EBOW
- + Add to Faves
- + Translate
- + Share
العربية
ä¸å›½
Français
Deutsch
Ελληνική
हिनà¥à¤¦à¥€
Italiano
日本語
Português
РуÑÑкий
Español
(Redirected from E-bow)
The 'EBow' or 'ebow' (brand name for "Electronic Bow" or Energy Bow) (often spelled 'E-bow' in common usage) [1] is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar. Instead of having the strings hit by the fingers or a pick, they are moved by the electromagnetic field created by the device, producing a sound reminiscent of using a bow on the strings. Some sound clips are available on the official EBow site here.
The EBow is used to produce a variety of sounds not usually playable on an electric guitar. By varying the EBow's linear position on the string, the player can produce different string overtones, and also fade in and out by lowering and raising the EBow.
An early pioneer of EBow playing was Bill Nelson, who introduced it to Stuart Adamson of The Skids. Adamson went on to use it heavily with Big Country, and it formed an integral part of their well known "bagpipe sound". Blondie, Tom Petty and Blue Öyster Cult were also early users. The EBow has also been a familiar element in the sound palette of guitarist Phil Keaggy since the early 1980s. Béla Fleck has used one on an acoustic banjo in concert, also creating a bagpipe like sound. Australian band The Church make extensive use of the EBow and featured an EBow solo in their 1988 hit single "Under the Milky Way." The sound of Robin Guthrie of the band Cocteau Twins is partly derived via the EBow and a host of effects pedals.
While the EBow is not normally used with the electric bass guitar, which has heavier strings, Michael Manring (who uses light bass strings) has persevered, and it features heavily on his 1995 album ''Thönk''. He has even been known to use two at once. Steve Willett of Strange Boutique helped pioneer the use of bass EBow in the 80s post-punk goth scene.
Although the EBow is most commonly played on the electric guitar because of the ease of use and the responsiveness obtainable from the pickup, the EBow has also been used in applications with the steel-string acoustic guitar. Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour used one on his Gibson J-200 acoustic in the 1994 song "Take It Back".
Generally an acoustic guitar gives a limited response for varying reasons, including the density and spacing of the guitar strings. But despite these limitations, using an EBow on an acoustic guitar gives a rich, flute and clarinet-like tone with a slow-swelling response. Example usage (MP3 audio download © 2005 Michael Miles/Dock72 Music Group. Posted with permission by artist).
★ The EBow is mentioned in the title of R.E.M.'s "E-Bow the Letter", and is used in the song by guitarist Peter Buck. Buck can be seen using an EBow in the video for this song at approximately 1:27 to 1:30.
★ Gong Guitarist Daevid Allen picked up the technique, whilst playing in Soft Machine from Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd along with the Glissando Rod technique.
★ Love and Rockets' guitarist Daniel Ash uses Ebow extensively in all of his musical endeavors, including Bauhaus and Tones on Tail, the best example of this might be the song "Christian Says" from Tones on Tail.
★ Sigur Rós bassist Georg Hólm plays with one on track #6 of their 2002 album, ''( )'' (this song is alternatively known as "E-bow"). [2]
★ Radiohead's Ed O'Brien uses an EBow on the songs "My Iron Lung" and "Talk Show Host", both during live performances and on the original studio recordings, and uses it on the live intro to "How to Disappear Completely".
★ Former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck used an EBow on "La Mer", the eleventh track of the 1999 album The Fragile. It was used live during their ''Fragility 2.0'' Tour, and can be seen on the tour DVD ''And All That Could Have Been''. Current guitarist Aaron North also used the EBow on certain songs during the With Teeth tour.
★ The alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins have also made extensive use of the effect, most notably on the interlude "Sinfony", which consists entirely of EBow. Guitarist James Iha also added EBow to several songs on the ''Siamese Dream'', ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', ''Adore'', ''Machina/The Machines of God'' and ''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' albums. Iha also used the EBow on the Auf Der Maur song "Head Unbound" from Melissa Auf Der Maur's self-titled debut solo album. Iha also uses an EBow in the song "Stand Inside Your Love".
★ The popular English band Coldplay have also used the EBow on many of their tracks. Guitarist Jonny Buckland's most well known use of the EBow can be heard on the track "Spies" and the ''Live 2003'' version of "A Rush of Blood to the Head".
