Michael Weikath

GG: Fair enough! I saw, when you showed me your white Les Paul, there was a grey pick there. Was that a Dunlop Max-Grip?

MW: Yeah, we went kind of back to that. Kai Hansen played with them all those years ago. I tried the other tortoise ones, you know, the Tortex ones in Orange. Then I went to the slightly thicker ones, the Yellow ones. It was good because they don’t slip off the finger so easily. But yes, we went back to these very grey Dunlop ones. In fact, this is a 1.0mm and that’s it. I get along with these better because they have a graspy surface. It was when Kai Hansen came back to the band. We were playing stuff and I thought, it’s probably a good idea if you just take the same picks, you know? We’ve done so many tours and had so many experiences with this pick. We used to have the 0.88mm, I think in the past. This is just a reliable overall pick that you can get almost everywhere in the world. These other guys who use those small Jazz picks, they play better than me, so maybe that’s a matter of the pick!