I got interested in Indian music back in the heyday of the Beatles and Stones. George Harrison and Brian Jones both took trips to India in the 60s to study transcendental meditation and came back really influenced by the music they heard. Ravi Shankar was the master of the sitar at the time and it highly influenced Harrison and Jones. Harrison's composition of Within You Without You featured sitar and he played it on John Lennon's Norwegian Wood. Jones' sitar work was absol

Tom's Brian May Red Special Tribute The Brian May Red Special is the legendary, handmade electric guitar that Brian May built with his father in the early 1960s. This guitar shaped the signature sound of the rock band Queen. Because the original is hand made, it is truly unique in its body shape, the pickups used, the 3 pickup serial wiring scheme and many other features. Brian still uses the guitar, but if it ever sold at auction, it would probably bring close to the $14 mil