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  • ive just had my headphones on and blasted my lugs off.

  • This is FANTASTIC!!! Brian I love you very very much. 

  • BRIAN MAY IS A BRILLIANT GUITAR PLAYER

  • @erikeerikoo Well, its a guitar that brian made himself with his father when he was a teenager. But, there is a burns version of it, and there is also a copy of it being made by a company that is set up by brian himslef.

  • This is the legend power of Old Lady!

  • fuck, shit, god help me,

    how I love this sound and this guitar

    Thank you brian for this sound

  • es una verga Brian !!!

  • 7:41 Best camera angle EVER

  • Amazing....

  • Teacher : what is the definititon of epic?

    Me : Brighton Rock!!!!!

  • QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEND ;D

  • le Fou du Roi est devenu Rockstar :{

  • Brian at his best - this is class!

  • I've been listening to this a solo for over 20 years now (maybe even longer) and it still gives me the chills (in a good way).

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  • The first part sound a bit like Eric Claptons "Cocain" Intro.

  • @CallMeAlexIfUWant - Brian can destroy Clapton with both hands tied behind his back, for a start.

  • first time I heard 5:49 - 6:11, I cried. this has to be the single most influential guitar solo I've ever heard. in those few moments, I heard the birth of Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction and most of the 90s alt rock movement that took this sound and built a fucking career out of it. all thanks to Brian Fucking May. one of the best bands out there to this day.

  • Better Than You-Know-Who??

  • @TheGia3 A lot.

  • quite possibly the greatest solo to pierce these ears....

  • Indeed it was made from a fireplace shelf

  • perfect

  • acid trip 5:53-6:04

  • @vinigdr1

    Yes, exactly indeed!! these few seconds are the coronation of the hole, epic solo - it blows me away!

  • Love Brian May... no wireless!

  • This guitar made Brain Mays dad from an old wardrobe :-)

  • @drahrebe1709 im pretty sure it was made from a fire place

  • brian is just amazing. ♥

  • *goosebumps* brian may is epic.

  • 28 people just don't get that they have listened to the greatest guitar player in thw world... because he isn't showy and doesn't jump around and smash shit up. I love how he makes his Red Special sound like an orchestra of guitars all alone...

  • Happy Brithday, Brian!!

  • Mr May should get together with Brian Cox (another musician with a science-y interest) and buy the old London Planetarium (with the nice green dome) and restore it to it's former glory; they could write epic music for the shows too and give presentations. I'd pay to see that, as I was as pissed off as he was when that old planetarium shut.

  • @BadGirlOfAutism Dr May mate ;)

  • @dudejoe64 I know. I'd kill for that wall.

  • How long can a jack cable possibly be?!

  • howard stern plays guitar?

  • @neneaodin Angus young can play the same thing for every song... But Brian May can play eight minute long solos and make each not better than the last... He can also play classical guitar, blues, and rock with incredible efficiency something that i'm not sure angus young could pull off.

  • When Freddy said we will rock you he knew he had Brian May on his side !

  • @flywall63 Brian May wrote the song.

  • I photographed Queen in 1976 over 2 nights. To see the shots go to ianmarkmusicphotos (.com)

  • Not even close to Angus Young!!! i dont say he is bad or anything but where is the show? i ve expected more srsly..

  • @neneaodin really you really think angus young is better ?

  • @neneaodin You mother fucker! How could you honestly say that.. Brian May or Angus Young? OBVIOUSLY BRIAN MAY! Guitarist's from the 80's fucking worshiped the likes of May. I know everyone's due there point but lets face the facts Young is a fantastic guitarist in just that specific genre but Queen played so many styles over the years and May could still deliver a fucking awesome performance what ever genre he had to play in. If it wasn't for him Queen would never of been famous! MAY IS GOD!

  • @neneaodin You're an idiot :)

  • @neneaodin Acdc are a bunch of old men running around a stage with their management scared they might pass out, hardly electrifying

  • @neneaodin Freddie Mercury is the only gay in the group and I'd appreciate if you showed more respect towards him. Do a little rechard before you post such insulting comments.What's the biggest difference between Queen and AC/DC? Queen's music had soul, it was based on feelings, love, happiness, friendship. AC/DC's music is nothing more than noise for those people addicted to headbanging and screams, they've done the exact same thing for the past 35 years.

