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Yep - that documentary that I posted on here "Inside the Rhapsody" has Dr. Brian May talking about Freddie being an absolute metronome on the piano - with no cl

Yep - that documentary that I posted on here "Inside the Rhapsody" has Dr. Brian May talking about Freddie being an absolute metronome on the piano - with no click track to play to. Apparently his sense of time and control over the instrument was second to none. That documentary is well worth 27 minutes of anyone's time.

linker3000 10y ago
In June, I was working in Switzerland installing a multi-petabyte storage array for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project (http://metamedia.epfl.ch/montreux_jazz_digital_project/archiving/digitize/digital_media_storage http://metamedia.epfl.ch/montreux_jazz_digital_project/archi...), and during a break in work, myself and a colleague were taken to the home of the late Claude Nobbs, founder of the Festival. The building houses the original recordings of the festival performances (everything from 2" Ampex to digibeta and beyond), plus an overwhelming collection of memorabilia from the guests that stayed in the house and chalets around the grounds; we saw a David Bowie kimono mounted like a large picture on a wall, motorbikes, guitars and other musical instruments, electronic audio equipment from numerous decades, jukeboxes, lots of model trains (Claude collected them)...and Freddie Mercury's piano. Having psychopathic tendencies (so my Mrs tells me), I don't get emotional about many things, but running my fingers across the piano was spine tingling - I really felt in the presence of greatness. /csb
serge2k 10y ago
> Dr. Brian May He's also a CBE, so how does that work with titles?
- SmellyGeekBoy 10y ago
  Dr. Brian May CBE