i have similar 'national treasure' problem: i cant stend Hendrix.. his out of tune whiny rambling playing grates BIG time on me, his 'normal' songs are sometimes ok though
+1
he does look like his missus
I saw a picture of both of them from behind once, and they had the same hair, the same frilly shirt, the same tight jeans - the only observable difference is that he's about 9 feet taller than her.
I think "Crazy Little Thing" was a Tele Rob so perhaps a pertinent comment on your part.
If you watch it played at Live Aid (I have the DVD), the rhythm part at the beginning is played by both Freddie with a Tele, and Brian with an acoustic...And then Brian whips out a Tele as well for the midle section, and finally gets Old Red for the end - talk about guitar changes eh? :P
My opinion is that I love Queen...They did something with music that has never been done before or since. I do think, however, that they have been excessively overplayed and I can now no longer hear songs such as "Don't Stop Me Now" without wanng to stab someone :drink:
One of my favourite Queen songs would have to be "Death on Two Legs", mainly because the guitar work sounds a lot like the sort of stuff I've been writing of late.
Unfortunately I never saw the original Queen as I was only 2 when Freddie passed on, but I did go to the thing they did last year with Paul Rodgers, and it was immense. I'm not gonna say I preferred him to listening to Freddie (as I would be slain, and also because it's not true) but I think he was definitely AS good.
Brian was also on top form, and his guitar solo was immense.
I tried his out of phase single coils thing on my strat once, but I found it fairly useless for all but Queen covers...
I've also been described as looking like Brian May, as I have the hair going on - but also I apparently stand like him when I play guitar, although I hadn't noticed that myself.
Feline: I wasn't so much a fan of Sheer Heart Attack, I much preferred Queen II, and A Day at the Races was a great one too :drink:
