New book by Brian: Brian Mays Red Special: The Story of the Home-made Guita

Came across this item on amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1480341479/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p15_d1_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0T8A9DEKCV18R5W22620&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846

Looks interesting and not too expensive for a hardcover edition.

The Daily Mail have run a piece on this in the UK, which starts with:

"After Freddie Mercury, the other real star of Queen was Brian May’s famously hand-built ‘Red Special’...."


I bet that makes Roger and John feel great!!! :-)

^ My thoughts exactly, haha!

Haven't we heard this story hundreds of times already?

He claims to have carved the body out of a bicycle seat and the tremolo out of a fireplace. Sounds like balls to me. I reckon he bought it from a Kays catalogue and he probably also owns Hohner Arbor and Satelite strats, the old fraud.

Not liking that peaceful smirk he's adopted while playing nowadays. No sign of rock'n roll in his eyes anymore. :(

Indeed. It looks like his heart is in astronomy now, and he plays music for pure joy whenever the time's right.

Thank goodness he isn't a bitter old man. He really made the most of himself.

This book is exciting. Can't wait to read it.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

Indeed. It looks like his heart is in astronomy now, and he plays music for pure joy whenever the time's right.

Thank goodness he isn't a bitter old man. He really made the most of himself.

This book is exciting. Can't wait to read it.[/QUOTE]

Exactly! He has had a career, and now in later years is enjoying his position in life and making the most of it. And thankfully giving us the chance to still enjoy some of what his art has produced.

Wow. Never thought I'd see the day the Wiz ragged on Brian



Funny thing about the concert I went to.

The most alert and affective i saw Brian was when I was approaching the stage. (The house lights seemed as if they were all on, it felt like a patio concert that close by)

Me being ushered into the crowd by the stage got him looking with a "who the Dutch is This? " look. ..

Funny .I thought it was ME. With all the shit going through my head that night.


The only other time I remember him breaking that steely veneer was when Adam quipped a joke and asked Brian what he thought of LOVE.

(Brian audibly said IT SUCKS)

I don't know if that's in any fan videos or maybe it's a standard mechanism on the tour.

Too many Lambert fans.

It was overwhelming. Nobody with that ROCK groove in the crowd either. Maybe they were all in the "cheap seats" (none were cheap on this Tour)

Addendum.


Sucks if the guys in the band aren't enjoying it anymore

I have the Red Special book, it turned up on Friday. It looks very nice, I haven't much time to do more than flip through it.

I also bought Brian's PhD thesis on Amazon a few months back, and I found it very interesting. Lovely pictures of 1970s electronics.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]



Thank goodness he isn't a bitter old man. He really made the most of himself.
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He isn't?

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

Wow. Never thought I'd see the day the Wiz ragged on Brian [/QUOTE]

Ha, that was a rag !?

On stage these days he just looks like a guy at peace with what he has accomplished in life.

That said, was he ever really one for making Carlos Santana faces to begin with?