[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]AmeriQueen wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I am starting to practice guitar again, hoping to one day be able to play a ton of Brian's songs and maybe even create sounds of my own. I have the Red Special set up and it sounds very accurate to the real thing.

This got me thinking. How is it that today, with all the Brian equipment out there, that only Brian himself plus a few guitarists that play in Queen cover bands are the only people you hear that play music with the Red Special sound?? Wouldn't you think that by now some new band would show up in the public eye with a guitarist who plays with a Brian style setup? Two bands that I really don't like, the Darkness and the Foo Fighters claim to be obsessed with Queen, labeling Queen as their favorite band. Why is that their guitarists don't play a Red Special guitar, like a Greg Fryer or Guyton guitar replica? Why is there noone else following Brian's footsteps? You can't say it's out of trying to be original, because what could possibly be original in playing the massively common Fender Strats and Gibson Les Pauls?

It's time for some band out there to commit to original guitar music, but with Brian's custom tones. It's time for someone to step up. If I had the talent to make it as a guitarist in a new band, I would be the first to copy his tone for my own music. [/QUOTE]

Actually I think the Foo Fighters labelled Led Zeppelin as their favorite band.