Oh boy the Rig rundown to end all Rig Rundowns is here.

[Mjark]

I watched that last week. I liked hearing Brian talk about his guitar. It was sort of touching in a way.

 

[raito]

great quote: "If Brian picks up a $#!++Y $50 acoustic guitar he sounds like Brian May"

I kinda like the line immediately following, where he says it's true of all great guitarists.

 

[Del Pickup]

Interesting stuff.

I'm not a Queen fan and neither am I a fan of Vox amps but there was a lot of good stuff in there. Interesting to see that he uses old sixpences for picks and that they break up and leave metal filing stuck to the pickups. I thought that was something that could kill a pickup if they got in amongst the windings. Maybe he did a good job of wax potting the pickups when he built it.

 

[bender66]

Man, what an iconic guitar. Very nice of him to discuss it himself.

Love the Grolsch washers/straplocks.

Thanks Blazer.

 

[Tonemonkey]

Cool vid ... Lots of nice people, and good Q's.

Only missing Q ........ " So, tell me Brian, what other guitars do you have in your collection?!"

Then any TDPRI'er would be content.

 

[Lucky Day]

Cool vid ... Lots of nice people, and good Q's.

Only missing Q ........ " So, tell me Brian, what other guitars do you have in your collection?!"

Then any TDPRI'er would be content.

It's interesting. Brian isn't really a guitar collector. The guitar collector in Queen was the drummer, Roger Taylor.

 

[grandstick]

...Interesting to see that he uses old sixpences for picks and that they break up and leave metal filing stuck to the pickups. I thought that was something that could kill a pickup if they got in amongst the windings. Maybe he did a good job of wax potting the pickups when he built it.

I believe Brian has potted all of his Burns TriSonics in some sort of epoxy glue.

 

[Lucky Day]

I believe Brian has potted all of his Burns TriSonics in some sort of epoxy glue.

That is correct. Araldite, I think.

 

[Telenut62]

Any other guitar manufacturer pick up on that "floating" nut set up?

 

[Blazer]

Any other guitar manufacturer pick up on that "floating" nut set up?

Eeyup, the guys from the company which has the big reversed F...

 

[Anode100]

Brilliant!
Thanks for posting this - I enjoyed it thoroughly.

 

[nattaruk]

Here's another clip where Brian demonstrates his tones:

 

[Blazer]

Cool vid ... Lots of nice people, and good Q's.

Only missing Q ........ " So, tell me Brian, what other guitars do you have in your collection?!"

Then any TDPRI'er would be content.

Well there's a second guitar Brian and his father made, but they never got around to finishing it, until May gave the casco to Andrew Guyton who finished it.
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They called it, fittingly, "the Spade"

And then there's THESE...

The brown one is actually Roger taylor's Tele, as heard on "crazy little thing called love" the black Tele is the one he used on all of Queen's eighties tours.

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The "Blonde special" is a John Birch made custom which was the very first copy of the Red Special, I guess the picture says enough on where it differed...
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May smashed it but it got lovingly restored by Andrew Guyton.

After destroying the John Birch custom, this Flying V was his back up before he got his deal with Guild.

Currently all May's touring guitars are made by Andrew Guyton, who made the F-hole guitar and the other Red Special copies May tours with. Guyton also made Brian May THIS...

 

[marshman]

I seem to recall there was a special edition AC30 that just had a volume knob. Fitting. Just measure everything and replace all excess parts, done and done.

OOOPS--after a little looky-loo in the interwebs, I dicover that the May AC30 also had the treble booster built in!!!

Was it John Deacon that built the first boosters he used, or was that the little battery powered amp thingy?

 

[Maricopa]

Great vid but I still think the ultimate Rig Rundown would be Derek Trucks.

SG....Cord.....Super Reverb. Thank you.

 

[neckbeard_mafia]

Great vid but I still think the ultimate Rig Rundown would be Derek Trucks. SG....Cord.....Super Reverb. Thank you.

We saw Derek play last week. Great tone out of that simple setup. And LOUD!

 

[harold h]

Best Rig Rundown ever!