Queen’s Brian May just lately topped a fan-voted Total Guitar checklist of the best guitarists of all-time, however throughout a current interview with SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, May selected to place the highlight elsewhere, shouting out a lot of high guitarists whose skills he admires.
Talking concerning the honor, May commented, “The nice thing about guitar playing is that everybody’s different. You can’t really rank people. Of course I’ve got my favorites too. But the fact that people put me in that position makes me smile. It’s a lovely feeling.”
Being humble, the guitarist advised Stern, “I’m not in the first million guitarists in the world; I know that. There’s people I listen to every day that do things that I could never do.”
When it got here time to call who he thought was the best guitarist of all-time, May unfold the wealth.
“I listen to Nuno Bettencourt and I just smile because it’s so beautiful and it’s so way out of what I could ever do. It doesn’t bother me, ’cause I don’t feel in competition. I just love the guy and I love what he does. Same with Jeff Beck. Same with Ed Van Halen. We worked together, and it was the most wonderful experience. My jaw dropped every time he touched the strings. It was just beautiful,” recalled May.
He continued, “There are so many wonderful guitarists. Steve Vai is just colossal, beautiful. And of course I still have my old heroes. Eric Clapton is still my hero. Jimi Hendrix is still my hero. Of course — it’s always gonna be that way. Jeff Beck, to me, is something so exceptional and outside anything you could have imagined.”
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He additionally took a second to reward Kurt Cobain, utilizing the Nirvana frontman for example of a guitarist who should not really feel they’ve something to show. “I don’t think any guitarist should feel like they have anything to prove,” May declared. “It’s not a competition. Kurt Cobain is a great example. There’s not a lot of technical stuff there, and he didn’t work that hard at being technical, and yet he gives us a legacy of some of the greatest guitar music of all time. So it’s not about technique. It’s about what you put into it and what you feel and how that feeling gets across in your guitar playing.”
While May could also be humble about his taking part in, he did not get voted to the highest of the checklist with out motive. Fans will get an opportunity to see May and Queen on tour later this yr because the band simply introduced dates for the autumn within the U.S. The run kicks off Oct. 4 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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