Red Bear Picks....

[Superunknown]

I just received my jazz III style pick last week. Great tone and much easier to play complex lines with when compared to my Dunlops. Best $25 ($20 for the pick and $5 for my name engraved ) I have spent on my tone/playing in a while.

Anybody else dig these?

 

[Nico]

Never heard of them. But I sure dig your Wizard MC!

 

[thiswaythatway]

25 bucks a pick =

 

[Ventura]

I just can't justify something many other guitarists have achieved the same with by using a dime or a penny.

V.

 

[dfrattaroli]

Well, you can play guitar on a $99 Squire. How can we justify spending any more on a better guitar?

 

[glpg80]

Well, you can play guitar on a $99 Squire. How can we justify spending any more on a different guitar?

fixed.

 

[glpg80]

OP - i haved used dunlops for years now after searching all over the place starting out in music. i see no reason why to settle on anything else knowing that bruce bouilett used dunlops in racer x. until i can play as clean and articulate as that, im not spending a dime (insert pun ) more than i have to when technique is the real money maker.

IMHO $25 for a pick is snake oil. its fucking molded plastic for god sakes.

 

[dfrattaroli]

$25 for a pick is a bit steep. I have 3 Red Bears. One cost me $25 and the other two were about $11. I also use Jazz IIIs. I hear a difference so I go back and forth. But if $25 for a pick is "Snake Oil" what is paying $3500 for a clone of a hot-rodded Marshall clone's clone?

 

[thiswaythatway]

$25 for a pick is a bit steep. I have 3 Red Bears. One cost me $25 and the other two were about $11. I also use Jazz IIIs. I hear a difference so I go back and forth. But if $25 for a pick is "Snake Oil" what is paying $3500 for a clone of a hot-rodded Marshall clone's clone?

This is Rig-Talk. It's illegal to downplay anything modded.

 

[Superunknown]

Never heard of them. But I sure dig your Wizard MC!

Thanks Bro!....I thought it held up pretty well considering all of the competition.

 

[glpg80]

$25 for a pick is a bit steep. I have 3 Red Bears. One cost me $25 and the other two were about $11. I also use Jazz IIIs. I hear a difference so I go back and forth. But if $25 for a pick is "Snake Oil" what is paying $3500 for a clone of a hot-rodded Marshall clone's clone?

because a modified amplifier is not molded plastic and the size of your thumb nail.

compare the price ratio for more proof.

$25/.70 cents = 35 = average new price of an amplifier $2500 * 35 = $87,500

the only dumbass stupid enough to purchase a dumble which was $50,000 is TAG.

with this analogy i can purchase tons of dunlops and be set for years for the price of a red bear. is my poor technique going to improve any? no. it will still be the same. will i feel a difference? sure. its a different shape than another pick. it happens with any pick.

 

[glassjaw7]

I got slammed for recommending em here. " $20 a pick?! You gotta be kidding me!"
This coming from a bunch of tones snobs who buy amps and guitars for several thousand dollars a pop. Why spend all the money on cables, switching systems, guitar, amp and then be a cheap-skate when it comes to your picks?

They're by far the best sounding and feeling picks I've used, so they're well worth it in my opinion. Just don't lose them.

 

[glpg80]

I got slammed for recommending em here. " $20 a pick?! You gotta be kidding me!"
This coming from a bunch of tones snobs who buy amps and guitars for several thousand dollars a pop. Why spend all the money on cables, switching systems, guitar, amp and then be a cheap-skate when it comes to your picks?

They're by far the best sounding and feeling picks I've used, so they're well worth it in my opinion. Just don't lose them.

because guy's who are successful dont NEED a $25 pick - the same as why Telephant can rip the fretboard to shreds and walk all over me with a 100W marshall and do it left handed while singing.

no pick is going to help me there. no gear is going to help me there either.

personal opinion is personal opinion - if they work for you great! but at $25 a pick - its snake oil. when then come down to 70 cents on the dollar, ill give it a try. otherwise ill be practicing technique with dunlops

 

[Motorpud]

I got slammed for recommending em here. " $20 a pick?! You gotta be kidding me!"
This coming from a bunch of tones snobs who buy amps and guitars for several thousand dollars a pop. Why spend all the money on cables, switching systems, guitar, amp and then be a cheap-skate when it comes to your picks?

They're by far the best sounding and feeling picks I've used, so they're well worth it in my opinion. Just don't lose them.

It is kind of strange to own thousands of dollars in gear and in most guys cases around here 10s of thousands and then be cheap when it comes to picks. I've never tried one just because I already spend $10 a month replacing all the JazzIIIs I lose I was thinking of trying one though, I've wasted more money on dumber shit.

 

[ttosh]

I got slammed for recommending em here. " $20 a pick?! You gotta be kidding me!"
This coming from a bunch of tones snobs who buy amps and guitars for several thousand dollars a pop. Why spend all the money on cables, switching systems, guitar, amp and then be a cheap-skate when it comes to your picks?

They're by far the best sounding and feeling picks I've used, so they're well worth it in my opinion. Just don't lose them.

because guy's who are successful dont NEED a $25 pick - the same as why Telephant can rip the fretboard to shreds and walk all over me with a 100W marshall and do it left handed while singing.

no pick is going to help me there. no gear is going to help me there either.

personal opinion is personal opinion - if they work for you great! but at $25 a pick - its snake oil. when then come down to 70 cents on the dollar, ill give it a try. otherwise ill be practicing technique with dunlops

I still use my dunlops because of how expensive the Red Bears are. I bought one to check and and they are not snake oil, they really do help (my opinion) me in picking technique and I really dig them. They are too expensive I agree but saying they are snake oil and not trying them is like ditching on an amp you have not played. IMHO

 

[Spaceboy]

Wait... is that math? I'm outta here.

 

[Khoi]

I know Andy uses them, seem like pretty sweet picks, but way too expensive for me. I lose picks like nothing, so I doubt I'd keep one for more than a week

 

[Ventura]

$25 for a pick is a bit steep. I have 3 Red Bears. One cost me $25 and the other two were about $11. I also use Jazz IIIs. I hear a difference so I go back and forth. But if $25 for a pick is "Snake Oil" what is paying $3500 for a clone of a hot-rodded Marshall clone's clone?

because a modified amplifier is not molded plastic and the size of your thumb nail.

compare the price ratio for more proof.

$25/.70 cents = 35 = average new price of an amplifier $2500 * 35 = $87,500

the only dumbass stupid enough to purchase a dumble which was $50,000 is TAG.

with this analogy i can purchase tons of dunlops and be set for years for the price of a red bear. is my poor technique going to improve any? no. it will still be the same. will i feel a difference? sure. its a different shape than another pick. it happens with any pick.

Yes, but Tag knows tone

V.

 

[glip22]

I saw this thread and ordered one. If I would have known it was a five week lead time I never would have

 

[Ventura]

My beef with a $20 or $25 pick is not that it's not worth it, hell, if it makes you a better player, it's actually priceless. But how can the manufacturer justify such a cost?? Are they handmade in small batches only on a full moon, in some enchanted forest of Estonia or Egypt by craftsmen who've been passed the skill of 'magical plectrum creation' through centuries of closed familial lineage??

Or has there been a die cast, readily available stock materials go into this die, thousands of these little things come out at the other end, they get put into a package, and a sticker price of $25 per pick gets slapped on 'em, and they're viewable only behind glass at all the boutique stores?

V.