When I first started taking lessons, there was an old guy who ran the music shop and he told me how he had some old "bass" picks in the rack. Seeing as they were specifically for bass, I bought one of them and it was the giant 1/4" thick felt pick. It looked cool, as it had different colored stuff mixed in, red, black gray, etc. It did sound kind of like finger playing, but it covered the whole front of the bass under the strings with this layer of lint that was a freaking mess. I didn't want to wear out my Guild polish cloth, so that was that.