douglas - // A perfectly adequate band as far as they went but let's not get too carried away. //
I think you can level many adjectives at Queen, but perfectly adequate' is not one of them.
They were consistently ahead of their time, and they managed to do what all the absolultey top artists do, create a sound which can only ever be them and no-one else.
// Quirky but unfocused and as for Mr May, change it up a bit big man.
There we are in alignment, I did despair of the virtually unchanging guitar tone that May used, and still uses - it is very much a signature tone, but it could be so much more.
He can vary it, and did on occasion, but nowhere near as much as I would have liked, but that's just a minor gripe with an awesome band.