Your pick …
The 5 picks we want to send out in this new giveaway have all helped either shape some of our recordings or skills within these past few months.
Maybe we used them to record one of the guitar tracks on our “WHY?” album, maybe we’ve practised a ton of arpeggios with them, maybe we’ve been non-stop fidgeting with them during a particularly difficult song-writing session.
For this giveaway we will pick 5 different plectrums that we know for a fact have been played in the last few months, sign them and put them in a pretty little pouch ready to be shipped to their new 5 owners!
Every winner can also either pick a CD of their choice or a pick tin containing a set of all the MLT themed guitar picks that we used to sell in our online store. We have about 7 of the originally 9 designs left and will put them all in a little round tin.
Here is how you enter the giveaway:
Tell us in the comments below, where do guitar picks disappear to?
If you are a guitarist you will know the pain. Dropped a pick in the middle of playing a song? … the ground has now swallowed it. Keep a pick on your desk? … as soon as you grab your guitar the pick has vanished. Bought a whole bag of your favourite guitar picks? … a month later you’re only left with the crappy bendy ones.
It is a mystery that needs solving.
Every answer/comment will automatically enter the prize draw, and it would make things easier if you could also leave a note with your comment saying whether you’d like a free CD (+which one) OR a pick tin alongside your signed pick IF you win.
There will be 5 winners!
That’s it! Have fun, good luck and stay groovy ♥
Mona & Lisa
I was just on the floor the other day searching for my favorite strumming pick. I never drop a pick (plectrum) into the hole of my guitars so, it’s not there. Sometimes I find two or so under my computer keyboard, but most of the one’s I can’t find at home must be taken overnight by the notorious “Guitar Pick Fairy Thief“. Dropped picks while playing on stage may leave the stage on the bottom of someone’s shoe. At least that’s my guess.
I am a new member so if I win, I would like the pick tin. I can always buy another CD!
Love you girls. You are the best🎸🎤💖, Phil🙏
The guitar pick is placed on the desk, then email or something is checked on the computer. The pick then sticks to the forearm and falls off after standing up. It lands on the floor where the cats play hockey with it and it ends up under the refrigerator. If I win I would like a free cd. Either live at the cavern club, or why.
Guitar picks just vanish into cyberspace
Thieves. There’s a gang of guitar pick thieves operating in our area. I get hit by them regularly. They break into the house, open up the guitar cases (plural) remove the picks, then restore everything exactly as they found it and leave, taking nothing else. Annoying and, frankly, less than flattering to my Gibson acoustics… but that seems to be their modus operandi. They’ve struck my next door neighbor as well.
Should I be so favored, I’d love a tin as I already own every one of your cds. 🙂
Guitar picks completely vanish into a tin box located in another dimension. An area we call The Twilight Zone.
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Have you ruled out SPC (spontaneous plectrum combustion)?
If I were you, I’d check Trudy’s nest. Perhaps she has a bit of magpie DNA in her genes. Good chance several went south with Neve, too. We used to blame mysteriously disappearing tools at work on “Budweiser Elves” because we often found empty Bud cans strewn about the shop when our tools disappeared. I doubt you have those, but maybe a few “Ottakringer Elves” followed you from Austria. (websearch result; I didn’t know any Austrian beer brands).
Another copy of your “MonaLisa and Band” CDs would be awesome! Hearing the budding potential in you both and experiencing PapaRudi’s many talents and Michaela’s saxophone and backing percussion and vocals is heartwarming, to say the least!
For whatever reason, my cats have a habit of stealing mine whenever i set them down.
I’ll occasionally find them weeks later in some strange spot in the house or outside in the yard.
Kenny Rogers once had a song “Planet Texas.” Perhaps the alien Texans took them as they took Kenny.
In the ninth circle of Hell there is a demon who, when he was alive, was a guitarist. He was a very messy individual, forever littering the venues he played with pizza boxes, beer cans, broken strings, and of course dropped picks.
In Hell, his punishment is to travel the Earth in ghostly form, collecting dropped guitar picks. Each week he must present his haul to Satan. If he hasn’t collected enough picks, Bad Things Happen to him – so he is very diligent in collecting picks. Legend has it that he even collects picks that have not even been dropped.
So, if the pick that you put down between songs has vanished for no apparent reason, it’s likely that it is now part of the demon’s quota for the week…!!
I truly wish someone would tell me where the picks go. I don’t want to think about how many I’ve lost over the years. Although I do know where one is. It is in my old electric acoustic 12 string. It rattles around every so often until it wedges in the electronics, that is until it gets loose again. The guitar has F holes so I can’t reach in and get the pick out and no matter how much shaking I do it won’t fall out.
My favorite is when I bought 20 to 25 picks, I don’t remember the exact number. Well, I put the bag on the table next to the mixer. Later when I went to practice the picks were gone. I found the bag on the floor but no picks. You can imagine I was a bit upset. A couple days later I found several of the picks in the next room, my little library. They were scattered on the floor and bottom shelves of several bookcases. I think my cats had fun with that bag of picks.
Type at you later…
I have no experience with guitar picks so I read what all the comments say about them disappearing and reappearing. After giving this some (serious?) thought have come to the conclusion that they have to be inter-dimensional and phase shift to other dimensions. That is the only explanation that covers the phenomenon of them being exactly where you left them when they weren’t there before or how they are where you never left them as they were moved in that other dimension. The Twilight Zone anyone? lol.
Another California Dreaming EP would be nice.
Put temporarily in mouth while distracted and accidentally swallow!
It doesn’t matter where I sit: I find them all underneath my sofa…mice?
A tin would be wonderful!
They sneak away for the meetings of their secret society. Boy, the stories they can share!
A pick tin would be lovely 🙂
Don’t look for them. Sooner or later, they will turn up in the strangest places. A pic tin would be Awesome!
I think tooth fairies in training are the culprits.
Fingers crossed for a pick tin.
Find all the odd socks, missing pen tops, and Tupperware lids… and the picks will be there!!
A pick tin would be ace!!
In the hands of Mona and Lisa, guitar picks become magical. They can only disappear to the Magic Capital of the World for magical and musical safekeeping. 😉 A tin of magical MLT guitar picks would be awesome!
Grab a guitar and a pick, pull up a chair to the desk, put the pick down for a sec to adjust the computer/mixer.. reach for the pick… it’s gone! Nowhere to be found. Get another pick, and the first one is back, right where it wasn’t a second ago. WT!??
I believe Picks can pick their dimension at any moment, as long as you are not holding them. The moment you let go of them they go on an interdimensional trip.
I had 2 Paul McCartney picks, very special, one has gone tripping and hasn’t come back. The other one is now in a plexiglass case, but not any plexiglass, a dimension shielding plexiglass, so I still have it. If I am fortunate enough to win a signed MLT one, it’ll make a perfect companion to it. PMC & MLT.
Thank you!
What a fantastic prize, and knowing that you used these guitar picks in your wonderful musical work.. Where do the pick go when we can’t find them?.. it really is a mystery.. I think there must be elves specialized in making the guitar picks disappear. well, but if I’m one of the winners of these “bits” of MLT magic I’d like another set of guitar picks, the elves are here too. Thanks dear girls and Stay groovy.
My picks only disappear while they’re wanted. Then after I get done playing they come back out of hiding and say 😛 ha ha. I think they were hiding in Narnia or somewhere. I would love a pick tin! Perhaps they would have a harder time escaping from there.
Funny you should say that… I asked mine where they’d been, and they answered “Narnia business…”!
ROFL
Every house has their own Teleport Black Hole, it transfers keys from one place to another, maybe a sock. It also grabs tools, you put something down and suddenly it has gone and appears in the most unlikely place, sometimes days after, that is what happens to your picks.
If I win, I would like a tin of picks please, I have an anti teleport Black Hole area where I keep all my MLT CD’s and goodies
I hope you enjoy Scotland
Lost a pick while I am sitting in my wheelchair and playing guitar. It works! Found it after leaving the wheelchair laying on the battery case1
Well I think I lost a pick and then found it between Mona’s lips…in one of the videos Mona actually found it ..it was in the beginning of the song…one of the Cavern Club videos…..then I found another in a Duo Session song in which Mona had it setting on her leg while she was finger picking….Lisa found one on the floor in one of the band live performances….I know I’ve lost some into the hole on my acoustic…sometimes they turn up in clothes dryer…..that pick tin would be nice …thank you…..I’ll be looking for some great pics…oops no pun intended….of your Scotland adventures.❤️🧡
Guitar picks don’t disappear, they just strum away. If you happen to pick me, I would like the pick tin please.
They almost certainly end up with all those ball point pens that I buy but can never find. If chosen (and my application doesn’t end up with all those lost picks, pens, socks etc) I would like a CD of the Duo Sessions please.
I mainly played my acoustic guitar for my developmentally disabled students. Any picks that disappeared could usually be found in their pockets! One girl was so obsessed with them and with my guitar that we had to construct her a cardboard guitar to strum on. Anything more fragile would have been destroyed in the excitement of it all. I my name is chosen, I would like the pick tin please.
I only have one guitar pick (gift from Mona and Lisa), when I read this I immediately looked it up, I couldn’t remember where I kept it. I found it in the ORANGE CD packaging.
The mystical being hasn’t come here yet to hide it, but my memory was about to.
For the missing guitar picks, check with your sister or Trudy.
If you pick me, please send me a Due Sessions CD.
I hope you enjoy Scotland, I know I did a long time ago. Maybe the weather is worse then in Liverpool or the Netherlands, but comming from a flat country I liked the mountains/hills. Also we found the Scotisch people very hospitable (in an Irish pub).
