I'm one of those who bought a blue chip pick after your video. Couldn't be happier with it. I guess that makes me chipful so i'll abstain. Good luck to the chipless!
I’ve dragged my feet since your 5 star video debating if I should take the plunge on a $40 pick. I have such respect for you, your wealth of information, and your sincerity that I really have no excuse for being chipless any more. =) Really awesome of you to do this, Keith. Keep up the great work please.
Watching your videos and some others I have really thinned out my collection. Some will always stay weather I play them or not. The 2 guitars my uncle gave me when I started playing and my grandpa’s guitar. Guitars like that are treasures.
If I already have a BC pick, would that make me a "Chipper?" In any case, I too will step aside for the benefit of the Chipless. Great channel, keep up the good work!
Keith, I love your channel! As someone who is pursuing minimalism and being essentialist in life and in gear I really appreciate your channel. It definitely makes me want to play more! I also love how you tie in bits of information from other people into the videos that apply to more than guitar playing, the first one that comes to mind is the clip of Neil Gaiman. To me , you seem to love education and have a curiosity that is infectious! I entered the giveaway because I’m chipless! And I still intend to purchase a mug and a t shirt at some point, purely because I want to support your channel. I’ve cut way back on social media and you tube. But I watch every video you put out when I get the notification email! Thank you so much for creating quality content and helping me get the most music from the least gear!
John A so true. It would be easy to want every cool sounding pedal and every beautiful guitar. It can also distract from achieving certain goals. I’ve had those moment when I realized I’ve spent X on a bunch of gear that I don’t really like or don’t really use that much and had I just saved up I could have purchased something that I really wanted and that would be much better quality etc.
@@maynardmadsen8712 well, I am interested in a pedal called " The Astronomer " by Matthews Effects, or TC electronic "Hall of fame reverb 2 ". I wish you the best!
Hey Keith, thanks in part to you I've bought my only guitar for 2020 last week (An Ibanez Semi Hollow). I still look at gear videos but practice at the same time. Every time I look at gear online, I think "I could be playing instead". It's such a simple habit to get into; but it's so true. The phrase 'beware the man with one gun' has now entered my lexicon. Regards
I Bought 3 of these for friends I got four in the mail because one of the engraving did not meet their standard so they included both. I could not tell the diff. Great customer service!
As a winner of one of the BC picks, I ordered the 2.5mm Jazz LG 100. It’s easily become my favorite pick, supplanting my previous brands 2.0 pick. Thanks, Keith!! I would not have ever take the dive to paythe $75 price tag for such a pick if I am being honest but do feel quite lucky to now own one and I don’t see me ever putting myself in a position to lose it. I can see value in the boutique pick and again I do love that I own it. Thanks so much, again to Keith and the BC pick team!
I don't use a pick but watched regardless because this channel is always a breath of clean agenda-free air; keep up the good work, hopefully it's infectious.
Cool giveaway Keith. Checked out Blue Chip when I saw your first video about them and have debated ordering one since and regardless of the outcome here I’m sure I will be ordering one in the future. Cheers to you and all you do sir.
I broke my TAD 40 in half a month or so ago, it was 5-6 years old. It turns out that Stupid Glue (the thicker stuff) works great. Set-up 24 hours and sanded the little ridge off and it seems as good as new.
That's fascinating. I didn't think that a) a BC could break (while in use as a pick?), or even b) that superglue gel would hold it for long under side load.
This is a nice promotion. I will step aside as well since I have three BC picks. I donated a Chris Thile signature BC to the Mandolin Cafe Travelling Pick Sampler a couple of years ago and sent my favorite online guitar teacher, Sandra Sherman one as a thank you last year. Blue Chips are a great gift for your friends who play stringed instruments.
Not to be so naive but you are so kind and genuine I could not imagine in my wildest dreams you doing anything without the utmost integrity. The leaders of our country could learn this concept.
Oh about the picks, my son bought me a pick punch for xmass which I really like. You can make picks out of any material and this punch punches out the shape.
I miss the old days when even the stars like Clapton played one guitar all show. It’s important to form a relationship with your guitar and that isn’t easy when you have 25.
Wade Wilson are we talking about the same Clapton :) EC bought, sold, built and gifted more guitars than any one else I can think of ua-cam.com/video/ntkpm6Wy7Dw/v-deo.html
I live in the small town in Tennessee where this company is from. The material they use for the picks is very expensive material used by NASA and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They fellow who founded the company was working somewhere out there and using the material. With a tiny piece of waste material he asked if he could have it to make a mandolin pick out of it. The rest was history. This is an amazing product and is completely unique. If you ever lose the tack on the pick, you just wash it with liquid soap and it comes right back. I love these things. They are very fast, easy to hang on to and glide over the stings like no other pick.
keith, your chanel and philosofy about less is more, its a great thing, i have a big collections of gear and guitar stuff and i realize then i need to focus more in play guitar, in this months i sell almost everything and only have a blue strat, one marshall amp and a couple of pedals and play with more frecuency thanks for share your passion, and for be breave, different and unique in a world where people only want own and have more and more, sorry for my bad english, saludos desde guadalajara.
