Los Angeles, and nobody knew me. I was 21. I went out to the Rainbow Bar and Grill, and Brian May was there. I couldn't believe it. I mustered up every little bit of courage and went up to him and said, 'Thank you so much for everything you've done. I play guitar. I'm here in town with Frank Zappa.' He said 'Oh really? Why don't you come down to our rehearsal?'
"I went down and he brought me up on the stage, and he let me play the guitar-the guitar that he built with his dad [the "Red Special"]. I couldn't even believe that I was touching this instrument! He was so kind and so warm, and for who? This kid, you know? And I played his guitar, and it sounded like Steve Vai. Then when he played it, it sounded just like Brian May. It was very apparent to me that his tone is in his fingers and his head.
"He's a class act from head to toe, and it shows in his playing. I can listen to any player and pantomime their sound, but I can't do Brian May. He's just walking on higher ground."
Queen 2 is an unbelievable albumn
Thanks for that. I'd never read it before. May influenced me to take up guitar in 1977, and I have many of Steve Vai's albums.
Even the experts have acknowledge and bow to heavenly legends such as Brian Harold May. I love sooo many guitarists from Billy Duffy to Zakk Wylde. But Brian always remains my favorite. He was the reason why I love Electric Guitars. Ted Nugent is a close second....
@@barrymitchell6444 Thanks for posting--I wish everybody would read what he said about Brian May! Hear him in a venue with Q+AL before it's too late--Brian May is making music so beautiful and I can't describe how the whole show is his, even with Roger, and a great young singer and other great musicians there. My daughter and I just saw our 3rd concert and I needed a wheelchair to get to our 2nd row seats so it was probably my last, but I hope it wasn't Brian's last show.
@@mollyhall2954 Really sorry to hear of your wheelchair situation. Getting to the second row was great, and I hope it won't be your last concert. Personally, I can't take Lambert's high-pitched wailing, but I have memories of Queen concerts with Freddie. The last I went to was the 1st night at Wembley Stadium in 1986. I'm a Queen fan up until 1997, when John Deacon left. If you haven't seen it, check out Steve Vai playing For The Love Of God at Seville 1991 on here. It was the first live performance of the song, and he stole the show over other guitarists including Brian May.
He’s a phd in astrophysics. Might be the smartest guitar player of all time. Makes total sense why he composes so perfectly
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Most guitar heros barely finished high school, so no... Not the reason why. Besides, most Queen classics where conceived by Freddie and Deacy... Genius, but no PhDs there !
@@jjbast For the record all the other members did earn college degrees. 👍👍
@MikeN-cs8qe Irrelevant to my comment. Read it again, no need for a college degree to understand it.
Brian may is the reason I started playing guitar. He took me away from learning the piano and I gravitated towards learning the guitar. The solo from “Play the Game” really was the solo for me.
Good chance you will end up producing in the end, that where we all end up.
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Same story for me. Except the solo for “liar” is what did it for me.
It's a good album too.
Brian uses harmonies on records and during live shows really well. You can hear this during the live version of White Queen. His rhythm sections are also very unique. They build up the melody so well you sometimes forget they're there. For example listen to The Prophet's Song.
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Yes. And a fab track. The Daily Doug (Here on YT) has done a reaction to that track.
Prophet's Song is Bohemian Rhapsody part II
Any one who hates Brian May doesn’t appreciate the art of crafting a guitar solo.
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Anyone who hates Brian May doesn't have blood in his veins.
It was once said that "Queen were the heaviest band you've never heard of." Yes, everyone has heard of Queen, of course but many do not know quite heavy they used to be. May was an essential part of that.
Q+AL is the Brian May show now, don't miss it! They play what the fans need to hear, but Brian is free! I feel so happy for him every time I see them!
Honestly, that was why I didn't like them in my youth. They were far to hard rock for my ears. Then they got to a much better sound. I can respect what they did at all stages, but some early concerts are still too much for me to truly enjoy.
They were definitely a lot heavier back in the day when they mostly played songs from Queen II.
Stone cold crazy...ya know
They werent. I have gone through the anthology
The chord progression on We Are The Champions is unusual and the way Brian May plays the backing on the guitar is incredible.
