U.K. Brian May Red Special Meetup 2023 Highlights

This video is a highlights package of the 2023 U.K. Brian May Red Special Meet-up. Attended by 60-70 enthusiasts, the event has been held at Theale Village Hall near Reading in Berkshire since 2017. The theme of this year’s meet-up was “Good Company“ which reflects the friendliness, trust and respect in the global Brian May enthusiast community. To celebrate twenty years of working with Brian May, Andrew Guyton brought three guitars never seen or rarely seen in public: the spade, the 12/6 doubleneck and scalloped fretboard guitars. He also exhibited the “Badger“ semi-acoustic and three customer guitars based on the original Red Special including Pete Malandrone’s semi-acoustic archtop and Nigel Knight’s heavily customised Ruby Special. Check out the video I made in January 2023 entitled “Brian May’s Other Guitars“ to find out more about some of these instruments: 00:00 - Flash frames intro. 00:21 - Introduction. 01:16 - Andrew Guyton’s guitars for Brian May, Pete Malandrone and Nigel Knight. 01:52 - The Guyton ’spade’ guitar visual rundown. 02:25 - The Guyton 12/6 double neck visual rundown. 03:14 - Guyton 12/6 double neck quick demonstration by Luke Timmins. 03:36 - The Guyton ’Badger’ Mk 2 semi-acoustic visual rundown. 04:52 - Guyton ’Badger’ Mk 2 arch top semi-acoustic quick demonstration by Luke Timmins. 05:22 - Guyton ’Pete Special’ archtop semi-acoustic visual rundown. 06:28 - Guyton ’Pete Special’ archtop semi-acoustic quick demonstration by Luke Timmins. 07:28 - Guyton scalloped fretboard guitar visual rundown. 07:55 - Guyton scalloped fretboard guitar quick demonstration by Luke Timmins. 08:44 - Guyton ’Ruby Special’ (Nigel Knight’s guitar) visual rundown. 09:53 - Guyton ’Ruby Special’ (Nigel Knight’s guitar) quick demonstration by Luke Timmins. 10:20 - A look at some of the other guitars and equipment. 12:21 - Goodbye from meet-up man, Jon Underhill of The Red Special Guitar Podcast. 12:24 - Outro. Please check out the other Brian May related videos on my YouTube channel and my website, for information on Brian May’s guitars and musical equipment and my related design and build projects. #BrianMay #RedSpecial #BrianMayRedSpecial #RedSpecialguitar