Blue Guitars

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Certainly, it's the closest option if you're chasing a typical bridge humbucker tone but with an appealing raspy edge if you dig in on the lower wound strings. His widow sold the other 1,000 fascinating instruments in his collection but, for sentimental reasons, retained the Blue Guitars.

Non-personalized content and ads are influenced by things like the content you’re currently viewing and your location (ad serving is based on general location). Thanks for telling your story and for clarifying that I underestimated the number of guitars in Scott's collection. With the light string gauge and easy playability high up the fretboard, playing the Bo' Rhap solo was a very joyous experience!From "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Fat Bottom Girls" through to "One Vision" and "I Want It All", this guitar undoubtedly gets you much closer to Brian's tone than any typical Strat or Les Paul. What I find somewhat interesting is that he achieves this with surprisingly ordinary gear - mostly Strats (Fenders and Squiers), Fender Blues Junior III (a pair of), a TubeScreamer, Boss delay, and Boss chorus.

Regarding the BMG’s neck, I find it 'medium' sized, so compared to the slim Ibanez it took a little getting used to at first.The project culminated in an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute (I attended the event) and a corresponding book. At the time it came out, there were a few harrowing interviews where Chris was thinking this would be the last music he made, due to cancer.

It is an ambitious project about blues music with the 137 songs recorded over the course of 18 months with a work schedule—according to Rea himself—of twelve hours a day, seven days a week. If you've found open string chords like A major a bit of a squeeze on a standard electric, you'll love the room two extra millimetres affords here.A premium quality, padded gig-bag, made from durable showerproof material, with twin rucksack-style shoulder straps, side and front grab handles, dual front pockets and stitched BMG logo, is supplied as standard with all Special models. Of course, to get even closer you'll want to factor in choice of pick (Brian favours old sixpence coins, sometimes fingers) effects (treble boost, delay, phaser, chorus) and amplifier (Vox AC30 with top boost, the Deacy amp) but this guitar is a substantial aspect to May's magic. He also expressed concern about the digitalization of modern generations whose musical perception lacks the attitude for making the record listening a specific enjoyable experience.

In these songs, he follows the Blues from its origins in Africa to the sad journey that takes the music to the Americas where the Blues evolves and blends with other styles. Having played the BMG now for a couple of weeks I find the neck is just fine and have come to really like it.

If you like Chris Rea, you will in all probability love the diversity of styles with the Chris Rea angle on it. During the process of writing and rehearsing the songs with the band over and over until perfect, Chris still finds time for more. I had no idea that he'd released this incredible blues project along with other great blues albums such as "Dancing Down the Stony Road".