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I agree but Dr Sir Brian May is almost always incredible. Cheers.
There are many fantastic Brian May solos but, in my opinion, the song which epitomizes his genius (and brings tears to my eyes each time I hear it) is "BIJOU" from Queen's beautiful album, "INNUENDO". Freddie Mercury and Brian May wrote this song where the guitar is the main voice; Freddie's vocals are the interlude - where a guitar solo would usually be. They said it was their "inside out" song. It is profoundly beautiful. The emotion that Brian conveys is palpable. You might enjoy listening to it once...and then again and again and again.
FYI: This song was written when Queen, which was always known for their huge tours, did not tour for 5 long years because Freddie's illness was beginning to envelop him and Freddie could not tour any longer. Yet, the band stayed together and worked with Freddie in the studio producing what I believe is some of their best work. If anyone ever doubts the deep and abiding friendship this band had for each other or their love and support for Freddie, they only have only to look to this period of time in their career.
I believe Innuendo is the pinnacle of all the Queen albums combined. You can hear things from there wide range of music in every song with BIJOU being Freddie and Brian's final masterpiece for all the true Queen fans that will forever wait to hear new Queen music.
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yeah. this song is underrated and a reason for this is next song on this album where every single guitar part proves absolute genius.
Great video. Brian May is my favorite guitar player. The things he does with the guitar are amazing. Not only did he build his own guitar, he used to do guitar harmonies before the harmonist pedal was created. He emulated an entire jazz band in the last part of the song Good Company from the A Night At The Opera album. His guitar has so many tonal capabilities that you can pretty much dial in any tone you like, Gibson or fender. He did it all. my favorite solo of his is the Brighton Rock solo from the Sheer Heart Attack album, he showed what guitar playing is all about. Other solos I’d cite are from Stone Cold Crazy, The Invisible Man and Bijou amongst many. Sweet les paul btw, rock on 🤘
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May's melodic sense, construction and phrasing are top notch.
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You must watch the full concert live at Montreal 1981. All mind blowing all of the band member are amazing
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I used to have it on VHS. Watched this show hundreds of times.
Saw it on imax huge screen 2 weeks ago was awesome @@Chygunachnik
For me, one of my favourite Brian May composed Queen tracks is The Prophets Song. It’s from the same album as Bohemian Rhapsody, A Night at the Opera from 1975, and was written about a dream Brian May had one night. It’s a great example of how he likes to layer tracks, and is probably one of the first times he experimented with drop D tuning, which he only uses two or three times across all Queens albums.
Brian may is an world renowned astrophysicist, he built his own legendary guitar (that is capable of playing about any tone ive ever heard from any electric guitar out there), and he is able to put together some of the most powerful songs in history. Whats not to like?!?!
Brian May has always been one of my very favorite players. Hey Mike, listen to Somebody to Love. That solo will knock you out!
💪😎👍 Brilliant pick! Emotional and shred deadly all at once... maybe my favorite thing is how he chose to end it with a descent rather than just another cliché high-note flourish that most others would do. Long live Brian May! 🎸
I was literally about to post the same thing. It’s not always just his guitar chops, it’s he and Freddy knowing when to let the other have the light, vocals, piano, guitar, and then also knowing to give the drum line and base line it’s time to shine.
I always pause to listen when Somebody to Love is playing. The way Brian's solo picks up and extends the building gospel choir "Yeah" is magnificent. I feel the wave of emotion crest, and then climb even higher as the band's voices seem to transform into the tones of the Brian May Red Special. Unbeatable!
Solo to Millionaire Waltz was the one that really hooked me on Brian May. March of the Black Queen is also good.
His harmonies are INSANE! NOBODY could match him during the 70s. He is a total original.
Yes, Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, Sleeping on the Sidewalk, Someone to Love solos are notable.
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Finally someone who recognizes the Queen in the 70s March of The Black Queen was amazing only with Brighton Rock using new techniques for the time.
