Deep Purple founding member Nick Simper mentioned in an interview with the German Rock Hard Magazine, that the Solo in Brighton Rock is a copy of the Solo from a track called Back in Time which was released 1972 on the LP Red Sea by his band Warhorse.
He mentioned that Warhorse were on the same label as Queen and Brian May visited one of their concerts in the Marquee.
https://youtu.be/CgHHlvKuA2I
Has this ever been brought up before?
And what do you guys think?
dysan · Member since
That's hell of a track! Certainly similar (minus echo) but the truth is Brian was doing that shtick for a few years before that.
MemeOverlord69 · Member since
Brighton Rock arose from the Smile song, "Blag," from 1969.
dysan · Member since
*the guitar solo in Brighton Rock..
cmsdrums · Member since
This...and I’d guess by that point he’d probably been toying with it for a good while before too.
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]FlorianS wrote:[/b]
Deep Purple founding member Nick Simper mentioned in an interview with the German Rock Hard Magazine, that the Solo in Brighton Rock is a copy of the Solo from a track called Back in Time which was released 1972 on the LP Red Sea by his band Warhorse.[/QUOTE]
It's not a copy. The only thing this has in common with Brighton Rock is that it's a rock song with a guitar solo in the middle in the key of E.
The Warhorse guitarist has no character or control. Not a single note he plays shows any personality or distinction from anyone else at the time. Even if Brian did hear this at some point, he made it 100x better.
History is written by the winners, friends.
Dim · Member since
Brian did the solo from the 60s, one example is Smile's Blag.
pittrek · Member since
As other people said, Brian's solo is older than Queen, so no.
Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira · Member since
Maybe this guy was a Smile fan and copied Brian's solo, which previously featured on the Smile song Blag.
That's what the timeline of events suggests, not the contrary.
Cheers,
Ogre-
Day dop · Member since
Brighton Rock is a far better track than that.
Dr Magus · Member since
I do hope someone puts that Deep Purple chap straight.
inu-liger · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:[/b] Maybe this guy was a Smile fan and copied Brian's solo, which previously featured on the Smile song Blag. [/QUOTE]
Theoretically only possible if he'd actually attended their shows and had a decent memory, because otherwise "Blag" wasn't released until the "Gettin' Smile" LP came out in 1982 :P
mike hunt · Member since
sometimes I think people are Just Jealous of Queen...
Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]inu-liger wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:[/b] Maybe this guy was a Smile fan and copied Brian's solo, which previously featured on the Smile song Blag. [/QUOTE]
Theoretically only possible if he'd actually attended their shows and had a decent memory, because otherwise "Blag" wasn't released until the "Gettin' Smile" LP came out in 1982 :P[/QUOTE]
You do have a point. Maybe it was just something that some
guitarrists used to do back then, to some extent?
Cheers,
Ogre-
dysan · Member since
Promoter: 'you've got to play 2 90 minute sets tonight'
