nazareth, love hurts guitar solo
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nazareth, love hurts guitar solo
the song is great and the guitar solo is so cool. does anyone know if the solo was done by hitting one note, finding the sweet spot in the room for sustain/feedback, then just holding this note for the whole duration of the solo? or was it using an ebow or some other, ahem, vibrating type device however it was recorded, it's brilliant! thanks.
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At the Ebow website, no claim is made about the Ebow being used on any Nazareth songs:
http://ebow.com/ebow/record.htm
There is a fairly extensive and (sort of) up-to-date list of other artists/songs that feature the Ebow. You'd think they'd have "Love Hurts" on there if there had been an Ebow in that song, being that's such a well-known classic. We can't prove a negative though.
BTW, that's one old-school website. It has that 1997 look to it. Sort of a stonewashed jeans effect there.
http://ebow.com/ebow/record.htm
There is a fairly extensive and (sort of) up-to-date list of other artists/songs that feature the Ebow. You'd think they'd have "Love Hurts" on there if there had been an Ebow in that song, being that's such a well-known classic. We can't prove a negative though.
BTW, that's one old-school website. It has that 1997 look to it. Sort of a stonewashed jeans effect there.
I can't believe you posted this; I have always secretly wanted to know how they did that, too. I feel I can tell you that everytime I get behind an Oberheim, I play the intro to 'Jump'. Which I do.
It sounds like a single note being bent (on a very thin string) to a fed-backing amplifier.
It sounds like a single note being bent (on a very thin string) to a fed-backing amplifier.
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The first ebow I ever bought (maybe 10 years ago) had literature that included credit for "Love Hurts". I wonder if they ran into a permissions problem or if it was discovered that the Sustainiac system was actually used on that track instead of the ebow. To be honest with you, as someone who's used the ebow alot, that lead sounds more like the Sustainiac than an ebow. But I never questioned the claims.
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Allmusic.com mentions Love Hurts' "aching slide-guitar solo" here . They also state that the song came out in 1975 where the Ebow website says the Ebow came out in 1976.
...not that any of this is definitive evidence of anything.
...not that any of this is definitive evidence of anything.
This is a great thread! I saw Nazareth on the Isle of man in 93. My brother and I were there for the motorcycle races and heard they were gonna play. As a joke , we went expecting to see another band past their freshness date flogging a dead horse. But the singer pipes were just as strong as ever and the guitar player was superb. Surprise surprise! They still rocked!
As far as that solo goes, I don't remember how he played it live. I don't think he was ebowin'...
As far as that solo goes, I don't remember how he played it live. I don't think he was ebowin'...
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Inquiring minds want to know.
What a pisser. I wonder if anyone that knows definitively will pickup on this thread.
What a landmark album though, for rock music.
What a pisser. I wonder if anyone that knows definitively will pickup on this thread.
What a landmark album though, for rock music.
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i heard an interview with Dan McCafferty on http://rockandrollgeek.podshow.com/
Mike Butler asked this very question. i can't remember everything that was said about it, but it definetly was not an ebow.
i think nazareth is one of the great underrated bands of their time.
Mike Butler asked this very question. i can't remember everything that was said about it, but it definetly was not an ebow.
i think nazareth is one of the great underrated bands of their time.
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