@@RicCrouch Yeah, and he is a great example of both scientific knowledge and exquisite artistry in a beautiful mix. He knows his techie stuff 100% and then uses it to let the guitar sing!
4:25 You can see the disappointment in Brian's face when the presenter tells him they’ve ran out of time. Because he surely wanted to do a demo of the delays and thought he wouldn’t be able to. Then at 4:31 you can see the massive relief of Brian with that smile and laugh when the presenter tells him to do the demo.
Absolute genius on display for all to see. My Dad got to hobnob with Brian when Queen stopped into our home town around 1980-1981 (it was either "Jazz" or "News of the World" they were touring for), and Brian just happened into the venue where my Dad's band at the time was playing. After the set he moseyed on into the closet that was the dressing room and just sat and hung out with them. The following night, everybody had guest list status and backstage passes, and Dad always said that Brian was one of the friendliest, most charming, and pleasant "rock star" types he ever met. He and Roger were the outgoing ones and Freddie and Deaky were the quiet ones, according to him. How's that for cool?
We got to hang out with him around that time. Queen was one of my absolute favorite bands and it gave me the greatest joy to get to spend time asking questions about music and life. He is genuinely as bright, thoughtful, and engaging as he seems to be. He's the real deal!
That is very cool indeed. Brian May is cool. He always seems a genuinely humble nice bloke that built a guitar with his dad, formed a band that wrote some of the best rock songs that will never date. Oh and and he's an incredible guitarist. I play and can play some of his stuff note for note but I still sound nothing like him. And therein lies the genius of the guy👍
Where Ed was always content with “good enough”, Brian was always compelled to actually make things work with precision and make the most of the whole instrument.
It is brilliant on the whole. It’s important to remember that there are more brilliant players who aren’t engineers than vice versa. It’s also important to remember that Brian didn’t do this out of brilliance. He did it out of poverty. He didn’t have much money. Hence the pence. He used what he could fine and make. His mother had to get over the fireplace mantle being repurposed.
Brian wrote a book , complete with schematics, about how he and his father , an electrical engineer, built his guitar. Brian is a very blessed man to have a father like that...must say I'm kinda jealous. From an enthusiastic youth to respected musician and Ph.D. astrophysicist.
I heard in an interview that despite the bands successes, world touring, radio plays etc. that his father still never really took it all that seriously until he saw the band in person at Madison Square Garden and that's when he got it.
His home made guitar has served him rather well!! The notes he played were straight from some of those early Queen albums, and then he launches into a bit of Brighton Rock live version solo to demo the delay effect. Fantastic insight.
EVH? Is that a joke? To put Brian May and Tom Scholz together in the same sentence and engineering context as EVH is shameful. The quality, precision, know-how, design, innovation, talent, etc. of May and Scholz, in an engineering capacity, exceed Eddie by an incredibly extreme amount. It’s like lumping together Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and your middle school science teacher together as a peer group of physicists. Eddie’s aggressive, drunken, drug-addled tinkering was grade school level at its absolute best. Void of purpose, absent of skill, and a vast majority of the time, detrimental in effect.
Eddie using an Variac was so genius. Many amp brands including Carr, have adapted that idea. So cool. Think of how many kids picked up guitar thanks to Edward. It's a shame he declined later in his career. But his playing in his prime was amazing.
You're a fool to not care about the climate and the environment if you have children at least. Like soon there wont be much of the Amazonas left because of greed, what will happen then. You have to be bit of an alarmist because how everyone just thinks about enriching their own pockets and not about planning for the future. Sure I think the Earth will find a way and perhaps better without humans on it.
It's just so cool how he's initially just futzing around, just bits and pieces of generally unremarkable samplings of his gear and stylings, then out of nowhere it's full Brian effing May and you hear every genuine signature bit of his sound in symphony. Awesome.
I know, right? Poor kid had to make his own guitar and effects because he couldn't afford to get the store bought ones! I hear he make a few pounds playing music somewhere.
Awesome video, I can’t seem to get enough of Brian’s educating skills along with his out of this world playing while melding with the red lady ! 🎸❤️✨Thanks James!
I think Mike Read is a great interviewer. He was respectful, and let Brian speak. He also seemed genuinely interested in what was being said. Too many interviewers are there for themselves, and too far up there own posteriors!!
Queen was my first ever gig at age 8 ! They toured Australia in 84 and I went with my Aunty , I knew who they were but didn't really know many songs I can still remember the smell, the heat and how loud it all was. Glad I got to see Freddie and John play , but I wish I was just a few years older as I became a mega fan in my teens My second gig which I also went to with my Aunty was Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. My Aunt loved showing me music and would watch me as my little brain took it all in. It worked as I have been a music teacher on and off for most of my adult life.
