Songs played with a pick

[Chaser001]

Recently, I came across a statement in which someone said songs played pickstyle weren't even worth listening to.  I found some evidence to the contrary.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR0SMNeik7w&feature=fvst





Supposedly, John Lennon didn't even like this song.  So maybe he would agree with the pick critic on this one.  However, I don't.  The song is sheer genius as far as I'm concerned.  

[Dave W]

Saying that songs played with a pick aren't worth listening to says more about that listener than the songs. All a matter of taste. Maybe the person making the statement just doesn't like popular music.

Let's see, for starters, 99% of the Beatles and Wyman-era Stones catalog, 100% of Joe Osborn and Carol Kaye's studio work, Rick Danko, Mel Schacher, Chris Squire, almost all early Entwistle... and that's just off the top of my head.

BTW, I thought Felix Pappalardi played with his thumb.

[Basvarken]

What a silly statement!
Some more "evidence":

Thin Lizzy, AC/DC

[Chaser001]

This is what I was looking at.  It looked like pickstyle but he could be playing with a thumb.  Sometimes I can't always tell.  Sting, for instance, used to play pickstyle but now has a technique which uses the thumb a lot. 

[TBird1958]

Watch close @ about 1:47, Felix takes his pick out of his mouth - I often hold my pick in my teeth if we have one song or part that needs fingerstyle.

[rahock]

How about Monk Montgomery? IMO you would be pretty hard pressed to find a better bass player any where/any time and he was a pick guy.
Rick

[uwe]

You can be excellent with both and you can play crap with both.

[Freuds_Cat]

You can be excellent with both and you can play crap with both.

+1


As a mainly fingers player I've spent half my life trying to get the great sound and playing style of  my favorite bassists, the majority of whom are pick players. Small minded statement to say the least

[Denis]

If I remember correctly, Roger Waters played with a pick most of the time as well. On the early stuff through "Umma Gumma" he did anyway.

[godofthunder]

Recently, I came across a statement in which someone said songs played pickstyle weren't even worth listening to.  I found some evidence to the contrary.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR0SMNeik7w&feature=fvst





Supposedly, John Lennon didn't even like this song.  So maybe he would agree with the pick critic on this one.  However, I don't.  The song is sheer genius as far as I'm concerned.  

Whoever said this is a stone cold idiot.

[Dave W]

Watch close @ about 1:47, Felix takes his pick out of his mouth - I often hold my pick in my teeth if we have one song or part that needs fingerstyle.

Sure enough, he does. Maybe he did on the studio recording too. I do recall him playing with his thumb in some videos, but I'm not going to go looking now.

How about Monk Montgomery? IMO you would be pretty hard pressed to find a better bass player any where/any time and he was a pick guy.
Rick

In an interview he said he originally played with his thumb and later changed to a thumbpick because he had lost feeling in his thumb.

By the standard of whoever made the original comment about pick songs, I guess that means his songs were no longer worth listening to once he switched. 

[Aussie Mark]

That Wyman guy does alright with a pick too.

[Droombolus]

My fave in exiting pick playing will be Graham Maby ...... Check out Someone Up There on Joe Jackson's Beat Crazy album, it's one of those parts I could play fingerstyle on a good day. Most days I fail miserably ...... 

[Barklessdog]

That Wyman guy does alright with a pick too.

As does Chris Squire & Andy West

[Dave W]

I did mention Wyman and Squire in my first post.