A quick Youtube doesn't seem to turn up any videos of them, which is a pity because you can usually see just about any guitar getting demo'd on there.
I've heard that the Dillion Brian May is virtually firewood. Without a sample I couldn't argue that either way though.
I'd avoid both....get a quality American strat. won't be much more than a BMG...much better...much cooler...and doesn't have any immediate association.
the BMG's are toys...i don't doubt the BM Super are good guitars, and the Guyton ones are good guitars, but these aren't good.
i used to have one. I own guitars from high end (american strats, musicman, pre samick pre gibson valley arts etc) to not so expensive (tokai les paul copy, yamaha acoustics, vintage guitars)....and they are all better!
you'll waste your money and you'll grow out of it and you'll lose a load of money trying to sell it., and if you don't grow out of it and it becomes your number one guitar then that says a lot about you as a musician!!!
Thanks for the replies. I already have A Gibson melody maker, Tokai Love Rock LP, Epiphone 56 Gold Top LP and a Yamaha Pacifica strat. I'm looking for a cheap Brian May copy. I don;t want to pay £500 for one, which is what they're going for on Ebay. There's a Dillion on Ebay for about £280 including p&p. But if they're totally crap I won't bother.
In that case I'd simply try to find out if the Dillion even bothers with the pickup switching, and what sort of pickups it has. Without those, the only selling point would be the shape and colour of the thing - which definitely isn't for everyone.
I can't believe that the guitars are as bad as one poster makes out above - Jamie Moses and all the WWRY guys around the world play them happily enough?
As a BMG owner, i won't go for the Dillion if i were you.
The Burns and BMG are almost the same, but the latest BMG have a look more closely to the original Red Special.
IMHO, this is a guitar you either love or hate.
You have to love the Brian May sound in the first place, because the red special is versatile but in the limits of the Queen Sound.
Don't expect it to sound like Les Paul, Strat, or anything like that.
For me, the best of the guitar is the finish, looks, low action and comfort. Great quality in all that. I like the wood tone too.
You wont get that on the dillion
You would get basically the pickups, which are in some way my biggest issue with the red special,
The tri-sonic have a thin sound, almost cheap, that comes alive when you crank a tube amp like the VOX AC30.
So, if you are a home player, it would never sound right.
Thats why i think the BMG is a better product overall.
I Understand why for many people, any other guitar would be a better investment,
Honestly the only people that i've seen willingly playing the guitar are Brian May, The guy from Paralamas, and hardcore Queen Fans.
I've had many guitars in the past, and the Red Special its my favourite, but i need to have my other strat in order to play other sounds