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Our guitarist has a girlfriend who is a pretty good singer ... so we let her sing a few songs ... well now the guitarist and drummer want her to play fiddle in the band ... we are a modern rock band ... so I emailed them all back and said "I aint learning no f#$%ing fiddle songs!!!" and one of the side benefits of this is I have now ****** them off ...

Hmmm... fiddle sometimes sounds cool with heavy stuff... imo...

Can you do "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with a heavy, modern arrangement? That should fit right in the set after that Nickelback song...

Check out a metal band called Sabbat. Lots of tasteful fiddle in their work.

Steve my band will start doing country music when your band starts doing Bee Gees ... maybe she could smash the violin on stage like Pete Townsend or burn it like Hendrix ... or better yet I say we get an accordian and a kazoo player to join the band ... or better yet a tuba ... then we could do heavy metal ...

Jeff. Your story brings to mind my worse nightmare, expressed in three words:

Yoko Ono Syndrome!!!

Camper Van Beethoven made good use of the fiddle. Their version of 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men' completely eclipses the original (Status Quo). It has it's place. The Church have enlisted the bow sawing Linda Neil 'Violinda' on some great songs, a few of them absolute thrashers. If you can find 'Gypsy Stomp' somewhere, give it a listen.

There's a band called Yellowcard that has an electric violin player. http://www.yellowcardrock.com/index_lightsandsounds.html

Hell, Metallica did an entire album with an orchestra. Coheed and Cambria occasionally use a string quartet to back them up.

What would one violin hurt?

You could do a whole ELO set. They were great. You would need two cello players or a reasonable facsimile as well. We're probably not helping, right?

Jeff, It might be interesting if done in a very original way. Give it a shot, but as a trial.

I like violins ... I don't like fiddles ... violins are sophistacated and classical ... fiddles a lame ... it makes me think of a barefoot hillbilly playing dueling banjos ...

NO FIDDLES FOR ME!!!

If you want to play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band...

and I do realize you are in Michigan and not in a band named Alabama

In my opinion, anything goes, provided it's done in an artistic creative way. Can anyone say Eleanor Rigby (to cite one obvious example)?

Jeff, you didn't have an upsetting experience while canoeing with some friends, did you?

hahahahaha!!! Actually bands like King Crimson, UK, and Jethro Tull used the violin quite effectively ... and I like those bands ... but country fiddling aint what I am about ...