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  2. Weird! I JUST bought one!
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong:Apart from that, I don't know of any other songs in which he's played the e-bow live. I thought he used ebow for the final part of the LIB solo (the extra sustained part after the proper solo ends and before Bono's final verse) but I just checked it out and he doesn't, it must be a sustain/compressor pedal.


    I think I saw Edge using an ebow during WOWY. I can't remember which tour/show it was though. Perhaps he uses the ebow as a back up if the infinite guitar isn't working. I bet it's really difficult to use when playing WOWY since you have to go from the sustained part to the normal guitar part pretty quickly.

    @Alex - Cool, I hope you enjoy using it! Would love to have one myself.
  4. Very, very interesting article Sergio. Great find!

    Still kinda surprised that Edge uses heavier strings. I think he uses 10's and perhaps 11's on his Les Paul's? Not entirely sure though. I would've have thought that thinner, more delicate strings would have made things more brighter and more chimey. I guess not.

    I didn't know Edge did a little project with an artist called Jah Wobble. I thought the only projects he did were the Captive soundtrack and that album he and Brian Eno were on in the mid 90's that I can't remember the name of (and Passengers, ofc).
  5. Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:[..]


    I think I saw Edge using an ebow during WOWY. I can't remember which tour/show it was though. Perhaps he uses the ebow as a back up if the infinite guitar isn't working. I bet it's really difficult to use when playing WOWY since you have to go from the sustained part to the normal guitar part pretty quickly.

    @Alex - Cool, I hope you enjoy using it! Would love to have one myself.
    WOWY is allegedly the other song for which he's used the ebow either live and in the studio, but I haven't been able to find any footage from it.

    Glad you enjoy the interview, I was surprised about that side project too. Remember it's a 1985 interview, so there are some details that 30 years later seem weirdly out of place. About the thicker strings, well, I kind of expected him to use thinner ones too but I'm not surprised he uses 10s or even 11s. I've tried 9s on a Explorer and a Les Paul and they feel like toy strings.
  6. I think you can see Edge using the EBow during WOWY on the Rose Bowl dvd?
  7. I think he's using the Infinite guitar in that performance.
  8. I've never seen Edge playing the ebow during WOWY, he always does that left hand sliding + vibrato thing with the Fernandes sustainer (he used to do it with the blackie Strat as well):


    0:55 here:





    0:25 here, very obvious:




    I don't recall an ebow in WOWY ever.
  9. He uses an ebow on WOWY during the Sydney DVD too


  10. Check between :40-:50
  11. God damn, you're right! That's because they segued WOWY from Lemon on the latter '93 gigs, and he played Lemon on the Les Paul so he didn't have time to swap guitars and he had to emulate the infinite guitar with the ebow. Thanks for pointing it out Marty!
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