Did Freddie ever touch the red special?

 took the time to send this message to Peter Freestone and that gem of a man took the time to respond!
[/QUOTE]Hey Peter, 

Thanks for accepting my friends request. I just have a quick Queen related question that I'm sure you get a lot, and no worries if you don't have time to answer me back, I know you're busy. I wrote to Brian and he didn't respond but I was just wondering if you knew of any times in the studio or live backstage that Freddie was maybe given a chance by Brian to play his guitar, the red special, or maybe for Freddie to teach Brian how to play a riff he was thinking in his head. I was just wondering because no pictures of Freddie holding the red special have ever surfaced.


Thanks again from America!

[/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][img=http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v222/975/6/q773358611_1811.jpg][/img][/QUOTE]Peter Freestone January 15 at 7:29am[/QUOTE]I never saw Fredie with the red special in his hands. If he wanted Brian to play a specific riff he would normally demonstrate it vocally. It was true Freddie had very little knowledge of playing a guitar!

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[/QUOTE]So I suppose this roves that Freddie never really held the red special, though we know Brian let Paul use it before backstage.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

Awesome the formatting was wayyy off, but heres what Peter said:
[/QUOTE]I never saw Fredie with the red special in his hands. If he wanted Brian to play a specific riff he would normally demonstrate it vocally. It was true Freddie had very little knowledge of playing a guitar!

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There's one pic of Fred plucking the strings and Brian making the chord shapes. It was just a moment during a concert, nothing special.

"Paul teaching Brian to play Smoke on the Water"

Very good lol

Teaching Freddie's favourite song to Freddie's favourite singer??
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I am sorry, but my mind was sooooooooo in the gutter when I read this question.........

Holly2003 wrote:

"Paul teaching Brian to play Smoke on the Water"

Very good lol

That always bugged me, the "teaching" part considering Brian, Roger and Paul played on the Rock Aid Armenia version of SOTW back in '89!

I'd like to know what Pim thinks about Freddy and the red special...

 



Projector Freddie wrote:



So I suppose this proves that Freddie never really held the red special, though we know Brian let Paul use it before backstage.

 



 



 



 



 

[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] Its doesnt prove anything actually. For all we know, Freddie may have played or touched Brian's guitar before Peter got to know him.
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And/or after Peter met him but he didn't see or doesn't remember. I can just picture it:

(Fred mixes laxative in his wine and has a conspiracy smile)

Freddie: Phoebe, drink this dear.
Phoebe: OK.

(Ten minutes later).

Pheebs: I've gotta go...
Fred: Brian, quickly! Gimme the RS, that way QZ people will prove PF wrong LO.
Brian: OK.

I'm sure freddie touched brians Instrument,  and he enjoyed every minute of it......That's what the song "i'm scared" was about.   One day the truth will cum out,  and brian will write a tell all book about the experience of freddie touching his red special. [img=/images/smiley/msn/wink_smile.gif][/img]

Did Freddie ever touch the Red Special?  He did, in fact, touch the Red Special, Projector Freddie.  Many, many times....

Of course he touched it.  Brian said it was his favourite guitar.

Zebonka12 wrote:

Of course he touched it.  Brian said it was his favourite guitar.

Standing ovation.

I just finished watching the Queen video for the concert in Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1985.  Freddie touched the Red Special for a moment when Brian was playing the WWRY solo in this concert.