Brad Gillis = What a predicament!

[86mod5]

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Thanks for the info. I don't tend to go there very much any more since they moved the guitar department to the other side of the sotre. They seemed to have thinned out there inventory quite a bit from what I remeber.

[fullshred]

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We just got in from PA. We had all-access so I met Brad with the guitar about 6:00PM. He asked if he could use it as a back-up for his Fender. Of course I say 'HELL YEAH!' and then he started taking a look at it. He goes to E flat, I had the wrong string gauge on, and the Floyd would have to be tweaked. No problem...Only thing was that there wasn't enough time for his tech to do all this. But, to make a long story short, Brad didn't break a string during the set, so he wouldn't have used it anyway. And as far as a trade, he didn't have anything there that I would have taken over this (of course his Fender-but that's obviously out of the question.) He didn't even have his Jackson 'Zipper' with him [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img]. He said it was at home in his closet. And of course he brought up the fact that Brad K. offered him cash for it and he turned him down [img]/images/graemlins/refuse.gif[/img] Brad said he's goin' down with the ship on that one. But, however, after Brad toyed around with it, I asked him to sign it, as well as the Fernandes B.G. model advertisement that I brought. Brad auto'd the front, and then I had Kelly, Jeff, and Jack do the back. They were all pretty thrilled to see a B.G. strat, fwiw. We watched Nightranger play from stage right as well as REO Speedwagon. We talked to Kevin Cronan for a while. Very nice guy. All the guys in NR were really cool to us, and it was great meeting Brad and hanging out and talking shop with him. We hit it off and I've got some pics of the night's festivities coming shortly. My wife and I had a really, really great time and I walked away happy tonight [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] And a big 'CHEERS' to Gary, NR's tour manager for hooking us up [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img] DC

[VitaminG]

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Sounds like a great night! Looking forward to those pics. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[thenine]

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[fullshred]

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Looks like not much of a 'predicament' anymore [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]











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[Tekky]

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Cool pics and cool story, I didn't realize that Kevin Cronin went blonde.

[fullshred]

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Hey Todd...Thanks
Yeah, my wife asked him about that too and he said that he's been blond for 10 years now actually.

[~K~]

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seems like you had a good time ..too bad Brad (XXX) only techs for Gillis side gig ...

[Tekky]

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Hey Todd...Thanks
Yeah, my wife asked him about that too and he said that he's been blond for 10 years now actually.

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Probably hiding the gray. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[~K~]

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Probably hiding the gray.


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Heh .. I'm considering it now .. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[fullshred]

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Probably hiding the gray. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Yeah, Kevin was really cool. We were hanging out watching NR play on the side together. They're not doing the whole US tour with NR so he wanted to check them out just like everyone else. He turned to us and said "So you guys are gonna hang out here too and watch us play, right?" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[86mod5]

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Thanks for the cool pics. I'm glad everything turned out OK in the end.

[Shawn Lutz]

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Sounds like you guys had a good time. Cool pictures too, thanks for posting them.

[JRE]

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Great Story!
Great Thread!
Greatr Pics!

Thanks for sharing all of it!

PS: - Originally, I was jealous of you having that guitar.........now i am jealous of something else.....

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PPS: +1 on the blonde vs grey theory!

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[nonamemx]

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WHOA!

Who's the babe?