What early 70's rock bands had violins?

UK (one of my favorite bands from that time period)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:4f77gjvr86in~T1

Some pretty brain fry poop (violin isn't exactly a staple of generic rock) came out in the early 70's that might stretch alot of people's definition of rock to a breaking point. Haven't seen these listed yet:

-PFM, "Per Un Amico" might be a good start, "Cook" is not recorded as well, but is a scorching a live record, the "Cook" versions of "Four Holes in The Ground" and "Alta Loma 9 til 5" are anthemic monsters (if you dig Lou Reed Rock and Roll Animal, the best ELP or Focus this stuff will kill you).

-Arti + Mestieri, 1st two "Tilt" and Giro di Valser" still stand as a couple of the most advanced classically informed instumental rock records made. Fantastically skilled players, great ideas and very Italian.

-Wolf, Darryl Way, the violinist from Curved Air made a quantum leap by splitting and forming this band. All three releases are excellent (and mostly instrumental). "Saturation Point" (their 2nd) is my favotite, any Ponty/Holdsworth/Mahavishnu/Zappa head should get a deluxe buzz off this one.

Other supoib violin rock came from:
-Strynx
-Stomu Yamashta (the ones w/ his wife on Violin and Hugh Hopper on bass)
-Edition Speciale
-Zao, (the French 70's band)
-Roxy Music (Viva)
-East of Eden (1st two w/ Dave Arbus)
-Esparanto (start w/ Danse Macabre)
-Alquin, (Mountain Queen)
-King Crimson ("Lark's Tongues", "Starless and Bible Black" and "Red" might seem like twisted nightmares, but they're damn good records).

Jethro Tull, Loggins and Messina (Al Garth and Richard Greene were the players; Al went to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Greene..dunno).

Charlie Daniels....

Surprisingly, Help Albert's Definite Hits has some tracks with violin.

Jefferson Starship Red Octopus-Beatles used Violin in some their works.

Jean-Lic Ponte is good.

Zinfan I just bought her (Scarlet Rivera) LP last Saturday. Jethro Tull also used Violins in the studio (minstrel in the gallery is a good example), along with UK although most of their stuff would have been later. Didn't Fairport Convention employ strings too?

Kansas still has some of my favorite rock and roll violin, viola, cello recordings ever. I don't really like the song Dust in the Wind, but I love the strings.

Seatrain- sort of bluegrass meets R&R.

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat.
Bob Dylan - Desire. (you know, Hurricane?).

.... String Driven Thing!

Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, on the road 1975-1976 -- Scarlett Rivera played violin.

Canadian duo Myles& Lenny featured an electric violin as lead instrument. They had two or three albums then folded.

The Flock (Jerry Goodman)
Curved Air
Jean Luc Ponty (really fusion, not rock)

What's all this I hear about violins on television?

Let's not forget John Cale, screeching away on his electric viola for the Velvet Underground.

If fiddles count:

Jefferson Airplane
Hot Tuna

Violins:

The Beatles
The Moody Blues
The Who

It's A Beautiful Day.

Electric Light orchestra

frank zappa
kansas
return to forever
mahavishnu orchestra

the return to forever band & the mahavishnu are not really rock & roll but they jam like a sob.

mike.