Songs Wherein a Guitarist uses an E-Bow

interpol - take you on a cruise

the best known song in the history of the world to use said device is Bowie's "Heroes"; the perpetrator is one BIg Bad Bobby Fripp.

roy montgomery employed the e-bow on pretty much the entire album _and now the rain sounds like life is falling through it_

maybe his other stuff too, but that's the only one i've got.

The Cars "Shake It Up!"

BOC - DON'T FEAR THE REAPER!!!!

Billy Corgan to thread.

Dave Fielding of the Chameleons uses this a lot too doesn't he? ("Tears," "Soul in Isolation," "Swamp Thing," etc.)

Modern English - "Melt With You"
Flock Of Seagulls - "Photograph" (?)

BLONDIE - "DREAMING"

Psych Furs - "Dumb Waiters"

7% Solution: Blindshore, Lost, The Sky Suspended, Tomorrow Never Knows
* Adrian Belew: The Final Rhino
* The Alarm: Howling Wind, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke
* Alice In Chains: Heaven Beside You
* Alon: Art's End
* Anthrax: Bare
* Archers Of Loaf : Smokers in Love, After the Last Laugh, White Trash Heroes
* Richard Barone: River To River, Miss Jean, Flew A Falcon
* Bauhaus: Lajartija Nick, Exquisite Corpse
* Belly: The Bees, Sweet Ride
* Berlin: Intimate (DVD) on Lost My Mind and Drug
* Beyond The Bars: Various
* Big Country: The Storm , In A Big Country, Lost Patrol, Porrohman, One In A Million, Charlotte, Eiledon
* The Black Crowes: Gone
* Blind Melon: Time, Wilt
* Blondie: Dreaming, Kidnapper, Cautious Lips, Youth Nabbed As Sniper, Fade Away And Radiate, Dog Star Girl
* Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear The Reaper
* Boiled In Lead: Shamrock Shore
* The Bongos: Numbers With Wings, Brave New World, Sweet Blue Cage
* David Bowie: Heroes (Live at Freddy Mercury's Tribute in 1992 - Mick Ronson on guitar)
* Broadside Electric: Mose Salio de Misrayim, Silkie
* Built To Spill: Untrustable
* Belinda Carlisle: Love Walks In (ebow by Chrissy Shefts)
* Caifanes: Miedo, La Llorona
* Camouflage: Seize Your Day
* The Cars: Shake It Up, Since You're Gone
* Chameleons: Soul In Isolation, I'll Remember
* The Church: Shadow Cabinet, Myrrh, Constant In Opal, Tantalize
* Collective Soul: Maybe, Forgiveness, Disciplined Breakdown, Link, In Between, Giving
* Phil Collins: It Doesn't Matter To Me
* The Cranberries: Daffodil Lament
* Creeker (Dallas): Little Sweet Delirium
* The Cure: Disintegration Album
* The Dandy Warhols: Live
* Def Leppard: White Lightning, Stand Up, Fractured Love
* Delirious?: Cutting Edge, King Of Fools, Live & In The Can, Mezzamorphis
* Depeche Mode: Walking In My Shoes
* Dream Theater: Space-Dye Vest
* Pete Droge: Necktie Second
* Duran Duran: American Science
* John Ellis: Infanta, Improviso, Infinite Sustain, others. Hear these on John's website.
* Buddy Emmons (on steel guitar): Once Upon A Time In The West
* Enchant: The Thirst
* Faith No More: Strip Search
* The Feelies: Only Life
* Fields of the Nephilim: Last Exit For The Lost
* Flock of Seagulls: Hot Tonight, Transfer Affection, If I Had A Photograph Of You, Nightmares
* The Robert Fripp String Quintet: The Bridge Between
* Fred Frith: What A Dilemma
* Peter Gabriel: Red Rain (live), Bread and Wine (Passion-1989)
* Van Halen: Spanked
* Peter Hammill: Enter K, Patience, Out of Water. EBow by John Ellis currently with The Stranglers
* PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love
* Mats Hedberg: Nordiclights
* Heart: Crazy On You, Barracuda
* Scott Huckabay: If You Believe, Metaphors, Mist of Avalon, From the Moment of Life, Divine Union, Touching Solid Branches, The Journey, The Nature, A New Sunrise, Reflections, Psychedelic Dolphin, On Shimmering Ground, Between Tomorrow & Now
* Iona (Celtic rock band): Encircling, When I Survey
* James: She's A Star
* Elton John: The One, others
* Henry Kaiser: Wind Crystals, Daredevils, Aloha, If Looks Could Kill, Info Mechanics, With Friends Like These
* Phil Keaggy: Amazing Grace, Pilgrim's Flight, Town To Town, Rise Up O Men Of God, Let Everything Else Go, Reaching Out, I Love You Lord, When The Wild Winds Blow
* King's X: Ear Candy, Cigarettes (live)
* Paul Kurzweil: Song 86, The Tango Express
* k.d.lang: The Air That I Breathe (Drag)
* Love and Rockets: The Light, All In My Mind, Laralay, Love Me, An American Dream, Saudade, Haunted While The Minutes Drag, Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
* Marillion: You're Gone (live), Season's End, Splintering Heart, Afraid of Sunlight, King, Gazpacho, Carnival of Souls, Estonia, This Strange Engine, 80 Day's, Brave
* Metallica: Unforgiven, Blackened
* Man on Fire: Various
* Michael Manring: Adhan (2 EBows on bass - EBow only), On A Day OF Many Angels, Cruel And Unusual, Bad Hair Day, Big Fungus, plus other cuts on Thonk
* Missing Persons: Noticeable One, Waiting For A Million Years, Racing Against Time (solo)
* Krzysztof Misiak: Zdjecie z Misiem (Photo with The Bear) , Krzysztof playing ebow
* Modern English: I Melt With You, Life In The Gladhouse
* Mofungo: Union Of Scabs, Hosting A War
* Robert Muller: Ten, Big Star, Secrets, Pale Yellow (mp3 samples on Robert's website)
* Bill Nelson: The October Man, A Private View, Blue As A Jewel
* Oasis: What's The Story (Morning Glory), Wonderwall
* Pearl Jam: Wishlist , Release, Not For You, No Way
* Pink Floyd: Take It Back, Keep Talking
* The Psychedelic Furs: Dumb Waiters, Like A Stranger, Highwire Days, Alices House, Only You And I
* Queen: : Good Company (Night At The Opera album played by Brian May)
* R.E.M.: E-Bow The Letter, Leave
* Radio Head: : My Iron Lung
* Red Hot Chili Peppers: Falling Into Grace, One Big Mob
* Gino Robair: Electromagnetism (EBow on snare drum)
* Scuba: The Old Man and the Boy, Ego Trip, Family Tree
* Elliott Sharp: Various
* Duncan Sheik: Barely Breathing
* Six By Seven: Spy Song
* Smashing Pumpkins: Sinfony , Where Boys, Soma, In the Arms of Sleep, Drown, Here is No Why, Daphne Descends, Believe, Hummer, Obscure, Rocket, To Forgive (live), Stand Inside Your Love (live)
* Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun, The Day I Tried To Live
* Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Climb That Hill
* Tones On Tail: Burning Skies, When You're Smiling, A Bigger Splash, Means Of Escape, Christian Says
* Trapezoid: Elegy: The Dry Leaves of Autumn (on hammered dulcimer)
* U2: Unforgettable Fire, With Or Without You (live)
* Steve Vai: All About Eve (Fire Garden)
* Violent Femmes: Breakin' Up
* Carl Weingarten Cambodian Waltz, The Acoustic Shadow, Tango in Tangiers
* Wierd Al Yankovic: Syndicated Inc, Callin' In Sick
* Yoke Shire: The Three Welcomes (all EBow), Maiden Voyage
* Frank Zappa: Filthy Habits

