So very true … 🎸👨🏼‍⚕️🫶✌️♾️

Brian and Tony respectively used a homemade guitar and compensated for cut off fingertips. That needed creativity for sure.

Brian may was very far from genius!! Should not just throw that word around

@dondamon4669 If you don't accept he's a genius guitarist / songwriter, then how about the fact he has a doctorate in Astrophysics!!! Does that qualify him for that title?

Brian isn't a genius he's just a satanic freemason and a limited guitar player especially compared to van halen.

My first concert was Sabbath with Van Halen opening. It was a magical mind blowing night. It was a small general admission venue and my buddy and I got very close to the stage. Saw VH headlining tours thereafter and Eddie always killed it.

@@jimgodofbiscuits In 79' they hit the Arizona Fair at Phoenix Memorial Coliseum and George Thorogood & Destroyers opened, VH and Alice Cooper for $3 !!! Also general admission !!! We wandered all over it was amazing!!!

@@jimgodofbiscuitsfuck am I jealous

What exactly do you think it said 🤔?

@@b.g.5869 I grew up in the country and the idea of going to a concert didn't come up for me until the summer of '78 when I was 17. I know now city kids were seeing shows at like 14, about the age older kids first introduced me to hard rock. Became a Black Sabbath fan and when we went to this concert I'd never even heard VH yet. Their first album came out in Feb I think but the buzz hadn't reached me. Soon as they started playing though it was obvious even to a 17 year old this was something special. Everyone talked about how VH blew Sabbath off the stage but I loved the Sabbath set too. Ozzy was MIA or totally out of it that tour from what I heard but he was on that night. It was their last tour together (Never Say Die) in the original run.

I love how Brian is basically admitting that Eddie was better than he was

@@fredwerza3478 You wanted to say more skilled.

@@AlbertoJorgeSoares yeah basically --- Brian came up with a lot of melodic stuff but couldn't match the technical wizardry of Edward

@@fredwerza3478 Had more technical skills, speed - sure. But I wouldn't say that because of that Yngwie is "better" than (for example) Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits made so many unbelievable music, without the "technical wizardry". It's just different.

@@michacieslak2346 Knopfler was "OK" but King Edward was a total pioneer and innovator of rock --- his influence spans many generations

HE'S A DOCTOR AND A KNIGHT AND A ROCKSTAR 😂

Of course that's simply correct. The not easy part is the emotional security part of it for some. But yes, give the credit where it's truly due. In my opinion though unfortunately, the terms "Genius, Love, and Friend" because of Media's attempts to place emphasis have been WAY overused for decades to the point of whoring. Again, giving credit where it's truly due, particularly when it's not an "Art" you find appealing, &or you don't care for the individual/entity producing it, yet recognizing it for what it is despite is rarest, I think.

Brian was great back in the day but come on, Eddie Van Halen was on a whole different level, he didn't have a PHD in one of the sciences, he wasn't knighted by the Queen of England, he was 100% all about guitar, everything he had went into playing guitar which is what put him on a different level than Brian May.

Smart man, your father.

The British for the most part are respectful of others...Eddie Van Halen not so much from what I read...

Yep, and he’s better than all of them. What he has done (contributed) is UNMatched!

People always say this but I don't think it's true. I'm not saying they weren't great players that sounded very unique when they first appeared on the scene but as far as leaving a permanent imprint on how people play guitar, I just don't see it, largely because their respective styles were associated with a type of rock music that didn't last very long. The proto metal sort of blues tinged hard rock Hendrix played was limited to a few year span in the late 60s. A lot of people say everyone copied Jimi but can't seem to name some examples when asked. Similarly, Van Halen's finger tapping and classical music influence was very influential and often copied in the 80s, but most of the bands copying him sucked and Van Halen got soft and commercial pretty early in their career so unless you went to see Van Halen live you really didn't hear any of the stuff he did that was innovative. Moreover, with the exception of a few very old legacy bands still touring guitar oriented hard rock is essentially dead as a genre, so while I would definitely agree they were both great and innovative I don't think we can say they ultimately had a lasting impact. Jimi had a few years in the late 60s and Eddie Van Halen has a few years in the late 70s and early 80s.