Thanks, Keith. I've never taken any of your videos, including the Blue Chip one, to be pushes to buy anything, but I also did go over and check out Blue Chip after watching. Keep doing what you do.
That's great! And after your answer I will surely support you with a merch purchase! BTW: do you think it would be of interest to add not only history of gear but also history of type of music? Maybe there are a lot more of those bit you are so good and thorough that I'd imagine the videos would be great :)
After 30 some years of gear accumulation searching for the right tone in handwired amps, custom this and that, I finally found "the" tone. With it, a new world to explore full of inspiration . I found it with a steel body tricone. I believe it even covers the 5watt deal and then some on its own.lol
Thanks, this is a great channel. Great info and well presented. I too am a chipper, but I entered. Redd Volkaert said when asked if he used a Blue Chip, that he couldn’t see spending that kind of money on something he was likely to lose. Redd is now a dyed in the wool fan and won’t use anything else. I wonder if he ever wakes up wondering if he put it safely away? I say “sure you can play my guitar, but you need to find a pick” LOL
It’s really nice of you to do this BlueChip pick giveaway and a good distraction from lusting over the new gear at NAMM. I’ve always wanted to try them but they are a bit expensive when I don’t know if I would like them.
Very nicely done. I didn’t see a problem with the way it was initially done but could understand the interpretation of some. I am chipless so giving it a shot.
I love the channel, AND the fact you’re holding a giveaway. Until recently I was a one guitar owner, but have expanded to three, all vastly different. I was really intrigued by your Blue Chip video, but couldn’t justify the cost, so I looked for the closest thing at a reasonable price and settled on the Dunlop Primetone. But I would certainly give the Blue Chip a try if I won one.
I want a 5ww review of the monoprice 5w tune amp- we talk simplicity but I’d be interested in seeing it applied with a simple rig. Enjoying the channel. Great deal.
You've probably noticed that "simple" does not always mean "inexpensive" nor the other way around. The couple of amp reviews I've done, of amps I know as well as anyone who is not so technical (me) can, haven't done well. And though I enjoy going down a rabbit hole with the best of them (see upcoming videos for proof of that) this is a part-time job for me. I have a list of about 24 vids right now. But I agree. These keep coming up.
@@fivewattworld absolutely- but that particular amp is simple and happens to be inexpensive, but it isn’t “cheap”(likely a rebranded Laney Cub if the internet is to be believed). Similiar premise with any minimalist amp would suffice- just a thought. 👍
I now have several of these pick. I just ordered three more to give to friends. My guitar teacher used mine last night and wont give it back lol. I love this pick.
Hi Keith, I’m chipless! However a minimalist as well. I appreciate your channel and your philosophy when it comes to gear. I use to be a guitar “collector” until my all my guitars were stolen. During my re-procurement of guitars I realized that I really only played two of my faves, a mid 80’s tele and a great beat-up Yamaha acoustic. That’s when I figured out what I truly need. Yes I salivate over new gear and all it could bring but only buy out of necessities. I find it refreshing to see what I can bring out of my gear. Thank you for your time and effort!
I recently purchased one of every pick I could ding at my local music shop. I played them all blindly. Some were an instant “no”, some made it to the next round. One pick made it passed the second round, which I now use exclusively. I had never tried this sort of pick before, but I love it. Anyhoo, I did not have a blue chip pick to try. Excited at the chance
I have been flipping from pick to pick constantly as I have become more proficient at guitar. Thanks to your channel I have traded my modeling amp and silly accessories for a small tube set up that gets me a simple gorgeous tone with the flip of a switch. I have started focusing on learning and not gathering. Im more than happy with everything in my arsenal except the 90 picks lying around my room. It seems like i always want something more dense and durable; something that lets me feel the strings and brings out the tone of my guitar mistakes and all. I have tried a handful of picks from my local guitar stores freebees to ernie ball prodigies and Im hoping if I win the blue pick that it gives me the feel Ive been searching for
If you do read this I just wanna say thank you and keep it up. Changing focus from how I can improve my gear to how I can improve myself has been an amazing change in my everyday life. Keep it up man. Whoever gets those picks I hope they get as much out of your channel as I do.
So glad I saw this today. Always enjoy your video's. They help keep me grounded a bit. I would love to be "Chipper" so I took advantage of your offer to enter. I'd be stoked to win one.
I got the notification of this video yesterday, but when I clicked the notification, the video said it was private. Anyway, I am all about weird and oddball stuff, stuff no one has, maybe no one has even heard of. I even have an Altoids tin full of weird and oddball picks. So, a Blue Chip? I am definitely willing to try one. I'll definitely enter for this.
