ebow

ive seen the ebow before but this is the first time i have heard what it can do;really cool effects.it can take the place of a wah pedal and so much more so you can save a bunch of ching with the purchase of the ebow,ill try to win it before i buy it but one way or another,im going to own one.

splasht

Hi splasht,
it IS really cool but a reminder, as I said in the video I'm running it through an 'auto wah'. It does have a wah-like effect on it's own, at 2:12 in the video you can hear it without the auto wah.
It's a really fun toy and very cool, just wanted to clarify.

:D

I've heard of the ebow, but never really heard one. Phil Keagy plays with one to amazing effect :D

does any one know if in the heat of the night by led zepplin
if that was an ebow that jimmy page was using for the chorus
or just a bow from a fiddle kind of sounds like an ebow

Originally Posted by: m stockdoes any one know if in the heat of the night by led zepplin
if that was an ebow that jimmy page was using for the chorus
or just a bow from a fiddle kind of sounds like an ebow

Is that a bootleg?

still of the night , still of the night ,still of the night ,:O

'Still of the Night' is by Whitesnake and the singer had a band with Jimmy Page for awhile called Coverdale/Page. He's been touted as being a R. Plant wanna-be but is an awesome vocalist.
I believe the part you're talking about is the breakdown in the song where it sounds like violins playing. He's just picking in that part but it's similar to the Ebow effect.
Here's a video of it live by the original guitarist, John Sykes, who wrote and recorded the song. One of my favorite guitar players (he's singing it too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWn_p0jxGMs

Check it out at about 5mins.

The Whitesnake singer, David Coverdale (originally in Deep Purple) fired the whole band after their most successful album from 1987 which was largely in part due to John Sykes writing skills. None of the musicians in the MTV 'Still of the Night' video actually played on the album.

Here's the band that did :
Neil Murry on bass (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Ozzy), Ansley Dunbar on drums (J. Starship, S. Hagar, D. Bowie, UFO, Zappa, Jeff Beck) and Don Airey on keyboards (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy).
I guess they weren't good enough for Coverdale ;) Whitesnake never reached the success it had with the lineup on 'Still of the Night'.
Oops! -egos, they'll do it ever time.

It's funny that you said "heat of the night by led zepplin" because I google'd it and there's a Zep bootleg by that name.

I bought one in the '70s when I was in high school - more of a gimmick than anything else IMO, I don't even know what I did with it -probably gave it away. I think I paid $12 or so for it. It will NOT take the place of a wah pedal, or a volume pedal, or anything else. It's pretty much a one-trick pony.
The ads at the time used Page as a spokesmodel, but he denied that he actually used it later in print interviews. FWIW - Page actually did use a 'real' violin bow live. Don't know about recordings though.

Like so many guitarists, I was looking for a way to knock off bowed string sounds - unfortunately, the eBow didn't cut it.

wow i always thought it was robert plant singing
and page playing but your right it was white snake
thanks

Originally Posted by: m stockwow i always thought it was robert plant singing
and page playing but your right it was white snake
thanks

No Problem. Yeah, I think that was the idea, to make that monstorous Zep sound.