how do u bow a guitar?

[Deeru Piotr]

Now, there I was thinking that Steve Howe's solo on "Soon" was a combination of the lap steel (which have very good sustain) and a volume pedal ...

I think you're right! I don't know for sure, but I seem to recall seeing Steve Howe doing that part on the lap steel, so the lapsus is mine

[methodistgirl]

I can't say that I haven't tried it myself. I had a violin out of it's case
and my guitar on my shoulder. I just reached down and picked up the
fiddle stick and tried it out after hearing about Jimmy Page doing it and
thanks to VH1, I saw him playing his guitar with a bow. It sounded
pretty neat. The only difference is that I put the guitar down and
played it like a cello. Jimmy Page had his strapped on his neck.
judy tooley

[John Watt]

No-one says the real reason you can bow an electric guitar here. High volume feedback. Anything that touches the guitar made a sound, and sliding it along a mike stand does the same thing better. I was backstage with my friend Ron Sexsmith when he opened for Suzanne Vega in Toronto. Mitchell Frome, her husband, and Tchad Blake, international producers, were sitting with me. I noticed Tchad's ring and tried to poke at it, saying I had seen it for sale in comic books, but he pulled it away. He said he spent $20,000 with a jeweller to make his work, for one to three strings. Perhaps you've heard that. as always, John Watt. tuneUupL8r!

[John Watt]

Soubasse! Sorry to contra-dict you. I surprised a bassist friend late one night, when he visited me at the band house by the lake at Prudhommes near St. Catharines, Lake Ontario. He thought that since I was a full time musician, I would have heard the Yes album Relayer, with "The Gates of Delerium", a quiet section in the middle featuring the "soon, oh soon" vocals. I turned on the P.A. system, we sat back in the dark, looking over the distant horizon, and listened to it loud. Patrick Moraz was keyboardist/arranger for that one album and tour, already passed by. The next year I saw Yes in Buffalo with Rick Wakeman back on keys, and they only played the quiet part up to the ending. Steve Howe, a restless guitar player on his feet even with his classical approach, sat behind a double steel guitar with full pedals to sound like the record. He had no rings or accoutrements on his fingers. He didn't need them. Here's a Pink Floyd David Gilmour trick. This works on all strings, depending on what they are and what you use, but on a steel string guitar you can take a blues slide and rub it sideways quickly across the neck starting at the fifth to seventh fret to create sustained ringing harmonic overtones, used to great effect on "Echoes".

[tinglyear]

Soubasse! Sorry to contra-dict you. I surprised a bassist friend late one night, when he visited me at the band house by the lake at Prudhommes near St. Catharines, Lake Ontario. He thought that since I was a full time musician, I would have heard the Yes album Relayer, with "The Gates of Delerium", a quiet section in the middle featuring the "soon, oh soon" vocals. I turned on the P.A. system, we sat back in the dark, looking over the distant horizon, and listened to it loud. Patrick Moraz was keyboardist/arranger for that one album and tour, already passed by. The next year I saw Yes in Buffalo with Rick Wakeman back on keys, and they only played the quiet part up to the ending. Steve Howe, a restless guitar player on his feet even with his classical approach, sat behind a double steel guitar with full pedals to sound like the record. He had no rings or accoutrements on his fingers. He didn't need them. Here's a Pink Floyd David Gilmour trick. This works on all strings, depending on what they are and what you use, but on a steel string guitar you can take a blues slide and rub it sideways quickly across the neck starting at the fifth to seventh fret to create sustained ringing harmonic overtones, used to great effect on "Echoes".

sounds interesting... might have to give it a try now then...