I hope my comment in yesterday's video wasn't taken as a slight on the channel or you Keith. You do great service to the viewers. I was just commenting on my circumstances...
Not at all, really glad folks helped me see how it may have come off. And come to find out, it's actually against the rules to require anything to get into a giveaway. So this is cleaner. I'm grateful for your input. Thanks
I contacted everyone by email back two weeks after the start of the contest. I’ll get in and clean up the description tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder Yvan.
Good luck to all the entrees. BTW Keith I need to replace the mug, no one in my house broke, but I need a large like 24oz size. If not available thanks anyway. I'll just have to refill more often.
Remember folks , if you're British , you have to enter you birthdate the wrong way around . Don't shout "I have entered my bloody details?!?!" at your phone for five minutes before realising lol 🤭
I enjoy your channel. It reminds me constantly I don't need this or that. Still, since you have a few free freebees throw my name in the hat. And thanks for all you do.
Entered. I'm not sure i want a blue chip. I love the jazz III that i'm using, although... True: you can't really strum with a jazz III. Mostly, i love to participate to your channel. So, i'm in!
Looking forward to your impression of Winter Namm 2020. Query: When did a guitar become something other than a well-crafted, functional instrument? I hear a lot of chatter about the beauty of the colors and the eye-pleasing grain of the wood -- never understood that. Maybe it's just me.
To be clear, I didn't go to NAMM. I made that video at home this morning. I'm guilty of thinking that guitars are beautiful things, but generally beauty follows functions for me.
@@fivewattworld My first 'quality' guitar was a 73 LP. It's aged about as gracefully as I have. The finish has cracks, there's a worn spot (where the pickguard use to be) from anchoring three of my fingers as I played night after night, the binding has yellowed (probably, in part, from the smokey bars), it's had two frett jobs and a pickup swap. In my eyes, it's beautiful--it tells my story. In the end, however, old guitars are just that . . . old guitars . . . sometimes that's good, sometimes ... not so much.
@@fivewattworld It started with minis . . . In 78 or 79 I had a Dimarzio put in the bridge (seemed to be the thing to do at the time) . . . put the guitars away in 89 and started a new career. I enjoy your channel. As to a wise fellow--Nah. Just a guy who likes to play guitar and is trying to catch up to the times.
Love your videos and the underlying concept driving them. Just one thing I need to clarify re the Blue Chip competition: This Gleam outfit want to glean my password to Google or to my email (not on Google platform in my case) ???? Are they for real ???? I’m not gonna cough that to anyone ... let alone an entity I’ve never even heard of. It seems that quite a number of people are prepared to do just that for the slim chance of receiving a product that holds high regard. Am I misreading something here ? If I’m right then unfortunately the competition, although a brilliant idea and generous of BC, goes against the grain of your channel’s intended aims. This aside... the rules rule... keep up the great work.
I understand your hesitancy. I was a university registrar in my previous life, the keeper of institutional privacy if you will. Read over their privacy statement and it might answer your concerns. I can tell you that Gleam seems to be the largest company doing this so after looking into everything I read said that they are doing it right. I don't believe they are sharing password information, simply that you have an identity on the platform via their API (like I said this used to be my daily gig.) But again, I totally understand if you decide to not come along. Thanks for watching. Keith
Perhaps the only "unfettered..." music is singing. No economics, you already got what you need to do it; forget all the gear unless you want amplification. Since I can't sing either... I'll just go on trying to play the guitar. I've already got a lifetime supply of Fender, heavy and Gibson, (triangular) medium to wear out on my Elixirs. Rock on! (It ain't lack of equipment that's holding me back...)
Mine don't seem to but I'd tell you that I don't hit the guitar very hard. I have a buddy, Dan Lurie at FYD Amps that is always burning up the pointy ends of his picks. I should send him one of my BC picks and see if he can wear it out. Except he plays very different picks than I do.
Glad you saw this J. Welcome to the writing staff ;). I learned when reviewing the rules that giveaway vids aren’t monetized. So I’ll give you half of everything I make on this one brother. Kidding aside, Thanks again.
Hey , man ! I support your channel and what you do. No need for apologies. I also happen to be a proud owner of a Blue Chip pick. So won’t be entering. Five Watt on brother!
I don't have a Blue Chip pick, but I do have a question. I am still in the "learning process", like 6 months in. I'm strumming & picking scales, so would a pick like this be suited to me or would it be better to just stay out of the way of the pick until I can at least be able to utilize one properly? Thanks! For reference, picks I'm using and kind of enjoying are Dunlop Nylon .46mm as its easy to strum, but I like the sound & feel of the Ultex picks better (Dunlop .60 or a Clayton .45). When doing scales I use either a Jazz III or a Dunlop Flow .60. I'm still new to all of this & trying a ton of different picks (probably bought enough picks that past 6 months I could have at least bought a BC :D )
If you win the guys at blue chip will be able to tell you which of their pics is very similar to what you've been playing. In my experience, good gear is rarely lost on the player, even a relatively new one.
