With quite a bit of back and forth about cellos, popular/rock music, and such, it got me thinking about the earlier practitioners of bowing strings for rock and roll effect. Here is one of the first Jimmy Page performances of “Dazed and Confused” (written by Jake Holmes in 1967), when Page still played for The Yardbirds. They never put it on a studio album, but it appeared on a live album Epic released called Live Yardbirds which came out in 1971 and quickly disappeared due to the fact Jimmy Page now played for a group called Led Zeppelin and had some misgivings which he resolved through legalities (i.e., he sued their ass). I happened to get a copy of that album, however, and it is quite strange. Here is a very similar performance to the recording on the album I’ve got, complete with Jimmy using a bow on his guitar about halfway through the song.
Guitars and bows
Published
all the voices in my head 
I was fortunate to see Led Zeppelin play in Greensboro Colosseum in May of 1977. I’m even more fortunate that I can remember much of the concert, but only because I was driving our “merry little troop of zeppies” to the concert and back to Raleigh.
As part of that concert, Page had an extended solo in the later half of the show which lasted at least 20 minutes where he played a medley of Zeppelin’s songs and I got to see him destroy two bows and waste a third one before his solo was finished. I believe it was on the Dazed & Confused section of his Solo where he “attacked” the strings with his bow so hard that all the hairs on the bow were flying back and forth in the air, catching the stage lights and glowing like streams of sprayed water, or a moving cloud all around him. I was mesmerized.