QUEEN
http://www.tribbit.com/tribute/96.htmlVery few bands embodied the pure excess of the 70's quite like Queen. Their music had a huge sound, fusing mock-operatic sounds with overdubbed vocals and layered guitars.
Brian May's guitar: Red Special
10-3-2007
Brian May and his father actually built his guitar in 1963, using wood from a trashed fireplace and a bunch of random parts. It cost about 17 pound. He also uses a sixpence (last produced in the 1940s) as a pick.
NO Synthesizers
September 1980
the British quartet delved deeply into camp and bombast, creating a huge, mock-operatic sound with layered guitars and overdubbed vocals. Queen's music was a bizarre yet highly accessible fusion of the macho and the fey. For years, their albums boasted the motto "no synthesizers were used on this record," signaling their allegiance with the legions of post-Led Zeppelin hard rock bands. But vocalist Freddie Mercury brought an extravagant sense of camp to the band, pushing them towards kitschy humor and pseudo-classical arrangements, as epitomized on their best-known song, "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Work music
9-14-2007
I remember mowing the lawn as a teenager, listening to a cassette tape of Queen's greatest hits. It's good work music.
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