Guitar picks
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I keep a bunch in a holder too. I tend to toss quite a few out, depending on the show. I will find fun ways to do it - bat with back of hand kick em, head butt...
Will look for some video or pull stills of pick throws.
Yup...that's the same holder I have!
I alternate front and back in the holder, too!
That's a cool idea to toss them out in different ways.
All this talk of picks. Dug out my box of picks. It’s the box of Fender Mediums I purchased probably early 80s. Pack of 12. I still have 5. The rest are picks I’ve accumulated over the years. Couple that say Ovation Guitar on them. Some from Brad. Five I bought while in Hawaii several years back. And I still prefer the Fenders.
Jethro Rocker
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The alternating there was just luck. I just put em in however. I am not that clever!!
Pick tossing comes from Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick, the master of pick throwing. I just have fun, get goofy and thjngs happen.
I even try throwing pick up and catching in mouth just for giggles. I have done it a couple times and grossly spit the pick out flying!!
No one claims those ones....
I think some people will remember your show from this and they do have a band printed pick as advertising.
For real? I never knew that. I grew up in the same town as Cheap Trick. Maybe there's something in the water that makes us want to throw guitar picks!
I even knew Bun E. Carlos's sister. She was actually a pretty good violin player.
Dude, it would be so funny to try to play a solo on stage with one of those! That would be a cool way to play up to the crowd.
DBi5
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I've been using these for so long I can't really use anything else. I may switch up the thickness (+/-) every once in a while, but this is my usual go to.
Good for live Bass and Electro-Acoustic guitars (low pick noise).
Jethro Rocker
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Oh man. He is awesome. Throws em out by the bucket. I have 4 or 5.
You from Rockford? Ever hang at Neilsen's dad's music store? Or would it have been closed? That's really cool. I have seen them many times will find video.
He tosses em between his legs, etc
Cinnamon girl solo ! (one note) :dood:
I stayed in Rockford for 2 weeks there, 2 weeks home, for 6 months in 1979. Stayed at this place while working at the Chrysler plant during a retooling for the Omni and Horizon.
Yup, grew up in Rockford.
Which music store would that have been? The big store at the time was Guzzardo’s Music. I did go to a few others from time to time, but that was the one everyone knew and they had the best selection.
Yup. Very familiar with the Clock Tower Inn.
I haven‘t lived in Rockford for about 30 years, but I actually stayed at the Clock Tower Inn about ten years ago, or so, when I went back home for my father’s funeral.
You were probably working at the Chrysler plant in Belvidere, Illinois which is right next to Rockford. My step-brother worked at that Chrysler plant that same time you were there!
Jethro Rocker
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I dunno. Just knew he had a guitar shop... maybe it closed.
"During Rick's teens, the family owned a music store in Rockford, Illinois, and he learned to play a number of instruments."
I just looked it up. It was Ralph Nielsen Music. I gotta say I don’t think I ever visited there.
The things I remember most about Guzzardo’s, however, was that I bought my first amp there, a Peavey Studio Pro 40.
And…as I was getting into guitar in the ‘80s, I remember every Gibson on the wall in the store - Les Pauls, SGs, AND ES-335s had the stud-mount Kahler tremolos!
Good times…good times!
Jethro Rocker
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Ahh you are too young maybe. Who knows when it closed? Possibly before The 80s...
Rick's teens would have been the 60s.
335s with a Kahler!!
Yeah!
It seemed like everything had a Floyd or a Kahler back then!
In fact, that tended to be the topic of discussion at the time, at least among the people I was around. It wasn’t “rosewood or maple.” It was “Kahler or Floyd.”
Yup, that’s the place. I have a post card with a drone shot of the plant on it. I remember it was over 60 acres under one roof.