The Brian May Interview 

that's cool stuff there.

You know Rick had to have been *buzzing* when he heard that. Idk how he kept cool after that lol

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Thanks for pointing this out!

@@davidclements7696 yeah true

I agree...one of the best interviews I've experienced. Great one Rick!!

It's so lovely to hear Brian May speak about his music while Rick gives him a broad pasture to roam. The silence between the notes. No parallel to this style of interview.

Couldn't agree more. Haven't watched television in 15 years, and i despise youtube with it's censoring, political bias and ads, but I love Rick's channel.

Rick probably does an interview like he produces; lots of curiosity, respect and trust in his artist. It’s real musician to musician. Anyone else blown away when brilliant, thoughtful, techno-obsessed Brian belted out that ballsy Queen sound?

Dead right about Rick's remarkable tact, insight, grasp and timing. By the by, imho, this video is doing pretty poorly in number of views as compared to the interviews on Rick's prime channel. It would come into its own if transferred to the prime channel. People just 'miss out' on it and it'll continue to grow veiled in secrecy each day.

I'm close to your age and am generally grateful cell phones weren't around in the 80's, but capturing moments like you speak ofn video is one of only two reasons I wish I woud have had a cell back then, the other being hook-ups with the ladies I would have likely made with better communication tools........

@@johnnyappleseed5029 Hi Johnny, sorry just seeing ur message here. Yeah I kinda wish there was photos/videos of the nite I met them, but they signed our tickets, my big sisters denim jacket, program etc, anything anybody handed them. Just such regular guys, it was probably the highlight of my life. August 1984, the year before Live Aid. Pretty awesome 💚

Thanks @@freeherenow52 I totally agree. 2 wonderful examples of genuine, gracious human beings/Rock Legends. The world needs more like them 💚

Britishers were raised to be gentlemen. American rockers were not. Glad you had such a once-in-a-lifetime happy experience.

@@brianstoner2799 I'm a Brit and I resent that! Jk - but not everyone here is mild-mannered and likeable like Brian. From what he's said about the process of building his guitar, he had a fantastic dad who mentored him through the whole thing for over a year. It's pretty rare I think for a father to be so committed to spending time with his kids rather than pleasuring himself in a pub or in front of a TV. I would have loved to have done that as a kid. I hope Brian had dozens of kids of his own and passed it on.

Happy May gives props to Rory,another master.

It's funny because he's actually from Norfolk :)

@@synchromesh But he attended ´Truro school for Boys´ (Cornwall) and played in a variety of bands whilst in the County, including many ´battle of the bands´ competitions (I know because I saw most of them live). He considered himself a Cornish lad regardless where he was born.

Beautifully said I totally agree!

So true!!!

So true and that's a *brilliant* phrase.

I've never heard that saying lol

@@beback_ درختی که بارش بیشتر باشه افتاده تره.

Wow. Mountain ruled. God bless you and your brother.

Dude we loved your brother's playing back in the day. I'm gonna go play Nantucket Sleigh Ride right now.💖💖💖

"we want to name the band meryl streep. we think she'd be honored." classic. RIP

@@jimipalmer5041 Leslies tone is a benchmark all players want to one day achieve, I bought a Les Paul Jr. just because of his performance of Southbound Train at Woodstock.

Larry, it turns out your brother and I share the same birthday. I'm a little younger and as a piano player, the music of Mountain wasn't in my repertoire during my formidable years but that didn't stop me from learning of Leslie's immense talents from listening to him on the Stern show over the years. I hope you and his broader family are frequently reminded of the joy and memories that he gave to countless people.

I never understood how someone who is so successful in an area chooses to switch paths.

@@bazingacurta2567 He was an astrophysicist first. Took up music full time and then came back to science. Brilliant fellow.

@@mf5202 Aye, he always regretted not finishing his phD in anycase its not a career more a hobby now

@@soupdragon151 he actually did finish his phd. and he has consulted in the role of scientist for nasa no less.

I would argue that’s cooler than meeting him in a musical setting. There’s a short list of people who are so in gifted in an artistic sense AND in a scientific/mathematical sense as well.

Yep, and his influence was the late, great Irish guitar master Rory Gallagher. I've seen interviews in which Brian May talks about how he copied Rory.