I find guitar picks between couch cushions, and often in different pairs of pants where they hide deep in among coins.
I’d like the pick tin – I play my best with MonaLisa picks!
It would be somewhere in my bedroom. Probably on the night table next to my bed.
I think my picks hide themselves because they don’t like the ‘noise’ I make on my guitar! Always replacing them. Duo Sessions please.
We practice a lot in our warehouse, they are found in carpet rolls, tile boxes and just about anything you would not expect. I had a customer call me and ask me about a
remnant of sheet vinyl that had a pick in it. I told her to just keep it, someday it may be worth money. LOL. I have noticed the both of you will put your picks on you knee or a table, first time seeing that. I always carry 20 or more picks in my pocket, you never know. Stay Groovy!!!!!
Once the pick leaves my hand it vanishes into another dimension–the out of reach zone.
Your picks haven’t disappeared, they’ve simply taken some time to find themselves 😉 Once they realize that their true meaning in life is to be a pick, they will magically reappear when you’re not looking for them.
If selected, I’d love a copy of “Duo Sessions” to share with friends. Thx!
Do you not find any in your shoe when you take them off at night? They are certainly small enough. Hope you enjoy your trip to Scotland. Heading there myself next week for a few days. If you are up around Inverness or John O’ Groats I’ll give you a wave. JIm
You can normally find guitar picks along with those missing odd socks that disappeared while in the washing machine or tumble dryer. Both these items are right next to the missing pieces of self assembly products
I buy packs of 100 assorted picks in various sizes and thicknesses which seem to evaporate. I have an 18 year old grandson who seems to lose a couple of picks every time he picks up a guitar, a bit like his many missing socks where do they go. Until recently I still had the original pick that came with a new guitar I bought in 1970, not a great pick and I rarely used it but always kept it with the guitar but apparently Mr Nobody’s taken or lost it. Love your version of Sixto’s song.
Cheers from Australia
I play classical guitar, so I don’t use picks to play my guitar, but I would like to be the lucky winner of one of those picks used by Mona & Lisa and the CD Orange, the only one I don’t have
Jimi Hendrix is using all the lost picks when he plays in Club 27.
There are a few places I lost mine. Obviously, in the body of the guitar, but everyone has done that shake before. I often find them under the wall of the gadget box in my case. I’ve found many in the watch pocket of my jeans or deep in my wallet. But the worst place to ‘find’ them back in the day was when my high-school friend would hide mine on the top of the light bulb of the lamp in my room. In a few minutes, a ‘pfft’ and a puff of smoke, and another pick bites the dust.
In this part of the world we have a species of rodent known as a pack rat (rat a queue touffue neo toma cinerea). Usually they live at higher elevations, which, as a former fire lookout, is how i came to know them. Pack rats are attracted to shiny, brightly coloured bits of things like keys, coins, bottle tops, ribbons etc., and quite likely guitar picks They take these wee treasures back to their nest, and so, as you might expect, things go missing.
Way back in 1969, Pink Floyd released a album titled Ummagumma, which featured a track (it’s not a song), called Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict. Picts, as you may know were an olde British tribe, sometimes confused with another olde British tribe, the Scots.
In any case, it may be that the track title was misspelled, and should have read Pick rather than Pict, which makes perfect sense if you’re either Roger Waters, or David Gilmour, guitarists for Pink Floyd.
As I am not a guitarist, I would be very pleased to receive a cd. Orange, or WHY? would be just fine.
We also have pack rats here. The Twins’ orange picks would definitely catch their eye. Here they line their nests with thorns and cactus pieces to ward off those of use who dare try to retrieve something. I had to live-trap one that started a nest in our woodpile. Instead of cheese or crackers or the like, I used an orange Gatorade top, which worked like a charm. After I caught it, I read up to see how far away in the desert to take it – they said if you move it less than 5 miles it might come back. Fortunately, we have a lot of public land here and it got a new home.
The only person who could answer this was a guy named Janitor Joe.
But he disappeared, so as they say on Scooby Do, “it is a mystery “.
If it is ghosts, aliens, elves or trolls, my house is full of them. I think it is their home office.
If I win, I’d like the picks.
Howdy,
I guess I was pretty lucky as I rarely dropped nor lost guitar picks. When I first started playing an acoustic guitar while sitting down, I would sometimes drop the pick into the hole. Then it was a challenge to get it out, but I got good at it lol.
Eventually I started using thumb picks, especially when I played the bass guitar. Those are harder to drop. If my pants had a hip pocket (I called it a “secret pocket”) I would keep a few picks in there.
I’m sure you have seen where a lot of guitarists have extra picks sticking out of their mic stands, so it’s easy to grab another one.
It is a mystery where the lost picks disappear to. Maybe a “pick fairy” scoops them up and collects them.
If my name is chosen, a tin with picks would be wonderful, Thank you.
Enjoy your weekend.
Take Care,
Bobby S.