And, that's not even touring. I lose even more picks then. Am I alone in this? Any of you your and have blue chip picks? How long it last? I mean, i know they last forever. How long till ya lost it. Or, someone "tried it" and never gave it back. I left one of my banjos at a show one tour! A pick! Come on!! Hahaha
I hear you. I don't lose them and this one is going on 2 years and I can't even see any wear. But losing,...that's a different thing. And they run about $40 with the engraving, so it's worse/better than you thought. :)
@@fivewattworld damn! 2 years is amazing! $40 is worse. Especially cause I play multipul instruments, that all need strings. Hahah! Also, I love your channel! Thank you, for the awesome content!
I've only been following music stuff on UA-cam for maybe eight months or so. Over time it's gotten pretty apparent just how close some of these channels are to the equipment manufacturers. I watch demos because I really enjoy listening to some of these players, but I do get tired of all the selling and it's only getting worse with NAMM. I'm just not that into gear anyway. Once I find something I like, I stick with it. I've had my number one guitar since 1991 (I was 14 years old when I got it). She's beat up and has literally been around the world a few times but I love her.
Love your channel Keith and would like to get in the drawing however I don't know why gleam wants my birthdate to enter? so i got to the point of entering but then passed. I don't think its smart to give that type of confidential data out over the internet.
five watt world thanks very much for responding. I will just put in a fake birthday and get in.it made me pause a bit so that makes sense an age limit.
"Wouldn't YOU be cool if you had this?" Exactly. Yes, I would be cool if I knew all the modes and all the notes on my fretboard. Oops..can't buy that.
You can. Just cant make it sink in like ya want
@@noahtysonhighlonesome8117, I just need to put in the time. Make a game of it. Respect the fretboard. Play with the colors of the modes.
I'm one of those who bought a blue chip pick after your video. Couldn't be happier with it.
I guess that makes me chipful so i'll abstain. Good luck to the chipless!
I bought the exact same pick as you Keith and it is the ONLY pick that I use, incredible quality and tone. Thanks for what you do.
Glad you like it Shawn! Did you enter to win a backup?
five watt world I most certainly did!!
Hi Keith, got one of your mugs for my birthday in December, I love it!!! Happy New Year!!!
I’ve dragged my feet since your 5 star video debating if I should take the plunge on a $40 pick. I have such respect for you, your wealth of information, and your sincerity that I really have no excuse for being chipless any more. =)
Really awesome of you to do this, Keith. Keep up the great work please.
That’s awesome Keith! I’ve never tried a blue chip. I’ll definitely have to give these picks a shot. All the best!!
Watching your videos and some others I have really thinned out my collection. Some will always stay weather I play them or not. The 2 guitars my uncle gave me when I started playing and my grandpa’s guitar. Guitars like that are treasures.
Cool giveaway, Keith. And thanks for putting some much needed perspective on gear buying.
If I already have a BC pick, would that make me a "Chipper?" In any case, I too will step aside for the benefit of the Chipless. Great channel, keep up the good work!
A "chipper"! Excellent!
"So, I take it that's your accomplice in da chipper?"
Keith, I love your channel! As someone who is pursuing minimalism and being essentialist in life and in gear I really appreciate your channel. It definitely makes me want to play more! I also love how you tie in bits of information from other people into the videos that apply to more than guitar playing, the first one that comes to mind is the clip of Neil Gaiman. To me , you seem to love education and have a curiosity that is infectious! I entered the giveaway because I’m chipless! And I still intend to purchase a mug and a t shirt at some point, purely because I want to support your channel. I’ve cut way back on social media and you tube. But I watch every video you put out when I get the notification email! Thank you so much for creating quality content and helping me get the most music from the least gear!
Great stuff Maynard. I'm going to get some practice in right now. :)
More minamalist, interesting. A good idea when seeing so many guitars and effects pedals here. It's too easy to want everything.
John A so true. It would be easy to want every cool sounding pedal and every beautiful guitar. It can also distract from achieving certain goals. I’ve had those moment when I realized I’ve spent X on a bunch of gear that I don’t really like or don’t really use that much and had I just saved up I could have purchased something that I really wanted and that would be much better quality etc.
@@maynardmadsen8712 well, I am interested in a pedal called " The Astronomer " by Matthews Effects, or TC electronic "Hall of fame reverb 2 ". I wish you the best!
John A nice! Save up and get them! I’d really like to get a quiet theory prelude and walrus audio bc10.
Hey Keith, thanks in part to you I've bought my only guitar for 2020 last week (An Ibanez Semi Hollow). I still look at gear videos but practice at the same time. Every time I look at gear online, I think "I could be playing instead". It's such a simple habit to get into; but it's so true. The phrase 'beware the man with one gun' has now entered my lexicon. Regards
I Bought 3 of these for friends I got four in the mail because one of the engraving did not meet their standard so they included both. I could not tell the diff. Great customer service!
