Prehistoric guitar picks

Guildmark · Oct 4, 2006

For all you archaeologists out there, this little tidbit comes from

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/villagers/research/future.html

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These "guitar pick" scrapers (unifaces) from the Roper site are a common occurrence on some Antelope Creek sites. (The name comes from their suggestive shape.) Although it is assumed they were used as hide scrapers, there are other uniface forms present and the guitar pick scrapers may have had a specialized function. Photo by Chris Lintz

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"... specialized function...." like, maybe playing guitars! Aren't we all old enough to remember using these picks! Wouldn't you love to still have the axe they were used on!?

"Oh, mammoth poop - broke another one! Hey, Grug! toss me another medium!"

Guildmark

Jeff · Oct 4, 2006

Oh, mammoth poop - broke another one! Hey, Grug! toss me another medium!"

No, sorry, no more picks for a while, flintnappers are on strike protesting the cheap foreign picks coming in from two valleys North.

guildzilla · Oct 4, 2006

Laugh away, fellow neanderthals, but the historical correlation between weapons and musical instruments is fascinating.

Is the bow the first guitar? Is the flute the first blow gun?

I'm serious. Now pass me those brownies.

dreadnut · Oct 4, 2006

were the bagpipes first used to torture captured enemy? :lol:

(Sorry, Smith, I couldn't resist. Besides, I had to say it before someone brought up the banjo)

guildzilla · Oct 4, 2006

No. But on D-Day landing in Normandy, holding to their traditions, the Scots landed on the beaches to the music of the pipes.

So the idea was to psych out the enemy. God knows what function the pipes fullfilled after capturing prisoners. As you suggest, Drednut, it's a scary concept.

Guildmark · Oct 5, 2006

My Scottish friend tells me that in WWI Scottish regiments not only went into battle with bagpipes out front but also still wore kilts. The Germans called them the Ladies from Hell.

And of course you know why pipers always march while they're playing?

They're trying to get away from the noise.

guildzilla · Oct 5, 2006

Here's my favorite instrument joke....

What's the difference between an onion and an oboe?

Nobody cries when you chop up an oboe.

Darryl Hattenhauer · Oct 5, 2006

Now I know how Billy Gibbons gets his tone.

West R Lee · Oct 5, 2006

Darryl,

He uses those "petrified porcupine pecker picks"....remember?

West

Darryl Hattenhauer · Oct 6, 2006

I don't remember much of anything. "Pecker" is one of those words I've forgotten.

Oh wait. Now I remember. Emmylou.

Jeff · Oct 6, 2006

Pizzle was the operative noun. Porcupine pizzle. Sheesh.

SmithfieldFair · Oct 6, 2006

Fishes and bicycles

OK -- all very funny. There's a reason the Germans called the Scots Highland regiments "The Ladies From Hell" - you wear a dress THAT sexy into battle screaming for all it's worth like that and every German within 100 miles wants a date. But no.....we weren't having it.

OK before anyone asks - What's the different between a bagpipe and a trampoline?

You take off your shoes to jump on a trampoline.

I'm still relishing the comparison of fishes and bicycles...

Happy Friday, you Guildmaniacs. Headed out to a festival - taking 5 Guilds. Guess where they were made?
Ta! dbs

Darryl Hattenhauer · Oct 6, 2006

Remember that NZ folk group, Porky Pine and the Pricks?

coastie99 · Oct 6, 2006

Porky Pine and the Pricks,
Honed all of their licks,
And went to the States and there,
They met Dr. Darryl,
Thrust him head-down in a barrel.
And stuck all those pricks you-know-where.

Darryl Hattenhauer · Oct 6, 2006

Yes. We know where. In your panther.

(I admit that's a lame retort, but who on this forum can follow Coastie?)

Squawk · Oct 7, 2006

Is it my imagination, or has the pile of empties in Coastie's pic increased?

Jeff · Oct 7, 2006

Remember that NZ folk group, Porky Pine and the Pricks?

There's a local group out here, "Big Nose & the Pickers" . Lends a new image to fingerpickin.

coastie99 · Oct 7, 2006

I imagine they play the boogie pretty well !!

Guildmark · Oct 7, 2006

What was the old addage....ah, yes: "You can pick your nose and you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

coastie99 · Oct 7, 2006

Squawk, I can tell you for sure.........

They ain't putting as much in those bottles as they used to !!

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