  • @TheJumpyPopcorn - I agree! And as for the gay thing... Freddie was awesome despite it, and a few other influental musicians and singers who are alive root for the other team as well: Elton John, Lisa Coleman, and Joan Obsourne [who's actually openly bi], just off the top of my head.

  • @zbr76 The point is that Freddie was so perfect that stupid people who can't stand his talent have to pick up the excuse of him being gay. Freddie was and still is the best singer that has ever lived. And you're right about that, and Elton John is also a very talented man imo.

  • @TheJumpyPopcorn Fuck off about AC/DC. In my opinion, they (AC/DC and Queen) are quite probably the two greatest, most talented bands of any genre of music, ever. (including the stuff in the charts but it doesn't count as music)

  • @PetethePieman123 "Fuck off about AC/DC" that's very and mature of yours. I don't care.

  • @TheJumpyPopcorn Maybe you should show some respect to one the greatest rock n roll groups ever? no? AC/DC's music is based on feeling also, but hits different chords inside people! just because it isn't about love n happiness doesn't mean it doesn't have feeling. What an idiot

  • @bellers I'll show you all the respect to AC/DC and don't you call me an idiot please. I like AC/DC but comparing them with Queen...like I said...with Queen you cry because of love, you cry for friends, you cry for happiness..with AC/DC you don't really have much to feel, you just feel like rock n roll and headbanging, there's no love ballad, there's no friendship song, there's nothing that touches your heart. My opinion.

  • @TheJumpyPopcorn That's my opinion...rock music churns up different feelings and emotions. If I'm pissed off I'm not going to crank up flash am I? You don't have much to feel? Well if that was the case why would I be listening to it in the first place? Surely I must be feeling something whilst listening to music????

  • @bellers I didn't understand very well what you were trying to say. Queen is my all time fave band, they have it all. I'm not bashing that band or whatever it's just my bloody opinion, that's it. The only feeling I get from their music is exaltation, whereas with Queen it's different, if I'm pissed off I listen to Tie Your Mother Down, if I'm happy there's Don't Stop me Now and you have Love of my life, Boh Rhap, We Will Rock You, Champions, Days of our lives...

  • @TheJumpyPopcorn Your so right, but acdc is pretty cool though coool music i would say.... ueen is more sentimental... fuck... why wasnt i born 20 years ago FUCK

  • @josecoverlessons Oh bro..I ask the very same question every single day! =(

  • @TheJumpyPopcorn i think its for the second coming of rock'n roll.

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  • @TheJumpyPopcorn Man where's did your respect talk went?!!

    you can't ask for something like that if you don't give it?!!

    I have much respect to Queen & AcDc

    you just can't just disrespect a band & the bands fans

    Respect the two even if u hated ACDC music at least respect the 35 or so years

    the two are legends & the two have loyal fans so stop this please and lets just enjoy it

  • @neneaodin AC/DC are my favourite band, but I'd never dare say they are better than Queen.

  • @neneaodin queen had way more variety of what they did than acdc did...

  • @neneaodin Stop watching first second and closing video. Brian needs to setup a bit :P.

  • such a full sound!

  • Brian May, in addition to using his home-made guitar that he put together himself when he was 16, he prefers to use coins (especially a sixpence) instead of a more traditional plastic pick, on the basis that their rigidity gives him more control in playing. He is known to carry coins in his pockets specifically for this purpose.

  • Well I guess I now know what a spontaneous orgasm is now.

  • 1:10 LOOK AT THE WALL OF AC30'S :0

  • He ain't too mechanical. He plays like singing. Melodius and smooth, Shouting and whispering.

    It's just a music!!

  • @ Berlingodoener: Yes, thats true ^^.

    I Like Brian May, because his solos are really made for the listeners and not for the players.

  • @ Berlingodoener: Yes, thats true ^^.

    I Like Brian May, because are really nice to listen to.

  • @falloforti I Like Brian´s Solos Because it too

  • @TheRockeiroJF: It's the same with David Gilmour by the way

  • this is amazing!!if jimmi hendrix was alive today,he'd say job well done.

  • What's really neat it that not only is he an epic guitar player, he's also really smart, too. After Queen, he went back to college and got his PhD in astrophysics.

