I never thought Brian used an E-bow in the studio, so that makes sense. And I think he's probably used it rarely onstage.
Related: I emailed Brian's website about talk boxes. I had just gotten one, and was curious if Brian every tried one out. Got an email from Pete Malandrone: "never used one."
Marcos Napier · Member since
Interesting... in the E-bow site they have a list of "record cuts featuring E-bow" and Good Company is there: http://www.ebow.com/ebow/record.htm
Legy · Member since
Yeah, I noticed that too. It's just a marketing ploy. It happens all the time. Pete Cornish who made Brian's Treble Boosters from 1972 to 1992 thinks he actually built the Deacy Amp, or as he calls it "The Recording Amp".
http://www.petecornish.co.uk/queen.html
Marcos Napier · Member since
On a related note: I remember when Joshua Tree was released, and there was a credit for Eno or Lanois for "infinite sustain guitar" or something. One would think "wow, these guys are really great, they made a guitar with infinite sustain"... later I discovered that it was just an E-bow. With or without you is a very good example of E-bow sounds.
tommycharles · Member since
With Or Without You isn't an ebow, it's a Fernandez (or a prototype thereof) - he used the ebow live until Popmart (1997) when he just used the Fernandez on stage.
Marcos Napier · Member since
That Sustainiac (or whatever it's called) thing? Probably it works like an embedded E-bow.
