Pick One!

I was reflecting after that last show we did at the Desert Diamond Casino in Sahuarita how I didn't have to use any extra picks that I always have placed in waiting on a guitar stand specifically for "emergency-drop" situations.  I played the whole show with one pick! (with the exception of course of my customary pick throw during a rousing rendition of Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way" in which said flying plectrum is quickly and ever-so-slight-of-handidly replaced by it's waiting replacement just underneath the guitar pickguard).

Not one pick fumble during the show!  Wow, I was ON! << (not verbose bragging, but a hint of the quasi-humor you could only expect to read more of on this site).

Now on other shows, man, my butterfinger-edness in is full effect!  The plastic is FLYING!

Hmmm, interesting.  One show I'm batting (or "picking") a perfect game and others, a fumbling fool! Whatever the case with a smile, ALWAYS with a smile. That's show biz!

Photo Note: I found this photo of myself with an actual, heavy gauge pick in my mouth in Albany, NY, 2009. A big yearly show ("Alive At 5" I think they call it) they do there was moved under a huge highway underpass due to weather, hence the strange location.

If there are guitar player/performers out there please feel free to share your pick fumbling stories!

Pick One!