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LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
edited February 2022 in Other Music
A place to show them off and add any details.
What you got?
I'll start
I was combing the stage and found like 6 of these. Gave the rest away and kept two.  I feel like picks capture a little magic of the show.
Doyle from misfits.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,027
    Cool thread idea, L!
    Here are some my nephew got for me in Hawaii a few years back:
    IMG

    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • drakeheuer14drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,467
    Ooh fun thread. I have a few others, but these are the closest to me at the moment. From the Thrice show last fall in ATL. 

    Pittsburgh 2013
    Cincinnati 2014
    Greenville 2016
    (Raleigh 2016)
    Columbia 2016
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    brianlux said:
    Cool thread idea, L!
    Here are some my nephew got for me in Hawaii a few years back:
    IMG

    aloha
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    drakeheuer14 said:
    Ooh fun thread. I have a few others, but these are the closest to me at the moment. From the Thrice show last fall in ATL. 

    unique. I don't know thrice.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    I don't know either of these bands. Stage scrounged them at a local club when it was cool to go out. Yep I'm the old dude they assume is with the band grabbing setlists and picks. I have a problem.
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,027
    An assortment of picks pulled out of a few of my guitar cases.  The green on on the upper left is super thick.  No idea where I got that one. 
    The three on the bottom are tear-drop picks, sometimes referred to as banjo picks.  A friend of mine who taught me my first chords back in high school (around 1967, I believe) used these and gave me a few.  I've been using them ever since and have tried using a more standard pick but 55 year old habits are hard to break!  The one on the lower right with most of the embossed letters worn off is a Gibson tear drop.  They stopped making them years ago and I'm down to my last few.  They show up on eBay now and then for ridiculous prices and the same to a lesser degree with the Fender tear-drops.  But since the Jim Dunlops are just about as good and I can still get them, those are mostly what I use now.
    IMG

    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Did not know that old picks are desired. Would be cool to use old picks as scales for a fish sculpture. 
    Found this cool one on the ground at a gas station

  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,027
    Loujoe said:
    Did not know that old picks are desired. Would be cool to use old picks as scales for a fish sculpture. 
    Found this cool one on the ground at a gas station


    Interesting idea about the fish scales!  Are they chromatic, whole tone, pentatonic or maybe something exotic like Mixolydian?

    "Cool" pick, nice!
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Craig satari, bass legend from nyhc days. played with agnostic front, youth of today, sick of it all and more. Got this from him at a recentish  cro-mags show. Didn't know who he was, but was shredding his bass and shook him down for a pick. Later realized, dudes a legend.
  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    edited February 2022
    My days of wanting or getting guitar picks for myself are pretty much long ago... But as the mom of a 12 yr old, a few months ago I got the chance to be "The BEST Mom Ever" when, after taking her to see Willow Smith, and a crowd screaming for guitar picks during & after the show, I was the only person who quietly secured a guitar pick and setlist for my daughter, who was literally like "MOM! Where did you get those???" and she got the cool points from all her friends.

    Honestly, while I do like Willow myself (she's a talented songwriter & quite good live!), I was mesmerized by her guitar picks during the show so really, I wanted one too LOL! They were so sparkly...

    Also, though not a guitar pick, the only time in recent years (and as we reopened live shows) I really wanted something from a musician onstage, it was during our 1st indoor concert back in Sept, the Roots, and at the end of the show ?uestlove the incredible drummer/music director/film director/music professor held up a drumstick like "Who wants it?" and I started waving like crazy from my seat about 7 rows back, and he saw me and threw it almost directly to me, and when I tell you if there was video of me climbing on my seat trying to catch it, barely missing it, getting airborne & ending up across the armrests of 3 seats in our row on my back, laughing like crazy but masked so everyone thought I was crying, and the couple who did catch it handing it to me and saying "Um, I think this was meant for you... and you seem to really want it..." Yeah, I'm old, but I'm still willing to go all in for things that are truly worthwhile ;)  =)=)  !  So this was the only thing I asked for for me in a long while - super happy to have it on the bookshelf next to my desk...


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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    HOT! Love Roots and Questlove. Cool they gave it to you. Nice job on Willow stuff. nice pick. Foilish? I dont know them.
  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    edited February 2022
    But if I go back in the vaults, and most of these aren't even worth putting pics up because the picks aren't labled with the band name on them (but I know they are real because they were all handed to me by musician in question), then my young adult years yielded some very cool f'ing picks (and concert experiences with them). 

