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Loujoe
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A place to show them off and add any details.
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I was combing the stage and found like 6 of these. Gave the rest away and kept two. I feel like picks capture a little magic of the show.
Doyle from misfits.
What you got?
I'll start
I was combing the stage and found like 6 of these. Gave the rest away and kept two. I feel like picks capture a little magic of the show.
Doyle from misfits.
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Cincinnati 2014
Greenville 2016
(Raleigh 2016)
Columbia 2016
Found this cool one on the ground at a gas station
Honestly, while I do like Willow myself (she's a talented songwriter & quite good live!), I was mesmerized by her guitar picks during the show so really, I wanted one too LOL! They were so sparkly...
Also, though not a guitar pick, the only time in recent years (and as we reopened live shows) I really wanted something from a musician onstage, it was during our 1st indoor concert back in Sept, the Roots, and at the end of the show ?uestlove the incredible drummer/music director/film director/music professor held up a drumstick like "Who wants it?" and I started waving like crazy from my seat about 7 rows back, and he saw me and threw it almost directly to me, and when I tell you if there was video of me climbing on my seat trying to catch it, barely missing it, getting airborne & ending up across the armrests of 3 seats in our row on my back, laughing like crazy but masked so everyone thought I was crying, and the couple who did catch it handing it to me and saying "Um, I think this was meant for you... and you seem to really want it..." Yeah, I'm old, but I'm still willing to go all in for things that are truly worthwhile
Going through the vaults (which for me are the plastic sections of a little kid's souvenir wallet from Seaworld! No joke, clearly I'm not a good archivist), I have picks handed to me from:
* Ric Ocasek of the Cars (pictured)
* ALL of the Clash guitar players' picks from the 1st show I saw them at as a very young girl (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)(Topper's drumsticks too) (Joe's is clear one in this pic)
* Eddie Van Halen's guitar pick that he walked across the stage & handed to me after playing "Eruption" (I've told that story, it meant a lot more than the guitar pick & was so important to my early start as a young Black girl at rock concerts)(pictured)
* The lead guitar & bass guitar players for the Go Gos Charlotte Caffey & Kathy Valentine (who put on a DAMN GOOD live show I might add)
* Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders
* Keith Richards & Bill Wyman (there are some great stories from that show)
* Ray Davies of the Kinks (long story but I swear up to FIVE YEARS after this show at Madison Sq. Garden people stopped me on the street and said "Hey, were you at the Kinks concert back...?"
* And Rick Nielson & Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick (Gotta admit I was a full grown adult when I got Tom Peterson's, and it was the only one he gave out the whole show and I was quite honored to have it handed to me cuz I have found him DREAMY since being a kid in the "Dream Police" era!)
Here are 3 I took a pic of during pandemic when Eddie Van Halen died, because I was really still in shock that each of these talented guys had passed: Eddie Van Halen, Ric Ocasek, Joe Strummer
But - this is your fault - going through those picks and remembering I recently saw the video for the J. Geils Band song "Freeze Frame" (anyone old enough to remember when that album was all over the radio, with Love Stinks & Centerfold too?), and I WILL bore you with the time (because most of these shows I got the above-listed guitar picks at were within about a 5 or 6 yr span of seeing almost every show that played at Madison Sq. Garden & smaller NYC venues but legendary artists).
And seeing Freeze Frame & these pics reminded me of this era of having my little system down that got me front row for just about every show at MSG (I was a little kid with braces, so mostly the venue staff got to know me & just waved me up), and when J. Geils Band played (with I think George Thorogood supporting), for some reason this show was CHAOS and for most of the show, people from the audience were climbing onstage from the front and both sides, getting onstage and dancing or jumping around, then just jumping off. It was like the punk version of a non-punk show at MSG, just endless people onstage all night.
I had NEVER considered trying to get onstage for any band, and wasn't gonna do it for this show, but after awhile I felt like I was going to offend someone if I DIDN'T get onstage
OH YEAH, and by far the most memorable stage crashing moment that whole night was the balding guy who jumped onstage with a red rotary dial phone & chord, sat on the floor cross-legged first and then PUT HIS FEET BEHIND HIS HEAD like a yogi, and then pretended to talk on the red rotary phone until security literally picked him up, still cross-legged, and carried him offstage! What I would give for video of that, will never ever forget it, SO RANDOM!!!
So no guitar picks or anything, just the memory of what it was like to be onstage at a sold out Madison Sq. Garden show, dancing around, but when I scared him I felt awful but also it was SO FUNNY to watch!
Given I've never been a publicly playing musician, I feel lucky to have had one other experience of working a sold out show at Madison Sq. Garden (now in my real adulthood), being asked to grab waters for the band about to go onstage (it was a long night of a lot of bands, it was a special show), and when I brought the tour manager the waters, he juts pointed to the stairs to the stage and said "Put them onstage!" literally just as the band was going onstage. I knew I didn't have time to think or I'd freeze, so I ran up the stairs with the waters, followed by the band, and just as I put the last waters down in front of the lead singer's mic, the band was announced, all the lights went on, and I looked up to see a screaming cheering MSG audience pretty much looking right at me (because the singer was behind me) so I looked up, took a picture in my mind, and ran offstage and almost fainted from mortification that I was up there at all, but it was an unforgettable and cool sight.
No guitar picks from that night either, but at least the only person I scared was myself.
Yep. When i worked hard(waiting all night) for rail it always felt wild to turn around and face the crowd. Gave me a tiny sense of how a band must feel.
But Bowie & Hendrix would be my sets of picks I WISH WISH WISH I'd gotten at their actual shows... This Bowie pick is from a set I got at the incredible "David Bowie Is..." exhibit when it was in NYC at Brooklyn Museum.
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly
Scored some RNDM's have green and yellow bubble, missed the pink and blue. Was at that 2016 show and snagged another green from a friend of Joseph A. Asked about the other colors but didnt want to be a total pick dweeb! Great shows.
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly