Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 23:14:04 -0400 From: Tim <tfoster6272 at comcast dot net> Subject: Fripp and The Cars revisited
> The reason the solo sounds uh, "Frippish" is because it's played using an > e-Bow. Many of us playing guitar now use them, and so the bowed-electric > sound loved by us all need not be confined to RF. Also there's a Bass > version.
Uh, what makes you say that? It sure sounds like classic Les Paul sustain to me. I can get the same sound with the good old Big Muff sustain pedal, no ebow necessary. And the solo in question sure sounds picked in certain areas (not to mention that the video shows it being played conventionally-I realize that's not iron clad evidence by any stretch but its worth noting).
Whether it is or not isn't that big a deal, it just seems that there's always a big rush to insist that that sound can only be produced by an ebow-unless you're Robert Fripp. Now Robert is certainly very talented but I don't think he has electromagnets in his fingers (I may have bamboozled the technology a bit but you get the point).
And now back to King Crimson...
Tim