Big string bends: interesting examples from recorded music?

richh

I usually only bend around a full tone, or maybe tone and a half. But was messing about with some 'bigger bends'. For example the Pink Floyd 'Brick in the wall' solo bend which I think is two full tones (4 frets).

Can anybody suggest any other good examples of string bending that goes beyond the regular 2 or 3 frets?  Preferably reasonably tasteful stuff, although that is a very personal thing.

Kebabkid

Steve Lukather of Toto uses them a lot. Try the outro to "Rosanna"

viz

Guthrie does his semitones stepping down from a big bend down to straight, by relaxing the string to give separate semitones. Awse accuracy. 

Stuckfast

You can do some interesting stuff with a B-bender by combining that and finger bending.

Gassage

Here you go, DG again (although this a cover). Amazing bending at the beginning....

richh

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have a listen.

bingefeller

Chris Poland does loads. Check out his solo in Tears in a Vial, and his solo on Jeff Loomis's track Continuum Drift. There are absolutely loads more in his solos. He tries to emulate a pitch wheel on a synth with his bending technique.

Vaiai

Guthrie has about 4 or 5 vids in a series on this very subject


The later ones have some of the more mad stuff