Brian May Still Reigns as the King of Tone (Guitar Player Magazine)

Did you know Roger Taylor's favourite guitar solo by Brian May is the one on Was It All Worth It? This interview is a few years old but I haven't seen it before. It's also one of the better interviews with Brian, which proves once again the best interviews depend on the quality of the interviewer's questions and not just how interesting the interviewee is.

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/brian-may-still-reigns-as-the-king-of-tone/148233

That is interesting. I'm just as surprised as Brian seemed to be.

It is a pretty great solo. Brian goes in and gets the job done very nicely in that fairly lengthy bit before the weird synthesizer stuff. I don't really think about it when I'm thinking about some of Brian's better solos, but maybe I should.

Solid interviews, from both Roger and Brian. I always read some stuff that I already knew and I also always find out at least a little bit that I find interesting. In this one, though, I learned a lot of interesting things.

I haven't had a chance to read yet. I will, I just owe YV a reply over in Personal that will likley have me rambling for eight paragraphs on what others could say in two so I better get to it. Ha ha. The idea of the quality and presumably the depth of an interviewer's questions reminded me of a Brian interview I saw in recent weeks for the first time though it's from the summer of 2011. It was new to me, so perhaps new to some others as well. He handled it well, but holy jeez! The questions! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqDQPJO0KMs

The guitarplayer interview is indeed very interesting. I thought it was nice that he talked about "Who needs you". Some people thought it was John playing that acoustic guitar, but it´s Brian.

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I believe that they both do.

Brian May is a fantastic human being. Great interview.

"I did the calculations for the frets on the computer I was working with at the time in my work place. This is about 1964, and a mainframe computer filled a large building, with an overall capacity of about a thousandth of your laptop. I made up my own formula, and based my program on an iterative solution to the equation. The calculations were correct to 24 decimal places. Really! I have the printout somewhere."

And he was 17. What a friggin genius.

Nice to hear him open up about the brilliance of Good Company, too. He isn't asked about that one all that often.

Great! Thanks

great interview

what a difference from the "what was freddie like?" interviews..

Guitar magazines sure know how to conduct an interview.

But this one even sticks out from that bunch. One of the most candid and revealing Brian has ever done.

I'm quite a new citizen of the cyber-world, many Queen concerts or interviews are still terra incognita to me, they are to be discovered step by step. These 2 interviews only strengthened my initial impulse, the man is special. Where do his fundamental wisdom,warmth, peace, come from? Could he have had an epiphany, no, he said he was an agnostic. Could he, through mathematical calculations have come closer to the great truth?
Can the death of a friend take you to a superior level of knowledge? Whether we like his choices or not, this shouldn't diminish his greatness.
A last question:am I being too emotional? I don't care.

Great interview, and actually really in depth about the music, and obviously conducted by someone who knows their stuff. Brian seemed pleasantly surprised by the quality of some of the questions too.

yeah, that's a good interview - it takes 2 to tango

over those years I have read/listened Bri talk about that album by Temperance Seven- anyone in here have a copy?

There are a few tunes on youtube.

If anyone wants to know where much of Good Company came from..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDhaZElJ4Ho