Thanks Mr. Williams. I congratulate the winners in advance. I seriously doubt that I will be amongst them. Have a great week!!
Thanks Keith for the 5 watt world. I love the videos you make!
As a winner of one of the BC picks, I ordered the 2.5mm Jazz LG 100. It’s easily become my favorite pick, supplanting my previous brands 2.0 pick. Thanks, Keith!! I would not have ever take the dive to paythe $75 price tag for such a pick if I am being honest but do feel quite lucky to now own one and I don’t see me ever putting myself in a position to lose it. I can see value in the boutique pick and again I do love that I own it. Thanks so much, again to Keith and the BC pick team!
Glad you dig it Michael!
Keith
I've got 4 of them now, and I thank you for making the video about it which featured your experience with finding a pick you really like.
I try to watch all the vids as they come out. I dont know how I missed the one people took the wrong way. I really love the premise of your channel
Ah, that explains why yesterday's video was marked 'private' and was unavailable when I clicked on it!
Exactly. A YT'ber I watch has a channel motto, "Learn...Make...Repeat".
Awesome channel
I don't use a pick but watched regardless because this channel is always a breath of clean agenda-free air; keep up the good work, hopefully it's infectious.
Keith couldn't be a more stand up guy, easily my favorite guitar channel on UA-cam.
Cool giveaway Keith. Checked out Blue Chip when I saw your first video about them and have debated ordering one since and regardless of the outcome here I’m sure I will be ordering one in the future. Cheers to you and all you do sir.
Hey thanks for the giveaway! Love what youve been doing on your channel!
Thanks Keith, Love your channel!
And thank you for your interesting and insightful content. I love this opportunity since I'm still searching for my favorite pick.
I broke my TAD 40 in half a month or so ago, it was 5-6 years old. It turns out that Stupid Glue (the thicker stuff) works great. Set-up 24 hours and sanded the little ridge off and it seems as good as new.
That's fascinating. I didn't think that a) a BC could break (while in use as a pick?), or even b) that superglue gel would hold it for long under side load.
@@f5mando and it's still rock n rollin'
@@FuriousMess Good for you! I use their TAD-3R 60, which may explain its resistance to my thrashing. Lucky me, then, too!
BTW as an addendum I shattered a Red Bear pick just a couple of months earlier and it was a complete loss. Guess I'm a little hard on plectrums LOL.
This is a nice promotion. I will step aside as well since I have three BC picks. I donated a Chris Thile signature BC to the Mandolin Cafe Travelling Pick Sampler a couple of years ago and sent my favorite online guitar teacher, Sandra Sherman one as a thank you last year. Blue Chips are a great gift for your friends who play stringed instruments.
Nice Don! Another long time subscriber using the CT55's. He said he won't use anything else on acoustic.
Not to be so naive but you are so kind and genuine I could not imagine in my wildest dreams you doing anything without the utmost integrity. The leaders of our country could learn this concept.
Oh about the picks, my son bought me a pick punch for xmass which I really like. You can make picks out of any material and this punch punches out the shape.
I miss the old days when even the stars like Clapton played one guitar all show. It’s important to form a relationship with your guitar and that isn’t easy when you have 25.
Wade Wilson are we talking about the same Clapton :) EC bought, sold, built and gifted more guitars than any one else I can think of
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Great idea, Keith; good luck, everyone!
I bought a pick after Keith's last video and loved it so much, I bought two extras, because I don't want to go a day without it.
dunlop primetone picks are the greatest. i prefer the standard shape with 'grip'. you can't get a better pick than dunlop primetone
I’m already cool...yeah right !
I live in the small town in Tennessee where this company is from. The material they use for the picks is very expensive material used by NASA and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They fellow who founded the company was working somewhere out there and using the material. With a tiny piece of waste material he asked if he could have it to make a mandolin pick out of it. The rest was history. This is an amazing product and is completely unique. If you ever lose the tack on the pick, you just wash it with liquid soap and it comes right back. I love these things. They are very fast, easy to hang on to and glide over the stings like no other pick.
keith, your chanel and philosofy about less is more, its a great thing, i have a big collections of gear and guitar stuff and i realize then i need to focus more in play guitar, in this months i sell almost everything and only have a blue strat, one marshall amp and a couple of pedals and play with more frecuency thanks for share your passion, and for be breave, different and unique in a world where people only want own and have more and more, sorry for my bad english, saludos desde guadalajara.
Thanks Eddy. Your English is way better than my Spanish brother.
I'll look forward for the next video
Thanks for the offer but I've owned a half-dozen Dunlop 88s in the last 30 years. Yeah, I'm frugal :)
Thanks, Keith. I've never taken any of your videos, including the Blue Chip one, to be pushes to buy anything, but I also did go over and check out Blue Chip after watching. Keep doing what you do.
