Chasing Allen Collin's Tone. Pick help

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You could try and contact "Tina".

Mel Bay

Mel Bay, founder and first president of Mel Bay Publications, Inc., died at age 84 on May 14, 1997. Mel Bay was born in the Missouri town of Bunker and raised in DeSoto where as a teenager he taught...

www.tinaspicks.com

Great read.

 

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I've tried some nylon varieties- my favorites are the Dunlop Midis for some reason. They seem different than the Dunlop standard or Dog Brains.

 

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Doesn't help answer the OP but found it interesting, lots I wasn't aware of!

Hats where I learned about the Mel Bay picks!! Glad you saw it as well. You are right, there is a lot of info I never knew growing up as well. But then again, I started learning Skynyrd stuff and the like by playing records over and over!! Then cassettes and later CD''s were a blessing. Now I can join everyone else and watch actual cottage on YouTube. Younger players today have no idea how hard it was to even get close to figuring out what the great players were actually playing when all you had was an LP!!!

 

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Hats where I learned about the Mel Bay picks!! Glad you saw it as well. You are right, there is a lot of info I never knew growing up as well. But then again, I started learning Skynyrd stuff and the like by playing records over and over!! Then cassettes and later CD''s were a blessing. Now I can join everyone else and watch actual cottage on YouTube. Younger players today have no idea how hard it was to even get close to figuring out what the great players were actually playing when all you had was an LP!!!

Learning by ear. The good ole days. I still try to get to the meat of stuff by ear. Then the details I look up.lol