What a beautiful human being and genius musician!

He copied his rig not his playing

Is he related to james may ? LOL

@@frenchonion4595 Judging by hair cuts, yes! LOL

I listen to Queen

Stunning to drop into a conversation of mutual admiration

@@catherinelynnfraser2001 Especially merited admiration

The Professor of Rock. That is awesome

100% agreed on this.

Maine Road where the local kids would keep an eye on your car while the match was on. The canny driver would pay half up front and the other half when you got back to the car. Never a good idea to tell them to sod off. Now a housing estate.

@@nomdeplume798 . M.

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That Maine Road performance was the first concert I ever went to… I was 18 years old. It was a surprise to me when Freddie started singing Tutti Frutti. I had no idea musicians performed anything other than their own music. How wonderful that you got to meet them.

And lots of Rory Gallagher for sure :-)

Thats Dr. May to you!

@@soupdragon151 And now Sir May to all of us.

@@mollyhall2954 Sorry, Sir Brian it is!

All the good guys do because they're too busily engrossed in their art, it's not about fame and fortune anymore if ever. Those who are truly talented are usually the last accept that fact.

@@martinhegelius7445 Love you for that! I see notifications and expect awful remarks, and get them, and then a nice guy like You, is cool, and just says, "Sir Brian it is!" and restores my faith in humanity! Real life is hard enough for most of us (at least in our old age!) To be honest, I remember it being just as hard when I was a child, teenager, newlywed and middle-aged, too! Never easy for anybody, and in the last few years in America it seemed to get much meaner than it ever needed to be, for so many. Music was my escape, at age 8--The Beatles! The world around me was happier and I will always adore them for that, and Sir Brian did, too! How about you? Not how rock began for you? (For all I know, you're 18 and a new fan! A young Queen-fan friend told me, in awe, that at my age I had Lived the history of rock and roll! It's almost true! Before The Beatles I loved The Everly Brothers and Little Richard! I love Queen's stage medley of early rock!)

You could cure cancer tho.

@@NoName-to5xl yeah, you could find a cure for cancer, unify relativity and quantum mechanics or perhaps find a viable way to stop climate change. But those are accomplishments more likely to be achieved by a biologist, a physicist, an engineer or a mathematician, not a music producer. So yeah, I think there's nothing else Rick could achieve :)

Love that!

So she lived the beginning til when.? I'm glad it brings you and your mum happy 🎉

Finally someone else who was at that show. I remember when the previous act left I looked around and no one was at the stage. Just walked right up to the front and got to see Brian May perform 5 ft away from me. His second solo album another world had just come out and cozy Powell had very very recently died in a car accident. One moment I remember particularly well is when he said that he's been dusting off a couple of old songs which he hasn't played in a while. And here I am 5 ft away and he bangs out the beginning of fat bottom girls. I too went to guitar center in Lombard the next day but got there at 5 in the morning and was the seventh person in line. Got my picture taken with him had a great talk and he is as genuine as can be. And then I got my white pill box import CD 'too much love will kill you'signed. Great memory and glad to hear someone else shared both experiences. I've been a die-hard queen fan and I've seen Brian a total of 8 times. From the northwest suburbs of Chicago and saw him in 77 80 + 82, his back to the light at the Vic, his rockstock show, with Paul Rodgers at the horizon, and twice with Adam.

@@roberthussey5552 That's awesome! I too was right up front, about 5-8 feet left of center stage. The previous band was Monster Magnet and we got there with about 2 songs left in their set. Then when they finished, I was shocked how many just walked away and we went right up front. When I first found out Sir Brian was not on the main stage, I was pissed at the disrespect. BUT... was grateful when I got to be that close for the show. It was truly an amazing weekend.

Also look up Brian May's interview at Oxford

Plus he has a PhD in Astrophysics...simply a brilliant man.

not to mention he built his own guitar...

He's a self-taught guitarist, but he had some training in classical music as a child -- which counts for a lot more than one might think!

@@samuelbarham8483 Yeah, really. I'd write that's a MAJOR assistance as you're growing into a musician!

Totally agree. I think you can hear it in his playing as well. There's a lot of warmth and humanity in the way he plays.

