Brian May is the freakishly intelligent and talented guitarist of Queen. He's got one of the more recognizable guitar sounds in all of music and I've enjoyed his work for a long time. Like I said before... my mom LOVES Queen. We heard a lot of Brian May growing up.
I've also mentioned before that I don't always believe that it's necessary to get the spin-off releases from a band's individual members. In the case of Brian May, however, he did a lot of solo songs on Queen's albums that most people never heard because they weren't included on any of the Greatest Hits collections. He had a singing contribution on nearly every album, I think, and was responsible for writing a lot of their biggest hits that he let Freddie Mercury sing. So when he put out his first solo record, "Back to the Light" in 1992, I was curious to hear it.
When I first heard "Back to the Light," I was pretty stunned. It's a GREAT album. It has all of the elements that made Queen great, like the multi-tracked choral voices, the big loud guitars, the soaring ballads, etc. I remember thinking, "Wow... I guess it was Brian May who was really the secret behind Queen." I think I read a similar comment in Rolling Stone as well. So if you ever get the chance, check it out.
"Hot Patootie" is a bonus track from May's second album "Another World." Actually, it was only available on Japanese imports of the record but got this via a free mail-in offer from the album. There was a little post-card offer for a free "Retro Rock Special" inside the cd case. You know what? There's not too much that's free in the world these days, so I took advantage of the opportunity. The whole cd is a bunch of 50's rock-n-roll covers. May appears in this silly crooner's outfit and has liner notes that claim that the whole thing was recorded by his alter-ego T.E. Conway. It's a lot of fun. "Hot Patootie" begins with this revving motorcycle and then a screaming laugh. May comes on with a boisterous, "HEEEEY, Pussy-cat! What's going down?" My boys love it. I was about to write that the whole thing reminds me of the song Meatloaf sings in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," but a little research told me that "Hot Patootie" IS the song Meatloaf sang in that movie. Duh!!! Oh well... enjoy!
"Hot Patootie" is from the "Retro Rock Special EP." To hear the song, click on the icon in the widget jukebox along the side of the blog.
I've also mentioned before that I don't always believe that it's necessary to get the spin-off releases from a band's individual members. In the case of Brian May, however, he did a lot of solo songs on Queen's albums that most people never heard because they weren't included on any of the Greatest Hits collections. He had a singing contribution on nearly every album, I think, and was responsible for writing a lot of their biggest hits that he let Freddie Mercury sing. So when he put out his first solo record, "Back to the Light" in 1992, I was curious to hear it.
When I first heard "Back to the Light," I was pretty stunned. It's a GREAT album. It has all of the elements that made Queen great, like the multi-tracked choral voices, the big loud guitars, the soaring ballads, etc. I remember thinking, "Wow... I guess it was Brian May who was really the secret behind Queen." I think I read a similar comment in Rolling Stone as well. So if you ever get the chance, check it out.
"Hot Patootie" is a bonus track from May's second album "Another World." Actually, it was only available on Japanese imports of the record but got this via a free mail-in offer from the album. There was a little post-card offer for a free "Retro Rock Special" inside the cd case. You know what? There's not too much that's free in the world these days, so I took advantage of the opportunity. The whole cd is a bunch of 50's rock-n-roll covers. May appears in this silly crooner's outfit and has liner notes that claim that the whole thing was recorded by his alter-ego T.E. Conway. It's a lot of fun. "Hot Patootie" begins with this revving motorcycle and then a screaming laugh. May comes on with a boisterous, "HEEEEY, Pussy-cat! What's going down?" My boys love it. I was about to write that the whole thing reminds me of the song Meatloaf sings in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," but a little research told me that "Hot Patootie" IS the song Meatloaf sang in that movie. Duh!!! Oh well... enjoy!
"Hot Patootie" is from the "Retro Rock Special EP." To hear the song, click on the icon in the widget jukebox along the side of the blog.
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