Pick of the Week, The Ray Johnston Band
This week we selected a bright orange delrin pick by The Ray Johnston Band for Pick of the week. Our colored delrin picks can only be printed with black ink, but they sure can get an audiences attention! The band also ordered their design on our yellow delrin and pearl celluloid picks. You may have noticed we did a blog earlier about this band, here. They are a true inspiration! This pick was created to help Ray Johnston promote a new web series featuring him. Below is the synopsis of the [...]
Supporting Music Makes Music from Steve Clayton
Music Makes Music “MMM” is a non-profit organization that goes to schools to perform and educate students about the importance of music. MMM inspires students to get involved with music which in then impacts students interest levels to finish their education. Schools that have a music program are seeing higher attendance and graduation rates. A 2006 Harris poll, showed that schools who have a music program are getting 97% of students to attend and graduate versus 72.9% for schools [...]
Pick of the Week, Dylan Duncan
This week we selected a beautiful pencil sketch that we reproduced on our Acetal guitar picks by Dylan Duncan. Dylan explained the purpose of the bicycle on his pick to us below: “The bicycle art and Bicycle on the Ice song on the record, is inspired by an old photograph taken in 1962 by my dad in Vermont. It’s a great photo of a bicycle alone on an iced over lake and the feeling I got from the picture seemed to take on a whole new meaning that related to [...]
New Featured Artist From Lynyrd Skynyrd “Robert Kearns”
Robert Kearns is now our featured artist! He is the current bassist from Lynyrd Skynyrd and will be touring with them for 2010. The band talks about his audition and how they were impressed by his talent in the video below. Kearns chooses to play with our acetal rounded triangle picks. He enjoys how they feel when he plays with them and says they create a better tone than other guitar picks. Kearns is also from the south and fits right [...]
Pick of the Week, Forgetful Jones
This week we selected a pick from the band Forgetful Jones . They are a really cool band from Boston that plays a eclectic style of Hard Rock, Funk, Reggae, and Blues. They are quoted as their music being a “reflection of their individual and collective struggles, trials and triumphs” Their music is influenced by legendary artists which include 
James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. [...]
New endorsed band “Kauze” to hit the scene
Formed in 2005 the band Kauze is a heavy-metal band located in Southern California. They enjoy using our acetal picks and are big fans of our picks. They created a debut EP titled “Waiting for the Punch” released in 2006. They just had their latest EP release “Epiphany.” The new EP was supported during their 2009 tour and have up coming shows for 2010. Kauze likes to say they sound like old-school hardcore punk and metal. We look forward to [...]
Band overseas signs with Clayton “BILOCATE”
Bilocate is a band well know in Jordan. They came together with brothers Ramzi and Waseem Esayed, got started, and then joined with guitarist Baha’ Farah, and later added guitarist Rami Haikal. In 2005, they released their first full length album “Dysphoria.” The album had received lots of airplay on the local governmental radio station on Jordan FM. In July of 2008 they [...]
Tallboy signs with Clayton
A new 5 piece progressive metal rock band named “Tallboy” becomes endorsed by Clayton. Tallboy is a band from Medford, OR. They became finalists in the “Last Band Standing” as their amazing live performances continue to carry them to success. The members currently are Jimmy Roberts (vocals), Angel Alvarez and Justin Bullen (drums/percussion), Kevin Kaufman (lead guitarist), a
nd Brandon Cregan (rhythm guitar). They like to use our Clayton Acetal 1.26 standard shape picks, along with our orange and yellow colored delrins. Tallboy [...]