​@b.g.5869 May I ask who you think made significant and lasting impact. Genuinely curious.

@@CoreyW6292 It would be whoever can be regarded as figures of significant influence and inspiration in genres of music that didn't have such a short shelf life as classic rock and metal. Dance pop is the cockroach of popular music because it has been around for decades with very little change so whoever is considered the most influential in that genre. So probably someone like Michael Jackson, Madonna, maybe even Mariah Carey at this point. Some might say I don't like dance pop mind you; I much prefer classic rock and metal. But chart topping R&B/dance pop in 2024 could easily be slipped into the pay list of any top 40 radio station of 40 plus years ago and nobody would blink because it really hasn't changed much at all. That's a lasting impact. Classic rock and metal are still around but they exist today in the form of elderly legacy acts listened to primarily by Boomers and Gen Xers. I'm not pleased with this state of affairs but this is the case.

@b.g.5869 I agree with your response. I asked the wrong question. Do you have any guitarist in mind that made a significant lasting impact? I love Jimi's and Eddie's innovations and playing styles. You are correct in that the genres are basically extinct now. It is just that with guitarists in general, those 2 seemed to have made an incredible impact on guitarists through the early 90s. I wasn't sure if you play and, honestly, am curious about which guitarist that you prefer out of all of them. Thank you for your time and response!

@b.g.5869 Basically, what I am trying to say is that guitar students flock to Jimi, Eddie, Stevie Ray, or anyone who sounds like them. Or. They learn to play Spanish and classical guitar. I play classical guitar because everyone I knew in the 80s and 90s were all trying to play like Eddie or Jimi, and most of them failed because Eddie and Jimi were truly great original guitarist that just had "it".

'Wonderous Stories'...you might be interested in this great song by Yes.

@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 I didn't find it in your video history.

@@RyanJohnsonD Huh? I don't understand what you mean.

Brain May has not just a PhD, but an alphabet after his name.

Yes...smart as well as talented...not self destructive, rude and a great player..that's the difference.

He’s got a bit of ego. It’s totally deserved, and he’s not an a-hole about it, but I wouldn’t exactly say humility is one of his defining traits.

@@marta70423 no Idea what you said vladimir

I lived in Pasadena California where we were at kegger parties with Van Halen as the band. I saw him also in 78 that year at the Pasadena Civic as they were about to leave on tour. My last time was the US Festival in 83 and Eddie was as amazing as every.

Listen to Cathedral Vh.. guy comes from pure classical influence and on piano no less musics like art there's no better but I Def see.your point and love May as well

I find VHs music soulless.

​@@nicholasprotz4297Other than questioning your intelligence and musical ear, I don't know how to open your ears at this point. lol You're really missing out though. Especially if your only reference to EVH is what you have heard on the radio. That stuff just paid the bills. Listen to every album from their debut record in 1977, VH1 to the last album before Gary Cherone made 1 record with them. Gary is great with Nuno, and a really nice and generous guy to meet, but somehow, his voice didn't work in VH. 🎸

@@1XDroidX1 Heard it all, not my thing, overrated.

@@1XDroidX1 It’s not only what I’ve heard on the radio. VHs music is not melodic enough for me. DLR and SH are not great singers.

Brian May has a degree in Astrophysics. I can't recall what his dad did for a living but the two of them literally designed, crafted, and wired the guitar. The full story is online somewhere.

@@yeahyeahyeahyeahwhatever His father was an engineer.

Brian worked on the Messenger project with NASA which photographed Pluto for the first time a few years ago. He is an actual rocket scientist (astrophysicist).

Eddie was better

@@fredwerza3478 Better in some aspects. The thing is, the delivery and the attitude can ultimately settle a dispute in Rock. Those attributes in Eddie were wild and Rock is supposed to be wild.

No. I love EVH, but do more research.

EVH said a lot of mean things about people --- he said he taught Randy everything he knows --- and called former band members like Mikey, Dave, and Sammy all kinds of names

33 degree weather.

No

Hands down Hendrix.

@@Itsme-ni9jk Thank you

Nopes

Innovator? Yes. Greatest? Not even close.

On top Tony Iommi is a friend of yours and you play in a band called Queen 😅

The whole 'Starfleet' EP is amazing. All three songs.