@@TigerGreene Cheers! My Aunty may have taken photos but people didn't really care about photos and videos back then , people LIVED the experience. I will NEVER understand people who buy a ticket to a show to stand there holding a cellphone in the air ???
Brian may is insane, this man is an astrophysicist who built his own guitar and was the guitarist for arguably the biggest band in the world, not to mention his godly music ability to gel notes together like glue.
I want to so badly know how he got the job on Nasa, that people took him seriously enough as a scientist and not just a guitar player in a band called Queen. And how he had time to do everything, I have heard he worked for Nasa in 2023 and didn't they tour that year too.
Brian makes my heart smile. A fellow astronomer, a guitarist and a fan of heavy rock. The Echoplex playing is one of my all time favourite guitar sounds.. now even more fun with digital fx pedals.
Fabulous! Brian May is such a modest guy, considering what a fabulous virtouso he is.. Then there's the astrophysics on top! A multiplex polymath and a nice person all in one.. Very rare. 🌟🎶🌜🌟👍
That 1st glimpse of the phase pedal caught my attention. At the end of the clip they show it clearly - i HAVE that exact Roto-Phase in the basement! Now I gotta dig it out. Never really played with it!
Brian has always been very appreciative of modern guitarist's , were it was from the 80s up til now & has done some of his own descriptions of certain lead guitarists like Nuno Nuno Bettencourt as just one & he was very vocal with regards to his praise towards Nuno... I think it was the " Extreme " bands song " Get The Funk Out " & how he praised Nuno's ability to keep taking his solo higher & higher & for a very gifted humble man but he forgets that he was & still as innovative guitar player... That's shows you the respect when he praises modern guitarist's , as without being disrespectful many can be too full of themselves & it's refreshing to here someone like Brian who was refreshing in his praise of fellow lead guitarists that has seen the baton past on to them & they have played with a certain amount of restraint so they weren't classed as shredders... There's no doubt shredders of the lead guitar are amazing but that only really works Live as the lead guitar , like the bass guitar & other instruments should always serve the song or it gets too busy & then you miss the part when the solo from the lead guitarists become bogged down & cluttered by over indulgence by a lead guitarist but thankfully many over the many decades have known not to get carried away in their own little world... The lead guitarists can easily fit into a specific song & with the right guitarist it can become an amazing song but a small percentage ruined their solo's by forgetting that a great solo also needs to serve the song... There's an amazing rendition with Brian May/Steve Vai/Nuno Bettencourt & greats of the lead guitar playing " Bohemian Rhapsody " with predominantly all lead guitarists that I'd be here all night typing who is in it this rendition of " Bohemian Rhapsody " Yes there's a piano playing along with a drummer & bassist that enter into this instrumental of " Bohemian Rhapsody " & it shows us how much " Bohemian Rhapsody " has inspired so many to pick up & play an instrument that suits them... Within this upload there's no vocals as Nuno & the other guitarists play where the vocals would be & in itself its an amazing piece of music that clearly gives a nod & praise to such an iconic cult song that is " Bohemian Rhapsody " & Brian clearly was a main ingredient within that song & many others... Like what many comments have said & that was Brian too was on another level as a guitarist but to build your own guitar with the help of your father that doesn't sound like any other lead guitar then & now is on yet another level & the distance sounds Brian can get with his guitar shows us that his guitar is a one in a million with regards to the sounds only that guitar can deliver & it became another reason as to why " Queen " become one of the biggest bands in the world as each member brought something new to their whole collective & they game us song's that will never ever be forgotten...
Jim Burns used this circuitry way back on his 1962 Vibra Artiste DeLuxe guitar all three Burns Tri Sonic pickups were wired in series as on Brian May's guitar but he used only three 3way toggle switches instead of six 2way slide switches. A much more elegant solution. Burns vibrato (or tremelo if you prefer) units were also very advanced and well engineered.
What a soft-spoken and well-mannered person Mr. May is. Somehow, even though Freddie was a musical genius and a shining star on stage, I liked Brian better.
I'm pretty sure this was 1976, around the time of A Day At The Races...during that time the guitar playing of Brian was garnering a considerable amount of interest. I read an interview with Freddie years later and he was talking about this time period and how Brian's popularity eclipsed everyone else in the band. '75-'78 were the years of nifty guitar solos...listen to any of the hit pop/rock songs of that time and they all had one. Brian May was THE guitar god for a while...then Eddie Van Halen showed up (April '78 debut album) and the era of the speed shredder was born.