"....lighting up our gear lust... " Now that's a '5 Watt' quote that speaks volumes to me in coincidentally 5 words. An instant classic Keith !
That's great! And after your answer I will surely support you with a merch purchase! BTW: do you think it would be of interest to add not only history of gear but also history of type of music? Maybe there are a lot more of those bit you are so good and thorough that I'd imagine the videos would be great :)
Thank you Keith.
Glad to be part of the 5 Watt World.
After 30 some years of gear accumulation searching for the right tone in handwired amps, custom this and that, I finally found "the" tone. With it, a new world to explore full of inspiration . I found it with a steel body tricone. I believe it even covers the 5watt deal and then some on its own.lol
Thanks, this is a great channel. Great info and well presented. I too am a chipper, but I entered. Redd Volkaert said when asked if he used a Blue Chip, that he couldn’t see spending that kind of money on something he was likely to lose. Redd is now a dyed in the wool fan and won’t use anything else. I wonder if he ever wakes up wondering if he put it safely away? I say “sure you can play my guitar, but you need to find a pick” LOL
Hey, everybody "needs" a back up right?
It’s really nice of you to do this BlueChip pick giveaway and a good distraction from lusting over the new gear at NAMM. I’ve always wanted to try them but they are a bit expensive when I don’t know if I would like them.
Very nicely done. I didn’t see a problem with the way it was initially done but could understand the interpretation of some. I am chipless so giving it a shot.
I'm chipless and entering for sure!
I am chipless, but have all the picks I’ll ever need. I’ll step aside for some other lucky friends. Love your videos!
I have never entered a giveaway before. First time. To win something from this channel would be awesome. Thanks Keith!
Keith, Thanks for running this giveaway with Blue Chip Picks!
I love the channel, AND the fact you’re holding a giveaway. Until recently I was a one guitar owner, but have expanded to three, all vastly different. I was really intrigued by your Blue Chip video, but couldn’t justify the cost, so I looked for the closest thing at a reasonable price and settled on the Dunlop Primetone. But I would certainly give the Blue Chip a try if I won one.
Entered. Fingers crossed!
I want a 5ww review of the monoprice 5w tune amp- we talk simplicity but I’d be interested in seeing it applied with a simple rig. Enjoying the channel. Great deal.
You've probably noticed that "simple" does not always mean "inexpensive" nor the other way around.
The couple of amp reviews I've done, of amps I know as well as anyone who is not so technical (me) can, haven't done well. And though I enjoy going down a rabbit hole with the best of them (see upcoming videos for proof of that) this is a part-time job for me. I have a list of about 24 vids right now.
But I agree. These keep coming up.
@@fivewattworld absolutely- but that particular amp is simple and happens to be inexpensive, but it isn’t “cheap”(likely a rebranded Laney Cub if the internet is to be believed). Similiar premise with any minimalist amp would suffice- just a thought. 👍
I now have several of these pick. I just ordered three more to give to friends. My guitar teacher used mine last night and wont give it back lol. I love this pick.
Hi Keith, I’m chipless! However a minimalist as well. I appreciate your channel and your philosophy when it comes to gear. I use to be a guitar “collector” until my all my guitars were stolen. During my re-procurement of guitars I realized that I really only played two of my faves, a mid 80’s tele and a great beat-up Yamaha acoustic. That’s when I figured out what I truly need. Yes I salivate over new gear and all it could bring but only buy out of necessities. I find it refreshing to see what I can bring out of my gear. Thank you for your time and effort!
I would love to try Blue Chip picks. I also enjoy how professional your videos are. Keep up the great work 👍
I recently purchased one of every pick I could ding at my local music shop. I played them all blindly. Some were an instant “no”, some made it to the next round. One pick made it passed the second round, which I now use exclusively. I had never tried this sort of pick before, but I love it. Anyhoo, I did not have a blue chip pick to try. Excited at the chance
Thanks, keeping it simple is always the best! Even if I don't win, I'm going to purchase some and try them out!
I have been flipping from pick to pick constantly as I have become more proficient at guitar. Thanks to your channel I have traded my modeling amp and silly accessories for a small tube set up that gets me a simple gorgeous tone with the flip of a switch. I have started focusing on learning and not gathering. Im more than happy with everything in my arsenal except the 90 picks lying around my room. It seems like i always want something more dense and durable; something that lets me feel the strings and brings out the tone of my guitar mistakes and all. I have tried a handful of picks from my local guitar stores freebees to ernie ball prodigies and Im hoping if I win the blue pick that it gives me the feel Ive been searching for
If you do read this I just wanna say thank you and keep it up. Changing focus from how I can improve my gear to how I can improve myself has been an amazing change in my everyday life. Keep it up man. Whoever gets those picks I hope they get as much out of your channel as I do.
I play with my thumb and fingers and never use a pick. Best of luck to the plectrum dependent.
Ha! “The plectrum dependent” I love that.