Man this guy gives me really good vibes. I always learn something new and his videos are always very entertaining
Although I have to object that I have never met anyone who hates Brian May
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Favorite solo has to be from Crazy Little Thing Called Love. But also his acoustic playing on the live version of Love of My Life was so good!
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Maybe I am wrong but as far as I know Freddy played the Guitar in Crazy little thing called love.
@@kyokushin-tobi oh wow really?!? guess Im a fake fan lol
@@kyokushin-tobi brian played the solo and electric fill ins but its likely freddie played the acoustic part
The simplistic yet majestic solo in Days of Our Lives is simply perfection. One of my favourites. 👍👍👍
You must listen to "Innuendo" if You wanna listed to what Brian May does and where he takes the song the next level
Man I've been playing for 38 years and have never heard another guitarist ( or any other musician for that matter) say that they didn't like Brian May.
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When I was getting into Queen back in 2004/2005, I already recognized that I liked Brian May’s guitar playing, but couldn’t quite place why. However, There’s a song on A Night at the Opera called “Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon” that ends with a ridiculous solo that made me fall in love with Brian’s playing. It’s not a complicated solo, but he comes in gun blazing with a HUGE sounding harmony part, a single track melodic part, then another huge harmony part. And it just encapsulates everything you want in a Brian May solo in less than 20 seconds. The harmonies, the melodic choices he makes and his phrasing are top notch.
Last Horizon is one of Brian's most beautiful solos, and it's not even from the Queen years. Magical.
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Glad you're starting to change your mind! Brian is one of the greats in my opinion, and his work usually gets overshadowed by the rest of the band since he tends to write guitar parts to fit songs rather than to stand out.
Some songs to check out if you want some of the best Brian deep cuts:
-Great King Rat
-Father to Son
-Ogre Battle
-Brighton Rock
-White Man
-It's Late
-Dead on Time
-The Hitman
-Bijou
Some live performances I absolutely recommend checking out (I can't post links but if you type what I put in the search bar you should find them no problem):
-Queen Brighton Rock Oakland 1978 (The quality isn't great but it's WELL worth listening to. They do a jam in the middle of the song and it's one of the greatest things they ever did live)
-Queen Hammersmith 1975 White Queen
-Queen Spread Your Wings Chicago 1978
-Queen Sleeping on the Sidewalk Live
-Queen Liar Rainbow 1974
Brian is such a pioneer for the guitar. You can get sucked into a black hole with his gear and his approach to guitar tone. By itself, his guitar tone is unconventional and wouldn't sound good by itself, but in the context of the music, it's absolutely brilliant. He uses an English six-pence as a pick which contributes to his tone. Then his use of a treble booster is integral to his sound, not to mention his guitar that he built with his Dad from 100 year old firewood and random parts (some from a motorcycle and knitting needle). The switching on his guitar is pretty unique with the 6 switches (3 for series/parrallel). Also Vox AC30 are integral, always using 3 at a time, some used for the harmony delay effect that was innovative for the time (listen to Brighton Rock, especially the live version). He also used a small battery amp made by the bassist called the Deacy which was used heavily for recording. He's also not secretive about his tone as he releases his own brand of replicas (and pretty reasonably priced for an artist series). He also released a special version of the AC30, which only featured a volume knob. And of course the treble boosters which has different settings for different eras.
And of course, as everyone has mentioned, his use of guitar harmonies is legendary. Queen pave the way for the highly produced records (ie Boston, Smashing Pumpkins etc).
For me the best eras to really delve into his playing is from the albums Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and News of the World
Songs to listen to: Brighton Rock, Killer Quees, Now I'm Here, Prophet's Song, Tie Your Mother Down, Millionaire's Waltz, and It's Late.
So much to uncover
Underrated solo: "You And I" (on A Day At the Races.)
I really think his strength as a writer and arranger surpasses even his excellent guitar playing, though.
"'39", "All Dead, All Dead", "Teo Torriate", "Hammer to Fall", "Long Away"- the multifaceted poetry in these songs and the way they interplay with the melody are incredible. He and Paul McCartney are two who act like anyone could do this if they had the time and the desire- without seemingly realizing that they are uniquely gifted in manipulating language.