It's admirable that he's so musically intelligent, and a genius in the Science world, but still he keeps his guitar playing accessible and enjoyable. When he could be endlessly, mathematically noodling like those Joe Satriani type players.
I'm always disappointed when people feel the need to put down other musicians just to raise another one up. It's fine if Satriani isn't your cup of tea, but I don't see any reason to tarnish his skill and accomplishments because of that.
@@MrBromansa I disrespected Satriani because I'm pure EVILL!! Actually I was just comparing a melodic soloist vs a technical soloist. I needed an example or the comparison woulda been boring.
@@chrisandrew6633 Okay, but why Satriani? He's more than capable of doing melodic solos ("Always with Me, Always with You") - Yngiew Malmsteen would've been a better a choice for you. I still dislike putting down other technical guitar players like Yngwie or Tosin Abasi (the latter of whom I vastly prefer for his skill and melodic facility), but your point would've been more salient if you had.
he wound his own pickups too. no one else could get his tone until he released a commercial version. a genius in so many ways. astrophysicist too as if being one of the best guitarists of all time wasn't enough!
@@carolramsey6287 well, yes and no. Yes, he and his father did initially make their own pickups, but weren't happy with how they turned out, so they then got the Tri-Sonics.
I remember Dr May saying in many interviews over the years that his father and he built the guitar because they couldn't afford to buy something like a Stratocaster. Incredible to think that if they'd been a little richer Brian would have bought a Stratocaster and the legend of the Red Special would never have happened. For sure Brian's sound and phrasing would have been different because of the different whammy bar and amount of bend the Red Special can put on a string. Great video to watch! The hiss of the AC30s ever present because of the volume May plays at, and terrific to see the modded Echoplex...how long were those tape rails? LOL
there is nothing as satisfying as building something yourself and then using it for its purpose. the younger generation is missing out on the joy of tinkering around with stuff --- building a coffee table out of pallet wood, or growing your own food and canning it, or just taking apart an old tv and looking at the parts inside.
As a guitarist and with Brian being one of my influences and favourite players.... I'm sure I'm not the only player who gasped and loved how he played up to a fifth on one fretted note! And how big is that echolex tape loop. Great stuff. Great post and clip.
Brian is another like Les Paul and Eddie Van Halen, an innovator coming up with ways and using effects he's come up with that nobody else thought of, id call him a musical genius just like Les and Eddie and Hendrix, not many of those but they are extremely important to the rest of us non genius folk.
I found the link to Brian May talking about Nino Bettencourt's playing on the band " Extreme " single " Get The Funk Out " As i said Brian is not a guitarist who's completely wrapped up within oneself & recognises & applauds amazing talent when he hears it & you rarely get lead guitarists that are open to their own honesty & declare that other lead guitarist , predominantly modern guitarist , but since the Music Industry died quite some time ago i'd go lead guitarists that inspired Brian up until the year 2000 Who would have thought the Music Industry that signed solo artists & band's on a daily basis with high numbers , that were almost innumerable , but now you couldnt get a Record Contract even if you were one of the most gifted singers & musician that could play more than 1 instrument at an amazing high level & we had many like Stevie Wonder & Prince just to name 2 but we also had amazing solo artists & bands that covered so many different genre they had to put certain artists into specific genres which predominantly happened in the 80s onwards... How can the music scene going all the way back to the Blues & Big Bands that the likes of Glen Miller achieved fame by thinking of a new way to push Big Band Music furthet than it had before & all those musicians , playing solo or in bands , from each decade onwards would die off to the point i honestly can not count 10 top talent artists out today , were as before we couldn't keep count & each new decade saw a change in how popular music was played but , again , IF somrone told me this would happen id think they were crazy to think that the powerful always churning out the new acts that was the job & business of the Music Industry to do... This is why we've seen a resurgence with the music lovers of the world revisiting music from the past & though I've always promoted that older music should be listened to , i didnt expect that older music was practically the only music worth listening to , as though there are a few top solo sings & bands its nowhere near as huge as it used to be & as a music lover of so many genres its difficult to accept this has happened & no one that loved music & bought all their single & albums would see this coming , yet i havent once seen any comment(s) that state the same details about the the death of the Music Industry as i have done!.. The link below is how youll see Brian May praising Nuno Bettencourt... ua-cam.com/video/fqkKFhFMaIw/v-deo.html .....
