Re: The Creation trying to be the Yardbirds? ;)

[Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And I do not think I have ever heard Jimmy laying claim to being the 
inventor of this practice. He just certainly became the one most known 
for it...and for obvious reasons. It was certainly NOT because of just 
using a bow.

If there is evidence to dispute this, please do correct me.

swandwn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> That was recorded BEFORE Jimmy's earliest use of a bow on record.  
> Eddie Phillips (Creation's guitarist) had been using a bow as far back 
> as 1965, and he used it quite prominently on Creation's two big hits 
> of 1966 ("Makin' Time" and "Painter Man").
>
> Jimmy has never admitted if he knew about Phillips, but I can't 
> imagine that he wouldn't have heard about him.
>
> Later,
>
> Scott