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What Would MacGyver Do?

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 9:45 pm
by Kay Das
I was travelling in the UK and Italy over Christmas and New Year, with steel guitar. During a session, this is what happened.....


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Luckily I also carry a normal guitar pick, which I sometimes use on steel, and there happened to be a few rubber bands handy...


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Would MacGyver have done any differently?

Kay

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 10:12 pm
by Ron Whitfield
Carry extra picks?

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 5:19 am
by Jerry Recktenwald
Super glue it to his finger!

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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 9:17 pm
by Ernie Dunlap
Are you sure your not the Roadie?

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 9:43 pm
by Steve Wilson
It seems I remember a story about some famous player of yore who broke his thumb pick and quite resourcefully fashioned one out of a toothbrush heated and shaped over a burner of a stove. I'm thinking it was either Jerry Byrd or Dick McIntire.

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 9:51 pm
by Ernie Dunlap
We were so poor I cut up brown clorox bottles or used bobbie pins for pics.

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:12 pm
by Kay Das
Some innovative answers so far...

Some more thoughts..would Macguyver have considered

- playing without picks?
- using the collar-bone in his shirt collar ?
- not picking with his thumb at all ?

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:15 pm
by Kay Das
Some innovative answers so far...

Some more thoughts..would Macguyver have considered

- playing without picks?
- using the collar-bone in his shirt collar ?
- not picking with his thumb at all ?

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:15 pm
by Kay Das
Some innovative answers so far...

Some more thoughts..would Macguyver have considered

- playing without picks?
- using the collar-bone in his shirt collar ?
- not picking with his thumb at all ?

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:18 pm
by Ernie Dunlap
Lets just take a hair comb and use it as the Bar and play banjo licks on steel.

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:19 pm
by Ernie Dunlap
If you lose your bar?