Ed Alleyne Johnson/Electric Violin will rock you.

[renman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvv0lzjQQ8s&mode=related&search=

Listen to this guy.
Ed went to study Fine Art at Oxford University, where he quickly became established as a bass player and violinist in the Oxford music scene. After finishing college, he took to the streets of Europe with a home-made electric violin, battery-powered amp and effects pedals, and started to develop the unique style of multi-layered playing which became his trademark. On this subject, Ed says, "It's continuing a tradition really. I've always thought people like Vivaldi and Bach, if digital delays had been around in their day, they'd have used them ... A lot of kids learn violin at school and then when they get older want to join a rock band and then feel excluded because the violin is stereotyped as a classical instrument ... I think it's silly the way people put music into these rigid categories. To me honesty is the most important thing with music. You just play and perform what you feel from the heart, if people want to categorise it fine, but to me it's just music". Hear hear.

[Jim B.]

There's a marvelous electric violin riff, in Erric Burdon & the Animals' 1967 hit "When I was Young"

If you are stoned on really good grass, it goes on and on and on (though I wouldn't know personally, about that, heh heh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx1-1_UdtmQ

[TheDon]

I wanted to learn how to play violin when I Was 6.. my parents were like.. how about karate?