Brian May and use of E-BOW for guitar

Has Dr. May ever used one of this cool things for his guitar work?
Sounds to me that the opening of the" These are the days of our lives" guitar solo needs the use of an e-bow to bend the note like that.
Other than that i have no idea. Do you?

He used it on Love Of My Life and Get Down Make Love.

I can tell you that he did use one in the early days live. I asked him that and got a reply on his website years ago.

That was nearly ten years ago

Great pic ! Likely from the NOTW tour. I'd date it Nov-Dec 1977.

He used it live only on Get Down Make Love, between 77-82... as well as his solo spot on the NOTW tour (after White Man).

A great era! Well on top of their game back then!

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

Great pic ! Likely from the NOTW tour. I'd date it Nov-Dec 1977.

He used it live only on Get Down Make Love, between 77-82... as well as his solo spot on the NOTW tour (after White Man).
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At first I thought NOTW tour, but in that picture BM appears to have "shorter" hair which would date it around The Crazy tour, during some of those shows he wore that white jacket, and also a similar one. Just a thought.

Have any of you ever watched Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan from Mr Big using a drill whilst playing their guitar/bass guitar?

Sorry if I offended anyone by diverting away from Brian and Queen with my last comment about Mr Big - I am after all a "newbie".

Brian's two handed tapping with mixed time signatures on Bijou on the Innuendo album, in my opinion, will always be better than a guitarist or bass guitarist with an electric drill!

Found the link to the reply for my letter regarding the Ebow

In my letter, I asked Brian about a claim that came from the blurb inside an ebow that I bought. It said Brian used one on Good Company, so I asked him about that. Here is his reply:-

"To tell you the truth, I don't remember using an E-Bow on "Good Company", though it was a long time ago and I could possibly have forgotten!! As I remember it, I did it all with the small "Deacy" amp, with microphones placed at various places relative to the speaker cone, depending on what tone I wanted the part to have, plus in some cases a "Wah Wah" pedal set to a particular place in its range, to colour the sound, and for some sounds, a volume pedal to vary the attack of, say, the "trombone".

I DID use an E-bow on stage though. It was very useful for starting off my long solo at one point. I could make long Whale-like noises by gently moving the device up to a position over a low string. Along with use of the Tremolo to zoom the pitch way down, and the delays I was using at the time, it gave a lot of scope for building up weird textures. I really enjoyed it if the mood was developing well that night. Usually at some point after a couple of minutes I would lob the E-Bow in Jobby's direction, and lay into the guitar with a pick instead, going into more rhythmic areas.

I don't know what happened to my E-bow - haven't seen it for years. Must get another one to play around with!!! The reason I didn't get heavily into it as a technique was really because I always liked to produce sustain by feedback through the air. This is quite controllable in one way, since you can move around the stage to get different degrees of positive feedback to keep the sustain going, but it's also quite exciting because unpredictable things happen - the sustained note may burst into another octave or a higher overtone. Mr. Clapton used to use this to great effect in his days in Cream. I used this too a fair bit in the early days, notably in the stage intro to "Stone Cold Crazy" , and later, along with a fed-back harmoniser, in the solo section of "Get Down Make Love" .

Cheers - Happy 2004 !!
Brian

(Jen, and for those who are wondering what the Hell I'm talking about - the E-bow is a little chrome plated thing that looks like a weird kind of watch or something. You hold it over a string, and it picks up the vibrations, electronically amplifies them internally, and re-emits that particular frequency as a wave which excites the string further. A perfect classic "Positive feedback loop" situation. If you get it right, the string will sound forever, or until your E-bow battery runs out!!! It's a clever invention - and fun to use - giving an effect very like bowing a violin string; hence the name - from "electronic bow" I guess. ) "

http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbjan04.html

Off topic, but crazy duck, your username sig incorrectly quotes "bytes" as "bites" ;-)

Didn't he use a e-bow on the rock in rio guitar solo.

[QUOTE] [b]Vocal harmony wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

Great pic ! Likely from the NOTW tour. I'd date it Nov-Dec 1977.

He used it live only on Get Down Make Love, between 77-82... as well as his solo spot on the NOTW tour (after White Man).
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At first I thought NOTW tour, but in that picture BM appears to have "shorter" hair which would date it around The Crazy tour, during some of those shows he wore that white jacket, and also a similar one. Just a thought. [/QUOTE]

Indeed, you're very likely right.

[QUOTE] [b]dragonfly.trumpeter wrote:[/b]

Have any of you ever watched Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan from Mr Big using a drill whilst playing their guitar/bass guitar?

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Got a good clip of it !?

Don't apologize for bringing up non-Queen things here. Believe it or not, there are a few of us here who don't have myopic music tastes and are into other artists. ;)

Although sometimes we do have to wonder..

Inu-liger your right my god I never spotted that. Thanks dude!