My guitar picks disappear all the time and somehow reappear months and years later. Sometimes down the back of a couch, on the floor only to be hoovered up. They may resurface in the most obscure place, in the washing machine and even in the car! I always keep some in my wallet, my pockets, on the music stand and strategically placed around the house! If selected in the draw, i would like a pick tin along with signed pick. Thanks
They go to the same place your socks go when you put them in the dryer which is also the same place your plastic ware lids go. If you find them…you’ll find a pile of picks. If I win I would like the pick tin (I have all your CDs) which might keep me from losing more pics…Enjoy your trip to Scotland, it’s on my bucket list…
It would seem that they just hide in plain sight, as they always turn where you have already looked several times! If I get lucky and win, I would love the tin of picks. Have a great time in Scotland. x
If you’re playing acoustic then inevitably the pick will drop into the soundhole and you then proceed to shake the guitar around upside down over your head while praying to whatever god pleases you.
If you like Fender picks as I do, they are deliberately designed to instantly vanish when they hit the floor. Where they go I do not know. Their camouflage designs are marketing genius.
Pick tin please. And I promise not to lose those ones 🙂
My dog has a habit of taking and hiding them around the house.
Tin of Picks please
Drop them on the floor then they bounce away…
Orange
There was an old Twilight Zone episode about a little girl who managed to slip into another dimension when a portal opened up in her bedroom wall. They didn’t get into it, but I’m sure if they had looked they would’ve found lots of guitar picks in there, along with everyone’s missing socks. I think my TV remote falls in there, too, sometimes, but it manages to make its way back out and between the sofa cushions.
I think the tin of picks would be a great thing to have. It would be just the motivation I need to try to find my lost guitar.
I remember that episode! They asked their neighbor for help finding her because he was a physicist. Physicists don’t often get invited over to solve missing person mysteries.
You just reminded me of one of the funniest jokes ever on Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live: “Eugene Polley, inventor of the TV remote control, died this week at the age of 96. In accordance with his wishes, he will be buried between two enormous sofa cushions.”
David, sounds like you may have hit on an idea for a new TV show about a physicist who toils away teaching mostly disinterested college freshmen by day and by night uses his special skill set to solve crimes and other mysteries. One episode could revolve around the kidnapping of the neighbor’s cat, held hostage in a box with a beaker of poison and a piece of radioactive cesium. Is the cat alive? Is it dead? It’s a quantum mystery for The Physicist.
Yeah, like an Indiana Jones thing! It might even boost enrollment in physics classes.
Next week: the physicist must call upon all of his training in Newtonian gravitational theory to solve a triple murder mystery in “The Three-Body Problem.”
Well I’d certainly tune in to see him solve that one!
Sometimes I think we’re in the twilight zone now!
Ive lost so many things in my life but guitar picks seem to have a special magical power to vanish. If you pay close attention to magicians you can eventually figure out how the illusion was performed. In my case, I just needed to do a better job of housekeeping. I decided to clean my sofa really good and along with a lot of loose change, I found a lot of my lost guitar picks!!! If I get one of the used ones, it’s going to be attached to one of my MLT posters on the wall!!
I think picks wind up in the same place mysterious place as the single lost sock. No one knows where this place is or how they end up there. Its just one of those things we will never know.
I would love the pick tin.
I don’t play guitar, but I believe they go to guitar pick heaven providing of course they led a good life. I would love to have the tin of picks.
I don’t know but I’m sure there are missing socks there.
My picks always fall and bounce under one of the amp stands. I keep an extra pick on in between strings on tuning bars. I also keep a MLT pick in my bill fold. If I win one of the prizes, I would prefer a ‘Tin of Picks’.
Thanks Twins,
Keeping it Groovy on the prairie.
This reminds me of looking for my eyeglasses. “Honey, have you seen my glasses?” “Yes, they are on top of your head.”
MLT picks are laundry proof. The Orange one has been through a few cycles. Mine also get lost in my case, after sifting through it a hundred times. Usually find it on the hundred and first search.
The most common way to keep track of one is in my teeth. Haven’t swallowed one yet. I hope I didn’t just jinx myself.
A tin of picks sounds awesome!
JP
I remember, many years ago, our clothes dryer died
As I tore it into pieces to repair it, I found MANY guitar picks throughout *among other things)
I had a theory at one time that house gnomes had stolen them
Perhaps they hid them in the dryer as step 1 to prophet?
(House gnomes are them little bastards, that when you set an item down, and look again, they have stolen it. After you search for the item for hours, sometimes they will put it back where they got it from, to make you think you care going crazy)
well, what a puzzle ????, as I am just starting to learn guitar, that question has popped up every time my tutor turns up and we both look at each other with outstretched hands and a sigh of disbelief !!! , our theory is – “The Guitar Did It” or rather “IT ATE THEM” !!!! ???? lol. – ive been dabbling with this new AI image generation and came up with this, I also had a look at the Music Bots, but don’t worry girls, it will never match your musical talent, still a long, long way to go before the Music AI will be anywhere near your standards and artistic creativity, Picture posted into my profile Photos’ – hope you can see it ??? ps- if i win could you please put them into a nice safe tin so I can keep them safe from my hungry cigar box guitar 🙂 ? does this count as a competition entry ??