★ Jamie Crossley guitarist with popular American electronica outfit Marconi Union uses the EBow to create loops which he layers live to create string quartet -like effects. Marconi Union also used the EBow on a number of tracks on Distance their 2005 album
★ Lead singer of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, uses the EBow during the solo in "Wishlist" as well as at the start of "World Wide Suicide" which is on the self-titled album, ''Pearl Jam''.
★ Dave Navarro used an EBow on ''One Hot Minute'', his only album with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as on the Jane's Addiction song "Summertime Rolls".
★ Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen of the band Queens of the Stone Age uses the EBow extensively during live shows, and in the studio as well, for "Hangin' Tree" and other songs. Troy can be seen using the device in the Queens of the Stone Age DVD ''Over the Years and Through The Woods''.
★ Herman Li of DragonForce uses an EBow in the lead up to the guitar solos on the song "Black Fire".
★ Members of the band Guster have been seen using EBows in concert.
★ The EBow is also used extensively in the pits of two Broadway shows, namely Stephen Schwartz's ''Wicked'', as well as in Disney's ''Mary Poppins''. Coincidentally, Tony winner William David Brohn orchestrated the music for both shows. The EBow technique was effectively used to darken the mood of the music and make it sound eerie. In Wicked, the EBow can be heard to prominence in the song "As Long As You're Mine" and in parts of "No Good Deed". In Mary Poppins, the EBow can be distinguished in the numbers "Temper, Temper!", the beginning measures of "Chim Chim-Cheree", the 3/4 sections of "Step in Time", as well as the final measures of "Anything Can Happen".
★ A Flock of Seagulls guitarist Paul Reynolds used the Ebow extensively live and in the recording studio. It can be heard on the band's singles: "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" and "(It's Not Me) Talking".
★ The Edge (of U2) used the EBow on the song "With or Without You" when played live on the ZooTV tour in the early 1990s. Although similar, the studio version uses the infinite guitar, invented by Michael Brook. The EBow was also used in the song The Unforgettable Fire, most notably from 2:20.
★ Orange Lazarus use EBow on "Birds" as well as "Talking Fast to Logic" from the album ''Talking Fast''.
★ American metal band Phoenix Reign use the EBow on "Run Now" from the album "Destination Unknown".
★ Andy Dunlop of Travis has recently started using an EBow and features on the song "Closer".
★ Tom Welham from the Thirteen Senses uses an EBow.
★ The EBow is used by Threat Signal guitarist Kyle McKnight on the songs "Inane" and "Seeing Red" from their debut album ''Under Reprisal''.
★ The Opeth track The Drapery Falls (and others on the Blackwater Park Album) features EBow on the studio version. Mikael Ã…kerfeldt and Peter Lindgren say that they are scared to use it live because of the risk of losing it.
★ Michael Dooley of PostPosition uses the EBow
★ Munaf Rayani of Explosions in the Sky uses an EBow.
★ Brad Delson of Linkin Park can be heard using an EBow throughout the song "No More Sorrow", from their latest album, Minutes to Midnight. In fact, the working title of the song in the studio was "Ebow Idea".
★ It is often assumed that Robert Fripp used an EBow on the David Bowie song "Heroes" as well as in his work with Brian Eno. In fact, the official EBow site [3] implied as much for quite some time. There has been so much discussion of this on the Web that Fripp formally denied it in his online diary.[4] [5] According to Tony Visconti, the sound was obtained through feedback on a Marshall cabinet, the pitch being controlled through Fripp's distance from the amp.[6] The EBow site now specifies that Mick Ronson used an EBow when performing "Heroes" live with Bowie at Freddy Mercury's Tribute in 1992.[7] Bowie's current guitarist Gerry Leonard uses an EBow on "New Killer Star", on the "Reality" album and on stage.
★ Lead Singer/Guitarist Matt Kennedy of Illinois indie/rock band The Graduate has been seen using an E-Bow on many studio tracks, as well as live shows.
★ Metallica's James Hetfield used an Ebow to write the string section on the song "Nothing Else Matters" from the 1991 self-titled album "Metallica"
★ Both Evan Mast and Mike Stroud of the electro band Ratatat use the EBow extensively, most notably on their first song Cherry, in which Evan Mast puts down his bass to in order to do a guitar duet with the EBow.
★ Brenden Benson uses an EBow, at various points, on The Raconteurs' track, Broken Boy Soldier.
★ Paul Banks, guitarist and lead vocalist of Interpol, uses an EBow on the track ''Take You on a Cruise''. Towards the end, from around 3:44 onwards, guitarist Daniel Kessler also begins to use an EBow, with the two EBow parts harmonising each other.
