Pickin & Grinnin

For my B-Day, I had a guitarish theme. We took our friends out to a new bar & grille behind Campbell's, called The Local.

Thanks SB for the cool Iron Maiden guitar picks at Christmas!! I love them and they have made me a better player, too.

I pooled my b-day $$ and hit the used guitar shop and picked up a sweet used Orange tube amp.

I feel like I missed out on dealing with high-voltage vacuum tubes and TV repair, so I'm looking forward to fooling around with the innards of the new amp. Nothing like 400 volts DC!

The tubes really make a difference in sound, so it was also time to reconfigure the pickups on my Strat. Trying out some Fender Highway Ones.