Sorry I don’t play a guitar but I would like the tin of picks. Thanks
My picks go with the sock fairy who’s into a bit of acoustic guitar as the missing items seem to go missing together! “Pick” me and I’ll have any cd cos they are all great! Thanks!
The picks go to pick heaven to where all the greatest have gone to. I would like the pick tin please seeing I have all the CD’s.Thank you.
Scotland is lovely. Weather worse than us though! Please no bagpipes on future MLT Duo Sessions…… 😀
I think there is a little pick fairy that carries it away the moment you turn your head either that or the big hoover monster gets them 😁 enjoy your Scotland break its a beautiful country and if I’m fortunate to get picked (excuse the pun😊) I would choose a CD and as they’re all great it would be any CD you wish to choose.
Hello Ladies,
Have a great trip to Scotland! Enjoy all the sights and Bagpipe sounds.
Perhaps it will inspire a few songs.
As for your question, where do all the picks go?
In a pocket that got washed, in a junk drawer, in a shoe, behind Rudi’s new Organ, in the vacuum cleaner, Trudy and Neve got some to use themselves.
As for the prize, I would like to do something a bit unusual if you would be so kind. I read William Saunders story and felt so bad that he lost so much. I would like to give the signed pick to William along with a pick tin and picks inside. It really would make my heart glad and I know he would be over the moon.
Thanks Ladies and have a wonderful time.
Best
Rick Ross
WOW! So many places mentioned where they have gone.
Mine turned to ashes when our house burned to the ground on December 30, 2021.
Looking forward to new pictures from your trip.
Like so many others, I would like the pick tin.
There in ‘Pick Heaven ‘
If I’m fortunate to win I’d like the pick tin.
Have a great time on your trip.
I’m off to see some family members run in a marathon.
Hey Mona and Lisa! I’m not certain where my picks disappear to but I suspect that they are with my pens and note pads and reading glasses! I finally decided to just have an office supply organizer type thing with multiple slots for extra picks, capos, turners and other guitar paraphernalia. I have all of your cds already so, if my name is drawn, I would love to have the pick tin containing the MLT themed picks. Thanks for the neat contest!
Since I try to keep my picks out of my pockets, the sock-eating monster in the dryer doesn’t get them. However, my house seems to (this is no lie) have some kind of poltergeist. We’ve named him Herbert… If something goes missing, it’s almost a guarantee Herbert hid it somewhere.
Everyone else seems to have gotten the “real” places picks disappear to. I have a cat, so if it falls to the floor, she and the dog are definitely doing something weird with it.
As I am a collector of stuff, a tin of your picks would be awesome!
I have no idea where they go. That’s why they are lost.
I loved Catch the Wind thank you.
Orange CD and pick would be great.
Jimmie
In the hole, behind the amp, in the pockets of donated clothes, lost in my wallet…I have several tins/jars I store picks in. Years ago while I was in the Music Business I aquired hundreds of picks which I still have to this day. I once recovered a pick of Robin Trower (original guitar player for Procol Harum) which he threw out to the audience. Lost that one years ago. Enjoy your trip, my wife and I were in Edinburgh for 8 days last spring. Wonderful city! There’s some great hiking in that city. If I get to pick…I’ll take the picks.
Trouser cuffs, down the back of the sofa, in the dog’s bed, on the ground outside the front door or by the car/motorcycle or in the lining of a jacket into whose pockets you absolutely never put plectrums. Last but most annoying is when one drops inside your acoustic guitar, from where it refuses to be shaken out. Or maybe it will pop out, bounce off the strings and disappear into one of the aforementioned places. The little tinker.
If I leave my picks sitting on the table, end table, roll top desk, etc., the five cats that we are privileged to live with play hockey with them all through the house. It’s always best to keep a ziplock bag with 20-50 picks in the guitar cases just in case! Of course, my collective models are kept in secure areas of the house. I have a few of yours that are protected!!
