Brian May Reluctantly Names His Favourite Guitar Players

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@TGriffiths-ve6nw Сағат бұрын

The thing that I appreciate about Brian May is his down to earth honesty and respect to others. He has nothing to prove to anyone and it shows. His talk about Rory Gallagher hits me deep. Rory had no ego either. He showed many people how he got the sounds that he could squeeze out of his guitar without the use of pedals. That guitar was a part of him. There are lots of guitarists who came later than Rory who are virtuosos and very technically capable of incredible playing but Rory figured his guitar out in the 60s when there was no one follow. He developed his own style of playing and performing. Commercialism was not appealing to Rory so he avoided it and refused to put out any singles. He did sell 30 million albums while sticking to being Rory the performer. He loved his fans and audiences and he played for them, not the record executives. Incredible performer. He done good!

@michael_caz_nyc 42 минут бұрын

So many phenomenal guitar players (in many genre's). In no particular order for me: Tommy Emmanuel, Guthrie Govan, Steve Howe, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Alex Lifeson, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Andy Summers, Robin Trower, Allan Holdsworth, Al Di Meola, Steve Stevens, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Nile Rodgers & Tony Iommi . . . (however) There is No Best / There is No Greatest = it's who moves and inspires you.

@kerrfoot 47 минут бұрын

Excellent presentation! Please get round to Steve Howe, voted best overall guitarist for 5 consecutive years by his peers in Guitar Player mag. Still touring today thanks again!

@jayclarke6671 2 сағат бұрын

GOAT is subjective but the fact that he is the only rock or pop artist in history who has a PhD is what makes him really standout.

@harounel-poussah6936 53 минут бұрын

Oh, c'mon, Brian has very serious guitar technique and, BTW, people like Holdsworth, Shawnlane, EVH, MacLaughlin, etc, play "fast" simply because it's how their musical ideas come to their minds, and they have monstrous "feeling"... Seeing a musical instrument as a competition is for losers, when you're practising an art, that's NOT the point... Note that as ALL the "greats", he has a VERY personal sound and his guitars are made of a centuries old oak with countless worm holes in... But there's a trick to know about guitar : DO NOT TRY TO COPY OTHERS SOUND AND GEAR and even the way they play! BE YOURSELF !!! Don't go for the Stratocaster or the LesPaul or the JEM or whatever because someone uses this or that, and same for the amplifiers, the effects, etc : use what sounds the best with YOUR fingers and preferably go for the easiest thing to play, BTW, you really have to fight against the guitar when you use a Strat and you'll get rapidly tired, the radius is too pronounced so if you practise intensively, you're in for tendinitis. Replaced it by a Vigier Excalibur Supra, had custom pickups made where I have at the same time a Fender Abigail Ybarra set AND the DiMarzio HalfTrack on bridge and a FS-1 in neck posn, A Freeway 10 positions selector replaces the classic 5pos, a push-pull to reverse the phase of the central PU and a duplo pot to get the classic strat double tones, add a kill-switch and here we are : It's far better and way more polyvalent than any Strat I ever touched, way way way more reliable and the neck is the easiest to play I know, in fact, it's not my fav'd guitar but it's my workmate because my fav'd one sounds so intense, it's like a Guarnerius violin, you can't play this all the time or you'll end at the looneys, it's too much! Let's say it's 3 quarters of maple, one quarter of alder with a thick Brazilian rosewood fretboard, neckthru, a long graphite bar instead of the trussrod, there are only 46 like these in the world and I own two. Best guitar I ever touched... and some may not agree even if they love how it sounds with me, they may not be in osmosis with it, that's not a problem... Someone once told me : "You own a lot of freaking great guitars, playing 'em is like making love, but this one, it's not making love, it's r4pe!" Same for all my stuff : the basis is what gets out of my fingers and I will use what works the best FOR ME! And I don't need a modelling stuff with 300 pseudo amps, my gear has already raised eyebrows... until they ear the sound...

@innertube47 Сағат бұрын

Wot! No Jan Akkerman?

@GASMan-57 59 минут бұрын

“Greatest Guitarist” is a superlative term that should never be applied to an individual. There’s just too many styles and points in innovation to make a call. e.g. where would Segovia place? Let’s just call the “greats” “great”.

@michael_caz_nyc 39 минут бұрын

Agree 100%