I think Brian May might be the only guitarist I've never seen or hear anyone speak negatively about as a musician or a person. Even just to say "I'm not really a fan of his playing".... Maybe Brian should take a cute from Bill Evans and release a solo album called "Everybody Loves Brian May"
Brian May Red Special BMG upgrade ua-cam.com/video/qYGfM15UA5Q/v-deo.html
Brian May has always been on a whole other level. There has never, and will ever, be another guitarist quite like him.
Amen to that! I'm currently anxious awaiting shipment of a BMG Special myself :D
Edited to add: I got it and it rocks!
Not only that, he seems like a genuinely nice guy. One of the greats.
@@RicCrouch Yeah, and he is a great example of both scientific knowledge and exquisite artistry in a beautiful mix. He knows his techie stuff 100% and then uses it to let the guitar sing!
Brian May, WOW!!!
That goes for many guitarists. Segovia, EVH, Hendrix, etc.
Fun fact. Interviewer was Mike Read, a radio1 dj. He also plays the guitar, hence him being able to ask some sensible questions.
Anyone British over the age of about 35 into music knows who Mike Read is
@@mjh5437i'm not british
Exactly
Even so, for 1978 his knowledge of what Brian is talking about it very impressive. Clearly a very knowledgeable bloke.
Brian May, possibly the greatest guitar maker in rock history who's one of the top players as well.
Don't forget Les Paul too!
Hey, Leo …
@@LeeGee
Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.
EVH and Les Paul, too.
4:25 You can see the disappointment in Brian's face when the presenter tells him they’ve ran out of time. Because he surely wanted to do a demo of the delays and thought he wouldn’t be able to.
Then at 4:31 you can see the massive relief of Brian with that smile and laugh when the presenter tells him to do the demo.
😅🤣 thanks God he was able to do it! 😎
Well spotted. Thanks.
May is Child for R.M.Tocak SMAK Band
The presenter is most rude dude ever. He keeps overlaping and interrupting him
"Plays Three blind mice" 😄😄😄
Absolute genius on display for all to see. My Dad got to hobnob with Brian when Queen stopped into our home town around 1980-1981 (it was either "Jazz" or "News of the World" they were touring for), and Brian just happened into the venue where my Dad's band at the time was playing. After the set he moseyed on into the closet that was the dressing room and just sat and hung out with them. The following night, everybody had guest list status and backstage passes, and Dad always said that Brian was one of the friendliest, most charming, and pleasant "rock star" types he ever met. He and Roger were the outgoing ones and Freddie and Deaky were the quiet ones, according to him. How's that for cool?
VERY cool!
I'm so jelly. Very cool
We got to hang out with him around that time. Queen was one of my absolute favorite bands and it gave me the greatest joy to get to spend time asking questions about music and life. He is genuinely as bright, thoughtful, and engaging as he seems to be. He's the real deal!
That is very cool indeed. Brian May is cool. He always seems a genuinely humble nice bloke that built a guitar with his dad, formed a band that wrote some of the best rock songs that will never date. Oh and and he's an incredible guitarist. I play and can play some of his stuff note for note but I still sound nothing like him. And therein lies the genius of the guy👍
80/81 would've been the game tour, but what a great moment for your dad and his band tubbing shoulders with the greats 👑✊🇬🇧
Great interviewer! Really gets the most out of Brian and the potential of his sound.
Just like Eddie Van Halen, Brian took what he wanted to hear and made it himself.
That is the mark of a true artist and genius in my opinion.
Where Ed was always content with “good enough”, Brian was always compelled to actually make things work with precision and make the most of the whole instrument.
Same with Tom Scholz
Evh, brian may, billy sheenan are rhe ones i remember building their own instruments
@@kelvinklauck yeah forsure , Tom scholz designed his own effects units and other engineering gadgets
It is brilliant on the whole.
It’s important to remember that there are more brilliant players who aren’t engineers than vice versa.
It’s also important to remember that Brian didn’t do this out of brilliance. He did it out of poverty. He didn’t have much money. Hence the pence. He used what he could fine and make. His mother had to get over the fireplace mantle being repurposed.
Brian wrote a book , complete with schematics, about how he and his father , an electrical engineer, built his guitar.
Brian is a very blessed man to have a father like that...must say I'm kinda jealous.
From an enthusiastic youth to respected musician and Ph.D. astrophysicist.
My own father didn't take my making music seriously... as he would say, it's called "playing" music because it isn't real work.
@@c.a.t.732 yeah ... I get it
Cant play a lick or read a note but I sure can draw
Same boat , different captain
@@c.a.t.732 Well, if life didn't run you down and you you've become a parent yourself, you have a chance to get it right.
