{"id":31476,"date":"2025-02-18T21:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-gibson-collaborate-on-new-acoustic-guitar-celebrating-his-passion-for-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T21:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:02:44","slug":"queens-brian-may-gibson-collaborate-on-new-acoustic-guitar-celebrating-his-passion-for-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-gibson-collaborate-on-new-acoustic-guitar-celebrating-his-passion-for-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Brian May &amp; Gibson collaborate on new acoustic guitar celebrating his passion for astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-18\/M_BrianMayGibson_021825.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Courtesy of Gibson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gibson has teamed with legendary <strong>Queen<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Brian May<\/strong> for a new acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<p>The rocker worked closely with the guitar company on the Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitar, which comes in a vintage sunburst finish, and celebrates May\u2019s passion for astronomy by including star and planet designs on the body and neck.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ujw-bPWg8XY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>video released<\/strong><\/a> in conjunction with the guitar, May,\u00a0who in 2007 got his Ph.D. in astrophysics, says growing up he was told he had to choose between being an artist and a scientist, sharing, \u201cI\u2019ve never believed that\u2019s true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do believe that the best science is done artistically with an artistic insight and the best art is done with a knowledge of the universe. I feel that they&#8217;re interlinked and should never have been separated,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>As for the guitar, May notes,\u00a0\u201cGibson was able to put the universe on it in a figurative way and the planet Mercury is here, and that is a little nod to a friend of mine that is always with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only 100 Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitars will be available to order via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibson.com\/en-US\/p\/Acoustic-Guitar\/Brian-May-SJ-200-12-String\/Vintage-Sunburst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gibson.com<\/strong><\/a>, at Gibson Garage Nashville and London, and authorized Gibson dealers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ujw-bPWg8XY\" title=\"Brian May Gibson SJ-200 12-String | Vintage Sunburst\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Gibson Gibson has teamed with legendary Queen guitarist Brian May for a new acoustic guitar. The rocker worked closely with the guitar company on the Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitar, which comes in a vintage sunburst finish, and celebrates May\u2019s passion for astronomy by including star and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-gibson-collaborate-on-new-acoustic-guitar-celebrating-his-passion-for-astronomy\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}