Jimmy Page's violin bow technique.

When I first saw "The Song Remains the Same" and saw the bow thing, I picked up a drumstick and tried it like that. I had fun for atleast 5 minutes.

I watched The Song Remains The Same for the first time last night. I thought it was ****ing dreadful. Page must have been just in the clutches of heroine at the time or something. Now, comparatively, I watched the first performance in 1970 on How the West Was Won, and he was fantastic...and hopefully sober.

I saw A Led Zeppelin Tribute band and "Jimmy Beige" lol, did the bow thing on Dazed and Confused, it looked amazing. my husbands done it too, all the hair from the bow came out after a few goes of it...

I don't know his name, but a guy from The Creation was the first to do the bow technique. Jimmy Page used to be a studio session man (he's worked with The Who, Kinks, Pretty Things, Creation, Donovan, as a session man) and he picked it up from them. Syd Never used a bow on a guitar, but he used a zippo lighter which produced entirely different results.

I like the scene in Spinal Tap where the guitarist uses a violin (not the bow) on his guitar. Cracks me up!

I find it even more hilarious that he has to retune the violin...