He did play purple Tama`s but I don`t know if calling him a queen is warranted. I wasn`t too big on Duran Duran but did like a few of their tunes.

The really good players will create their parts to complement the song, not to inflate their egos or draw attention to themselves. Roger Taylor is a class act and consummate musician in my view. I love his playing with Queen.

Steve

So right. Apart from Freddie's amazing voice, the whole band are great musicians. Those songs are hard to play and the classics were recorded pre-Protools copy and paste and pre autotune. Just great solid drumming on those tracks and very well thought out fills - they really make the songs come to life. Roger played Sleishman drums for a while and Don told me he is the nicest bloke too. I was only talking to my wife the other day about hearing "The Show Must Go On" on headphones - a song I hadn't heard much at all. Boy. What a set of pipes!

And Brian May is a fantastic musician as well. Extremely musical player with very well thought out parts, creative use of existing technology, built his own guitars and had a tone that stands up quite well 40 years later. For example, if I listen to "Reelin' in the Years" which is a great song with killer guitars, the guitar tone itself sounds very 70's to me. May's tone still sounds lush and fits really well with their production. Using a coin instead of a pick seemed to help. And I believe he has a degree in astrophysics in case that darn music thing didn't work out.