Queen’s Brian May named best guitarist in Total Guitar magazine poll
Brian May was elected best guitarist of all time in a poll conducted by the magazine Total Guitar in 2020. In the program The Howard SternShowfrom the SiriusXMthe member of queen commented on the title and highlighted the importance of other guitarists, including Kurt Cobain.
Expression is an essential point for any musician, according to maywho also indicated the pointlessness of listing artists as the best or worst: “You can’t tell who’s the best. The cool thing about playing guitar is that everyone’s different, you can’t rank people.”
Brian highlighted that playing the instrument was a way of expressing feelings, as well as singing: “All I did was play how I felt. Using the guitar as my voice. I’m not the best singer – nor the best guitarist, but thank you for that – and I try to make the guitar sing for me.”
steve vai, jimmy page, Eric Clapton It is Jimi Hendrix were some of the names mentioned by him, until reaching the leader of the Nirvana: “Guitarists have nothing to prove. It’s not a competition. Kurt Cobain is a good example. He didn’t work hard to get too technical, but he left his legacy with some of the greatest guitar music of all time. It’s not about technique, it’s about what you feel and how that feeling runs through your playing.”
Source: Rollingstone
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