Is American Classic Rock underrated?

I don't mean to pull a "you in that same post" on you, but... err, that's not entirely the case. You see, early on, Queen actually had experimented with a synthesizer that their drummer brought in for possible use, but none of the members were particularly impressed with it, specifically with its lack of poly output (in laymen's terms, it could only play one note at a time). It took until the Oberheim OB-X was released for them to give synths another chance, and it started going farther from then on.

You're spot on otherwise, but I do think it's worth pointing out that the reason they put that label on their albums was merely so people wouldn't think that Brian May's trademark guitar harmonies were created with some weird synthesizer thing :)

No need to apologize, I don't mind being called out when I'm wrong if done politely like you did Wasn't actually aware of that, that's pretty interesting. And it makes sense. I suppose I was mostly thinking of that oft-told incident where the record executives (or critics, I've heard versions of the story with that instead) thought Brian May's intricate guitar work was a synthesizer when I wrote that up.

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.

"I'm a monk, you're a monk, we're all monks! It's beat time, it's hot time, it's Monk Time!"

(Do they count as an American band if the members were all Americans but the band's entire short life was spent in Germany?)

I didn't write any of that.

Yes, they count. Still, they influenced a few people in Germany who would go on to become famous for some stuff which was later called Krautrock, so, considering this and their lives there, they have a sort of dual status.