He's a great man. " I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures." - Brian May

@Pdpmail I agree 100% I find Rick to be very relatable. He conveys information in such a way, that even a guy like me at 51 with arthritis, who can't play anymore can learn more from him in 3 years than I did all the years playing. It's a real gift to be able to play. It's a bigger one too inspire through teaching. Rick inspires beyond his playing which says a lot.

I'd love to be Brians' lovely, lady ,Anita.....

I agree. The sound alone elicits a feeling

Rick transforms into a kid again...lol. Just look at his face.

What a beautiful and completely true comment Rock and roll is positivity Rock and roll means well

Ah ... We all love Brian/Queen, and we know that the Bach comment is superfluous nonsense. Hearing the Red Special thru an AC30 over Zoom or Skype isn't even comparable to standing twenty feet in front of Brian, Freddie, Roger, and John in full flight.

​@@kevinkiso4579with the treble booster of course. normal channel full up and master full up.

Yes! Just wish he had a little more love for reggae, hair metal and electronica, then he will be perfect.

Oh, and country music.

;DD

thanks for your love and support all through this times❤❤❤❤

Ric deadbeat-o. Quite possibly the most annoying know it all on RU-vid

Yeah I can’t think of a higher compliment than thag

That old saying: "You should never meet your idol". Brian May and Rick Beato: "Here, hold my beer."

12:40 Yeah, totally agree.

Marvellous solo!

Got to agree @@Musicienne-DAB1995 - you can sing every one of his solos. Ultra melodic with surprising twists and turns everywhere and yet ALWAYS in the most tasteful way imaginable.

It is quintessential Queen.

And I love Rick's face while Brian starts playing classic Queen riffs TO HIM! Like a kid in a candy store. Two brilliant musical minds.

He knows he's not wasting his breath, time or mental effort on Rick, because he knows how insightful Rick is. Great to see and hear the rapport between them.

Yep, well done., RIck!..

It brought tears to my eyes!

Did you understood who wrote the guitar solo?

Thank you so much.

Hell fuckin'yeah millennium

timestamp?

He's fucked, how is he gonna top this?

@@NoName-to5xl he doesn't have to top it, he'll just go on doing what he does - which is the only response he could have to this incredible release.

One of the five most important? FUCKING NONSENSE.

I'm seeing a lot of people tout the vinyl. I was raised on CDs, then switched to digital music. But I'm now tiring of the digital format and wanting to go back to CDs again. Can you explain why you think vinyl is best?

@@Musicienne-DAB1995 Sure, but it may surprise you. It's not the actual sound reproduction. Too many audiophiles make false claims about vinyl sounding better than digital formats -- it doesn't! In fact, it is often worse (scratches, dirt/dust, wear, needle quality, late production press etc.). 1. Vinyl gave the artists the chance to exhibit another dimension of their art on a tangible 'canvas' ... the cover/jacket and sleeve. It even has its own name; Album Art! I don't need to wax lyrical about iconic cover designs that are already etched into your brain. I can name dozens off the top of my head, but for CD-only covers I could name but a few. 2. The physical act of preparing and setting the vinyl on the platten requires a little time and a degree of delicacy. Because of this it sort of focuses your mind on what your mood is guiding you to listen to before you commit. As you closely watch the needle whilst you lower it onto the platter you are preparing to physically connect with the artist's music. 3. Track time per side: Artists had to really think hard about the formatting of the tracks that they wanted on the vinyl. They knew that between track 'X' and track 'Y', there would be a minute or so break whilst the listener got up and flipped the vinyl over. Think of Dark Side Of The Moon or Abbey Road for example, and how they are purposely divided into distinct 'parts'. This is lost on CD as the tracks just keep churning out without a contemplative pause. Also, the time limit on vinyl made sure that 'so-so' songs were left on the cutting room floor. With CD's, artists can just throw any crap in as fillers as there are fewer time constraints.

I was born in ‘59 and grew up with vinyl and an album was a treasure, it was a prized possession that you cherished, I miss all the artwork and information ( lyrics and instruments etc) the whole package was wonderful.

he smart

only so little* I guess

you should see the one he did with Sting and Dominic Miller

A knitting needle whammy bar! Only a genius like Brian could think of such a thing.

He's brilliant. "I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures." - Brian May.

I'm sleeping down at the laundromat!

