The instruments of the band...

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[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

No, it was Nothin' But Blue. On Mother Love he played a Parker Fly.
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Yeah, you are correct! I got confused.
I remember I had (or still have, I dont know) a Korg magazine with a Brian interview, the guys gave Brian a Parker Fly, I wonder if that's the guitar he used on ML...

I cant remember the year of the interview, I will look for it.

Also, Malmsteen have a RS Brian gave to him, does anyone knows if Yngwie had use it?
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I never heard about that! Interesting...............somehow I can NOT picture Yngwie shredding away on a Red Special...............

Is milmy malwasteen one of those people you see in guitar polls that no one actually knows? He could walk into my flat right now playing his thing and I would tell him to get the fuck out. What the fuck is it?

[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]

I never heard about that! Interesting...............somehow I can NOT picture Yngwie shredding away on a Red Special...............

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There's a pic somewhere with his collection, among others, you can see one or two Les Paul's an ESP, a 7 string JEM, a Chet Atkins, the RS a SKY guitar and a few others.
There are a few videos out there but I couldnt find them still, here's this, you wont see the RS but you'll see some of his axes...
http://youtu.be/HZeOOsSgx2Q?t=3m11s

The reason for this topic is, my former team leader, her and her partner have a studio in West Auckland and she said on day about one of her partners pet peeves about people who throw away their musical instruments more in regards to your first guitar and that they are like your children which got me thinking about Queen.... Brian for obvious reasons his guitar gets plane seat tickets and the full first class treatment.. John Deacon from what Vocal Harmony has noted and what I have roughly read from wiki.. he has stuck with a select few primary basses he likes...

The 12 string freddie used for Crazy little thing called love on stage.. was that Brian's?

So, both Brian and John had their favorites from almost the beginning. Both had many back ups on stage...

Brian: Dose he still have/use the same black stratty that he used on Crazy little thing and the same 12 sting and classical guitar from 39 Love of my life and is this the world we created, did he keep the v from POTU?

John: What bass is the one at the rock cafe? and the one he biffed at Knebworth? Guessing he used the same acoustic from Queen 1 and may still have it...?

Freddie: Brian has one of the pianos and one is at garden lodge... how many did he own? and his white 6 string is still missing..?

Roger: From what has been mentioned so far.. he has been through many drum kits no surprise over the years... got to admit the wembly/magic tour was very minimalist..! 70s was when he had the big kit! Being big bulky things he probably wouldn't have kept many over the years in Queen..? The guitars he used on the albums, were they his or just studio owned ones..?

I remember reading somewhere during the very early years when piano based songs started appearing more and more in Queens live line up and when they were still skint... They had to plan more and more around venues that had a piano on stage just with the cost involved with lugging one around the world etc... You would have to tune it almost every time it was moved wouldn't you? Or not so much

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[QUOTE] [b]Vocal harmony wrote:[/b]

It is of couse very possible that Brian had the piano refurbished.

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According to one of the 1994 issues of the Fan Club magazine, Steinway (the company) had volunteered to refurbish that piano, so that might have been what happened.[/QUOTE]

94 was s long time ago, but now you've mentioned it, I do remember reading something about it.

What kind of bass John used in Headlong? I think it was the same as in I want it all?

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Brian: Dose he still have/use the same black stratty that he used on Crazy little thing and the same 12 sting and classical guitar from 39 Love of my life and is this the world we created, did he keep the v from POTU?

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Freddie: Brian has one of the pianos and one is at garden lodge... how many did he own? and his white 6 string is still missing..?

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The guitar on CLTCL its a telecaster that happened to be at the studio, its not one of his guitars. To my knowledge, the black telecaster used live is a different guitar and he still have it in storage.

As for the acoustics, it seems that Brian used lots of acoustics. In 1984/1986 his 6 strings was a Gibson Chet Atkins for ITTWWC.
As for the 12 string I have seen Guild's, Takamine's and other brands...

As for the Freddie's white telecaster, is not missing, it was stolen from the storage...

I believe the CLTCL guitar wasn't a real tele, it was one of Rogers guitars I think. Too lazy to find a source though.

The CLTCL guitar is a composite, the neck comes from one guitar and the body from another one, or something like that. Anyway, it's been reported as an Esquire, a Broadcaster and a Tele, but according to what can be seen in the headstock when the guitar was photographed for an article about Brian's non-RS guitars, it's a Tele (at least it's got the headstock of a Tele).

Brian then acquired a black one to use on the song live. He played loads of Ovations live, but in the studio he mostly played Martins, including '39. He also played other acoustic guitars in the studio including a Hallfred, a Tokai Hummingbird and, potentially, an Egmond Student.

The Gibson Chet Atkins CE he used on some songs live and in the studio was reportedly also originally Roger's, or found by Roger somewhere.

Frederick had a Martin guitar at home, on stage he played one of Brian's Ovations. He'd tried another Tele before, according to Peter Hince, but didn't stick to it until Peter found the famous white/cream one for him, which was then stolen as it's been said earlier.

John's most famous guitar is the Tele he played on stage, which can also be seen at Musicland Studios in the making of One Vision. He played something else in the studio up until Flash Gordon (possibly Hot Space), he reportedly had several Telecasters and Stratocasters.

Brian also had a Danelectro Longhorn six-string bass, (a.k.a. baritone guitar), which was probably not used for an actual record but it can be seen in the famous Jazz photo at Mountain Studios in 1978. Same for other instruments such as a Kramer guitar (Roger's, presumably).

When the band rehearsed at the Ridge Farm in 1975 and were photographed for a Japanese magazine, Brian was shown playing a Baldwin Bison and there was an Epiphone Crestwood in the background, which was then listed as part of Brian's equipment in the same publication. There's nothing documented to confirm or deny whether he used either one of those in the studio or not; he might have, but most likely he was faithful to the guitar he and his father made most of the time (not all of the time, though).

You know your stuff!

Tottally forgot about the Tokai and the Ovations...!

I knew the tele body was from many sources but I always thought it was a tele with the body of another tele (perhaps a japanese copy)

As for Brian's guitars guitar, I never knew if the (Washburn?) Flying V used in POTU video was used to record the song.
AFAIK that V was not his guitar and he used just to give a metal look to the video.

Which brings me to the point:
There are 2 unsolved mysteries (unsolved at least to me!)
1: What was used in the Father to Son intro? (the first 5 seconds, is that a guitar with some studio tricks? Some kind of keyboard?
2: The solo in GTP that sounds like some kind of "electric bagpipe/guitar" was played with the RS?

Brian's red special mate a great example of why queen put no synthesizers on their albums...

Brian's red special mate a great example of why queen put no synthesizers on their albums...