The "Must Post" Thread

[GRAYWOLF]

I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm OK alone but you've got something I need, well

I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
You've got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and
Try them on to see
I been lookin' around awhile
You got something for me
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive, I been all around the world
Some people say I done all right for a girl

I asked your mother if you were at home
She said yes, but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm OK alone but you got something I need, well

[Tifosi]

Grab a board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...



Dan

[Rich]

AAAhhhh,
Who's gonna take you home tonight?
AAAhhhh,
Down beside that red firelight
AAAhhhh,
Can you give it all you got
Fat Bottom Girls you make the rockin' world go 'round....

GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE.......

[Otto Puzzell]

Grab a board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...

Dan

"Santa and the Sidewalk Surfer" was one of my favorites from the warped minds of the Turtles (in their earlier incarnation, the Crossfires). "Buzzsaw" is also good for a grin every time I hear it.

[MG]

I was just a skinny lad, didn't know no good from bad.
But I knew love before I left my nursery!
Left alone with big fat Fanny; she was such a naughty nanny!
Hey, big WOMAN! You made a bad boy outta me!      

Think this was partly autobiographical on Freddie Mercury's part?   

[Rich]

Dunno...do know that when they wanted to, Queen could rock like no other.....

[Tifosi]

AAAhhhh,
Who's gonna take you home tonight?
AAAhhhh,
Down beside that red firelight
AAAhhhh,
Can you give it all you got
Fat Bottom Girls you make the rockin' world go 'round....

GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE.......

This song always reminds me of my ex...


Dan

[MG]

Is that because your ex had a fat bottom or because she looked like Lance Armstong?     


Note to Rich:  I believe all the members of the band had been trained as classical musicians. Roll over Beethoven, indeed!   

[Ultra]

Brian May handbuilt his guitar for that special sound.

The Red Special

May, with his father Harold's help, began work on Red Special in August of 1963. Most of the wood came from an old fireplace mantel that a friend of the family was about to throw away. The neck was hand-shaped until it reached the desired form, which was difficult due to the age and quality of the wood. Even today, according to May, there are two wormholes in the guitar[1].

The neck was finished with a 24 fret oak fingerboard. Each of the position inlays were hand shaped from mother-of-pearl buttons. May decided to position them in a personal way: two dots at 7th and 19th fret and three at 12th and 24th.

The body was made from oak, blockboard and Mahogany Veneer; the final result was a sort of Semi-acoustic guitar—the central block is glued to the sides and covered with two mahogany sheets to give it the appearance of a solid-body guitar. White shelf edging was then applied as binding. It was then completed with three pickups and a custom-made bridge. May purchased a set of Burns Tri-Sonic pickups but re-wound them with reverse wound/reverse polarity and "potted" the coils, to reduce microphonics with Araldite epoxy. He originally wound his own pickups, as he had for his first guitar, but he did not like the resulting sound using bending because of the polarity of these pickups: North-South-North-South-North-South instead of North-North-North-North-North-North).

The tremolo system is made from an old hardened-steel knife-edge shaped into a V and two motorbike valve springs to counter the string tension. The tension of the springs is adjustable by screwing the bolts, which run through the middle of the springs, in or out via 2 small access holes next to the rear strap button. To reduce friction, the bridge was completed with little rollers to allow the strings to return perfectly in tune after using the tremolo arm, (the arm itself was from a bicycle saddlebag holder with a plastic knitting needle tip). For the same reason, at the other end of the neck the strings pass over a zero fret and through a bakelite string guide.

Originally the guitar had a built in distortion circuit, adapted from a mid-1960s Vox distortion unit. The switch for this was in front of the phase switches. May soon discovered that he preferred the sound of a Vox AC30 distorting at full power, so the circuit was removed. The switch hole is now covered by a mother-of-pearl star inlay, but was originally covered by insulation tape.

The name Red Special came from the red/brown color of the guitar after it was stained and painted with numerous layers of Rustin's plastic coating.

The overall amount May spent on his guitar was £17.50.

[Rich]

As an erstwhile guitar collector, mewonders what she Special would go for these days.

If you have to ask the price.............

[Ultra]

As an erstwhile guitar collector, mewonders what she Special would go for these days.

If you have to ask the price.............

Brian May makes and markets them:

http://brianmayguitars.co.uk/

[Boxer2500]

One wonders if Queen would still have the same following today were it not for Wayne's World.

In any case, Freddie Mercury had one of the best voices in the business. R.I.P.

[Rich]

As an erstwhile guitar collector, mewonders what she Special would go for these days.

If you have to ask the price.............

Brian May makes and markets them:

http://brianmayguitars.co.uk/

I don' need no stinkin' replica.........

[Ultra]

As an erstwhile guitar collector, mewonders what she Special would go for these days.

If you have to ask the price.............

Brian May makes and markets them:

http://brianmayguitars.co.uk/

I don' need no stinkin' replica.........

Ah, but your name isn't Brian May.

[Rich]

good point.....bastage.

[Ultra]

good point.....bastage.

[Rich]

...but, then again, Brian May isn't ME.....

I'm sure he's losing sleep about that fact RIGHT NOW.

[Ultra]

...but, then again, Brian May isn't ME.....

I'm sure he's losing sleep about that fact RIGHT NOW.

Okay, Roo.

[Rich]

Now THAT hurt.

[Ultra]

Now THAT hurt.

[Tifosi]

Is that because your ex had a fat bottom or because she looked like Lance Armstong?     

She also had the album...


Dan

[GRAYWOLF]

Is that because your ex had a fat bottom or because she looked like Lance Armstong?     

Monococque...er, uh...nut?

[Rich]

I can't follow any of this.

[Ultra]

I can't follow any of this.

Where you goin'?

[Rich]

Now cut that out, Rochester......