I just geeked out on picks...

[Sascha Franck]

That’s a rather odd definition of hippie from someone way to young for anything happening in the late 60s.

Hippies existed long after the late 60s.

 

[tekbow]

Grabbed these last week to give a shot-

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There’s a Petrucci pick under the middle one for a reference point.

The biggest reason was because i got sick of dropping the Petrucci picks on a black carpet or mousepad and not being able to see the damn things. These glow with all the dumb lights in my studio and living room!

I’m digging them enough to push through the adjustment period.

I've got the blue Precision Picks, and the polycarbonate ones. I prefer the nylon surprisingly. I like them as much as the pickboy carbon nylons and ultem. Still getting to grips with the metacarbonate.

Precision nylon formulation seems harder wearing than dunlops

 

[GuitarGorilla]

Yeah. Customers also dig eating excessive amounts of meat, customers dig traveling on cruise ships and what not. I don't.
Besides, there's things that I can at least understand (even with meat consumption and cruise ships). A pick box lighting up to display a mere two picks as if they were precious jewelry is not even close to the vicinty of the ballpark of what I could understand.

The difference between "precious" jewelry and a guitar pick is nothing more than culture. My wedding ring goes in a dish on the shoe rack next to my front door and my nicer picks get fancy ring cases. That's my culture. I'd even argue that guitar picks have more innate value than jewelry because they can potentially objectively do a task better than cheap ones, whereas fancy jewelry only has a value because we culturally assign it a value.

 

[Dave Lewis]

The word "hippy" or "hippie" was not coined by a single person, but rather evolved from the earlier slang term "
hipster" in the mid-1960s to describe the Beat Generation who moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon is credited with the first contemporary use of the term "hippie" in print in September 1965, and his work was followed by the wide popularization of the term by Herb Caen in his San Francisco Chronicle column later that year.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Yeah. Customers also dig eating excessive amounts of meat, customers dig traveling on cruise ships and what not. I don't.
Besides, there's things that I can at least understand (even with meat consumption and cruise ships). A pick box lighting up to display a mere two picks as if they were precious jewelry is not even close to the vicinty of the ballpark of what I could understand.

There are a gazillion things I can’t relate to, but it ain’t my biz what someone else digs.
Sure I’ll have an opinion, but getting worked up over stuff is starting to become less and less important the more ancient I get.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Hippies existed long after the late 60s.

Not sure I’d accept Euro vegan environmentalist as Hippie without the communal living disenfranchised from the mainstream.

And that’s before I even look at the Dole in Germany.
Hard to be counterculture by either “working for the man” or getting “govt handouts”.

Just a personal pet peeve. And I have dreads and get triggered when some one calls me hippie.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Not sure I’d accept Euro vegan environmentalist as Hippie without the communal living disenfranchised from the mainstream.

Well, I'm sure you got the idea of "I'm kinda like an old hippie", though. I used "kinda" intentionally. I could've said I'm "linksgrünversifft" as well, but as that might've triggered a political debate (even if this isn't exactly about politics IMO, taking care as much of your environment as possible should be a duty for each and every human), I've rather chosen "hippie".

 

[Sascha Franck]

The word "hippy" or "hippie" was not coined by a single person, but rather evolved from the earlier slang term "
hipster" in the mid-1960s to describe the Beat Generation who moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon is credited with the first contemporary use of the term "hippie" in print in September 1965, and his work was followed by the wide popularization of the term by Herb Caen in his San Francisco Chronicle column later that year.

Thanks for that "lesson", but I am perfectly aware of the origin of the term.

 

[DISTORT6]

 

[Sascha Franck]

Thanks to a fine gentleman of this very forum named @tekbow, I'm now sitting here with quite some picks to fool around with - quite interesting findings, that I may write a bit more about later on. Who would've thought...

Whatever, so far I really got into the JP JIIIs, so I played the last two days' gigs with them.By now the funky rhythm stuff works just fine, too. Goes to show how much we can adapt to a lot of things.
Anyhow, they really wear off quickly when doing a lot of strumming, which really sucks as it takes away what I think of as being their main quality, namely the great shape of the tip.
Any other contenders offering a very similar shape and tip? Any larger and I possibly don't like them anymore, smaller would be ok.

 

[Dave Lewis]

I don’t know if you have watched this video yet?
Pete has half a nail emery board stuck on all his modified Clapton Fender Strats .
So he can roughup his picks

 

[Chocol8]

Funny, I like mine as smooth as possible.