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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

Brian May

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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
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I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
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I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.
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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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