I know, I know. There are so many reasons that guitar officionados reject Queen and I just don't understand them. Brian May, with an original scratch-built guitar, popularised multi-tracked guitar orchestration and was a brilliantly inventive guitar soloist in the productive years of Queen's studio and stadium performance years from the 70s to the 90s, and did a mean line in hard-rock riffs.
The main reason I got interested in building guitars at all was to accumulate the necessary experience to build a replica Red Special. I never, ever thought I would get the chance to hear Brian May play in person, let alone in a Queen concert, and yet I find myself today with tickets to see Queen (+Adam Lambert) in August. I am ECSTATIC!! Freddie was an integral part of the Queen recipe, no doubt, but I figure "these guys don't need a 'pay the rent' tour, and wouldn't throw their reputation away by using a vocalist they have no confidence in", so whatever. The songs are the songs, but I'll be there to hear the curly-headed man and his hand-made instrument. And I'll come out of that stadium very hoarse.
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