Steve vai habla de brian may biography

Very nice piece featuring Steve Vai singing Brian’s praises – during an appearance on Tone Talk (see video):

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Steve Vai Offers Explanation on What Makes Brian May So Amazing
9 September 2019

EXTRACT:
(Transcript by UG)

“He has real quality, integrity, rock sensibilities – he has a phenomenal ear for the actual music, you know?

His inner ear constructed that amazing tone that he has, and it always sounded great. And just the fact that he was able to build that guitar when he was young… that Red Special was hand-built by him, so it has a myriad of tones to it.

“But all these tones and everything in his guitar, in his amp, are just one dimension. It all comes from his fingers and his mind. I’ve played with Brian on a lot of occasions and he always sounds like Brian.

“As a matter of fact, when I first moved out to LA, I didn’t know anybody, nobody knew me, I was working for Frank [Zappa], wasn’t even i