Sunday, January 25, 2009

I just got a few more picks from Disturbed, Cheap Trick and Rodney Atkins. Here we go...

Trevor & Bull from Disturbed donated a total of 30 picks:

Bryan with the Rodney Atkins crew donated 11 picks:

During a 3-day run of Cheap Trick I was able to collect 111 picks left on the stage after Rick Neilson's pick-tossing rampages during the song "Dream Police":

I was also given two unopened bags of picks from Paul. Each bag has about 100 picks in them. Thank you to Trevor, Bull, Bryan, and Paul for helping out Pickin' for Sick Children.

Monday, January 19, 2009

New Additions and nearling the $4,000 mark!

First, the good news. as of this posting, I have mailed another $700 check to Children's Hospital from pick sales and another round from eBay sales generated about another $850. I say "about" because I need to calculate the total that is to go to the Hospital. Total sales going to the Hospital would be awesome, but eBay and Pay Pal take their cuts. So, by my calculations, in just over a year we have been able to give The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin nearly $4,000!

THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE DONATED AND / OR BOUGHT PICKS FOR THIS CAUSE!!!
Now, in the past week, the mighty Metallica and their equally mighty crew came to town and were very generous. Between the several people I spoke to, a total of 84 picks were donated. Thank you to Zack, Chad, Justin, Mike, Dewey and Lou for all of your help in either giving the picks to the fundraiser or pointing me to the proper people to talk to. I am certain that your help will generate a lot of money for the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. So, without any further ado, here are the Metallica picks which were donated:













Touring with Metallica were Machine Head and The Sword. Andy and Brian with Machine Head went out of their way to donate a total of 274 picks, including an entire bag of the blue picks seen below. I want to thank these men for being not only generous, but gracious in giving me the time to talk to them and go through their cases despite being quite busy. Thanks again, gentlemen!

Equally busy was James with The Sword who donated a total of 18 picks:
Milo, touring with Reel Big fish was happy to give the fundraiser nine picks:


Saturday, January 10, 2009

Happy 2009

Well, just before Christmas, I ran into an old friend, Moose, on Hinder's Jagermeister Tour stop in Milwaukee and he hooked me up with a total of 121 picks from Hinder, including several red picks that I did not see used on stage. Check them out here:

Also I was able to get my hands on four picks from Trapt:


And 21 picks from Rev Theory:


Here's to 2009 being more successful than was 2008 for Pickin' for Sick Children as well as The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.