{"id":18047,"date":"2019-05-04T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\/?post_type=blog&p=18047"},"modified":"2020-07-07T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:53:47","slug":"queens-brian-may-three-awesome-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadiemusic.com\/blog\/queens-brian-may-three-awesome-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Brian May: Three Awesome Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBohemian Rhapsody<\/a>\u201d does an excellent job of recreating Queen<\/a>\u2019s performances.\u00a0As many critics have noted<\/a>, Rami Malek is on point as Freddie Mercury. But, Gwilym Lee, with that Brian May signature guitar<\/a> in his hand, is also the spitting image of the iconic axe man.<\/p>\n

Bohemian Rhapsody is a great<\/em> music biopic. Unsurprisingly, it\u2019s already being tipped as an Oscars best picture<\/a> contender.\u00a0 But, for us guitar fanatics at Roadie, our one disappointment was that the mighty Mr. May didn\u2019t get more screen time.<\/p>\n

To make up for that, we\u2019ve decided to shed some light on the legendary guitarist. Here are three awesome facts you might not have known about him.<\/p>\n

His guitar is made from a fireplace<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Brian May\u2019s \u201cRed Special\u201d<\/a> is an iconic instrument. It doesn\u2019t look like any other guitar played by any other guitarist. And, in no small part, that\u2019s because Brian and his dad built the guitar from scratch. Starting in August 1963, it took them two years. And, the majority of parts were salvaged from the scrap heap.<\/p>\n

The neck is constructed from a “hundred-year-old-ish” fireplace mantel<\/a> that friends of the family were about to throw away. Inserts in the body come from an old oak table and the tremolo system combines a hardened-steel knife-edge, two motorbike valve strings, a bicycle saddlebag holder and knitting needle tip.<\/p>\n\n

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