I heard in an interview that despite the bands successes, world touring, radio plays etc. that his father still never really took it all that seriously until he saw the band in person at Madison Square Garden and that's when he got it.
Link to where to buy the book?
His home made guitar has served him rather well!! The notes he played were straight from some of those early Queen albums, and then he launches into a bit of Brighton Rock live version solo to demo the delay effect. Fantastic insight.
I was never really a huge Queen fan, but I’ve always admired Brian’s guitar playing.
Likewise.
Same.
Also....
Seeing a pedalboard from 1978 by such a legend!
Brian May, Tom Schulz, and EVH really changed the game back in the 70s with their engineering genius being integrated with guitar.
EVH? Is that a joke?
To put Brian May and Tom Scholz together in the same sentence and engineering context as EVH is shameful.
The quality, precision, know-how, design, innovation, talent, etc. of May and Scholz, in an engineering capacity, exceed Eddie by an incredibly extreme amount.
It’s like lumping together Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and your middle school science teacher together as a peer group of physicists.
Eddie’s aggressive, drunken, drug-addled tinkering was grade school level at its absolute best. Void of purpose, absent of skill, and a vast majority of the time, detrimental in effect.
@@forensix78who shat in your cornflakes? Was it Eddie?
Eddie using an Variac was so genius. Many amp brands including Carr, have adapted that idea. So cool. Think of how many kids picked up guitar thanks to Edward. It's a shame he declined later in his career. But his playing in his prime was amazing.
Perhaps his best idea was to use a precursor to what we now know as attenuators.
A true renaissance man. Phenomenal musician, guitar luthier, Astrophysicist (with a real PhD). Brilliant individual.
I'm also impressed with Mike Read's questions. I didn't realise he played the guitar
Yes, he’s better known for his racism and Islamophobia.
Pure Gold !!! wow that just blew my mind, and Brian was so young yet so confident and capable. Brian May is one of my guitar heroes 😃
I know what you mean, but he was already 31 at the time of the interview. So not that young any more for a rock musician.
PhD Astrophysicist electric guitar player extraordinaire genious........ Mr. Brian May..... One of a kind.
***Dr. Brian May
You forgot "hypocritical, woke, climate alarmist crank" 🤡
You're a fool to not care about the climate and the environment if you have children at least. Like soon there wont be much of the Amazonas left because of greed, what will happen then. You have to be bit of an alarmist because how everyone just thinks about enriching their own pockets and not about planning for the future. Sure I think the Earth will find a way and perhaps better without humans on it.
Define woke.
Skill and brain power are a wonderful combination. Brian May is the man.
It's just so cool how he's initially just futzing around, just bits and pieces of generally unremarkable samplings of his gear and stylings, then out of nowhere it's full Brian effing May and you hear every genuine signature bit of his sound in symphony. Awesome.
This guy's really good. I hope one day he has the money to get a store-bought guitar.
I know, right? Poor kid had to make his own guitar and effects because he couldn't afford to get the store bought ones! I hear he make a few pounds playing music somewhere.
@@ssgdean1969 Yes, I read somewhere that apparently he used to play in some third-league band called King, no, sorry, it was Queen, in clubs and bars.
@@thelyricologist9568 he seems like a decent kid. I hope he does well for himself!
Now, he owns the store, where you can buy his 'home-made' guitar. 🎸🤣
Brian has always been miles ahead of anyone else and his triple harmonies are the highlight of any Queen concert, a genius to be sure!
Awesome video, I can’t seem to get enough of Brian’s educating skills along with his out of this world playing while melding with the red lady ! 🎸❤️✨Thanks James!
I think Mike Read is a great interviewer. He was respectful, and let Brian speak. He also seemed genuinely interested in what was being said. Too many interviewers are there for themselves, and too far up there own posteriors!!
Magical, unique, great Brian!!!! Thanks James.....
I so wish I could have been around to see them live in their prime. Unbelievable musicians.
Queen was my first ever gig at age 8 ! They toured Australia in 84 and I went with my Aunty , I knew who they were but didn't really know many songs
I can still remember the smell, the heat and how loud it all was.
Glad I got to see Freddie and John play , but I wish I was just a few years older as I became a mega fan in my teens
My second gig which I also went to with my Aunty was Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.
My Aunt loved showing me music and would watch me as my little brain took it all in.
It worked as I have been a music teacher on and off for most of my adult life.
@@andysalter7192 Wow! That's an awesome experience. Thanks for sharing. Any photos from that Queen show?
@@TigerGreene Cheers! My Aunty may have taken photos but people didn't really care about photos and videos back then , people LIVED the experience.
