What kind of picks did Chet use?
Over the years Chet used different thumb picks. At one time Chet used a certain blue pick but I don’t think it’s a Herco. I used them some. For a while he used those Herco picks that where made years ago. We used them and I still do sometimes. . At the time I worked for Jerry Reed he was using those small narrow ones that Lenny Breau used. After a while he change to a medium pick. Back in the 70’s there were really good picks around. Then he used the Herco pick for a while. A friend of ours, Jason Lambert, who ran a music store in NC a few years ago, gave Chet and I some great picks, some of those 1970’s picks and he used them from then on. What Chet would do is round the tips off where they weren’t so pointed, a more oval shape. He got a bigger note and could play single notes that way. But they were the normal thickness.