Well, seeing my 2nd oldest brother is a self taught guitarist more or less ( did have some private lessons just to better his skills a tad but it overall came natural for himto play, loves his blues music )… I’m going to say the ghosts from our family and others from the 2 cemeteries that we lived across from in my childhood home, helped themselves to stealing, or it was the mice that took them, our demented cat hid them, the vacuum monster sucked them up, hole in jean pockets which then prompted the picks to quietly vacate the pockets, unbeknownst to my brother until he went to fetch in his pockets… got kidnapped within guitar case, got lost in the car, someone else’s house, fell into the guitar hole, never to come out again…lol….into the abyss of laundry, and perhaps melted in dryer, went down the laundry rinse tub drain onto a new journey into well, then into sewers…. so many options….lol
If my name gets chosen, I’d love to have the tin of the guitar picks for the prize choice …
Thankyou for this Guitar Pick of a Giveaway…
Aye but enjoy ye yonder travels to Bonny Ol’ Scotland , travel safe, enjoy, scout new video locations, enjoy some Rejuvenation relaxation , fun, adventures … 🏴🤘🎸
It is a little known fact that guitar picks are made out of material that dissolves into nothing about 15-20 days after purchase. This is clear stated in Hogwarts: a history. They were actually invented by a wizard. This is one of the many great wizard jokes on human (please see socks as.mentioned. One is always set to dissolve in the washer).
You picks would be a great addition to my collection, which I have framed! I hope I win! Have a great time.in Scotland
I believe there is a little pick fairy that you can’t see in daylight. The little fairy steals the picks when you are not looking and hides them down the back of the sofa. Only by using a special kind of love light at night time will you see the fairy – if spotted, and as if by magic, all the picks will re-appear. Good plan to visit Scotland however weather not looking very good for this week with some rain. Of course there will still be sunny areas so hope you find them, but it’s been unseasonably cool this May so far! Hope you are coming my way …. If I win I’d like the Duo Sessions CD (here’s hoping!!).
True story: Back in the day in a band on stage, with no backup picks, because I never broke them or lost them, I dropped my pick. Managed to finish the song we were playing and then told the lead singer I dropped it. He immediately puts the mike to his mouth and says, “Lights, we have to have lights. Our lead guitar player dropped his pick! Not embarrassing at all!
The guitar picks were taken by the same little creature that takes dropped contact lenses, earrings, expensive prescription pills, and socks from the dryer. But what creature? Perhaps a gnome came with you from Austria? Or perhaps a leprechaun has emigrated from Ireland? But then you are heading to Scotland … Aye lassies, ‘tweer a faerie.
If I win, the pick tin would be nice.
Are you going to pick up some pipes in Scotland?
Finally, looking at this picture of you two, is there any doubt that you are identical twins?
I have dropped them inside the guitar hole before. They can be a bugger to shake out too. I Have also found them in the bathroom which is funny because I never play guitar in the bathroom. I think a pick tin from the MLTs would be a cool prize and keepsake. Have a safe and fun trip to Scotland.
Also, while I’m in the Club I have to listen to Catch The Wind. Thanks again for that one.
Under stage floor covering working its way off stage somewhere and disappearing ,(until hundreds of years later dug up by future archaeologist) , for ever.
Pick tin please
Well, if you are travelling around Scotland, then the obvious answer would be in Loch Ness. Not only does it contain more water than all the lakes of England and Wales combined it also contains more guitar picks than all the other bodies of water in the British Isles. I will take the tin of guitar picks. Cheers!
I swear, there is a “plectrum” poltergeist out and about. Cagey little rascal that has a taste for things like socks (somebody mentioned already) and other notables like 10mm sockets. My practice room has a thick shag area rug on the floor that has claimed several of my strumming devices, but I do manage to recover most of them with a period of time spent on my hands and knees combing the floor. The hardest ones to find are the smaller sizes (my favorite electric picks) as they tend to bury themselves within the fuzzy tufts of the rug. But I am a believer that the have a free spirit or maybe even legs that allow them to wander off. We have two cats in the house, and everybody knows how they like to find amusement in little things; but they are “verboten” in my guitar cave!
The most distressing was the loss of my absolute favorite pick that somehow just vanished prior to my developing my personal “cave” in the basement to store and play all my instruments and gear. It’s funny how you get attached to something so small and seemingly insignificant. It was just a regular size, nothing special really. Kind of a tortoiseshell pattern; not unlike the popular Fender offerings. Medium gauge and flex, but it was my go to for my acoustics, it just fit me. Sort of how you get used to a particular brand/set of stings. When I went to Calgary last summer on a motorcycle race vacation, I had set up a photo session with my dear friend Anett who runs AMTOPMPHOTOGRAPHY. When we got to the shoot location and I opened my case my trusty plectrum was not attached to the neck in the strings…I was frantic…crushed actually. Of course, every player has several picks stored in various nooks and crannies, but my favorite was gone, and that day in the solitude of the Bow River valley, I think my strains of Shame On The Moon had a more melancholy lilt than normal. I have never found another pick like it, probably never will.
I use my “Orange” MLT picks playing my acoustics (6 and 12 string) almost 100% of the time now and I like them very much. They have become my “go to’s” for my acoustic guitars. I suppose I could get used to some signed picks, but I’d probably be scared to wear the signatures of my favorite Twins off of them…but what a treat they would be!