I will NEVER understand people who buy a ticket to a show to stand there holding a cellphone in the air ???
Brian may is insane, this man is an astrophysicist who built his own guitar and was the guitarist for arguably the biggest band in the world, not to mention his godly music ability to gel notes together like glue.
I want to so badly know how he got the job on Nasa, that people took him seriously enough as a scientist and not just a guitar player in a band called Queen. And how he had time to do everything, I have heard he worked for Nasa in 2023 and didn't they tour that year too.
Without a doubt the most intelligent guitar player. No other guitarists will have a PhD in astrophysics.
One of the greatest Guitar player in history...
His touch is unique, and legendary.
Brian makes my heart smile.
A fellow astronomer, a guitarist and a fan of heavy rock.
The Echoplex playing is one of my all time favourite guitar sounds.. now even more fun with digital fx pedals.
Fantastic the way he explains his technique and then plays like it’s second nature to him all by touch and feel wonderful
One of my heroes, another thing I like about the man is, he grew up watching Rory Gallagher every Friday night. One of his heroes, we all one, or two.
Brian May truly cut his own path through rock n roll. One of a kind - just like his guitar. Immense talent aside, a warm and generous human being.
That Brighton Rock solo at the end was so awesome!
What a beautiful player Brian is, ultra-sustained clean leads and bends are his trademark
I love the Sound of this Guitar.
I am 63. I am a Fan 1974 with Killer Queen 🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶💖
This interview answered so many questions. I had you earned my subscription
Amazing document! The most beautiful guitar on Earth! ❤
Real Brian May stuff, exemplifying that living tone he has always so masterfully applied. He is the reason I play guitar. My one real hero.
Bit of Brighton rock there. Awesome
Fabulous! Brian May is such a modest guy, considering what a fabulous virtouso he is.. Then there's the astrophysics on top! A multiplex polymath and a nice person all in one.. Very rare. 🌟🎶🌜🌟👍
That 1st glimpse of the phase pedal caught my attention. At the end of the clip they show it clearly - i HAVE that exact Roto-Phase in the basement! Now I gotta dig it out. Never really played with it!
Brian has always been very appreciative of modern guitarist's , were it was from the 80s up til now & has done some of his own descriptions of certain lead guitarists like Nuno Nuno Bettencourt as just one & he was very vocal with regards to his praise towards Nuno...
I think it was the " Extreme " bands song " Get The Funk Out " & how he praised Nuno's ability to keep taking his solo higher & higher & for a very gifted humble man but he forgets that he was & still as innovative guitar player...
That's shows you the respect when he praises modern guitarist's , as without being disrespectful many can be too full of themselves & it's refreshing to here someone like Brian who was refreshing in his praise of fellow lead guitarists that has seen the baton past on to them & they have played with a certain amount of restraint so they weren't classed as shredders...
There's no doubt shredders of the lead guitar are amazing but that only really works Live as the lead guitar , like the bass guitar & other instruments should always serve the song or it gets too busy & then you miss the part when the solo from the lead guitarists become bogged down & cluttered by over indulgence by a lead guitarist but thankfully many over the many decades have known not to get carried away in their own little world...
The lead guitarists can easily fit into a specific song & with the right guitarist it can become an amazing song but a small percentage ruined their solo's by forgetting that a great solo also needs to serve the song...
There's an amazing rendition with Brian May/Steve Vai/Nuno Bettencourt & greats of the lead guitar playing " Bohemian Rhapsody " with predominantly all lead guitarists that I'd be here all night typing who is in it this rendition of " Bohemian Rhapsody " Yes there's a piano playing along with a drummer & bassist that enter into this instrumental of " Bohemian Rhapsody " & it shows us how much " Bohemian Rhapsody " has inspired so many to pick up & play an instrument that suits them...
Within this upload there's no vocals as Nuno & the other guitarists play where the vocals would be & in itself its an amazing piece of music that clearly gives a nod & praise to such an iconic cult song that is " Bohemian Rhapsody " & Brian clearly was a main ingredient within that song & many others...
Like what many comments have said & that was Brian too was on another level as a guitarist but to build your own guitar with the help of your father that doesn't sound like any other lead guitar then & now is on yet another level & the distance sounds Brian can get with his guitar shows us that his guitar is a one in a million with regards to the sounds only that guitar can deliver & it became another reason as to why " Queen " become one of the biggest bands in the world as each member brought something new to their whole collective & they game us song's that will never ever be forgotten...
