The Electric Fiddle

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What bands use the electric violin (in this case I guess as a fiddle) as a regular instrument. I'm not talking about something like Led Zeppelin or Black Veil Brides where one of the members also plays violin and occasionally uses it on a track, but in a way that it is a main instrument. Like in place of or alongside more conventional instruments like the guitar or bass guitar. I know Yellowcard has a violin but what other bands do? I'm asking this because my band currently has a guitar, keyboards, drums, and bass and we're trying to find a good instrument to add to help complete our sound. Four would be enough but I play the guitar and sing and complex guitar fills are often difficult to play while singing so I mostly take a rhythmic role playing simple riffs and chord progressions. So I suggested violin and the drummer suggested another guitar. Now there are tons of bands with multiple guitarists so examples of what that would sound like are quite easy to find. The band is going to take a vote on it so I looked up some electric violin videos on Youtube but a full band that involves one would be great.