# Star Fleet guitar solo > The guitar solo on Star Fleet by Brian May + Friends (1983) starts at about 3:00. From the album Star Fleet Project. A hard rock classic from the 1980s. Canonical URL: Brian May + Friends, 1983, from *Star Fleet Project*. Solo by *Brian May*. Recorded in a two-day session with Eddie Van Halen, it shows May trading leads with a fellow virtuoso. Star Fleet by Brian May + Friends is #18 in our ranking of the best Brian May guitar solos. The solo is played by Brian May and the song was released in 1983. ## In our lists - [The Best Brian May Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/brian-may-guitar-solos/) — #18 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Star Fleet? Brian May played the solo on Brian May + Friends's Star Fleet (1983). ### What guitar was used on the Star Fleet solo? A red special through a Vox AC30 amp, according to widely reported accounts. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)