1 July

So Pauly, listen to the minute or more of explanation starting at 6:18 to hear the genius of Brian May and electric guitar and amp design. I hate that it gets called 'the Brian May sound', as if it's some idiosyncratic personal taste thing. He did what nobody else figured out how to do, orders of magnitude more important than anything Leo Fender or Gibson etc. discovered, I think. He discovered how to: - have an electric guitar that can retain many of the harmonic properties of the underlying acoustics of the physical guitar itself, even when overdriven. Generally electric makers try to avoid that because it creates nightmare feedback issues, except in semi-hollow body jazz guitars, but those are rarely played overdriven, and can sound horrible when they are - can play at any point on a smooth continuum between clean and overdriven, so that no matter how overdriven it becomes, you can hear every note, even in complex chords that rock guitarists for example avoid because they sound total crap under distortion (or possibly they don't know the chords ;) ) - the thing sustains indefinitely. That alone is like the Holy Grail for overdriven guitar. EVH recently said his entire career has been about trying to find more sustain. May cracked it more than 50 years ago, this thing sustains without end.