famous bassists who use picks

[D.E.C.]

Bob Daisley was mentioned earlier as a possible, but he is definitely 100% pick.

 

[slrae]

A lot of hard rock and heavy metal musicians used picks because you get that hardcore, scratchy tone. Some people can also play faster if they have a pick. I remember when Metallica covered "Iron Man" when Black Sabbath was added to the rock n' roll hall of fame. Robert Trujillo, who normally plays with his fingers, switched to a pick so he could hit those fast sixteenth notes near the final part of the song.

Geezer Butler used a pick on a few Sabbath songs, most notably Children of the Grave, the end of Iron Man, Never Say Die and Symptom of the Universe.

 

[barkatozz]

Geezer Butler used a pick on a few Sabbath songs, most notably Children of the Grave, the end of Iron Man, Never Say Die and Symptom of the Universe.

He also used a pick alot when he toured w/ Ozzy in '88-'89.

Dave Hope(Kansas) & Billy Greer(Kansas) both use picks.
Dave LaRue used a pick on Flying In A Blue Dream when I saw him w/ Satch as did Stu Hamm on Live in San Francisco.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Since he was mentioned in the Old School Bassist thread, I will mention him here too, Leon Sylvers. He did a ton of studio work with Solar Records back in the 1980's on stuff by Shalamar, The Whispers, Dynasty, and others. A good example of him would be "And the Beat Goes On" by the Whispers. He played with a pick on a Rickenbacker 4001 with the mutes turned all the way up and flatwounds. He had a great sound and he really was distinctive because he sound and approach ran counter to everything that was big among most bassists at the time.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

His brother Foster Sylvers was great too.

 

[Pruitt]

Great player, I love the Freehand album.

Yeah, he and John Glascock (r.i.p.) from Tull were the reasons I started playing bass back then.

 

[The Lurker]

Monty Colvin from Galactic Cowboys

Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr.

 

[Jikkir]

Justin Chancellor of Tool.
Stuart Hamm and Billy Sheehan have used them. Stu used them on the rhtyhm tracks for "The Urge", doubling up picked rhythm lines with plucked rhythm lines.

John Myung of Dream Theater.
Chris Debari of Today Is The Day.
Paul gray of Slipknot.
Chris Squire of Yes.

God there are loads!

I'm fairly sure John Myung uses 3 fingers...
No, I'm definate. Unless in some songs he uses a pick?

 

[beyondhairy]

as of this past summer line up of festivel dates, u can add robert trujilo to the pick users, he uses one on a small part of the first new song..


u can see it here...


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[rrybicki]

Rob Wright - nomeansno

Russ

 

[deadstar]

Mark Hoppus, I liked him in blink-182 but not so much since the split

 

[lawsonman]

Man,I MUST be gettin' old.I thought this thread was about FAMOUS bassist's. I've never heard of about 90% of them.

 

[BassInstinct]

Nate Mendel - Foo Fighters

 

[Ripper75]

anyone anyone?

 

[Wes D]

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Carlos D of Interpol. He also plays incredibly low to. But he rocks it with the pick and sounds great.

 

[chris_nairn]

Didn't see these two in the list.

John Taylor of Duran Duran uses a pick quite a bit.

Tony Franklin of The Firm/Jimmy Page solo/ and more uses a pick a whole lot.

 

[MattAT]

Mike Rutherford - GENESIS

Peter Gabriel Era is the best Genesis.

 

[Malpractice]

Trevor Dunn:Mr. Bungle, Moonchild
Billy Gould:Faith No More
Mark Sandman:Morphine
Paul D'Amour:early Tool
David Wm. Simms:The Jesus Lizar
Stu Brooks: Dub Trio
Paul Raven:Killing Joke, Ministry

I don't think these gentlemen were mentioned yet.

 

[NickBass81]

Anthony Jackson's pick playing blows me away...
Tony Levin and Mike Porcaro sometimes play with a pick..

 

[Toto_Chan]

Toshiya from Dir en Grey alternates between fingers and picks =D