  • He just begins at 5:20 and then he ends at 6:50 then you think it's over but he starts again at 7:00 and he just ends to early, Brian May = awesome <3

  • Once my grandpa met Brian May. He sat next to him in a theatre or something. My grandpa was like "oh my god you're Brian May" and Brian was like "yeah". XD Brian's a pretty cool and friendly guy.

  • @damonkeyman889944 Your grandpa is sooooo lucky!! =D

  • Brian may = best FUCKING GUITARIST KNOWN TO FUCKIN MAN!!!!!!!!!

  • 7:41 JUST AN EPICCCC SHOT!!!

  • Thats perfect Delay-Handeling!

  • 24 Haters that want to say they can play better. Brian May is the best, just the amazing amount of different sounds that come from his fingers and the Red Special!!!!

  • rock out with brain..smart rock,i love the delay

  • I love the feedback!!!! Thats one of the best things about the red special....Brian delibrately designed the guitar to create natural feedback (i.e. such as hollowing out the body of the guitar).

  • this is good

  • Try my rock riffs on my channel

    or 1981 guitar hard improvisation

  • 2:14 the original big sur moon.

  • a wall of voxs

  • Good Lord! ive never seen a guitar cable that was infinitely long and was welded to the input jack....awsome by the way

  • WWooaaahhhh....... Mind Officially Blown

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  • As good as this is it's worst version of this solo ever. The 70's live version was 100 times better!

  • dude i wounder how it feels having all that sound in your hand.

  • Lo zio Brian è mitico...

  • 1:56 Awesome knob control

  • супер! Вот это музА!!!!!!

  • Wall of AC30s... nice!!!

  • I love his signature pull-offs techniques..

  • If aliens some day will intercept this "solo" done by our beloved Ph.d Astrophysicist, they will destroy Earth.

  • people on facebook say hes dead the freacks

  • you cant get better

  • genious !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I own a copy of his guitar!!! All bow before the mighty Dr Brian May CBE

  • Brian May!!! He is one great guitar player and person!

  • His Majesty, Brian May! The king! What a brilliant and open mind he is to creat so many great melodies, riffs and solos! I love his approach to the things, he is so dedicated to everything he makes. His perfectionism in the studio is well known, but he is a scientist after all. He must know that everything is perfect and clear! God bless you, Brian!

  • and YEs he is amazingly under rated

  • Omg, that was so beautiful..., I'm stunned...

  • hes to damn under rated

  • cathedrallll

  • Hace lucir ridiculo a cualquier otro guitarrista!!!!! Brian es Dios

  • I dont renember when 9 minutes was that short. This was awesome! pure Epic and charmony! :D

  • Stop comparing Brian to Jimmy or Jimi or Eddie or Nuno.... they're all special and got their own talent. Which is not the case of a lot of young nowadays guitarists. Brian got his voice, this amazing guitar that he's the only one to play this good.

  • @edmatper I agree, they didn't compare one another. Why people compare each other. They all love guitar and music what they play.

  • jimmy page is wayy better guitarist you faggots

  • @TaroGabunia

    Puh-Leeez! Find me a live Jimmy Page solo worth listening to.

  • @superfishially youtube.com/watch?v=VAHk14dRXg­o

  • @superfishially ok his bow solo

  • @TaroGabunia Word of advice, if you want people to take you seriously don't end your sentences with a derogatory term.

  • @helloolleh555 you aren't faggots

  • @TaroGabunia yeah he may well be but ya have to admit brian may is shit hot

  • @TaroGabunia Congratulations, you sound like an idiot. While Jimmy Page is fantastic, and Brian likes him, there's no need to compare them. It's apples and helicopters.

  • Love Brian..Looks to me like "queen" had 2 musical geniuses. Phyllis...

  • Tone. Class. Creativity.  Humility. You can't get any better than that.

  • What i like about Brian compared with other rock guitarists is his command over his instrument. Most rockers tend to make a lot of crash sounds with their guitars, but Brian has the ability to do that, and to make it sound as elegant and delicate as a violin.

  • Gotta love the perm :)

  • it is umbelievable how much amps he has...

  • Brian May is so pollite guy

  • if you want this guitar made some of your own

  • To really appreciate this solo , do like me :

    Wembley concert in 5.1 on widescreen TV + 500W speakers ^^

  • Brian? The best from 80's

  • @Queenmaniaco666 The Best Guitarist ;)

  • @SlashWorshipper1993 OKAY... hahahaahhahah

  • Brian May is classic old school,and fantastic, along with Uli Jon Roth and Matthas Jabs, but newish kids on the block, like that drunken rabble from Dragonforce - what stunning tallent. Love Brighton Rock - could air guitar away to it all day long.

