I got to play the Gene Simmons EB0 a few weeks ago, for me it's about as cool as it gets though the 10k price tag makes me want to go 60s Thunderbird shopping. https://youtu.be/LgrZS-TOQo4?si=LqAbGNV28nrzVryU
I'm impressed that he uses Hercoflex Gray picks.
Kinda like what I use ...
(https://www.brennabor.com/msb_shop/images/product_images/info_images/470_00055+104+234.jpg)
Unfashionable picks for klutzes!
Aren't Dunlop-made Hercoflex 75's identical to Planet Waves Nylflex 1mm?
Aren't yours extra thick? The Hercoflex Grays are 1.01 mm thick (despite the official name, Herco 75).
Jimmy Page uses these too, and as we all know, LZ and KISS are my two favorite bands. :mrgreen:
Thinner picks sound more percussive. But they have to be hard enough without being too hard (metal or mineral).
This kinda belongs here ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGBBX-hQ7-I
he's too tall and large-framed (especially with all that armor) for a short scale, it looks like a toy on him.What if he played guitar?
What if he played guitar?
I can't stand anything thicker than that or thinner.
Now you're beginning to sound like a woman!
A pick stroke has more mechanical precision, but it also sounds deader.
Well-played finger style can sound more "bubbly", all those micro-inaccuracies touching the string(s) with your fingers (if you play with index and middle finger or more that is) create a groove you can't really recreate with a pick. A pick stroke has more mechanical precision, but it also sounds deader.
(https://bassoutpost.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=12451.0;attach=4899;image)
I definitely prefer pickstyle. It irritates me sometimes when some people push things too far and make statements like real bass players don't use a pick. Nevertheless, because of my neck problem I do sometimes have to join the ranks of fingerstyle players. It doesn't much matter one way or another. I don't have Carnegie Hall booked anytime soon anyway.
And that helps a leftie play rightie you say?! What a brilliant technical solution to one of the great scourges of mankind! Progress is something marvelous, isn't it?
There is no better or worse, just a certain way in which your groove will be influenced as you mature as either a finger or a pick player. Sure as a pick player myself I gravitated towards pick players as role models - Glenn Hughes, Roger Glover, Jim Lea, Martin Turner, Chris Squire, Alan Lancaster, Gene Simmons, Dennis Dunaway, Bob Daisley, John McCoy, John Gustafson - they are all pick players. But at the same time I marvel at all the rhythmic nuances Neil Murray, Jack Bruce, Trevor Bolder or Gary Thain play(ed) - and that kind of style is derived from having chosen the finger player path.
I once met a guy who wore metal banjo fingerpicks upside-down (with the pick on the fleshy part of the finger, not the nail side) to get a pick sound when playing fingerstyle, which was more natural for him.
(https://www.deeringbanjos.com/cdn/shop/products/SNF-11-201-1312-3.jpg?v=1621616853&width=540)
That's a pretty cool idea, but I wonder how bad the metal on metal is for the strings.
I'd wager the guess that your right hand (other people: left hand) will long have corroded, fret-indented and skin-gunked the strings through fretting before your left hand (other people: right hand) has worn the string through with your pick. And what about this guy I've never heard about? He's says he's been playing a sixpence coin as a pick for more than 40 years - with skimpy guitar strings scaramouching the fandango!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUedJpofbGE&t=56s
Very very frightening!
Well Tom, what can I say? Haven't you heard the advice that once you meet resistance with the tip it's better to stop? Except in initial ignition scenarios of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H6re3PCP3E
Whoever makes that capo should've used that for marketing purposes.