As any fan of Queen will attest, May is an incredibly 
versatile guitarist and provided the amazing 'orchestrations' 
that perfectly embellished those wonderful Queen tunes - 
can't think of anyone playing nowadays that comes close...

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:42:27 -0600
>From: Road Angel <samsmith@colorado.edu>  
>Subject: Re: Another List  
>To: audities@smoe.org
>
>josh chasin wrote:
>
>>Should he be higher or lower?
>>
>If you're referring to Brian May, I can only hope that 
you're joking. 
>May has never gotten a lot of credit (hey, you're in a band 
with Freddie 
>Mercury, so it's easy to get overshadowed, I guess), but 
he's one of the 
>best guitarists I've ever heard. I'd have to work out my 
criteria for 
>what makes a guitarist the best before I could say for sure, 
but I have 
>a hard time imagining doing a list of my own where he ranked 
lower than 
>10 or 15.
>
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>...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the 
>lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in 
>strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing 
>behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice 
>kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, 
>and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing 
>from your heart. 
>
>                    - John Millington Synge
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