★ Deron Miller of CKY uses an EBow on the bridge solo of the track 'sniped' from the album An Answer Can Be Found.
★ Steve Hackett, former Genesis guitarist, has been a long-time EBow user. The most famous example is probably ''The Carpet Crawlers'' from ''The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'' (1974). Used in combination with a foot operated volume pedal and a slide, Hackett uses the EBow to produce the ethereal counter melody heard throughout the song.
★ British rock band James have made extensive use of the EBow on several songs, most prominently during ''Sound'' on Getting Away With It... Live, where guitarists Larry Gott and Adrian Oxaal can both be seen using EBows.
★ Steve Rothery, guitarist for British prog-rockers Marillion uses an EBow on the band's 2004 Top 10(UK)Single, "You're Gone"
★ The opening sounds on the Deftones song Change (in the house of flies) are made by an EBow.
★ Love, Pain and the whole crazy thing by Keith Urban features many songs containing the EBow which he plays.
★ Josh Graham of Red Sparowes uses an EBow and the effect can be heard most notably on the intro of the song "Like The Howling Glory Of The Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous And The Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts And Clutching Our Innocent Awe" from the album Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun.
★ Tom Welham, of the Cornish band Thirteen Senses, uses an E-Bow.
★ Jordan Robson of Sunset Rubdown uses an eBow on the track "Those Ones In Between," both live and in studio.
★ Blue Man Group uses the eBow on the Chapman Stick as well as the guitar in many of their live shows.
★ Russell Lissack from Bloc Party uses an ebow on the intro's to the tracks Uniform and Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
★ Aereogramme's Iain Cook used an E-bow whilst performing live and on some studio songs before their split in 2007
★ The EBow is featured prominently on the Scout EP, Someplace Would Be Nice.
★ Saurian Meditation, the first solo release by Nile virtuoso Karl Sanders used an EBow throughout the entire album.
★ David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd
★ Erkan OÄŸur
★ Phil Keaggy
★ Michael Miles, acoustic artist
★ The Amazing EBow
An EBow
The 'EBow' or 'ebow' (brand name for "Electronic Bow" or Energy Bow) (often spelled 'E-bow' in common usage) [1] is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar. Instead of having the strings hit by the fingers or a pick, they are moved by the electromagnetic field created by the device, producing a sound reminiscent of using a bow on the strings. Some sound clips are available on the official EBow site here.
The EBow is used to produce a variety of sounds not usually playable on an electric guitar. By varying the EBow's linear position on the string, the player can produce different string overtones, and also fade in and out by lowering and raising the EBow.
An early pioneer of EBow playing was Bill Nelson, who introduced it to Stuart Adamson of The Skids. Adamson went on to use it heavily with Big Country, and it formed an integral part of their well known "bagpipe sound". Blondie, Tom Petty and Blue Öyster Cult were also early users. The EBow has also been a familiar element in the sound palette of guitarist Phil Keaggy since the early 1980s. Béla Fleck has used one on an acoustic banjo in concert, also creating a bagpipe like sound. Australian band The Church make extensive use of the EBow and featured an EBow solo in their 1988 hit single "Under the Milky Way." The sound of Robin Guthrie of the band Cocteau Twins is partly derived via the EBow and a host of effects pedals.
While the EBow is not normally used with the electric bass guitar, which has heavier strings, Michael Manring (who uses light bass strings) has persevered, and it features heavily on his 1995 album ''Thönk''. He has even been known to use two at once. Steve Willett of Strange Boutique helped pioneer the use of bass EBow in the 80s post-punk goth scene.
| Contents |
| EBow and the acoustic guitar |
| EBow use in popular music |
| Acoustic guitarists who use the EBow |
| External links |
EBow and the acoustic guitar
Although the EBow is most commonly played on the electric guitar because of the ease of use and the responsiveness obtainable from the pickup, the EBow has also been used in applications with the steel-string acoustic guitar. Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour used one on his Gibson J-200 acoustic in the 1994 song "Take It Back".
Generally an acoustic guitar gives a limited response for varying reasons, including the density and spacing of the guitar strings. But despite these limitations, using an EBow on an acoustic guitar gives a rich, flute and clarinet-like tone with a slow-swelling response. Example usage (MP3 audio download © 2005 Michael Miles/Dock72 Music Group. Posted with permission by artist).