When Richie Blackmore's only criticism of a fellow guitarist is that he's too tall like he did about May....he must be a top bloke!!!!

And the deacy amp

Or McCartney

The best thing is Rick's "I died and went to heaven" smile.

Are you having a dissociative episode?

I read the first few sentences and thought ‘this guys got to be on a god trip’. Skipped to the bottom and I was right 😂

Hell yeah!!

That was one of my faves

100 percent. The guitar orchestration in the middle is gorgeous and so right for the song. And then there’s Freddie’s voice, beautiful piano playing and all those multi-tracked harmonies. Come to think of it, everything!

I was around in the 1970s listening to Queen in real time. Those albums were extremely popular. Nice to see a younger generation enjoying it now.

It's one of my favourite Queen songs, along with 'White Queen'.

And astrophysicist.

Checkout his interview with Steve Jones, you might like it

one MILLION views

My heart was in my mouth when I heard that story

that was awesome. we need more stories like that to learn from.

Just to add more insufferable detail… I worked with old, multitrack tape recorders early in my career… not with music but with analog instrumentation data for engineering tests… but the recorders are either the same or similar to 16 and 24 track recorders. The old buggers are way more complex than a home open reel deck, but the principles are similar. There are a number of things in the tape path which can damage the tape if out of adjustment or worn. The heads themselves can and DO wear (quite a lot since the tape oxide can be pretty abrasive), but usually the high frequency response of the head starts to degrade before the head is bad enough to damage tape. Not always, but usually. There are tape guides that tend to get overlooked by a lot of people maintaining the machines because they focus on the heads and capstan(s), and fixed (non- roller) guides can develop,flat spots. The capstans are the high maintenance part because the rubber wheels have to remain compliant, and when they get a bit hard the metal capstan wheel begins to (for lack of a better word) lose “traction” on the rubber capstan wheel and slip slightly on both the rubber idler wheel and the tape, which really causes a lot of wear. Better tape drives don’t have pinch type capstans and instead relied on having over 180 degrees of rubber capstan wheel touching the back of the tape under relatively high tension, though, and therefore avoided any capstan contact on the oxide side of the tape. The goal was a large diameter capstan wheel with a healthy wrap of tape. Alignment of parts is also critical and poor alignment can cause wear. In short… I know lots of possibilities, but without knowing a lot more about the tape drive mechanism it’s hard to guess.

@@stevelacker358 I did not understand a thing from your second comment 😂 but it's cool to learn more stuff. I had heard the "tape was translucent after so many overdubs" story many times, but this was the first time I could hear the actual reasons behind it, so it was very cool.

Love your comment… all four guys in Queen were nice guys who just happened to be geniuses.

Most over-qualified member of a rock and roll band ever. PhD in astrophysics, that is what we common folks in Texas call a rocket scientist. Rocket scientists just happen to be amongst the most brilliant individuals on the planet. Growing up a queen fan makes it seriously difficult to appreciate a number of really astounding guitar gods. To me, he really stood out and is in a league of his own. The ultimate guitar hero. Listen to "All dead, All dead" or "In only seven days" and realize those sounds you hear are guitars, LAYERS of them, 15 or 20 guitars. No one else dared to try such a thing.

@@johnbaxter533 and you can even go one step further, not only did he have a truly iconic sounds and is great and tasteful player with a superbe sense for harmony... he bloody build his instrument himself from stuff he had left over at home. A absolutely inspiring person.

Gesh, settle down

Don't forget, he also built the guitar he used for all the Queen songs... Pretty cool!

Totally agree !

As far as rock guitar influence can be measured, the zenith to me is to be named in the list of instant 'air guitar' masters, & May is right up there with all the rest. The solo in 'We will rock you', the breakout riff in 'Bohemian Rhapsody' plus pretty much all the rest of his guitar work in their tunes. Incredible

Did you understand who wrote the guitar solo?

Yep, an epic interview. It plays, as if were in someone’s living room or den. Awesome gentlemen.

You will enjoy even more the one with Rick Wickman!

We’re you working for WMMR ? I was @ my Grandparents house in Margate and even they watched and were amazed by Queen. Of course there was pride that Philly stepped up and opened JFK stadium for the other show.

In addition to great interrogative questions, Rick knows when to not say anything, interject, etc... let the person talk unfettered.