Brian May - History Of His Effects Pedals 

What's your next move son? This is chess not checkers.

PiN mE Cos i hAvE WoRdS

a lot of metalheads are not very bright...

@@user-lx3dn9bt9e they never have been. Can confirm, I'm one of them.

it was also thanks to the serrated edge of the sixpence coin

You know that Brian and his Dad built the Red Special guitar from scratch, right? Wood from a table and fireplace mantle, hand wired pick-ups, though Brian replaced them not too long after as he didn't love their sound.

Rory Gallagher. Caring man he shared his sound with Brian May unselfishly . Rory was not only a fantastic talent but he had a profoundly beautiful heart and soul.. what a beautiful human being and he is the only man that I love or will ever love for all of eternity. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Rory Gallagher for all the music and for the beautiful wonderful caring man that he was Angel RORY I will love you for all of eternity XO 💖🎼🎸☘️🎼😘

Very true, I'll include this on the Brian May amps history video coming very soon.

It's crazy how Rory got so much sustain from a strat for sure tubes and Alex Lifeson another guy who played a strat sometimes but I think he had humbucker s in the back a full sound like Brian May

He did an interview with Rick Wakeman in which he talked about this and lots of early Queen stuff. It's on RU-vid I think.

Yes, I also read an interview with him talking about the Rangemaster and the Vox AC 30 amp, which he started using after hearing and seeing Rory Gallagher using it. I also believe that Rory is responsible for the popularity of the Fender Bassman amplifier...another of his favorites in the early 70's. There's a picture of him playing live in 1972 or 73, where everything appears. Vox and beside him Bassman with the Rangemaster on top of him, his old Stratocaster on the shelf and him playing on his white Tele...a beautiful picture

Many thanks

Thank you!

Many thanks, great comment too!

Thanks Adam

Thanks Thomas

Thanks very much

Pleasure Dan!

Thanks Craig

@@TheGuitarShow yea of course, I have seen quite a bit of your videos, you always do a good job and have some quality content

Muchas Grasias

Pleasure!

Thank you Larry

Thank you

Thanks for watching

Pleasure

There is quite a bit of discussion around over the transistor in the clean boost part of the treble booster circuits when to me the key to the tone is how it's shaped by the capacitor (and how the first gain stage in the AC30 clips when it's overloaded). These days the treble boost is before the wireless anyway. Thanks for clarifying those capacitor values where possible.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Cheers bro! See you in a fortnight for recording

Pleasure

use 777 instead

I think it was Brian who got sick. The tour in 74 was canceled after May 11th because Brian got Hepatitis and had to go home and into hospital for a good length of time. Just got over that and discovered he had a nasty ulcer that had to be fixed too. 1974 was a rough year for our Brian.

Many thanks indeed

Pleasure Will

Me.

I dont but hes a good guitarist in distortion

@The SNES Man there is so much wrong with what you've said. However let's take Brian out of the equation. What you've said is the equivalent of "no one on earth should dislike pears." It's just silly. Brian May is boring. The most interesting thing about him his he built his guitar, but even then, so what?

Thanks

Pleasure my friend. Yes I remember those well - I may get hold of one and do a review of it.

Great idea Rory!

@@TheGuitarShow 😄 to Rory's

@@TheGuitarShow For people in the UK, there is an exhibition currently at Reading Museum - featuring exhibits from the first ever Reading Festival. Star exhibit is Rory Gallagher’s AC30, plus his Dallas Rangemaster, his Telecaster, bottleneck, strap, guitar cable etc etc. By all accounts Rory stole the show at that first festival, and to be able to look at his gear at very close quarters (albeit behind glass) is a wonderful opportunity. You can ever look into the back of his amp and almost smell the tubes! Guitar nerd here!

@@AndyCooper761 Thanks for this Andy

That was tape flanging! The edge of the tape is called the flange. You run two identical tapes, side by side, and touch the flange on each tape, very gently, to get that sound. It's especially obvious on the drum tone from Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir'. There are other Queen songs with tape flanging, such as 'Some Day, One Day', etc. They used on vocals too... The pedal was invented to mimic the actual tape flanging sounds.

Thank you

Thanks Jonathan

I will say however that I’ve now discovered that all the research came from work done by Simon Bradley and Mark Reynolds including private sourced photos, it might have been nice to ask them first and credit them, neither are happy about this video

@@jonathanplanner3270 I've already put the resources in the description

And no, not all the photos and research came from them. I always use multiple sources.

@@TheGuitarShow The two authors were not asked before hand and you have not listed them, both Simon and Mark are pretty upset about this

Yessss, best guitar tone of all!

I agree Martin! thanks

if you know how to solder, you can save about 230 - 355 USD.. buy a kit somewhere. there's no magic components in there.

I always leave in one mistake ...I'm superstitious

@@TheGuitarShow well it keeps me on my toes.. and questioning my sanity..lol

God bless you

Thanks so much

That's the next video...Ive bought a book all about it so hopefully it should be interesting.

Don’t be fooled my friend, Brian’s used a lot more guitars than one tends to think. Let’s see if i can list them tho i may miss a few but here it goes: His main Red Special. Gibson Les Paul- used as a backup. Fender Stratocaster- used as a backup and in a Swedish mimed performance of killer queen. Hairfred acoustic guitar- used in songs such as white queen and jealousy. A Spanish classical guitar with which he is pictured circa 1966-1967. John birch Red Special copy- used as a backup and in we will rock you/spread your wings videos. Greco Red Special copy- used in the good old fashioned lover boy TOTP performance. Gibson Flying V- used as a backup Washburn RR-V- used in the princes of the universe video. Chet Atkins nylon string guitar- used live in is this the world we created. Red special double neck guitar- used live for under pressure. Fender telecaster- used for crazy little thing called love. Satellite Stratocaster- used as a prop for the play the game video Red special with F hole- used for crazy little thing called love. Guild 12 string- used for modern love of my life Ovation 12 string- used for the classic love of my life. Burns electric 12 string.- used for long away. Skull guitar- used for the it’s a hard life video, not sure if it was functional tho. Martin D18- used for ‘39 in Hyde park. -bonus-- There’s a guitar called Spade which Brian may designed as a possible follow up to his red special built many years later in 2004 by a guy named Andrew Guyton, no idea if Brian ever used it tho. Also there’s his ukelele/banjo given to him by his father and used in live performances of bring back that Leroy brown. It would definitely be a cool idea to see a video of all his guitars along with others i may have missed.

@@powertothebauer296 true he did use a Guild as a backup but not for those songs as the Guild didn’t go into production until 1984 and then again in 1993 but yeah you’re correct, the Guild was his backup from the mid 80s and onwards.

@@powertothebauer296 bro the Guild copy didn’t exist in the 70s. Brian did not partner with Guild until 1983 to release them beginning in 1984. He says so himself and its archived information you can look up. That Guitar in Houston wasn’t a Guild, he only had i believe the Yellow Birch model used in the We Will Rock You and Spread Your Wings videos and he also had a Japanese Greco copy used in the Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy top of the pops performance. No guilds in the 70s.

@@powertothebauer296 just looked at the video and what you see is his original red special, not a copy. A couple of things to note, first there is no logo on the headstock. Second, the fretboard is lacquered, which the Guild copy wasn’t. Third- the tremolo system is the authentic Brian May designed system not the Kahler tremolo system that Guild employed for their copies. It is not the Guild model.

Good point Ill check that

great idea - coming!!!