Jim Burns used this circuitry way back on his 1962 Vibra Artiste DeLuxe guitar all three Burns Tri Sonic pickups were wired in series as on Brian May's guitar but he used only three 3way toggle switches instead of six 2way slide switches. A much more elegant solution. Burns vibrato (or tremelo if you prefer) units were also very advanced and well engineered.
I always feel like the old school short-form interviews leave so much on the table with a genius like this.
He's such a innovator, built his own guitar, the queen sound, it's like Brian's made a big part of queens sound. Amazing talented guy.
Exactly, you can hear different Queen songs and immidiatly hear that's the Queen guitar sound. Bohemian Rhapsody specially is a very good example.
What a soft-spoken and well-mannered person Mr. May is. Somehow, even though Freddie was a musical genius and a shining star on stage, I liked Brian better.
Fascinating, its one thing reading about it but amazing actually seeing it, cheers.
Being that I am not a guitarist I love it when they explain what it is they do to get that great sound!
Same here, as a frustrated guitarist this is cool stuff to see
Brian is a good bloke. In comparison to other guitarists, he is and always was quite open about his techniques and let others peep into his cards.
I'm pretty sure this was 1976, around the time of A Day At The Races...during that time the guitar playing of Brian was garnering a considerable amount of interest. I read an interview with Freddie years later and he was talking about this time period and how Brian's popularity eclipsed everyone else in the band. '75-'78 were the years of nifty guitar solos...listen to any of the hit pop/rock songs of that time and they all had one. Brian May was THE guitar god for a while...then Eddie Van Halen showed up (April '78 debut album) and the era of the speed shredder was born.
From what I have read this is from February 1978. So yes not long after ADATR and News Of The World
4 meses después de News Of The World que salio el 28/10/77.
Seems very grounded and normal !
Great person !
the 'Old Lady" looked and sounded lovely in this clip James. Thank you for sharing💕
wow what a talented guy I hope he gets to play in a band some day
😂😂
Cracking find, thanks for sharing 👍✌️💜😊
This was gold. Thanks for sharing.
Proper and most elegant guitarist ever !!!
It's admirable that he's so musically intelligent, and a genius in the Science world, but still he keeps his guitar playing accessible and enjoyable. When he could be endlessly, mathematically noodling like those Joe Satriani type players.
I'm always disappointed when people feel the need to put down other musicians just to raise another one up. It's fine if Satriani isn't your cup of tea, but I don't see any reason to tarnish his skill and accomplishments because of that.
@@MrBromansa I disrespected Satriani because I'm pure EVILL!!
Actually I was just comparing a melodic soloist vs a technical soloist. I needed an example or the comparison woulda been boring.
@@chrisandrew6633 Okay, but why Satriani? He's more than capable of doing melodic solos ("Always with Me, Always with You") - Yngiew Malmsteen would've been a better a choice for you. I still dislike putting down other technical guitar players like Yngwie or Tosin Abasi (the latter of whom I vastly prefer for his skill and melodic facility), but your point would've been more salient if you had.
Mad respect for making his own tremolo..
Gonna have to listen to Brighton Rock after this. Brian’s guitar playing is something special
Wow! It's the first time I see those tape loops.
I don't like May so much as a guitarist but I love him as a person, I could stay hours listening to him
The man is a genius. Pure and simple.
Kudos to Mike for the good questions, they weren't always as relevant in those days.
From 5:16 onward - THIS is the Brian May signature sound i know.
he wound his own pickups too. no one else could get his tone until he released a commercial version. a genius in so many ways. astrophysicist too as if being one of the best guitarists of all time wasn't enough!
No he used Burns Tri sonics he says so and you can clearly see them in pictures of his guitar
@@carolramsey6287 well, yes and no. Yes, he and his father did initially make their own pickups, but weren't happy with how they turned out, so they then got the Tri-Sonics.
Great interview (albeit way too short)! Thanks for sharing!!
3:45 tha is the weirdest most well thought out explanation I've ever heard for someone using a phaser pedal xD only Brian May could've said that.
I remember Dr May saying in many interviews over the years that his father and he built the guitar because they couldn't afford to buy something like a Stratocaster. Incredible to think that if they'd been a little richer Brian would have bought a Stratocaster and the legend of the Red Special would never have happened. For sure Brian's sound and phrasing would have been different because of the different whammy bar and amount of bend the Red Special can put on a string.
Great video to watch! The hiss of the AC30s ever present because of the volume May plays at, and terrific to see the modded Echoplex...how long were those tape rails? LOL
Anyone know which phaser he is using at 3:12?
It’ll be a Foxx phaser
I love the Red Special 🎸🎸🎸
Great video! Thanks James!
Amazing. I thought he overdubbed. Learned about the Echoplex today.
