Miscellaneous D'Andrea Vintage Picks
****The pick below was acquired from the great Joe Macey! He tells his story as such:
"There is a bit of interesting history to it', as Joe explains: "About 1996 as I was walking out of Whittaker Music in Long Beach, CA. this man was walking in. Briefly, he heard me talking to the proprietor about picks and said he had some I may be interested in. I arranged a meeting with him & purchased $300.00 worth of fine vintage pieces he had saved since the 1970s. As we concluded the deal, he offered me a few of his personal picks. That mystery man is "Tracy Sands" of Fullerton, California. He said the D'andrea 348 was his favorite shape & the image of him on the pick was taken from a drawing a street artist did of him years earlier.
It is stories like this that make collecting picks, especially vintage picks, so attractive. So many mysteries to be solved, and too few sleuths to solve them, or in this case, just plain lucky chance encounters with the history itself."
"There is a bit of interesting history to it', as Joe explains: "About 1996 as I was walking out of Whittaker Music in Long Beach, CA. this man was walking in. Briefly, he heard me talking to the proprietor about picks and said he had some I may be interested in. I arranged a meeting with him & purchased $300.00 worth of fine vintage pieces he had saved since the 1970s. As we concluded the deal, he offered me a few of his personal picks. That mystery man is "Tracy Sands" of Fullerton, California. He said the D'andrea 348 was his favorite shape & the image of him on the pick was taken from a drawing a street artist did of him years earlier.
It is stories like this that make collecting picks, especially vintage picks, so attractive. So many mysteries to be solved, and too few sleuths to solve them, or in this case, just plain lucky chance encounters with the history itself."