What is Brian's most difficult song to play

Brighton Rock was the most ambitious, but excluding that, what was the most difficult Queen song or guitar riff Brian played either on stage or recorded in a studio. I read that BoRap on stage was definitely challenging.

IMHO i think probably ,,love of my life''

"The Show Must Go On"... !!!

Possibly the Invisible Man solo.

The Miracle album contains Bri's most technically difficult and adventurous guitar-work. There are many runs and fills throughout that album that require great technique in order to pull them off correctly.

In fact, I think the most technically difficult thing Bri ever did is a very fast ascending run that only features in the 12" version of Scandal. He's almost shredding there.

My Melancholy Blues - live version...

Well, I ain't guitarist so I don't know, but maybe as Bohard wrote - The Invisible Man and You Don't Fool Me?

I think he once said that his most difficult work was on some collaboration that has never seen the light of day. Quite a clever move, because thus it's impossible to judge how virtuoso he really his.

You mean stuff from his solo albums or Queen songs he wrote?

I would assume it would be the stuff off Queen II, if were refering to overall. That Album had the most Multi-tracking on his part i believe. Just refering to live jams, I would say his solo on Princes of the Universe.

what about Put Out The Fire solo?

"what about Put Out The Fire solo? "

Yeah, that's the one! Since he was shit-faced when he did it...

:o)

I love that story about the Put out the Fire solo. Brian having been out on the piss all night hears a echo through his cans courtesy of Mack. Gets excited and wants to put it on every track. Mack, thank god suggest POTF. Body Language could do with it though.

Dead on time - overlooked and virtually impossible to play!

hehe who knows brians the best he knows hot to play all of them hes the best!!!!1

I can play just about any solo or riff he put to magnetic tape - Princes of the Universe, Invisible Man... but the ONE thing that still eludes me after all these years is about five seconds in Brighton Rock. I don't get it, I *know* how to play it but for the life of me I can't!

But yeah. I spent around two or three years learning how to play Queen songs and it got a little boring... it was actually a bit unhealthy, my style lingers a little close to Queen for my liking (in that, one might say I'm ripping them off). :(

Most difficult? Hmmm...

- Bohemian Rhapsody isn't *nearly* as hard as all that.
- I actually find some of his guitar parts on March of the Black Queen to be very tricky.
- A song that is HUGE fun to play is Innuendo, from beginning to end. The guitar parts are very slow in the main body of the song, but the 'flamenco' bit is a buzz to play (I play both parts at once, unfortunately this doesn't sound quite as good as double tracking but oh well).
- The Breakthru solo is such an energetic thing to play... it actually makes me feel physically cheerful to bang that one out.
- Unfortunately, my delay thing broke about a year ago so I haven't really bothered with Brighton Rock. But if you can get such a device, it makes playing so much fun.
- The Princes of the Universe solo is really really simple, very easy to play if you practise - but when people hear it, they're jaws drop and they go "HOW????". What fun.
- Bijou is beautiful, but I've never sat down to learn it all.
- The Scandal solo is a challenge and a half...
- The bit that clinched learning Queen for me (I mean, it's the last Queen thing I really learnt) was Invisible Man's solo. I genuinely used to listen to that and think that he cheated somehow.
But, it's entirely possible and I play it heaps as a party trick. It was probably the hardest thing to learn, and I can only manage it on a good night.

And there you have it, that's all I can say. I'd be interested to hear from more guitarists about playing Queen though, I wanna know what you think having done it yourselves. :D

Put out the fire