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gimmebeer · #1 08-04-2010, 01:52 PM

I've seen a few great guitar players live, but none impressed me as much as brian may

"I had this idea that, if we did it enough times and we didn't use any reverb or anything, that I could build a sound that would work. We were very lucky ? we were working in an old, disused church in North London, and it already had a nice sound. And there were some old boards lying around, but they just seemed ideal to stamp on. So we piled them up and started stamping. And they sounded great anyway. But being a physicist, I said, 'Suppose there were 1,000 people doing this; what would be happening?' And I thought, 'Well, you would be hearing them stamping. You would also be hearing a little bit of an effect, which is due to the distance that they are from you.' So I put lots of individual repeats on them. Not an echo but a single repeat at various distances. And the distances were all prime numbers. Now, much later on, people designed a machine to do this. But that's what we did. When we recorded each track, we put a delay of a certain length on it. And none of the delays were harmonically related. So there's no echo on it whatsoever, but the clapped sound ? they spread around the stereo, but they also kind of spread from a distance from you ? so you just feel like you're in the middle of a large number of people stamping and clapping.""

Queen's Brian May Rocks Out To Physics, Photography

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Eccles · #2 08-04-2010, 01:55 PM

He's got a Phd in astrophysics

His Wikipedia entry enen starts:

Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist

TheSNakE · #3 08-04-2010, 02:31 PM

The genius of rock. I heard he built his guitar out of a 200 year old piece of wood from a fireplace or something like that.
One of my all time favorites and one of the all time greats. Brian May rules.

gimmebeer · #4 08-04-2010, 02:39 PM

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the red special kicks ass.

maybe someday i'll get me one... http://www.brianmayguitars.co.uk/

TheSNakE · #5 08-04-2010, 03:15 PM

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ha ha wiki rocks. I read that in a guitar magazine probably 25 years ago and never forgot it.
I'm going to have to go listen to Olga's Battle now