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Barrett/Page violin bow-guit thing
Page himself has claimed he didn't meet Eddie Phillips until Jim McCarty's 50th birthday party in 1994. Further, and to be fair, there are also pictures of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett using a violin bow in concert.
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11-11-2007 02:32 PM
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RE: Barrett/Page violin bow-guit thing
chromeboomerang Wrote:Page himself has claimed he didn't meet Eddie Phillips until Jim McCarty's 50th birthday party in 1994. Further, and to be fair, there are also pictures of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett using a violin bow in concert.
http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html

One of my favorite new bands is Iceland's Sigur Ros, and their guitarist uses a cello bow! Sounds really weird and cool...
12-07-2007 08:43 PM
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Icelands 1st band to have ahit was...?
12-08-2007 01:30 PM
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RE: Barrett/Page violin bow-guit thing
mabewa Wrote:
chromeboomerang Wrote:Page himself has claimed he didn't meet Eddie Phillips until Jim McCarty's 50th birthday party in 1994. Further, and to be fair, there are also pictures of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett using a violin bow in concert.
http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html

One of my favorite new bands is Iceland's Sigur Ros, and their guitarist uses a cello bow! Sounds really weird and cool...

Are they the band that did the theme tune to Planet Earth? . . . I really like that song, but I may be thinking of someone different . . . Blinkrocker

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12-09-2007 02:27 AM
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You know Mezzoforte had a hit in England called Garden Party? It was an instrumental: first Icelandic band to have a hit!
12-13-2007 01:48 PM
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RE: Barrett/Page violin bow-guit thing
chromeboomerang Wrote:Page himself has claimed he didn't meet Eddie Phillips until Jim McCarty's 50th birthday party in 1994. Further, and to be fair, there are also pictures of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett using a violin bow in concert.
http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html

Don't recall ever seeing/hearing of Syd using a bow on his guitar, but Roger certainly used one on his bass.
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12-15-2007 12:13 AM
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RE: Barrett/Page violin bow-guit thing
Wings on the Pig Wrote:
mabewa Wrote:
chromeboomerang Wrote:Page himself has claimed he didn't meet Eddie Phillips until Jim McCarty's 50th birthday party in 1994. Further, and to be fair, there are also pictures of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett using a violin bow in concert.
http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html

One of my favorite new bands is Iceland's Sigur Ros, and their guitarist uses a cello bow! Sounds really weird and cool...

Are they the band that did the theme tune to Planet Earth? . . . I really like that song, but I may be thinking of someone different . . . Blinkrocker

I've never seen Planet Earth, so I don't know. But, I can imagine Sigur Ros's music being used in a show about nature... it has a really glacial sound to it. Here's a link to one of my favorite songs by them... you get a pretty good idea of the cello bow guitar sound here. This song, for obvious reasons, gets compared to Echoes a lot:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sWiJWLiSKro&feature=related
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RE: Barrett/Page violin bow-guit thing
page didnt use a violin bow it was a cello bow...a violin bow would be much too small....where is that picture of roger playing with one taken from??
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RE: Barrett/Page violin bow-guit thing
Eddie Phillips, of the much unheralded "CREATION" was using A bow on at least 2 pop classics from 66-67, "Painter Man" & Making Time". Page is a truly fantastic guitar player but after reading that article on him & all the plagerising he's done make him out to be a VERY shady business man & when questioned about it sounds like a politician with his hand caught in the cookie jar. I've lost alot of respect for him as a person & now wonder what's his & what's everyone elses.
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