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Janitor Joe sweeps ‘em up and puts ‘em in a pick tin
While I used to get all upset when I sit down to practice and my favorite pick is missing, I [do] try to put them in one central location now, and consistently put it back there each time. In a dish or anywhere near the amp is always a good place 🙂 When that fails they are sometimes found in between pages of a previous song book I was working on lol And when you drop a pick – it could easily roll or flip to the other side of the room, under the bed, or down the vent, through the mysterious forces of nature! When I ordered the Why/Orange CDs they included a beautiful orange pick – so I KNOW how good these Mona Lisa guitar pics are!! It’s my favorite pick now, and I would *LOVE* to get a tin with more of them. 🤩 They will be used only for the special songs… Or maybe just put them in my glass Mona Lisa cabinet, where I keep all my MLT collectables?
Wow, what a special prize this will be, guitar pick used in the creation of your music and work in your studio, and love the presentation it will have with it’s own pouch, such style! Maybe this will be the catalyst for me to switch over from piano to guitar if I get one of these picks! 😀 I snatched up one of your beautiful Orange guitar straps too, so it will be perfection to practice the very pick you used for one of your beautiful creations.
I have to say I have acquired a few dozens of your gorgeous orange guitar picks starting with many I ordered when Orange was launched, I have two on my desk right now as I scan my desktop. Where do they all disappear to! I have to say the law of “Entropy” I am sure has taken it’s effect as the picks somewhat randomly dispersed from order to chaos in my home, and office, but they are all in my possession somewhere. I know several of them are still back at my old work office, and maybe some made it’s way into my cars.
Hope you both have an awesome time exploring Northern Scotland, and make it up to the Isle of Skye. I would love to see the Isle of Skye, it looks like a place from another world! Seen it featured in some photography videos. Maybe bring back a piece of the Kilt rock if you can. The James Bond film “Skyfall” was filmed in Scotland as James escaped into the Scottish Cairngorms in his Aston Martin. Beautiful scenery.
Thanks for this giveaway, I am so hopefully excited! Fingers and toes crossed, salt thrown over my shoulders etc….
BTW, if I win, I would love to have the other guitar style picks in a tin. Would make an awesome priceless set.
I collect the picks from each concert I attend. I usually buy meet and greet tickets and ask the lead guitarist for a pick. I regret not getting one from Glen Frey on his last tour. I have 6 of your cds so far including “Why”. But I don’t have the first original. Love you both.
Easy. My wife always finds them in the washer. She bought a little dish she keeps on a shelf in our bedroom so whenever I run out of picks, I just go get some from the pickdish. Bonus: they’re always nice clean and shiny. 👍
Mona and Lisa is this tied into missing socks in the laundry?? LOL..Although I am a drummer I do play guitar and yes I have lost several picks over the years and scratch my head on wondering where they are, I think somewhere down the line I will find them and they will be in the place I never expected. One time I found 4 in my back pocket of my jeans , one time I found a couple in the bed room on our dresser, and some are still in progress of finding. So if anyone remembers from the 1980’s game Pac Man? I have made up a Pick Man!! And feel Pick Man has gobbled up the ones I can not find! Oh yes One time I found one inside my guitar and wondered what is that rattling nose?? LOL….So If I was lucky enough to win? I would love a copy of the Live Double Album from the Cavern Club. Love that album and all your albums but that one really show cases your live shows and hope in the near future all of us can witness you both live in Concert. Saving up my money when that time comes!
God Bless and enjoy your journey you both deserve it and relax.
Hugs and love from
Bill and Maddie Isenberg Huge fans from Pittsburgh PA USA
The number of picks in the world is always one less than the number of guitarists, so they get pinched in a regular, circular cycle. Kind of like musical chairs.
A pick tin sounds like a wonderful prize if I win. If there are really picks in it. Many thanks!
It’s a little-known fact that most missing picks have been snaffled by the pick-pixies.
These tiny creatures only venture out in the dark of night as musicians sleep and silently steal them away and hoard them like treasure.
I saw one once, stopped him and questioned him. He claimed to have in his collection three picks which he had “found” in George Harrison’s house. He also boasted that his uncle, named Tiberius Plectrum had one left-handed pick that was once owned by Jimi Hendrix.
But you couldn’t believe everything that a pick-pixie would tell you. They’re a shifty lot!
So, in lockdown, i began doodling and drawing around my plectrums, and eventually came up a textile design that was printed in Nigeria- But I’d really be surprised if Nigerians wearing my pattern knew that they were wearing interlocking plectrums!! Even though the pattern name was ‘PLEC’. So, this is where all my plectrums go ha ha.
As a former member of the Society of American magicians, I’m not supposed to reveal how tricks work. I’ve been performing this trick for a long time. 😂
But I will reveal a couple of the secrets:
One landed inside my acoustic guitar. It appeared to flip away from the guitar, but somehow it ended up inside.
Another landed on edge up against a table leg. I found it a few days later, while vacuuming. 🔍
As for the picks that drop straight down to the floor and then you can’t find them: with the exception of the one that landed and got caught in my sneaker laces, I am convinced there is a portal to another dimension that that all guitar picks go to. Once in a while, a guitar pick will escape from there and end up in a place where you never used it.
