Hey, have anyone heard of the "e-bow" that jonny uses in some of Coldplay songs...

it's a pretty groovy little thing, except i dont know that much about it, and i was wondering whether anyone had any specific information about jonny's ebow, or whether they are all basically the same...

Thanks

Well, to my knowlege, they're all pretty much the same. I suppose there are different ones, but I'm not an expert on guitars. But the E-bow makes an awesome effect. It's also the name of an awesome Sigur rós song. Ore rather... the "nickname". :)

O, ok , cool thanks...i think that ebow makes the best sound ever, except they are rather expensive....

very expensive:(

I used to have one and they are really good to experiment with. Mine cost me £65 delivered. If you want to recreate Amsterdam on Live 2003 or others then go for it. Really fun!

I got one for my birthday and it's fun as hell. They are all the same. I think they run about $89 US. I do an ebow version of Daylight that's sounds pretty cool.

 

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excellent...i'd love to get one....yeh, amsterdam live would be cool, as well as a few of the X&Y songs...like Swallowed in the Sea and The Hardest Part...i think i can hear it in those songs as well...

Spies. That's his best Ebow song in my opinion. Amsterdam live is great as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebow

i had one....lost it, too much money. end

ow he can get a very good tone with it in " see you soon " to you know

Yeh...its all good stuff

he is pretty skilled in the art of ebowing

yeah he is! :D

 

btw. does anyone know where i can find a very cheap e-bow?

I used to have one and they are really good to experiment with. Mine cost me £65 delivered. If you want to recreate Amsterdam on Live 2003 or others then go for it. Really fun!

 

do you have an ebow tab for amsterdam?

eBow

 

btw. does anyone know where i can find a very cheap e-bow?

 

Love the sound. Really want to get one!

 

It depends what you mean by "cheap" because I found some on eBay.

Some of them are kinda cheap....I guess :confused:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=ebow&category0

 

Also, on zzounds.com, they're around US$80. The usual price.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--HTSEBOW

 

Better save up! ;)

ebow tab for amsterdam anyone? or any other songs where buckland uses it?

Okay. after watching a couple live performances of amsterdam it looks like he stays on the D-string and goes from fret 7 to 8 to 13 to 12 and repeats (four times) I think. I don't have an E-bow but that's what I see Jonny doing.

As for spies...he uses a glass bottle-neck slide and most of the time and in the album version he play the high e-string starting at the 9th fret sliding to the 11th fret and going back and forth. Now at the electric factory I saw him use the b-string and move between frets 14 and 16. He changes it up often, sliding a little higher or lower as he pleases.

hey this guitarist on youtube play quite well with one of those E-Bow's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdxhhx4tAg

yeah he is! :D

 

btw. does anyone know where i can find a very cheap e-bow?

 

E bows aint cheap no more because the company that produced them went out of business so there are many floating around on the web but they cost a bundle cos there arent many anymore

thank you