It’s National Get Out Your Guitar Day. JUST DO IT!
Do you have a favorite guitar? Do you have a favorite guitar player? Do you have a favorite guitar solo?
An Aries (Who Knows Some Stuff)
It’s National Get Out Your Guitar Day. JUST DO IT!
Do you have a favorite guitar? Do you have a favorite guitar player? Do you have a favorite guitar solo?
No, I just bang on things and make noise. It’s loosely called Percussion. Anyway, if I had to choose a guitarist’s solo, it’s on one of many, many Queen records.
A few Queen singles on the radio and the Now… series was all I really knew, but one kid who flaunted his photographic memory and another Chip off the old block guy at a restaurant I high school worked at, they firmly cemented Queen into my growing world of fandom:
Be free with your tempo…
But, that was only after I want to break free and One Vision ruled guitars. And Def Leppard -vs- Bon Jovi.
Bohemian Rhapsody although anachronistically earlier actually came to me later in life, which could easily pass for Wayne’s World’s favorite guitar solo if Stairway is denied.
It’s so strange how the Queen phenomenon mostly passed me by. I definitely appreciate them and their music, but that mostly came some time after the fact. What I remember most clearly about Queen was “Under Pressure” with David Bowie.
On a Greatest Hits or Classic CD from a boxed set, I was playing them while doing the dishes at that same restaurant, and some passing by coworker said they were ripping off Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby! The two waring factions settled when it came to light that one extra beat was in the mix. But, that didn’t stop other artists more blatantly sampling and reusing others’ work for profit and fame without permission.