Brian May is the most fantastically emotive guitar player in the world

Great topic! Brian is the most emotional guitar player ever! Excelent tone! Hard to choose the most emotive guitar solo... But I have to go with the album version of Why Don't We Try Again. I remember the first time I've heard it... So sad...

White Queen! Gives me goose-bumps.

For me the solo in Let Me Live is a very emotional bit, I believe that Let Me Live is an unrated Queen Song in the Queen catalogue. Not direct a solo, but I think that Brian sings very emotional on No-one But You especially this part: There's a face at the window
And i aint never, never saying goodbye..

Tom

Let Me Live has a great solo, I still remember how I just adored it the first time i heard it.

Every note Brian plays on Made In Heaven is perfection. Just so well thought out and executed with heart.

Hope that listing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' isn't too obvious.

What grabs me the most is 'A Winter's Tale'. Words cannot describe all the emotions this one creates.

Oscar J wrote:

Let Me Live has a great solo, I still remember how I just adored it the first time i heard it.

agreed.

Yes great sono on Let Me Live, but not an emotive one.

Chief Mouse wrote:

matt z wrote:

RE: TSMGO... where'd you guys get the clean isolated guitar parts? ....I hadn't heard that so clearly in the mix before.

Multitrack ;-)

..... suppose there's another forum for multi tracks?

I remember reading about em under announcements a year or two ago. .... gonna have to get out the ol bifocals

Great thread Matt. i've often wondered which 'Brian' Queen fans like better. 'Raw' Brian (TYMD, Sweet Lady, Dragon Attack etc.) or 'Polished' Brian (BR, Killer Queen, Good Company etc.) He's almost like two players, the bluesy, let-it-fly guy, and the painstakingly meticulous take-three-hours-for-a-take guy. Love them both. It's Late does it for me, his simple strumming at the start is so emotive, amazing what he can do with a simple rhythm part.

Sheer Brass Neck wrote:

i've often wondered which 'Brian' Queen fans like better. 'Raw' Brian (TYMD, Sweet Lady, Dragon Attack etc.) or 'Polished' Brian (BR, Killer Queen, Good Company etc.) He's almost like two players, the bluesy, let-it-fly guy, and the painstakingly meticulous take-three-hours-for-a-take guy.

Good perspective. Never quite seen it like that, but of course you're right.

For me it's the polished Brian all the way. It's what separates him from the rest. No other rock guitarist has come close to creating a Good Company with a dixieland jazz band of guitars.

^ this clip, coming out of the I Was Born To Love You solo @ 12:34. He plays a little lick that he also played in Delilah. His spontaneous melodic sense is still in there.

Yeah, that's one of his signature phrases. He's one of those few guitarist who can make ordinary major scales sound awesome.

The Real Wizard wrote:
For me it's the polished Brian all the way. It's what separates him from the rest. No other rock guitarist has come close to creating a Good Company with a dixieland jazz band of guitars.

accepted - but that was almost 40 years ago. and your comment dismisses lots of things other guitarist have done that Brian hasn't.

Oscar J wrote:
Yeah, that's one of his signature phrases. He's one of those few guitarist who can make ordinary major scales sound awesome.

yes and no. once you've heard Brighton Rock live a second time - you've heard it forever. the "meticulous" aspects of Brian's playing that Bob refers to above are what also makes him a little too "constrained, repetitive and formulaic" live to the point of him being anything but innovative.

I said can. Didn't say he always did!