Just wondering if a kit based on the Brian May Red Special has ever been considered?
Just wondering if a kit based on the Brian May Red Special has ever been considered?
It's been brought up a few times, I thnk this is the most recent discussion.
Scott.
I still wish they would do this... Infact, i was the last person on here to mention it. Even if it wasn't a kit of THE Red Special but a Brian May Special (BMG) I would still buy several kits.
It'd be cool to build a Brian May Special, or two, cause I know a friend who would love to own one, he's into the band Queen.
If anybody's in doubt about Brian Mays talent as a guitarist and Queen as a band I was at this concert . In honesty I went to watch other bands perform, not a fan of queen but came away thinking jeez just one guitarist can achieve that sound . Blew me away. Became a fan
Here you go
http://youtu.be/EPHJFnob8p8
What's really amazing is that Brian May and his dad designed the very first Red Special from scratch, I read somewhere that he carved the neck out of a solid piece of wood, with nothing else except a penknife, he and his dad designed the trem system, the arm was a piece of metal rod from a bicycle attachment, he and his dad were certainly smart cookies.
Apparently Brian uses an English Sixpence for a plectrum.
The body of the first Red Special was made from a piece of Mahogany cut from a piece of wood from a fireplace.
Yeah certainly does use silver sixpences fans used to send them in for him to use.