The best theory is that the manufacturers make the pics so that they instantly disintegrate when they hit the ground, so that you have to buy more! 😂
I would like the pick tin – should I win.
In Britain we never called them “picks”. The Picks were a vocal backing group featured on quite a few of the early Buddy Holly & The Crickets recordings.
We called them plectrums, and of course they fell down cracks in the floorboards, or under furniture or stuck to the carpet.
The word “plectrum” comes from Latin plectrum, itself derived from Greek πλῆκτρον (plēktron), “anything to strike with, an instrument for striking the lyre, a spear point”. “Plectrum” has both a Latin-based plural, plectra and a native English plural, plectrums.
This blogger has 13 other explanations: https://takelessons.com/blog/where-do-guitar-picks-go-z01
PS: If I’m lucky in the draw, I’d like a CD of Why?
PPS: We’re currently coming towards the end of an around-the-world-in-80/81-days cruise, so we won’t be home in Scotland when you visit. Hope you both have a great time there and haste ye back!
The older I get the less I play, but picks lost seems to have increased. It defies common sense. Where do they go indeed.
Sometimes I realize that strange rattle coming from my guitar is a lost pick. Sometimes the horrible noise our vacuum cleaner makes is a long lost pick. Other times that new “thing” Leo, our Lhasa Apso, is chewing on turns out to be a missing pick. The rest of my missing picks, I assume, are in Rod Sterling’s “Twilight Zone.”
My favorite picks are “Dava Melin Grip Tips,” because they are easier to hold on to. Plus, I like the way they play/sound. But, being easier to hold on to doesn’t keep them from disappearing.
I have a big pile of guitar picks that have appeared in my clothes dryer over the years. On the other hand, many of my socks have gone missing over those same years.
The disappearing guitar pick is one of life’s great mysteries, especially when other guitarists live in the same home. Nobody has taken it, nobody has seen it, they wouldn’t take such a thing, how dare you? Well they don’t dissolve into thin air, and as if by magic they reappear with someone’s gear. Such a mystery, how did that happen?
When I was a kid, Fender picks sold for 3/$.25 at the local music store where I took lessons. Always liked the white ones because they matched the pickguard of my Fender Mustang.
For a while, I was into those big, triangular Guild pics. It got to the point that every time that my teacher caught me with one, he would change it with a traditional-wise Fender pick.
I think that my teacher hid the big ol’ Guild picks in the music store!
Thin gauge, always thin gauge!
Until I joined the MLT Club I couldn’t keep a pick long enough to learn how to use it. I don’t have a clue where they go. Wherever pens and rubber bands hangout. More picks please. Enjoy your Scottish vacation, say Hi to Nessie.
They get stolen by the fairies that also steal your socks and teaspoons. Must be making sock puppets that play the guitar and the spoons lol.
If I win, I would love a pick tin please. Many thanks and stay groovy
When I started out playing the Ukulele I used one of those soft fat ukulele picks. I could never grip it right so it kept falling out of my fingers. I eventually quit using it and I don’t miss it.
By the way, my wife is a germaphobe, so I have to know: have these picks been in your mouth (I’ve seen Mona do it)?
They are right in the spot you placed them so you can remember where they are and can’t remember where.
My cats play with them, so i often find them under the fridge, sofa and other heavy furniture……..::))
Some seem to disappear in acoustic guitar sound holes, others get lost somewhere inside my sofa. Most of them though just seem to completely disappear to never be seen again.
Mine go UNDER things. The computer desk, tables, stands, even my feet sometimes! “Damn I was standing on it the whole time?”!
It’s like the missing sock in the washer or drier, “Where the hell did that other one go?!”
Pick tin please IF I win. Thank you girls!
I am a trumpet player. So, the picks I have gotten from you my wife put on display. The kitties tried to take them to play. So. I think lost picks go to kitties boarding them to play. Lol Love you all. Stay Groovy !🌹❤️🤘
Some are buried underneath that new roundabout over there, some just floating though the uni..verrrssse.
But, hush hush, nobody knows!
Pick tin please 🙂
In the sound hole or on the floor having carpet the same color as the pick. Somehow I have found them in the dryer after doing laundry……so I am not sure how it got there…I probably put the pick in the pants pocket. Aren’t you all going to the coronation????
Normally down the back of the sofa where you can’t get them without ripping the back off
They’ve gone off and joined all the odd socks that disappear in the wash.
An all powerful Genie collects them to make future Rock Bands. She has a hoard that she stores until they have ripened up and Poof… Mona Lisa Twins.
Trudy flew away with it!!!
“This Bird has Flown “!!!
Pick Tim please if “picked”
Peter Piper picked my pocket of picks while I was picking a peck of pickled peppers. I pick the picks.