The bar has been raised!

Gigantour recently passed through Milwaukee and I was reunited with a couple of my favorite road crew members. Biffen (with In Flames) and Willie (with Megadeth) were both on the tour, and after explaining the fundraiser, they were both generous with donations.

First Willie donated a total of 19 Megadeth picks:

Two Lamb of god picks from last year's Ozzfest:

And a coule of picks from Overkill that he found in his road case:

Biffen went way above and beyond, going so far as to unpack part of the band's trailer just to get to his stash of picks. When he got to them he handed over a total of TWO-HUNDRED In Flames picks! As he kept handing them to me by the fistful, I was speechless.

I want to take a moment to not only thank Biffen, but the boys in In Flames: Jesper, Bjorn, Anders, Peter and Daniel.

Below you will see pictures of all the different styles of picks Biffen and the Band donated:

Also on the tour I met Darren who donated six picks from Job for a Cowboy:
I also found several picks from Children of Bodom:

Finally, I was given - through a fellow stagehand and collector Craig Crosby - a guitar pick and slide donated by Nils Lofgren after the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's show in Milwaukee on march 17, 2008. This is a very cool and exceptional donation and I hope it brings a lot of money to the fundraiser at auction.