About 30 Years of Pick Swapping - Stories Behind

You know, standing in the first row, you raise your hand, hold your guitar pick in your fingertips and wish to catch the attention of the Guitar Hero in front of you. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
I've got some success stories. Please fill in the gaps or correct me if you remember the gigs (and dates) better. Feel free to comment and share your own pick-related tales.

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Mikko:

Mikko Lankinen / Laika & the Cosmonauts, Tavastia 12.12.1996

My first concert of this Finnish surf phenomenon, four years too late (am I stupid, and my Brother, too)! They were back in Finland after very a successful tour to Antoine's of Austin and other cool rock venues of U.S. This was during "the Space Age".

The audience was held out of the main hall of Tavastia until the begining of the gig, and why? The band had built an another stage in the middle of the floor, a spaceship. Our crowd were standing in front of them, on the same level. Mikko, Tomi, Janne and Matti came straight down from Earth's Orbit, wearing their space outfits. Guitars and organs from outer space! We all went ballistic...

The last encore was the mark of the genius, Mikko's bravure "The A-Treatment", which offered intensive twanging of his Jazzmaster's tremolo bar, low E tuned to D. Just after the wall of sound faded, I rushed to him, and that was it!

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