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It’s tempting to say that Hendrix was ahead of his time, and yes, it’s true, he was. Jimi Hendrix was the supernova of creativity that the electric guitar had been waiting for.

Brian May: 'I will never claim to be a great guitarist in the sense of a virtuoso.

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He made full use of that freedom, with solos you could sing along to, melodies that stuck with you for days, and timeless riffs that will forever remain exhilarating as the first time we ever heard them. Indeed, with Freddie Mercury’s voluminous charisma onstage, May was given free rein to be himself as a guitarist, to make his sound as big or small as the song needed to be. As for his playing, it was sheer rock as theater, the fire to match the bombast, and the operatic splendor of a peerless band whose frontman must have been a dream to play alongside. There really is something texturally gourmand about May’s tone, a phalanx of Vox AC30s, with the Dallas Rangemaster in front, the phase shifting, the tape echo. Appropriating a sixpence for a guitar pick, he would develop a sound that was instantly and unmistakably his, a three-dimensional cushion of overdrive that ferried Queen’s magisterial songs through the ether. This homespun mad scientist sensibility served May well.

Brian MayĪrise, Sir Brian Harold May, the greatest guitarist of all time, the player most regal, and the one whose pathway to the summit began in the most unorthodox fashion, with a father-and-son woodcraft project converting a fireplace into one of the most inventive electric guitars ever made, the Red Special.

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