Pick Scrapes

Headphones

Who invented/popularised it/them.

Deep Purple In Rock was my first awareness, but was it first?

not_the_dj

Bo Diddley

https://youtu.be/9Hy6EiiNUmA

Danny1969

Townsend in the Who was the first I heard 

tone1

This is my favourite 

https://youtu.be/2Ah1JM9mf60

pintspiller

Yes. Mr Diddley

RandallFlagg

tone1 said:

This is my favourite 

https://youtu.be/2Ah1JM9mf60

Great shout, personally, I prefer the pick scrape at the end of New York but Steve Jone's playing on NMTB is full of them and it's an essential part of the albums sound.

merlin

pintspiller said:

Yes. Mr Diddley

Damn, yes Ms Peggy Jones too!  

JerkMoans

Wasn’t it Giovanni Battista Granata who then got ripped off by Spirit?

portobear_65

The one at the start of Highway Star on Made in Japan is the one that really grabbed my attention.

First time I heard it was the moment I wanted a guitar, that version is still my favourite song ever. 

Funkfingers

Honourable mention to Dick Dale. 

starwarsnosebleed

Lil Wayne

breakstuff

Im pretty sure Satchel from Steel Panther pioneered it back in 1957 when he was thirty five.

viz

I love a good plectrum scrape! Sorry to boast but I did an absolute corker of one just before a guitar solo on a song by Jonno Stanford - here at 1:57. Never managed another quite as sweet as this one!

https://m.soundcloud.com/vizvizvizvizviz/jonno-stanford-mr-friday-night