I grew up listening to Queen through my dad...and while I am not the biggest Queen fan out there, their song 'bicycle race' still takes me right back to those days of growing up. and of course seeing the Muppets performing 'Bohemian Rapsody'. Such a 'bigger than life' kind of band. I also confess to being a drummer, not a guitar player. ;-)
The Harmonized solo section in “All Dead, All Dead” from News of the World is one of my favourites of all time and the way he orchestrated the guitar really always fascinates me and makes me challenge myself to try those harmonies myself and orchestrate my own harmonies
The solo from killer queen is a personal favorite for me. Wierd and different in all the write ways. I had to learn the 'Crazy little thing called love' solo for a gig, and that's one of my absolute favorite solos to play.
Also, check out Brian May's Resurrection! Not really a deep cut, but i didn't know it till about a year ago. Great composition.
Great video!
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What he played in "All Dead, All Dead" is amazing. Those harmonies are incredible.
Takes my breath away every time I hear it. Moves me to tears. Every time.
10/10 rage bait no one could ever hate Brian May and I’ve been playing guitar since I’ve 4 and now I’m 15, Brian May has been the biggest influence throughout the 11 years of my guitar playing
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Sir Dr Brian May's tracks on 'The Show Must Go On' are epic. The way he builds his solos with Freddie's vocals, just incredible.
The solo on “Somebody to Love” always puts me on the floor. The emotional content in that solo is incredible.
First, I gotta say, he was a pioneer of guitar harmonies, before Boston or Toto or those bands did it. I got turned on to Queen as a little kid in the mid 70s through a friend's older brother, and Night At the Opera was their latest release. Really a fantastic album, almost start to finish. It wasn't Bohemain Rhapsody for me then (Kiss Destroyer defined my musical world @ that point), it was tracks like Death On Two Legs, Prophet's Song, Year of '39, and Best Friend that I loved most. Iirc, there was really only one track on the album I didn't like, I'll let you figure it out. I don't know which had the hot solos (DO2L, probably), but all great guitar songs.
Death on two legs defo my favourite, underated for sure
Mike- I really appreciate your take on Brian May- never really thought about most of your points here, but all really well said and researched! God bless you, Brother! Bob from Spokane Valley, WA USA
Maybe one measure of a great solo is the quantity of notes. Bohemian Rhapsody is actually a pretty economical solo. Not too many notes. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" shows he understood the vibe of the 50s. "Play the Game" is a great exercise in rhythm, and "Fat Bottom Girls" could be speaking just as much about tone as bottoms. 😁
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Everyone that loves Brian May should check out Rory Gallagher he was a big inspiration for Brian and the one who told him to get an Vox Ac30 and Rangemaster which he still plays today
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I don't know if this would be considered a "deep cut", but Stone Cold Crazy is one of Queen's best guitar songs in my opinion (so good that Metallica covered it)
I highly recommend Brighton Rock
Studio and any live version, the way he gets the delays to bounce off each other and harmonise sounds so beautiful
Check out the BBC Radio documentaries Guitar Greats, Brian is one of those documented and interviewed. Featured earlier in the same series is one of Brian's early heroes, a very melodic, known throughout most of the worlds (apart from the US) Hank Marvin. Check out his playing. He and the band he was in were pre-Beatles UK rock and roll. The sound was (is) unique very clean with a brilliant rhythm team and Hank's very clean, very melodic single note lead. Brian was also a big fan of Rory Gallagher, also worth checking out.
I came to queen later in life. As you get older revisiting music will grow with you.
The solo for killer queen is so good.
💪😎👍 EPIC lead, an all-time classic for sure!
Also really cool: the flange applied @ the outro
My choice as well
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Any Solo Brian does is EXCELLENCE! My favorite has to be in The Highlander song "Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme)". Please check it out, Brian's Red Special sounds like Scottish Bag-pipes.
For me that song was " I want it all" ...this song talked to me !
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Not super-deep cuts or anything, but the solos to ‘Invisible Man’, ‘Breakthru’, and ‘I Want it All’ blow me away every time I hear them…and I’ve heard them plenty! 🙂
Another small, but FIRM favourite of mine is the solo to ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’ - based on where you’re coming from in this video, I think that you’ll dig it too.
