{"id":72054,"date":"2025-12-16T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72054\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:53:07","slug":"queens-brian-may-gives-black-sabbaths-tony-iommi-a-replica-of-his-signature-red-special-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72054\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Brian May Gives Black Sabbath\u2019s Tony Iommi A Replica Of His Signature Red Special Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen\u2019s Brian May has gifted Black Sabbath\u2019s Tony Iommi a customized left-handed replica of his iconic Red Special guitar. The instrument, which Iommi showed off in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSDK-8cCF1l\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram photo<\/a>, was meticulously crafted over two years by master builder Andrew Guyton to match the Sabbath guitarist\u2019s Jaydee Old Boy neck and replicate the original\u2019s vintage tone with authentic pickups and a built-in treble booster. The original Red Special, famously built by May and his father in the 1960s from mahogany and oak, defined Queen\u2019s sound for decades. \u201cHuge thanks to my best friend @brianmayforreal\u00a0 and master builder Andrew Guyton @guyton_guitars for this incredible left-handed Red Special replica,\u201d Iommi wrote, while adding that it was \u201ca true gift from Brian, two years in the making. Christmas came early! \ud83c\udfb8\ud83c\udf84\u201d Earlier this year, May also collaborated with Gibson to release a limited-edition 12-string acoustic guitar, the Brian May SJ-200. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/queens-brian-may-gifts-black-sabbaths-tony-iommi-with-his-version-of-left-handed-red-special-replica-guitar-3918519\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NME<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Brian May has gifted Black Sabbath\u2019s Tony Iommi a customized left-handed replica of his iconic Red Special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[267,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,36716,36717],"class_list":["post-72054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-vermilion-county","tag-vermilion-county-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72054","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=72054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}