{"id":324716,"date":"2026-08-19T05:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324716\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:33:13","slug":"brian-may-hails-17-year-old-for-his-uncanny-queen-guitar-covers-thats-the-closest-to-my-feel-in-that-solo-anyone-ever-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324716\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May hails 17-year-old for his uncanny Queen guitar covers: \u201cThat\u2019s the closest to my feel in that solo anyone ever got\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen<\/a> guitarist Brian May<\/a> has found a 17-year-old fan who he believes sounds closer to his own iconic playing than most have ever gotten.<\/p>\n

Matthias Reisb\u00f6ck has the tools for the job. He\u2019s got a Red Special copy, he\u2019s got May\u2019s curly locks and, most importantly, he\u2019s got the touch and feel of a guitarist once voted the world\u2019s best<\/a>. He regularly posts Queen covers on his Instagram, and May can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBloody hell,\u201d he commented on one video. \u201cYou\u2019ve got the touch, young sir. I can retire now. A fabulous rendition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Other comments have included \u201cyou\u2019re sounding more like me than me\u201d and, on his take of the Bohemian Rhapsody guitar solo<\/a>, he beamed: \u201cPerfect tone. I think that\u2019s about the closest to my feel in that solo anyone ever got.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, that recognition has left Reisb\u00f6ck jumping for joy. May is, he says, the reason he picked up an electric guitar<\/a> in the first place.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I discovered the Bohemian Rhapsody film, I knew I wanted to play the guitar like him,\u201d he says in a post reacting to one of May\u2019s delighted comments. \u201cI started playing about three years ago during a challenging and hard time for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI began to play on my grandmother\u2019s old acoustic guitar<\/a> and learned the first few chords, feeling that I really wanted to become a guitarist. I watched YouTube videos of Brian and Queen and fell more and more in love with the music, Brian\u2019s sound and his technique.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Guitar heroes are looking out for the next wave of star players. Nuno Bettencourt recently uncovered a \u201cgenerational talent\u201d <\/a>on social media. Earlier this month, Steve Vai and Dave Navarro championed a teenage folk guitarist<\/a> who blew them away.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a 16-year-old Thai shredder has stunned America\u2019s Got <\/a>Talent judges<\/a> and looks to be the show\u2019s latest child prodigy. They\u2019re out there in droves, and if they\u2019re playing Queen covers, there\u2019s every chance Brian\u2019s watching\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen guitarist Brian May has found a 17-year-old fan who he believes sounds closer to his own iconic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-324716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}