Thumb pick and Kay Bass

[Pilgrim]

While searching YouTube for great bass riffs, I checked the Spencer Davis group's "I'm a Man".

I had never noticed that this bass line is played on an old Kay hollowbody with a thumb pick!  I've never seen s thumb pick used in rock before.

GREAT recording of the bass, too...



I can't claim this is one of the great bass riffs, but it's absolutely one of the great rock songs.  Turn it up loud and EVERYONE moves.

[nofi]

where have you been? i used one for about five minutes.

[Pilgrim]

where have you been? i used one for about five minutes.

I musta been in the can unloading a beer. 

[Dave W]

Bassists using thumb picks were never that common in the 60s but you did see them used in rock and other music. More common with English bands.

[rahock]

I forget how old Stevie Winwood was when he did  I'm a Man but I think he was 17 or 18 when he did Gimme Some Lovin'. WOW.....not bad huh .
Today we have Miley Cyrus at roughly the same age and setting the world on fire. Things are somehow a bit different
Rick