# Best Electric Guitar Pick Slides.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416 "2013-10-05T03:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/1 "2013-10-05T03:52:51Z")
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? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0sD0j4jJ84) Who else slams that technique like that? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/2 "2013-10-05T04:01:18Z")
I must add: slow, methodical pick slides need not apply. I’m talking fast and authoritative, brother! ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/3 "2013-10-07T00:38:02Z")
Tom Scholz, Boston, pick slides all over pretty much every song. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/4 "2013-10-07T01:06:07Z")
**UFO** , Lights Out. What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/5 "2013-10-07T01:41:04Z")
Very first song to come to mind–Magic Bus. (Nooooooo you can’t have it!) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/6 "2013-10-07T01:55:36Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/7 "2013-10-07T03:51:54Z")
By Carlos Santana, at the [beginning of his solo](http://youtu.be/jn-UZwtLfH4?t=2m22s) on “Open Invitation” (starts at 2:24). The high point in an otherwise unremarkable song. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/8 "2013-10-07T04:55:17Z")
C’mon, this is a “technique” ? A straight-up beginner can do this. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/9 "2013-10-07T06:03:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/10 "2013-10-07T14:38:02Z")
From the good old days - the opening gliss on[Pipeline](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omG-hZfN6zk). ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/11 "2013-10-07T15:08:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/12 "2013-10-07T23:34:42Z")
Old 97s - intro to [Four Leaf Clover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5GqGEnt1HA) (about 15 seconds in) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/13 "2013-10-08T18:25:55Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > I’d nominate the entire break to “Whole Lotta Love”, otherwise. I thought that was a theremin? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/14 "2013-10-08T23:25:49Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-electric-guitar-pick-slides/670416/15 "2013-10-14T04:49:34Z")
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: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF7U8F2aars)