Guitar picks are funny things – one minute you’ll be merrily strumming along, and then your plectrum will simply vanish from the face of the earth. It’s an equally tricky conundrum for stage professionals, whose enthusiastic onstage shredding can result in a runaway pick.
In such situations, it’s usually either a desperate scramble to save the slab of celluloid, or a humbling rummage hoping another will miraculously turn up – and that’s only if you remember to bring your pick tin with you to the gig in the first place.
