The Wayward Pick

Roual Ranes · From: Atlanta, Texas, USA

Every one of us has had a pick get hung and fly off. Usually they are easily found. I had the index finger pick hang on something in my pac-a-seat and fly to somewhere in the darkest regions of outer space. I got my flashlight and searched all around...even unloaded the seat and searched every nook and cranny not to be found. I got a spare that I have bent every way possible but it did not feel right. I put the spare on and low and behold it felt just like the one I just lost. The rest of the night did not got too good, my mind kept wandering back to the loss of my favorite 1st finger pick.
The night had a good ending though after completely packing all but the amp, I reach for the amp and there was my pick on a table my amp was sitting on. It was in plain sight.......bright and shinning with a sparkle.....how in the world did I miss it......??????? How lucky was I to find it........they don't make them anymore.......some things have a happy ending.

Don Hinkle · From: Springfield Illinois, USA

I play lead guitar and pedal steel in a band... and one time during the night, I switch from telecaster to the steel mid song so I can finish up on the steel the last part of the song.

Try having a pick fly off during that moment of passion while hurrying up trying not to miss the end parts of the song... lol..

It only happened once...
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Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

There's something perverse in the way an errant pick will behave - when it happens to me I've learned that, if I can't immediately see it on the floor, the best place to look is right underneath my pedal-bar.... Sad

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Larry Bell · From: Englewood, Florida

I always have an extra set of picks on my guitar. Fingerpicks are color coded and set to go, with a thumbpick or two beside them.

I have shot one across the room from time to time but try not to make a sport out of it. Very Happy

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Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

You know something I've never done? Dropped my bar!!!

But: Having seen Buddy E. do exactly that (at the sound-check for the Everly Brothers' show in Biloxi, MS) and now having watched the very excellent Rick Schmidt do it on that YouTube clip of 'Crazy', I'm starting to wonder if that's where I'm going wrong.

If it's okay for good players to do it, maybe I should practice it myself.... Confused

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Pit Lenz · From: Cologne, Germany

Last year a singer thankfully wanted to give me five after a we backed him up on a nice song.
Stupid enough I joined in and as I swung my hand high to meet his, I saw it coming already: One of my finger picks took off (in SloMo) as we met and went jetting right into the linedancing stampede... Shocked

Last high five with my right hand!

Now I ALWAYS keep a spare set of picks within reach.
I like to notch the lower edge of my middle finger pick with a file, so I can tell them apart and don´t even have to look when putting them on. Quite handy on dim stages. Idea

chris ivey · From: california (deceased)

i'm proud to say that i can drop a bar off a three foot high stage and have it roll clear across a 40 foot dance floor.

usually, dropped fingerpicks can be found totally flattened under my foot.

Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · From: Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)

I've been fortunate that the only time a pick came off while I was playing, it stayed right on my strings and I was able to put it back on quickly and keep playing.

The flip side of the coin is that I have to count myself in with the bar-dropping crowd. I described two of those incidents in the following posts:

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=171472

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=167221
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Twayn Williams · From: Portland, OR

I always carry spare picks on the ends of my fingers called fingernails Mr. Green

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