Pick Holder
Why do you need a pick holder? Here is a scenario to consider: five minutes to go, you are about to hit the stage. The lights go down, the crowd is howling and ready to rock. Your drummer is clicking his sticks and the singer is at the mike, ready to belt out that first song. Here is the problem, though. You are the one that kicks off that first song, the first notes come from your guitar, splitting the silence of the stage and setting the song in motion, propelling it forward and you can’t find your guitar pick. You root around in your bag and eventually you find one, but not your lucky pick. The show bombs and the band blames you.
If you are a guitar player, you probably have dozens if not hundreds of guitar picks lying around your practice area. You may have even more in the bottom of the bag that you use to carry stuff from place to place. With that many picks, you would think it would be easy to keep track of them or to find one whenever you need it, but that is not always the case. Sometimes they seem to elude you, especially when it is very important to find one quickly. The more important the moment, the more elusive the guitar pick can be.
A pick holder is a simple thing; it only does that one thing. It holds guitar picks. Some are spring loaded so that you can always easily grab your guitar pick without having to struggle to get one. The larger the pick holder, the more picks it will hold. If you are using more than one type of pick, you might want to keep the picks separated in the holders so that you can always get the pick and sound that you need without having to go through the others in the process.
Because they are cheap to buy, most guitarists might have several of these holders. They might choose to color code them so that they know which holder has which kind of picks. They might add color and design to make them look cooler than what they do look. They might opt to keep them black so that they do not stand out at all.
For some bands, throwing out a souvenir at the end of a concert is a time honored tradition. That might include a number of picks, especially those that have been used in the show. Some bands even throw out their pick holder at the end of the last show of a tour to mark its end.
