Thank you for supporting Doug Short Guitar Blog for another year by visiting this website, watching my YouTube videos and subscribing to my main YouTube channel which has grown to over 5,170 subscribers and has accumulated over 1,960,000 views. I planned to release YouTube videos with Brian May related content approximately every two months in 2025. The out-turn was seven videos including two covering another challenging design and fabrication mini project on the Brian May Red Special guitar vibrato system.
Current and previous collaborations allowed me to publish two videos, one in February on Brian May Red Special 12/6 double neck guitars thanks to Mark Tolcher and Will Barbero and a retrospective in November on Luke Holwerda’s Red Special build project from 2017 to 2019. I received a lot of positive and encouraging comments, some of which are reproduced below:
The highlight of the year and all my live music experiences was attending the Oasis Live ’25 concert at Wembley stadium on 30 July 2025 with my son. I compiled a multi-cam highlights video lasting just over 1 hour using footage filmed by six fans including me. I published this on my second YouTube channel “itsdougslife” because my dsgb YouTube channel content is heavily Brian May biased at this time.
A concert review with some photographs is published on the events page of dsgb.net here: https://dsgb.net/events/oasislive25/
For those of you who are interested in the statistics, dsgb.net has been on line for five years and has attracted over 22,800 visitors and 134,200 views in 2025. This represented another substantial increase in the number of views with a reduction in visitors from 27,215 in 2024. The total number of visitors stands at 98,700 and with 490,200 views to date (31 December 2025).
I plan to make a limited number of YouTube videos in 2026 and probably none in the first quarter of the year because YouTube viewer engagement and advertising revenues decrease substantially after the festive holiday period. I am working on a video about designing and making a scalloped Red Special fretboard and am filming the assembly of a replacement neck for my Red Special replica for another video. My only other plans are to make full videos with commentary featuring my 2018 project to convert a Fender Stratocaster to Brian May specification and to upgrade a Burns commercial Red Special in 2020. I would like the guitars to be demonstrated by a proficient guitar player, preferably with a Brian May repertoire so I won’t commit to making these videos unless I can arrange this.
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