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[edit] Too much detail

Is "The album featured other greats such as Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple, Pete Green of Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, and Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt of Status Quo." really neccessary? I'll delete it if it remains unjustified... pomegranate 16:59, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

I agree this list is rather far afield, and would agree with the deletion. --Gary D 20:12, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Red Special

I agree that the Red Special is a unique guitar, but the orchestral arrangements he created were very little to do with the guitar itself. It was due to multi-tracking the guitars (recording seperate tracks after the other rather than trying to record all at the same time), and also in part due to his Deacy amp which John Deacon built for him.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.136.159.179 (talk • contribs).

any guitar in isolation will require other inputs to achieve a multi-layered, orchestrated sound. what the red special does show, is that brain may possessed a quite different approach to the guitar to many of his contemporaries. it would have been very easy to get the classic telecaster, stratocaster or les paul sound so popular in the 1960's. the fact that the red special is homemade, and has a number of innovations for its time, such as phase reversal and series pickup switching, used warm sounding burns trisonic pickups, would support the notion that brian may was looking to find new and innovative sounds. certainly the "deacy amp", and the use of a homemade treble booster, and other effects, were multi-layered in the studio to build an orchestrated sound. the red special guitar, therefore is a key component in the sound that was achieved. the guitar, after all, has a sound somewhere between a standard single coil strat type pickups and thicker humbucker sounds like that of the gibson les paul guitars. certainly another guitar would have produced a different outcome given the dynamics between the various multi-layers that constitute an orchestration. in essence, therefore, the sound produced was, and is, unique to the red special guitar.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.170.167.50 (talk • contribs).

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