Date: 24th September 2004
Venue: Wembley Arena, London, UK
Event: Celebrating 50 Years of the Strat
Artists: Brian May, Paul Rodgers, Jeff Beck, Bryan Adams, Ronny Wood, David Gilmore, Joe Walsh, the Crickets, Hank Marvin and many more.
Source: Paul Rodgers' official site
No way I'm going - I'm sure Brian will be in Las Vegas that day just to check if the last 8 seconds of NOBY in the musical are note-by-note as he wants.
LOL
or he may be in Cologne, just to be sure the guitars are in the right tune. or in Moscow, checking they have printed the very cheap 1000$ tickets.
Though I'd really like to visit Wembley Arena, no way I do it again. There's been the 1st time, then the 2nd. The 3rd would be really too much.
cheeeers!
He had a Stratocaster when he was young.
No way, He made the Red Special because he didn't have money for a Les Paul or a Strat like his friends had. When he signed to a label with Queen he got a Les Paul, as a spare guitar.
I don't think he ever owned a Strat...
unless you got any quotes or pics to prove i'm wrong :-)
Visit my site or Martin's and you'll see the Strat, and quotes from Brian about the Strat he owned. In fact he had it before the LP. And he was young at that time (twenty something)
He may have had a strat when he was young, but all accounts I've read indicate the Red Special was his first good quality guitar, before any strat or les paul. He is playing a strat or a strat copy in the video for Play The Game.
I have a couple of good guitar magazine articles with BM. I will try to get them posted here. One is the cover story from Guitar Player in January 1983. There is some grumbling about how he wants to get back to making rock records(I believe they were touring in support of Hot Space at the time).
One could make the case for Brian appearing at this by way of his guitar possibly being an improvement on the strat. They are both double cutaway instruments with three single coil pickups, but the red special allows every possible combination of those pickups, I think. At any rate he can get any combination of pickups and control the phase of each pickup independently. He also says his whammy bar works better than a strat.
Mr. Scully wrote: I'm sure Brian will be in Las Vegas that day just to check if the last 8 seconds of NOBY in the musical are note-by-note as he wants.
If that is true then it will the first time Brian will be back at the NEW Wembly! Im sure he will make a statement on his website about it!
GO DR. MAY!!!
Yes I never meant a Strat was his first, but he did have one while he was young. It was his second electric. His third was the LP, the fourth... the Birch copy. From then on, who knows... Burns, Greco, etc
There are more non-Stratocaster users on that list. Could it be this was meant to be a Telecaster-party?? Because that makes a whole lot more sence as ALL of the artists above do (or did) use that one, including Brian?!
Let's see:
Brian May: He's not actually a commercial guitar user. But yes he'd be more for a Teleparty. Btw Roger did play Strat a lot on stage.
Paul Rodgers: I've always seen him with Strat, or with acoustic
Jeff Beck: Strat
Bryan Adams: He has a black Strat doesn't he? Anyway I've seen him more playing some kind of Gretsch thing...
Ronny Wood: As far as I remember, his main guitars are a sunburts Strat, a natural Tele and a Gibson Jumbo.
David Gilmore: Strat, yes he had a Tele, but used it ocassionally
Joe Walsh: I've seen him with both
Crickets: No idea
Hank Marvin : One of the most famous Strat people.
I wonder what happened to Eric Clapton not to be mentioned in this list... and Yngwie Malmsteen
"No way I'm going - I'm sure Brian will be in Las Vegas that day just to check if the last 8 seconds of NOBY in the musical are note-by-note as he wants."
LOL Scully.
I believe the guitar used in Crazy Little Thing Called Love was a telecastor or strat... either way, it was a Fender. And it doesn't matter - ANY guitar event should include Brian!
Brian recently said to a German magazine that he only has owned one Strat and one Tele. In a Guitar Magazine in 1982 he also said he only had one Tele and one Strat.
As for Gibson: Brian did participate in a Les Paul show but was the only one not using a Les Paul.
As for Brian owning Gibsons: go to Martin's site or mine to see Brian's Gibson guitars (one Les Paul, one Flying V and one Chet Atkins Classical Electric Acoustic)