Best Electric Guitar Pick Slides....

OK…this is difficult to quantify. I am seeking your best offerings for the most outrageous/cool/awesome sounding pick slides known to man.

I’ll start…Randy Rhoads was a killer pick slider. At 3:07 of this depiction of Ozzy’s “Over The Mountain”, right after his…strange…solo, he unleashes a MONSTER pick slide. Who else can you think of that does something like this?

Who else slams that technique like that?

I must add: slow, methodical pick slides need not apply. I’m talking fast and authoritative, brother!

Tom Scholz, Boston, pick slides all over pretty much every song.

UFO, Lights Out. What do I win?

Very first song to come to mind–Magic Bus. (Nooooooo you can’t have it!)

Oops, missed the edit window. I was just going to say that the pick slide has been one of Pete’s signature “moves” forever. I’d guess the most famous version is probably from the performance of Won’t Get Fooled Again in The Kids Are Alright. (He does another nice one in their version of Road Runner in the same movie).

By Carlos Santana, at the beginning of his solo on “Open Invitation” (starts at 2:24). The high point in an otherwise unremarkable song.

C’mon, this is a “technique” ? A straight-up beginner can do this.

Well, I can’t really do a convincing one, squeegee (and doing with a thumbpick just sucks). Like abstract art, I think you’ve gotta mean it, otherwise it just comes off like silly aping. Like when I do it, for example.

My complaint is: Why don’t slow pick slides count? I’d nominate the entire break to “Whole Lotta Love”, otherwise.

From the good old days - the opening gliss onPipeline.

nit picking (sorry, pun intended):

Clothahump, that song absolutely rules, but that’s not a pick slide. As you said, it’s a gliss. That’s picking rapidly while sliding your fretting hand up or down the fretboard.

Old 97s - intro to Four Leaf Clover (about 15 seconds in)

I thought that was a theremin?

Most of it is the theremin for sure, but I think some of it is pick slides, and I’m pretty sure he’s probably beating the guitar with the bow at some point in it. There’s a lot going on in that break.

I knew there was one I liked, but I couldn’t think which one it was until I stumbled upon the video tonight.

Rush, “Anthem”, at about 42 seconds into this performance: