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Spinal Tap wins because they didn't plagiarize other bands material.

If we're talking first, then

I think you'll find these guys did it first.
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1894799)

If we're talking first, then....

Both Page and Phillips were using a bow on recordings in 1967.

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FF to 1:24

Page got turned onto trying a bow during his session days even earlier.

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“When I was a session musician, I would often play with string sections. For the most part, the string players would keep to themselves, except for a guy who one day asked me if I ever thought of playing my guitar with a bow. I said I didn’t think it would work because the bridge of the guitar isn’t arched like it is on a violin or cello. But he insisted that I give it a try, and he gave me his bow. And whatever squeaks I made sort of intrigued me. I didn’t really start developing the technique for quite some time later, but he was the guy that turned me onto the idea.”

Bit of obscure trivia - the "guy" that turned Page onto the bow was the father of David McCallum, who co-starred along with Robert Vaughn in the mid 60s TV show The Man from UNCLE.

That's a lot of qualifying.

To be fair, using a bow on a stringed instrument really isn't that innovative anyways.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1894818)

To be fair, using a bow on a stringed instrument really isn't that innovative anyways.

It was in the realm of hard rock!

No wonder people thought he had made a deal with the devil and practiced black magic.

1970 - The way he uses the echoplex and wah pedal is pretty damn cool.

Goes to show that you don't actually have to be innovative to be an innovative rock artist.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1894836)

Goes to show that you don't actually have to be innovative to be an innovative rock artist.

Ya, cause bowing a Les Paul through a dimed NMV Marshall stack, while using tape echo and tone modulation, and incorporating bits of Gustav Holst's "Mars -
the Bringer of War", was so unimaginative back in 1969-1970...........

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1894843)

Yep. Might have fit the bill if we were talking 30s.