I think that brian may has written some of queens best songs. I would recommend 39 and long away. fantastic songs for more reasons then just the stella guitar playing.
💪😎👍 Top choice, man! '39 is deceptively
simple on its surface but has an extremely sophisticated structure, and the lyrics May also wrote will fry your brain with their theory of the space-time continuum and how time passes far more quickly on Earth than out in the far reaches of the universe! It packs an emotional wallop when our astronaut returns home, that's for sure! 🚀 And "Long Away" is brilliant -- it's actually one of Dr. May's personal favorites!
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Met him a few times and sat with him in Dublin. Took a photo they used on one of their albums. Really a nice person. Very humble. His grasp of making a solo a song within the song is pretty much unmatched. Listen to some of the early alums and ‘a night at the opera’ from start to finish. Keep good company and prophets song might impress you. When you listen to them and realise what he did on guitar (recreating a jazz band for instance) you might understand what I mean
Two songs you defiantly need to hear, Was it All worth it and the show must go on
With Freddie singing his ever-loving ass off!
One guitar player to another, May's solo on "Who Needs You" from News of the World is fun to play.
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Brighton Rock and Stone Cold Crazy are 2 standouts (among many) that showcase the talent of Mr May.
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I wasn't a Queen fan when I was younger, and wasn't interested in May's guitar work. But later I really appreciated them and grew to like them very much for the unique band that they were, and for how truly amazing of a vocalist Mercury was. I think May is fine, even though I've never been interested in playing his stuff. But yeah big thumbs up for Queen from me now.
Killer Queen is the prime example for me of what makes Brian May such a killer guitar player, his sense of harmony is absolutely top-notch
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This is a fairly deep cut i suppose, although there is definitely some appreciation of this - All Dead, All Dead, from their magnum opus News Of The World, is my favourite song, and the guitar solo right before the final verse is my favourite piece of music in existence. It just seeps in and envelops you, and you cant help but stop what youre doing and let it flow into every part of your being as it ascends to heaven. He uses the guitar to find resolution in mortality, to find meaning in a life that inevitably ends in death, to find a reason to continue in a futile world.
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love - one of the few songs where he plays a tele and plays it in the style of rock-a-billy. Lots of pentatonic phrasing yet still so melodic!
Brian May has always been one of the most underrated guitarists. Wheyer it be his VOX amps and heads, along with his custom engineered Red Special, or the fact the man started creating his spund by draping a tea towel over his amp and uses a freaking coin as a pick. Hes basically a rat rod builder of musical sound and equipment. I will always respect him. Actually hoing to see queen in Nashville TN this upcoming October 25. Its been a bucket list dream for me to see them, and were actually getting to go.
You need to hear:
-Sail away sweet sister
-Put out the fire
-Dragon attack
These three hit you in the middle of the song, so intense and emotionally aligned with song really!
My thoughts exactly. Sail Away Sweet Sister kicks ass.
You really gotta focus "gimme the Prize" from the Kind of Magic Album. That whole Song is mind-blowing cause Freddy broke all rules and switched to Beastmode, to put that much energy into just 10 lines
He's a brilliant guitar player, he designed and constructed one of the most emblematic instruments in rock music, he has a PhD in astrophysics, and on top of that, he's one of the nicest, most humble musicians you'll ever see. Anyone who hates Brian May has issues.
It really was the Will Rock You solo that got me into Queen. Everyone knows Queen and growing up I heard a lot of it around even though I was born 2 decades after their last performance with Mercury. It was when I sat down to listen to We will Rock You outside of a party or public event; when that solo began I was amazed beyond anything else. Then you listen to shit like Killer Queen and oh my God Brian May becomes a virtuoso in different genres. Then there’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little thing called Love, different genres, all brilliant. Then theres fucking Don’t stop me now and Millionaire Waltz along with Killer Queen, even God save the Queen. God save Brian May. What a legend. I cannot hop off. This is the only human in the world that is allowed to be glazed this hard. What a person.