This wonderful man and musician is the only reason I play guitar and desire curly hair! Thank you Brian and sorry for my English!
Ce mec est génial, tellement fait pour la musique
Brian May is a real world Buckaroo Banzai=Guitarist/Astrophysicist/Genius....one of a kind for sure!
there is nothing as satisfying as building something yourself and then using it for its purpose.
the younger generation is missing out on the joy of tinkering around with stuff --- building a coffee table out of pallet wood, or growing your own food and canning it, or just taking apart an old tv and looking at the parts inside.
I love using certain coins as picks. They seem to brighten the sound substantially.
Legendary musician and brilliant scientist. ❤
Love hearing him speak
As a guitarist and with Brian being one of my influences and favourite players....
I'm sure I'm not the only player who gasped and loved how he played up to a fifth on one fretted note!
And how big is that echolex tape loop. Great stuff. Great post and clip.
Brian is another like Les Paul and Eddie Van Halen, an innovator coming up with ways and using effects he's come up with that nobody else thought of, id call him a musical genius just like Les and Eddie and Hendrix, not many of those but they are extremely important to the rest of us non genius folk.
Crazy to think there was a time in guitar effects history when something as simple as delay was groundbreaking.
Easy the best demo of his sound and how to do it on youtube
I found the link to Brian May talking about Nino Bettencourt's playing on the band " Extreme " single " Get The Funk Out "
As i said Brian is not a guitarist who's completely wrapped up within oneself & recognises & applauds amazing talent when he hears it & you rarely get lead guitarists that are open to their own honesty & declare that other lead guitarist , predominantly modern guitarist , but since the Music Industry died quite some time ago i'd go lead guitarists that inspired Brian up until the year 2000
Who would have thought the Music Industry that signed solo artists & band's on a daily basis with high numbers , that were almost innumerable , but now you couldnt get a Record Contract even if you were one of the most gifted singers & musician that could play more than 1 instrument at an amazing high level & we had many like Stevie Wonder & Prince just to name 2 but we also had amazing solo artists & bands that covered so many different genre they had to put certain artists into specific genres which predominantly happened in the 80s onwards...
How can the music scene going all the way back to the Blues & Big Bands that the likes of Glen Miller achieved fame by thinking of a new way to push Big Band Music furthet than it had before & all those musicians , playing solo or in bands , from each decade onwards would die off to the point i honestly can not count 10 top talent artists out today , were as before we couldn't keep count & each new decade saw a change in how popular music was played but , again , IF somrone told me this would happen id think they were crazy to think that the powerful always churning out the new acts that was the job & business of the Music Industry to do...
This is why we've seen a resurgence with the music lovers of the world revisiting music from the past & though I've always promoted that older music should be listened to , i didnt expect that older music was practically the only music worth listening to , as though there are a few top solo sings & bands its nowhere near as huge as it used to be & as a music lover of so many genres its difficult to accept this has happened & no one that loved music & bought all their single & albums would see this coming , yet i havent once seen any comment(s) that state the same details about the the death of the Music Industry as i have done!..
The link below is how youll see Brian May praising Nuno Bettencourt...
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Thanks for sharing this James. Great video.
Do you have a bit of tab for the 3 part harmony demonstrated here?
Thanks and best regards,
Ian
I’ll have to have a look
Hi james i just want to ask is the red special able to do dive bombs and high squels like dimebag floating trem?
I suppose you can. But a guitar with Floyd Rose locking trem is probably more ideal for that style of music
@@Rocklicks72 thanks im planning to buy the rs or dimebag signature and i thought it would be great if the rs trem can do what a floating trem can do
I don't wana meet someone who didn't just love that guy 😕 he's the nicest person ever genuine
"Echoplex".... Brighton Rock!!! 🎸❤️🤘😀
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His guitar 🎸 is the legendary
Fantastic, Brian!!!
Queen The better.
Thanks for sharing
He's such a nice person. His character is super underrated; not much attitude, and holy hell can he play!
Legend guitarist ❤️🙏🎵🎶🎸✌️🍀👌🎼
Brian rockin' the Clogs!
. . . yes, Brian May my hero! . . . . love you Brian.
This make want to practice guitar now
May is a genuine genius
I think Brian May might be the only guitarist I've never seen or hear anyone speak negatively about as a musician or a person. Even just to say "I'm not really a fan of his playing".... Maybe Brian should take a cute from Bill Evans and release a solo album called "Everybody Loves Brian May"
I’m not a big fan of his playing can’t lie😂
Man o man, wow, you've got it!
Beautiful