    Going through the vaults (which for me are the plastic sections of a little kid's souvenir wallet from Seaworld! No joke, clearly I'm not a good archivist), I have picks handed to me from:

    * Ric Ocasek of the Cars (pictured)
    * ALL of the Clash guitar players' picks from the 1st show I saw them at as a very young girl (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)(Topper's drumsticks too) (Joe's is clear one in this pic)
    * Eddie Van Halen's guitar pick that he walked across the stage & handed to me after playing "Eruption" (I've told that story, it meant a lot more than the guitar pick & was so important to my early start as a young Black girl at rock concerts)(pictured)
    * The lead guitar & bass guitar players for the Go Gos Charlotte Caffey & Kathy Valentine (who put on a DAMN GOOD live show I might add)
    * Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders
    * Keith Richards & Bill Wyman (there are some great stories from that show)
    * Ray Davies of the Kinks (long story but I swear up to FIVE YEARS after this show at Madison Sq. Garden people stopped me on the street and said "Hey, were you at the Kinks concert back...?"
    * And Rick Nielson & Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick (Gotta admit I was a full grown adult when I got Tom Peterson's, and it was the only one he gave out the whole show and I was quite honored to have it handed to me cuz I have found him DREAMY since being a kid in the "Dream Police" era!)

    Here are 3 I took a pic of during pandemic when Eddie Van Halen died, because I was really still in shock that each of these talented guys had passed: Eddie Van Halen, Ric Ocasek, Joe Strummer



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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Yes! Thanks for posting. Very special stuff. Drop the stories if/when you want. They'll live here forever.
  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    edited February 2022
    Loujoe said:
    Yes! Thanks for posting. Very special stuff. Drop the stories if/when you want. They'll live here forever.
    Loujoe I know the bolded is supposed to make it more enticing to post those stories... but it's probably exactly why they're best left UNposted LOL!  No, they're mostly totally harmless (and often very funny or touching) but you know how I write... I don't know how to be brief.

    But - this is your fault - going through those picks and remembering I recently saw the video for the J. Geils Band song "Freeze Frame" (anyone old enough to remember when that album was all over the radio, with Love Stinks & Centerfold too?), and I WILL bore you with the time (because most of these shows I got the above-listed guitar picks at were within about a 5 or 6 yr span of seeing almost every show that played at Madison Sq. Garden & smaller NYC venues but legendary artists).

    And seeing Freeze Frame & these pics reminded me of this era of having my little system down that got me front row for just about every show at MSG (I was a little kid with braces, so mostly the venue staff got to know me & just waved me up), and when J. Geils Band played (with I think George Thorogood supporting), for some reason this show was CHAOS and for most of the show, people from the audience were climbing onstage from the front and both sides, getting onstage and dancing or jumping around, then just jumping off.  It was like the punk version of a non-punk show at MSG, just endless people onstage all night.

    I had NEVER considered trying to get onstage for any band, and wasn't gonna do it for this show, but after awhile I felt like I was going to offend someone if I DIDN'T get onstage =) So near the end I hopped onstage but didn't really know what to do (remember, I was a kid), and Peter Wolf the singer's back was to me so I kind of just walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder and MY GAWD I unintentionally startled THE SHIT out of him, he jumped like 6 feet in the air and spun around like "WTF??!!"  Re-playing it in my mind has me laughing out loud AGAIN even though at the time I felt awful for scaring him, and I still feel awful!  Then he turns and there's this young kid with braces on grinning and kinda shrugging my shoulders as if to ask HIM "Ok, now what do I do?" but he was awesome, he grabbed me and danced with me like ballroom dancing around the stage (meanwhile tons of people continuing to just climb on, jump around and jump off), then he escorted me back to the edge, hugged me and I was back to my seat.

    OH YEAH, and by far the most memorable stage crashing moment that whole night was the balding guy who jumped onstage with a red rotary dial phone & chord, sat on the floor cross-legged first and then PUT HIS FEET BEHIND HIS HEAD like a yogi, and then pretended to talk on the red rotary phone until security literally picked him up, still cross-legged, and carried him offstage! What I would give for video of that, will never ever forget it, SO RANDOM!!!

    So no guitar picks or anything, just the memory of what it was like to be onstage at a sold out Madison Sq. Garden show, dancing around, but when I scared him I felt awful but also it was SO FUNNY to watch!

    Given I've never been a publicly playing musician, I feel lucky to have had one other experience of working a sold out show at Madison Sq. Garden (now in my real adulthood), being asked to grab waters for the band about to go onstage (it was a long night of a lot of bands, it was a special show), and when I brought the tour manager the waters, he juts pointed to the stairs to the stage and said "Put them onstage!" literally just as the band was going onstage. I knew I didn't have time to think or I'd freeze, so I ran up the stairs with the waters, followed by the band, and just as I put the last waters down in front of the lead singer's mic, the band was announced, all the lights went on, and I looked up to see a screaming cheering MSG audience pretty much looking right at me (because the singer was behind me) so I looked up, took a picture in my mind, and ran offstage and almost fainted from mortification that I was up there at all, but it was an unforgettable and cool sight.