EBow use in popular music
★ The EBow is mentioned in the title of R.E.M.'s "E-Bow the Letter", and is used in the song by guitarist Peter Buck. Buck can be seen using an EBow in the video for this song at approximately 1:27 to 1:30.
★ Gong Guitarist Daevid Allen picked up the technique, whilst playing in Soft Machine from Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd along with the Glissando Rod technique.
★ Love and Rockets' guitarist Daniel Ash uses Ebow extensively in all of his musical endeavors, including Bauhaus and Tones on Tail, the best example of this might be the song "Christian Says" from Tones on Tail.
★ Sigur Rós bassist Georg Hólm plays with one on track #6 of their 2002 album, ''( )'' (this song is alternatively known as "E-bow"). [2]
★ Radiohead's Ed O'Brien uses an EBow on the songs "My Iron Lung" and "Talk Show Host", both during live performances and on the original studio recordings, and uses it on the live intro to "How to Disappear Completely".
★ Former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck used an EBow on "La Mer", the eleventh track of the 1999 album The Fragile. It was used live during their ''Fragility 2.0'' Tour, and can be seen on the tour DVD ''And All That Could Have Been''. Current guitarist Aaron North also used the EBow on certain songs during the With Teeth tour.
★ The alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins have also made extensive use of the effect, most notably on the interlude "Sinfony", which consists entirely of EBow. Guitarist James Iha also added EBow to several songs on the ''Siamese Dream'', ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', ''Adore'', ''Machina/The Machines of God'' and ''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' albums. Iha also used the EBow on the Auf Der Maur song "Head Unbound" from Melissa Auf Der Maur's self-titled debut solo album. Iha also uses an EBow in the song "Stand Inside Your Love".
★ The popular English band Coldplay have also used the EBow on many of their tracks. Guitarist Jonny Buckland's most well known use of the EBow can be heard on the track "Spies" and the ''Live 2003'' version of "A Rush of Blood to the Head".
★ Jamie Crossley guitarist with popular American electronica outfit Marconi Union uses the EBow to create loops which he layers live to create string quartet -like effects. Marconi Union also used the EBow on a number of tracks on Distance their 2005 album
★ Lead singer of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, uses the EBow during the solo in "Wishlist" as well as at the start of "World Wide Suicide" which is on the self-titled album, ''Pearl Jam''.
★ Dave Navarro used an EBow on ''One Hot Minute'', his only album with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as on the Jane's Addiction song "Summertime Rolls".
★ Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen of the band Queens of the Stone Age uses the EBow extensively during live shows, and in the studio as well, for "Hangin' Tree" and other songs. Troy can be seen using the device in the Queens of the Stone Age DVD ''Over the Years and Through The Woods''.
★ Herman Li of DragonForce uses an EBow in the lead up to the guitar solos on the song "Black Fire".
★ Members of the band Guster have been seen using EBows in concert.
★ The EBow is also used extensively in the pits of two Broadway shows, namely Stephen Schwartz's ''Wicked'', as well as in Disney's ''Mary Poppins''. Coincidentally, Tony winner William David Brohn orchestrated the music for both shows. The EBow technique was effectively used to darken the mood of the music and make it sound eerie. In Wicked, the EBow can be heard to prominence in the song "As Long As You're Mine" and in parts of "No Good Deed". In Mary Poppins, the EBow can be distinguished in the numbers "Temper, Temper!", the beginning measures of "Chim Chim-Cheree", the 3/4 sections of "Step in Time", as well as the final measures of "Anything Can Happen".
★ A Flock of Seagulls guitarist Paul Reynolds used the Ebow extensively live and in the recording studio. It can be heard on the band's singles: "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" and "(It's Not Me) Talking".
★ The Edge (of U2) used the EBow on the song "With or Without You" when played live on the ZooTV tour in the early 1990s. Although similar, the studio version uses the infinite guitar, invented by Michael Brook. The EBow was also used in the song The Unforgettable Fire, most notably from 2:20.
★ Orange Lazarus use EBow on "Birds" as well as "Talking Fast to Logic" from the album ''Talking Fast''.
★ American metal band Phoenix Reign use the EBow on "Run Now" from the album "Destination Unknown".
★ Andy Dunlop of Travis has recently started using an EBow and features on the song "Closer".
★ Tom Welham from the Thirteen Senses uses an EBow.