So glad I saw this today. Always enjoy your video's. They help keep me grounded a bit. I would love to be "Chipper" so I took advantage of your offer to enter. I'd be stoked to win one.
I got the notification of this video yesterday, but when I clicked the notification, the video said it was private.
Anyway, I am all about weird and oddball stuff, stuff no one has, maybe no one has even heard of. I even have an Altoids tin full of weird and oddball picks. So, a Blue Chip? I am definitely willing to try one. I'll definitely enter for this.
I remade the video so eventually deleted the one I’d made private.
I hope my comment in yesterday's video wasn't taken as a slight on the channel or you Keith. You do great service to the viewers. I was just commenting on my circumstances...
Not at all, really glad folks helped me see how it may have come off. And come to find out, it's actually against the rules to require anything to get into a giveaway. So this is cleaner. I'm grateful for your input.
Thanks
Just wondering Keith, did I miss the announcement of the winner of the pick?
I contacted everyone by email back two weeks after the start of the contest. I’ll get in and clean up the description tomorrow.
Thanks for the reminder Yvan.
No problem. Until the next video!
Thanks Keith ⚓️
Thanks for watching Keith. :)
I’m feeling lucky.
Your good dude!
Dang now i wanna have a chip pick too
Hey Keith! If I may suggest a short history idea it would be cool to learn about Gretsch and the 6120 model.
That’s on the list. I just watched “Echo in the canyon”. Gretsch heaven.
Very good man 🚬😎💨 well spoken as usual
Thanks Ios!
I’m in.
That was easy!
Good luck to all the entrees. BTW Keith I need to replace the mug, no one in my house broke, but I need a large like 24oz size. If not available thanks anyway. I'll just have to refill more often.
Hey Keith have you ever tried the picks made by snark (yes the danelctro/tuner co) their .70mm is my go-to love em!
I haven't. Once Ben gave me the blue chip I stopped pick shopping for picks (for now).
Remember folks , if you're British , you have to enter you birthdate the wrong way around . Don't shout "I have entered my bloody details?!?!" at your phone for five minutes before realising lol 🤭
"wrong way around" lol
@@theray1319 Of course I didn't do that. Just saying 🤞☺️🇬🇧
I stopped using a pick. I have been watching 5-watt world for too long. I never drop my thumbs or fingers whilst playing, plus their cheaper :-)
I enjoy your channel. It reminds me constantly I don't need this or that. Still, since you have a few free freebees throw my name in the hat. And thanks for all you do.
Entered. I'm not sure i want a blue chip. I love the jazz III that i'm using, although... True: you can't really strum with a jazz III. Mostly, i love to participate to your channel. So, i'm in!
Thank you for this opportunity and for making it open internationally. Blue Chips are no where to be found in South Africa
The guys at Blue Chip said that they would "send them anywhere".
Looking forward to your impression of Winter Namm 2020. Query: When did a guitar become something other than a well-crafted, functional instrument? I hear a lot of chatter about the beauty of the colors and the eye-pleasing grain of the wood -- never understood that. Maybe it's just me.
To be clear, I didn't go to NAMM. I made that video at home this morning.
I'm guilty of thinking that guitars are beautiful things, but generally beauty follows functions for me.
@@fivewattworld My first 'quality' guitar was a 73 LP. It's aged about as gracefully as I have. The finish has cracks, there's a worn spot (where the pickguard use to be) from anchoring three of my fingers as I played night after night, the binding has yellowed (probably, in part, from the smokey bars), it's had two frett jobs and a pickup swap. In my eyes, it's beautiful--it tells my story. In the end, however, old guitars are just that . . . old guitars . . . sometimes that's good, sometimes ... not so much.
@@lawboss You sound like a wise fellow Tom. Is your LP a Deluxe with the minis?
@@fivewattworld It started with minis . . . In 78 or 79 I had a Dimarzio put in the bridge (seemed to be the thing to do at the time) . . . put the guitars away in 89 and started a new career. I enjoy your channel. As to a wise fellow--Nah. Just a guy who likes to play guitar and is trying to catch up to the times.
Love your videos and the underlying concept driving them.
Just one thing I need to clarify re the Blue Chip competition:
This Gleam outfit want to glean my password to Google or to my email (not on Google platform in my case) ???? Are they for real ????
I’m not gonna cough that to anyone ... let alone an entity I’ve never even heard of. It seems that quite a number of people are prepared to do just that for the slim chance of receiving a product that holds high regard. Am I misreading something here ? If I’m right then unfortunately the competition, although a brilliant idea and generous of BC, goes against the grain of your channel’s intended aims. This aside... the rules rule... keep up the great work.
I understand your hesitancy. I was a university registrar in my previous life, the keeper of institutional privacy if you will. Read over their privacy statement and it might answer your concerns. I can tell you that Gleam seems to be the largest company doing this so after looking into everything I read said that they are doing it right. I don't believe they are sharing password information, simply that you have an identity on the platform via their API (like I said this used to be my daily gig.)
