QueenZone discussion #453672

brian_may_wannabe wrote: He played the guitar on CLTCL live, but did he actually record it on The Game album.

Linda Of The Valley wrote: Really? When? I love that video. What guitar does Brian play in that? I love when the guy walks from the movie into the set, it looks cool!

Sebastian wrote: Yes Crazy Little Thing is the official one. But there are more contributions in the studio: John confirmed they all played guitar in the Hot Space album. I suppose Fred would play in his own song, so: Staying Power is definitely John, Body Language, ok it has only two seconds of guitar (literally speaking), but it sounds like Red Special, it's obvious Brian would do it. Under Pressure - I really doubt it, btw, theoretically, Roger or John could be in there playing the twelve string rhythm, nobody ever confirmed or denied that. Cool Cat has John's playing style. That only leaves Life Is Real. So I suppose that's where he played. Of course not the solo or the main rhythm, just one or more of the slight overdubs (like the strummed twelve string acoustic on the demo) Some people say Fred played in Need Your Loving as well, that he recorded it in the backing track and it was ok so they didn't replace it. Theoretically it could make sense as well considering John would play bass for the backing track so he couldn't do both at the same time. But I don't know whether it's just a rumour. Still, in the studio, CLTCL was never said to be the first or the last.

nibznik wrote: also on the GVH1 dvd Brian said that Freddie was "quite good" on the guitar, and that he recorded the heavy part of borap

You don't have to know how to play the guitar, same as black sabbath did, Ozzuy made some ideas by playing the piano for the actual guitar riff.

kohuept wrote: He did write Ogre and BohRhap and CLTCL on guitar. I believe he showed Brian on the guitar, but (except for CLTCL) he didn't recorded them for the final cut. I heard Brian say somewhere how quickly Freddie's hands moved while playin the guitar. I'm sure Freddie was being mostly modest while talking about how poorly he played.

Sebastian wrote: Freddie played good. Of course he was not Steve Vai... his comments were self-depreciating, like when Kenny asked him how did he work out harmonies and he said "same as you do", but of course it's not that easy. Bo Rhap was written at the piano. Perhaps the riff was written at the guitar, although he could have played it in the piano and then Brian transferred it to guitar. Same for Deacon's bass-parts (not only concerning that song). Liar too was written on guitar, and probably most of his early work (e.g. what he composed for Ibex)

GiantSpider wrote: Everybody is forgetting "Not Fade Away" which is the reason Fred stopped using the 12 string Ovation & started using the 6 string tele.

enoky wrote: I think the whole "backwards" thing is a misunderstanding. John Reid said that Fred sometimes would think of something musical and play backwards, and that he (John) BELIEVED that some passages of Bo Rhap could have started that way. It doesn't mean that Fred wrote songs that way. Those were just throwaway ideas imo, perhaps something he come up with that way ended up being used, but most of his songwriting would be actually sitting at the piano, or taking the guitar or whatever.