Rory Gallagher

In the YouTube video "Rory Gallagher - Tattoo'd Lady - Montreux 1994," Rory Gallagher is seen using Dunlop Herco Vintage '66 Heavy Gauge 1.0mm Picks during his performance.

From 0:45 onward, a white Herco heavy gauge pick can be seen between Gallagher's fingers throughout this October 6, 1976 interview for WDR. At 2:10, we can vaguely see the circular grip-logo. At 3:06, the interviewer asks Gallagher about his hybrid picking technique:

[Interviewer]: "You use what you call a plectrum, what do you call these things?"

[Rory Gallagher]: "A Plectrum, yeah..."

[Interviewer]: "But you use your fingers too?"

[Gallagher]: "Yeah, fingers as well."

[Interviewer]: "Can you show? for our viewers who are playing guitar... what you do with the plectrum?"

[Playing]

[Gallagher]: "The best way to play is with a Thumbpick on here and two metal picks sometimes I play like [inaudible], normally I play it with a plectrum because there so much electric there, there's so much electric guitar that I get so used to this style, I stick with it."

Gallagher subsequently specified the grey Herco 75 in the February 1985 issue of Guitarist and the August 1991 issue of Guitar for the Practicing Musician.

Guitarist, February 1985, "Rory Gallagher" by Bob Hewitt

I use Herco grey picks, which are a hard, heavy nylon type. I sometimes use the serrated grip for solo parts. For acoustic I prefer a tortoiseshell for crispness.

Guitar for the Practicing Musician, August 1991, "The Wearing of the Blues" by Vivian Campbell

VIVIAN: What kind of picks do you use?

RORY: Charcoal Herco grey picks. I guess they're called 75 or something.