★ The EBow is used by Threat Signal guitarist Kyle McKnight on the songs "Inane" and "Seeing Red" from their debut album ''Under Reprisal''.
★ The Opeth track The Drapery Falls (and others on the Blackwater Park Album) features EBow on the studio version. Mikael Ã…kerfeldt and Peter Lindgren say that they are scared to use it live because of the risk of losing it.
★ Michael Dooley of PostPosition uses the EBow
★ Munaf Rayani of Explosions in the Sky uses an EBow.
★ Brad Delson of Linkin Park can be heard using an EBow throughout the song "No More Sorrow", from their latest album, Minutes to Midnight. In fact, the working title of the song in the studio was "Ebow Idea".
★ It is often assumed that Robert Fripp used an EBow on the David Bowie song "Heroes" as well as in his work with Brian Eno. In fact, the official EBow site [3] implied as much for quite some time. There has been so much discussion of this on the Web that Fripp formally denied it in his online diary.[4] [5] According to Tony Visconti, the sound was obtained through feedback on a Marshall cabinet, the pitch being controlled through Fripp's distance from the amp.[6] The EBow site now specifies that Mick Ronson used an EBow when performing "Heroes" live with Bowie at Freddy Mercury's Tribute in 1992.[7] Bowie's current guitarist Gerry Leonard uses an EBow on "New Killer Star", on the "Reality" album and on stage.
★ Lead Singer/Guitarist Matt Kennedy of Illinois indie/rock band The Graduate has been seen using an E-Bow on many studio tracks, as well as live shows.
★ Metallica's James Hetfield used an Ebow to write the string section on the song "Nothing Else Matters" from the 1991 self-titled album "Metallica"
★ Both Evan Mast and Mike Stroud of the electro band Ratatat use the EBow extensively, most notably on their first song Cherry, in which Evan Mast puts down his bass to in order to do a guitar duet with the EBow.
★ Brenden Benson uses an EBow, at various points, on The Raconteurs' track, Broken Boy Soldier.
★ Paul Banks, guitarist and lead vocalist of Interpol, uses an EBow on the track ''Take You on a Cruise''. Towards the end, from around 3:44 onwards, guitarist Daniel Kessler also begins to use an EBow, with the two EBow parts harmonising each other.
★ Deron Miller of CKY uses an EBow on the bridge solo of the track 'sniped' from the album An Answer Can Be Found.
★ Steve Hackett, former Genesis guitarist, has been a long-time EBow user. The most famous example is probably ''The Carpet Crawlers'' from ''The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'' (1974). Used in combination with a foot operated volume pedal and a slide, Hackett uses the EBow to produce the ethereal counter melody heard throughout the song.
★ British rock band James have made extensive use of the EBow on several songs, most prominently during ''Sound'' on Getting Away With It... Live, where guitarists Larry Gott and Adrian Oxaal can both be seen using EBows.
★ Steve Rothery, guitarist for British prog-rockers Marillion uses an EBow on the band's 2004 Top 10(UK)Single, "You're Gone"
★ The opening sounds on the Deftones song Change (in the house of flies) are made by an EBow.
★ Love, Pain and the whole crazy thing by Keith Urban features many songs containing the EBow which he plays.
★ Josh Graham of Red Sparowes uses an EBow and the effect can be heard most notably on the intro of the song "Like The Howling Glory Of The Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous And The Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts And Clutching Our Innocent Awe" from the album Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun.
★ Tom Welham, of the Cornish band Thirteen Senses, uses an E-Bow.
★ Jordan Robson of Sunset Rubdown uses an eBow on the track "Those Ones In Between," both live and in studio.
★ Blue Man Group uses the eBow on the Chapman Stick as well as the guitar in many of their live shows.
★ Russell Lissack from Bloc Party uses an ebow on the intro's to the tracks Uniform and Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
★ Aereogramme's Iain Cook used an E-bow whilst performing live and on some studio songs before their split in 2007
★ The EBow is featured prominently on the Scout EP, Someplace Would Be Nice.
★ Saurian Meditation, the first solo release by Nile virtuoso Karl Sanders used an EBow throughout the entire album.
Acoustic guitarists who use the EBow
★ David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd
★ Erkan OÄŸur
★ Phil Keaggy
★ Michael Miles, acoustic artist
External links
★ The Amazing EBow
This article provided by Wikipedia. To edit the contents of this article, click here for original source.
psst.. try this: add to faves
Featured Companies
| Vacation By V | |
| Golf Holidays International |
