Queenin Brian May nimetty kaikkien aikojen parhaaksi kitaristiksi Total Guitar -lehden äänestyksessä

Englantilaisen Total Guitar -lehden lukijaäänestyksessä tiedusteltiin, kuka on maailman paras kitaristi. Ykköspaikalle äänestyksessä kiri Queenista tuttu kitaristi Brian May, joka jätti taakseen muun muassa aiemmin ykköspaikkaa pitäneen Jimi Hendrixin. May vaikutti olleen asiasta yllättynyt ja kommentoi:

“I’m absolutely speechless. I’m blown away. I have to say it’s completely unexpected.

Obviously I’m deeply touched that people feel that way about me. I’m not under any illusions that, technically, I’m even on the tree of great guitarists. I guess this tells me that what I’ve done has affected people, and that means a great deal to me.

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I will never claim to be a great guitarist in the sense of, you know, a virtuoso. I guess I just try to play from my heart and that’s about it.”

Jimi Hendrixin edelle sijoittumisesta May tuntui olleen eniten yllättynyt. Hendrix on hänelle henkilökohtainen ykkönen:

“Jimi is, of course, my number one. And I’ve always said that. To me, he’s still something superhuman. It’s like he really did come from an alien planet, and I will never know quite how he did what he did.

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And every time I go back to Hendrix, I’m thrilled and stunned, and I get that feeling all over again, like either I’m going to give up playing guitar, because I can’t face up to this, or I’m gonna really have to get into it in a big way and try and do what is in my own body and soul. I never stop learning from Jimi.”