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This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (July 2022) ELO performing live during their 1981 Time Tour. From left: Jeff Lynne, Louis Clark (obscured), Kelly Groucutt, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy The English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) recorded over 190 songs from 1971 to 2019. The band's music is characterised by their blending of Beatlesque pop, classical ...
Electric violin signals usually pass through electronic processing, in the same way as an electric guitar, to achieve a desired sound. This could include delay, reverb, chorus, distortion, or other effects. Today electric violins are even being used to reinvigorate music education.
The Move/Electric Light Orchestra in 1972. In 1968, Roy Wood—guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of the Move—had an idea to form a new band that would use violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, allowing rock music to "pick up where the Beatles left off" in a new direction. [17]
Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) [1] is a French jazz and jazz fusion violinist and composer. He is considered a pioneer of jazz-rock, particularly for his use of the electric violin starting in the 1970s.
The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument was during the first decades of the 20th century. Early jazz violinists included Eddie South, who played violin with Jimmy Wade's Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith; Claude "Fiddler" Williams, who played with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy.
Vanessa-Mae (British, violin techno-acoustic fusion) Maxim Vengerov (Israeli) April Verch (Canadian) Sarana VerLin (Dark Carnival) (electric 5-string) (rock, folk) Susan Voelz acoustic electric 5 string, Poi Dog Pondering, Alejandro Escovedo, rock, electronica; Josh Vietti (hip hop, pop)
The first track, and single, "When I Was a Boy" was made available for streaming on the same day and a music video for the song was also released. [27] A small promotional tour followed the album's release which saw Jeff Lynne's ELO perform a full concert for BBC Radio 2 along with their first two shows in the United States in 30 years, both ...
The Wailing Souls' All Over the World (1992) – Violin, sarod; Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 (1992) Song: "Thirteen" – Electric violin Song: "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" – Electric violin. Shadowfax's Esperanto (1992) – violin; White Sands OST (1992) – Percussion, violin, vocals