  • @HARRYHOOK79 your kidding right? he was very innovative and was able to play many different styles: rock, metal, prog, and many more. he is one of the most influential guitarists ever. what pop guitarist plays anything close to what he plays?

  • @pjcestenz Hi pjc,  if you look at his guitar solos at live events, there poor, yea I agree very influential (band) but out of the studio, he stuggles against the more know talented guitarists, Im a Queen fan, so im not just kicking the guy for the hell of it, I brought Sheer Heart Attack in 74, and I thought he was great, but hes been left behind by the newer guitarist that have come since that time, A great guitarist can carry a band, but in his case, the band have carried him, ..

  • @HARRYHOOK79 I'm sorry if you disagree, but Queen would be terrible without Brian! Freddie is incredible, and Roger is brilliant, and John is fantastic, but you need the COMBINATION of the four to make the kind of magic Queen is. Brian comes up with beautiful melodies and ideas, and puts the RRRRRRR in ROCK for Queen, and they all bounced off him in their playing.

  • @pjcestenz and he has a phd on astrophysics :D

  • @pjcestenz A shop in city sells his sign. guitar replika!!! :D I'd SO buy it if I had the money!!!

  • GRANITIC PLAYER

  • got Dang. 5:50 to 6: 30 is so freaking cool.

  • and you think eddie van halen is good!!brian may is cool and god.

  • Happy Birthday, Dr. May!

  • And that people, is a guitar god.

  • Without Doubt the best Guitarist EVER!

  • Dr. Brian May (Ph.d Astrophysicist) playing his custom made guitar.

  • If he had a nanosuit, it would say : MAXIMUM GUITAR

  • I like how he looks like the Dr. Who of rock in this outfit :o)#

  • 5:47 - I sh*t my pants. He's from another dimension. For sure.

  • @chrg69 It does remind you of angels singing (or screaming), doesn't it?

  • @xyaqua Yeah, kinda...

  • @xyaqua Angels peing warmly into your cold ears :oP#

  • @chrg69 Sorry about your pants.

  • he is legend of guitarrists

  • Man... probably the longest guitarcable ever used on stage.

  • @Berlingodoener lol, best comment ever on youtube. But you're perfectly right.

  • no hablamos d guitarristas d heavy metal o progresivo, chavos.... queen fue un grupo glam, lo k ven ustedes es un solo d GLAM... x fa ponganse a investigar antes d decir PENDEJADAS!!!!!

  • me encanta!

  • @KnightHawkWF It may be boring to you, but consider this--Brian is playing behind the light show, as opposed to just noodling around on the guitar. I love EVH as well, but it's unfair to compare one to the other. Totally different guitarists.

  • That's one long patch chord...

  • is it just me or can anyone else imagine a duet Brian May & Cozy Powell on drums

  • @dogsbollox007

    better think of a duet of Gary Moore and Cozy Powell which has already happened :)

  • When I saw Queen for the first time live, I had never heard of them much, other than a song called Killer Queen. They were opening for Mott the Hopple. Brian May almost did not play for the concert because of illness. I am glad I got to see him. I became a big Queen fan that night. They did not have a weekness.

  • @DAVWAVE Hi DAVWAVE! Where did you see QUEEN? The concert you speak of is right around the time they played in my hometown. It is rumored that Brian May may have written part of "Now I'm Here" while stting on a park bench on the green in my hometown. I'm only eleven, but I love QUEEN!!!

    "Your matches still light up the sky

    And many a tear lives on in my eye

    Down in the city just Hoople and me

    Don't I love him so don't I love him so?"

    Cheers, Mini May

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  • Every other rocker in the 80's wore black. But not him. he's god

  • ¬¬ eso es un guitarrista???????

    es una falta de respeto a daniele gottardo, petrucci, esteve vai,

    tor hermosillo entre otros

  • Idk what to think of this, it kinda bored me. Can't say it was bad, can't say it was great either.

  • Very Nice Delay and Booster!

  • esto es solo una maxima de estos super hombres que se llama la super reina o sea super queen yeeeeeeeeeeeeah

  • weergaloos