But again, I totally understand if you decide to not come along. Thanks for watching.
Keith
Perhaps the only "unfettered..." music is singing. No economics, you already got what you need to do it; forget all the gear unless you want amplification. Since I can't sing either... I'll just go on trying to play the guitar. I've already got a lifetime supply of Fender, heavy and Gibson, (triangular) medium to wear out on my Elixirs. Rock on! (It ain't lack of equipment that's holding me back...)
Thanks for organizing the giveaway, Keith! Is it world-wide, or is it restricted to the States?
Worldwide my friend. :)
Awesome! Much obliged!
I’m chippless
I would love to try one of the blue chip picks!
Gleam powers most of the contests I enter - it really is handy for easy login.
Does a blue chip pick wear out on the end...like for example a copper pick will after a while?
Mine don't seem to but I'd tell you that I don't hit the guitar very hard. I have a buddy, Dan Lurie at FYD Amps that is always burning up the pointy ends of his picks. I should send him one of my BC picks and see if he can wear it out. Except he plays very different picks than I do.
Oh yeh! Hey Keith, I'll forward my address so you can start sending the royalty checks!! I'm rich!! What guitar should I buy first.........
Glad you saw this J. Welcome to the writing staff ;). I learned when reviewing the rules that giveaway vids aren’t monetized. So I’ll give you half of everything I make on this one brother.
Kidding aside, Thanks again.
@@fivewattworld You got it man, good times!
Hey , man ! I support your channel and what you do. No need for apologies. I also happen to be a proud owner of a Blue Chip pick. So won’t be entering. Five Watt on brother!
I don't have a Blue Chip pick, but I do have a question. I am still in the "learning process", like 6 months in. I'm strumming & picking scales, so would a pick like this be suited to me or would it be better to just stay out of the way of the pick until I can at least be able to utilize one properly? Thanks! For reference, picks I'm using and kind of enjoying are Dunlop Nylon .46mm as its easy to strum, but I like the sound & feel of the Ultex picks better (Dunlop .60 or a Clayton .45). When doing scales I use either a Jazz III or a Dunlop Flow .60. I'm still new to all of this & trying a ton of different picks (probably bought enough picks that past 6 months I could have at least bought a BC :D )
If you win the guys at blue chip will be able to tell you which of their pics is very similar to what you've been playing. In my experience, good gear is rarely lost on the player, even a relatively new one.
I am a "chipless" but i always wanted one just can't afford it. Here is my chance! LoL. Thanks for the chance to win!
I am crossing my fingers.
Always wanted to try these. To much $ though. Also, I lose my picks all the time. I'd hate to lose a $25 pick!
And, that's not even touring. I lose even more picks then. Am I alone in this? Any of you your and have blue chip picks? How long it last? I mean, i know they last forever. How long till ya lost it. Or, someone "tried it" and never gave it back. I left one of my banjos at a show one tour! A pick! Come on!! Hahaha
I hear you. I don't lose them and this one is going on 2 years and I can't even see any wear. But losing,...that's a different thing. And they run about $40 with the engraving, so it's worse/better than you thought. :)
@@fivewattworld damn! 2 years is amazing!
$40 is worse. Especially cause I play multipul instruments, that all need strings. Hahah!
Also, I love your channel! Thank you, for the awesome content!
I've only been following music stuff on UA-cam for maybe eight months or so. Over time it's gotten pretty apparent just how close some of these channels are to the equipment manufacturers. I watch demos because I really enjoy listening to some of these players, but I do get tired of all the selling and it's only getting worse with NAMM. I'm just not that into gear anyway. Once I find something I like, I stick with it. I've had my number one guitar since 1991 (I was 14 years old when I got it). She's beat up and has literally been around the world a few times but I love her.
Dustin, I view it as the artist-fan-manufacturers industrial complex. ( I give credit to Dwight D Eisenhower's quote of long ago )
good deal......
I can't think of any consumer durable that would make me "cool" K.W. That ship sailed in about 1979.....
Ha! Love it
Sorry. I cannot give Gleam access to my gmail account even with their "trust me" comments.
Love your channel Keith and would like to get in the drawing however I don't know why gleam wants my birthdate to enter?
so i got to the point of entering but then passed. I don't think its smart to give that type of confidential data out over the internet.
I understand. They are asking for birthdate because I put a limit of 18 or older on the giveaway.
five watt world thanks very much for responding. I will just put in a fake birthday and get in.it made me pause a bit so that makes sense an age limit.
Thomas Moore Ha! That’s the spirit.
I only want one if it says "five watt world" on it!
Ha! All the picks will be engraved w “five watt world”.
@@fivewattworld I love your channel dude. for real. its so frickin' good!!!
Is it just me? went to sign in for the pick give-a-way and Google says error cannot sign in to this web site
Haven't heard that from anyone else. I'd say try again in a bit. It could be the thing is just "clogged."