I remember Supergrass was on Conan O'Brien playing their new song from their Best Of album with that. I don't know what it's called.

I'm pretty sure Adrian Belew used one on Talking Heads' "Listening Wind" or "Overload", I just can't remember which one.

you can have feedback without a delay and volume pedal.

I was trying this morning to figure out if the sound at the beginning of "Underwhelmed" by Sloan is feedback or e-bow. Probably the former, but it could be e-bow!

Tony Visconti:

"Then I'd say the next thing that really moved the track along was Fripp's contribution. We already had Carlos's beautiful lines, like the bass line that was doubled on the guitar as well as the melodic part on the pre-chorus, and when Fripp came along about a week later he added a whole other dimension. He and Eno had already enjoyed a long partnership where Fripp would plug his guitar into the EMS Synthi and Brian would just play around with it, so Fripp did exactly that and he came up with that beautiful line which everyone thinks is an E-bow sound, but which is actually just Fripp standing in the right place with his volume up at the right level and getting feedback.

"Everyone who's played the song with Bowie since then has had to use an E-bow to duplicate it, but Fripp had a technique in those days where he measured the distance between the guitar and the speaker where each note would feed back. For instance, an 'A' would feed back maybe at about four feet from the speaker, whereas a 'G' would feed back maybe three and a half feet from it. He had a strip that they would place on the floor, and when he was playing the note 'F' sharp he would stand on the strip's 'F' sharp point and 'F' sharp would feed back better. He really worked this out to a fine science, and we were playing this at a terrific level in the studio, too. It was very, very loud, and all the while he was playing these notes — that beautiful overhead line — Eno was turning the dials and creating a new envelope and just playing with the filter bank. We did three takes of that, and although one take would sound very patchy, three takes had all of these filter changes and feedback blending into that very smooth, haunting, overlaying melody which you hear."

Proving that either Fripp is a god or Fripp is a geek. or both. Geek's God, for sure.

So Fripp couldn't really play it live?

Seam - "Sweet Pea" (by Bundy K. Brown)

anyone with a loud guitar amp can do this
Anyone with a loud amp != Fripp.

Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood

blonde redhead used a good deal of it, atleast on fake can be just as good and an expression of the inexpressible.

sigor ross

The live version (and maybe the regular version ?) of Sin In My Heart by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Edwyn Collins has, often.

-- I Win The Contest (suprem...), July 8th, 2005.

he wins

There has to be any number of Pink Floyd songs...

is that the guy from the mission? it looks like he's playing with a swingline stapler there.

okay, then. i'm going back to bed now.

Yeah, that's Simon Hinkler.

"Token Drug Song", Pop Will Eat Itself

i know Steve Hackett used E-bow quite a bit, but i can't remember exactly on which songs. he used a lot of different techniques and devices to get "infinite" guitar sounds. i loved reading the post about Fripp's "Heroes" guitar. thanks for that.