    No guitar picks from that night either, but at least the only person I scared was myself.
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Hilarious!!! 

    Yep. When i worked hard(waiting all night) for rail it always felt wild to turn around and face the crowd. Gave me a tiny sense of how a band must feel. 
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    I shocked/scared al jourgeson at a revolting cocks show. Not msg. Just gave him a high five and dove into the crowd. Let the memories flow...all we got and that's a lot.
  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    Loujoe said:
    HOT! Love Roots and Questlove. Cool they gave it to you. Nice job on Willow stuff. nice pick. Foilish? I dont know them.
    Yes, the Willow Smith pick is a very very reflective rainbow foil-pattern.  Her name is on the reverse side in same foil shiny writing but a lot smaller.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    My 'foil' pick. Brian Kehoe  (talented unique guitarist) floor score at Les Claypool's duo de twang show at Mckittrick hotel in nyc feb 2014. Pretty pick was waiting for me on the floor.
  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    edited February 2022
    Now, if we're ever going to talk about guitar picks we have that we WISH were from actual shows with the artist on them... This is my #1 absolute first vote! Plus I have some cool Jimi Hendrix & Jeff Buckley guitar picks (I actually saw Jeff Buckley play 3 times but wasn't the kind of situation you ask for a pick in; so the JB picks I have were made after his passing).

    But Bowie & Hendrix would be my sets of picks I WISH WISH WISH I'd gotten at their actual shows...  This Bowie pick is from a set I got at the incredible "David Bowie Is..." exhibit when it was in NYC at Brooklyn Museum.


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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 42,055
    I have some from Metallica and Kings Of Leon . I have to find them though.

    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    I thought you'd have a stash. Dig them up and stick them with your records or something. My bud had a couple dimebag Darrell picks right from the stage rocking out with him at a small club Pantara's cowboys from hell tour. gave one away and lost his. @Attaway77 want to post yours here please...
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 42,055
    edited February 2022
    eeriepadave said:
    I have some from Metallica and Kings Of Leon . I have to find them though.

    Found ‘em:

    -Scott Ian from Anthrax and Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death Metal had Rip Taylor on his :lol:
    -The two John Pearse ones are from a Kings of Leon show before they got big (like '03 or '04)
    -and the two below them are Metallica
    -Then you have Offspring, cKy, RNDM (Joseph Arthur) and  The Burning Brides
    -The last two I have no idea where they came from/I forget.






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    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Is Bart Scott Ian's from Anthrax? Can you lable what's what. Looks sweet thanks!!
    Scored some RNDM's have green and yellow bubble, missed the pink and blue. Was at that 2016 show and snagged another green from a friend of Joseph A. Asked about the other colors but didnt want to be a total pick dweeb! Great shows.
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 42,055
    edited February 2022
    Loujoe said:
    Is Bart Scott Ian's from Anthrax? Can you lable what's what. Looks sweet thanks!!
    Scored some RNDM's have green and yellow bubble, missed the pink and blue. Was at that 2016 show and snagged another green from a friend of Joseph A. Asked about the other colors but didnt want to be a total pick dweeb! Great shows.

    yeah i labeled them. uploaded them from my phone but had to edit them on my PC. should be good to go now.
    Yes the RNDM pick was from the 2016 show in philly :smile:
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Awesome!! Pentagram maybe slayer, king diamond. I don't know. I'm pretty sure you've been to a few hundred shows. Just think of the most evil ones.
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 42,055
    doing some research, the last two might be from an Anthrax show as well.
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Kind of makes sense. I think the latest Mr Bungle show Scott Ian was using that satanic bunny pick!
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,456
    Dude digs the devil (and bart)
  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    eeriepadave, since we're in the "Other Music" section I didn't say anything about Pearl Jam picks, but that yellow Tortex Dunlop pick? I got one of those from Mike McCready, so any chance that's where you got yours too? Mine looks exactly like that. 
  • Guy DudebroGuy Dudebro Posts: 1,403
    Heres a few randoms from over the years. The Alice pick is from Jerry Cantrell show in LA in Dec. ‘19. He had a rack of Guild acoustics with a pick sitting next to each guitar. I just went down the line casually swiping picks while laughing my ass off. The Metallica is from when they played a secret show billed as The Frayed Ends at the Troubadour (capacity 400)  in West Hollywood in May 1988. I was front row and asked Kirk for a pick, A Spike Cassidy pick from the ‘80s that Lou will appreciate, and a Jeff Angell Staticland pick from the Viper Room show in ‘16. 

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