He’s a great guitar player, but his mind is incredible.
First of all, he studied to be an engineer. He made his guitar himself with his Dad, by hand. Like all the components, including some advanced electronics for that time. And he still uses the same guitar to this day. That’s insane. He could have any custom made professional guitar in the world, and he still prefers the guitar he made himself when he was a teenager with his Dad. That’s amazing.
Brian didn’t study to be an engineer - his undergrad degree is in Maths and Physics, then his Master’s (and eventually his PhD) is in Astrophysics.
The bassist John Deacon is the one who studied engineering - Electronic Engineering to be specific, in which he earned a First Class Honours (roughly equivalent to what American universities award “summa cum laude”=with highest honors)
Brian May was an engineer and educated. Eddie Van Halen created his own guitar and it was very stripped down and simple one volume one pick up. Using the Variak to control voltage into an amp to get the brown sound. For me Brian was more of inventor. I just baught his guitar and I will get it in a few days and I am really excited. He has three single coil pick ups and you can use the top 3 switches to pick what pick ups you want to use and the three bottom to put them out of phase so you can get unlimited different sounds. Also, I can remember reading a guitar mag article back in the day and Eddie wanted to work with Brian and have Brian play guitar and he would play keyboards which I would really be curious what they would have created with the right singer. I think you need a bunch of old queen albums and a turn table and you would change your mind. There is no band today that could do what they do.
'Bijou' from Queen's 'Innuendo' album is almost entirely instrumental.
'Good Company' from 'A night at the opera' is Brian at his most profound, utilising a plethora of skills and vision to orchestrate a formby-esque period piece which is sheer bloody genius.
👍 I applaud you for taking the time to listen to Queen!! I was blown away when i first saw them at 15 years old on UK tv "Top of The Pops" playing Severn Seas of Rye!! So different in their stage presence from any other band and the composition was unique. I'm now 65 and Luv seeing old clips of Queen with "The Master" Freddie holding the audience in the palm of his hand❤
He has been playing guitar for over 50 years and since 1962 when he formed the band with the others he has done amazingly well considering he was young.
The Doctor was the reason why I started playing guitar. You should look at his live solos, like Brighton Rock on Live Killers or Last Horizon.
"tie your mother down" was the song that got me into queen. It rocks as hard as anything else from that time.
I’m a huge Queen fan. My favorite record is Queen II, specifically side Black (side 2, which starts with “Ogre Battle”). It will blow you away. :)
A year too late but (as a non guitar player) some of the best Brian May work on Queen album tracks has to be Brighton Rock, Bijou, Stone Cold Crazy. On his solo albums, Last Horizon and Cyborg.
Brian May is such a precise player.
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I would suggest you give the song, Bijou, a listen. It's from the Innuendo album. They did a reverse on the song so that the vocal are the solo.... It a peice of genius.
Killer queen
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Killer queen has to be my favorite solo ever, the phrasing, the tone, the layered harmonized guitar parts, it's just perfect, perfect
Brian is the reason that I picked up a guitar! To see Brian's guitar mastery you have to listen to his guitar work in Brighton Rock. The three part harmonies are simply breath-taking.
As a guitar player, I will never hold a candle to Brian May but was my first guitar inspiration.
That LP Tribute is so nice, I have a honeyburst one and i've played it so much the finish is wearing away were my arm rests, which is something i love
I've played a BMG red special. Ran across a used one at my local GC. If you have never tried one then don't close the door to it yet. One of the best feeling guitars I have ever tried. Still kicking myself for not getting it when I had a chance.
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I am not a musician, just a 50 somethin’ Brit who was a teen in the 80’s, who remembers the Live Aid charity concert in July ‘85 like it was yesterday. And obviously it is virtually not open for discussion, Queen delivered the best live set seen anywhere, anytime and in just 21 minutes.
So I’ve been a Queen fan done 40 or so years and if you’d like to find out more search YT for record producer Rick Beato’s interview with Brian May, it’s a must watch. And I recall part of the interview where the discussion is about Bohemian Rhapsody where BM says about his solos that he tried to think of them in terms of Freddie handing the song over to him, him doing his solo and handing the song back. So I agree with you bro, he is a great composer too, a great deal of thought goes into what he does! 😊
I think I felt the same thing about Queen. In highschool all I wanted were fat metalcore riffs and flashy shreddy solos... as I "matured" and started to compose I acquired a new appreciation for musicians who serve the songs and not the ego. Brian May is the prime example of that.
In "Good Company " Brian plays New Orlean jazz on guitar, He uses guitars to sound like clarinet and brass - brilliant!
Queen is my favorite band and Brian May is my favorite guitarist. If any of you dislike Queen because they sound too poppy you need to listen to the first three albums they are fantastic. My favorite Queen song is 39 and my favorite of Brian's guitar solos changes from day to day but I just love it all. Gosh the tones he gets out of those pickups.
Hey dude, I found this video randomly looking for Steve Vai/Brian Videos (they play together often) and this video came up so I clicked. I''m a die hard Queen fan, I won't lie I am confused when people say they don't like Queen however I appreciate this video. I think it's fair to say you don't like something and you looked into it rather than writing it off. I think you should do an update video on your views after you hit the deep cuts. If you want recommendations, something funky then "Dragon Attack" is good, if you want something old and prog "White Queen (As it begins)" then "March of the Black Queen" these are both off Queen II however it has a light and dark side and these songs are 2 flips of the coin in style. If you want something heavier then a really really under appreciated song is "Was it all worth it" it really does get over looked. If you want they wrote for their Japanese fans then "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)".
Solo songs I'd go with "Cyborg" (Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters drummed on this), and his most famous solo song (in the UK anyway as it was used in a car advert)" Driven by you". I'd love to see an update video anyway :)
I'm with you man.
I'm a big metal head, but now that I'm exploring "lyrical" playing I'm studying the habits of B.B. King and Brian May.
I don't know who hates Brian May. Why ? He is incredible. Awesome. I do disagree with him thinking Pete Townsend invented the Rock guitar. I would think more like Buddy Holly and then Bo Diddly,Muddy Waters.
Listen to "Stone Cold Crazy" from Sheer Heart Attack album and "It's Late" from News of the World. Awesome composing!
Brian May is an iconic rock legend of a guitar player... maybe because he grew up with Jeff Beck breathing down his neck... lol... and he loved Rory Gallagher, "Mr. Bullfrog" himself...
My favorites are "Bijou", "Last Horizon" and the finger-picking on "Resurrection"... absolutely phenomenal... but then again. ALL his riffs are amazing!!!
but then I'm not a guitar player, I played clarinet.. for nine years... bur then that was ?? years ago, so there it is. Point is, the man is a musical genius no matter how you slice it... and he'll always be my rock LEGEND... Blessings.
Add the fact that his “signature guitar “ the red special was hand built by him from wood that came from an old fireplace mantle - and that he has a PHD in astrophysics and has been a consultant to NASA; yes there is plenty to admire about Brian May.
Good old fashioned lover boy has a GREAT solo, and You and I is a deep cut with a great solo!
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My two favourite solos of Brian May are from Hammer to Fall, and his solo hit, Driven by You.
Three of my fave Brian May solos are: Loser In The End (Queen II), Tie Your Mother Down (Day at the Races) and his solo in Foo Fighters' cover of Have a Cigar. Worth a Listen.
This guy is amazing, he plays Queen stuff just perfectly, I wish I lived close to him, I would be around his place playing guitar 24/7. for a "deep cut' my favourite Brian May guitar track is probably Stone Cold Crazy, or Brighton Rock. Nice words and a cool thought process going on with Mike Cole
Check out Brian May Band at Brixton Academy’93 “Tie Your Mother Down”. He wrote the lyrics and medley to that tune.
Believe it or not my favourite guitar solo is We Will Rock You... it was literally the very first guitar solo I ever heard and could remember hearing...
The intro to Death on Two Legs from ANight at the Opera. It's a harsh song and the guitar tone drips acid
I love the solo in Keep Yourself Alive, I know nothing about musical theory, but it comes after a solo drum bit and feels freaking awesome