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Post subject: Signed Strats
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:02 am
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I'm interested in see and/or hearing about people signed Strats (or other instruments).

I've been luck enough to have 2 of my Strat signed, one by Robert Cray and the other by Stacy Mitchhart, a very tallented Blues player out of Nashville, TN.


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Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:29 am
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I'm amazed you got Robert Cray's autograph, I waved an album and pen at him and the guy walked past me without even acknowledging my existence.

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Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:41 am
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I managed to get Eric Johnson to sign the rear trem cover plate from my Strat after his show at the Birchmere last year. I was sitting right at the foot of the stage and jumped up as he finished his encore and waved it at him. He started to leave, paused, then came back and signed it as well as shaking my hand. I was the only one to get an autograph that night. The rear cover is now safe in a plastic bag.

I also got Bill Kirchen to sign a spare Tele pickguard a few weeks ago at the Birchmere.

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Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 7:20 pm
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I didn't get EC to sign it personally, but I did win this one...proof that lucky can beat good :mrgreen:

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By the way...this is the first pic :?: :?: :?: To quote Chris Carter..."Come On Man"

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Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:31 am
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GilgaFrank wrote:
I'm amazed you got Robert Cray's autograph, I waved an album and pen at him and the guy walked past me without even acknowledging my existence.


Really? I showed up very early and was standing by the side door of the Ryman Auditorium holding my guitar and he we walking by (from his hotel room). I asked him to sign and had asked me to wait a minute, and that he had to check in first. He came out and signed my guitar.

Towards the end of Buddy Guy's set, I waited at the side door to get Buddy's signature and Robert Cray was standing outside smoking a cigar and chatting with some fans (he was the opening act). After about 10 minutes he shook everyone's hand, thanked them for coming and said good night, and walked back to his hotel room.

Buddy on the other hand walked out, signed one item and was whisked away by his staff.

Oddly enough, his signature just looks like a crazy "RS."


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Post subject: Re: Signed Strats
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:23 am
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Personally this is something that has just never impressed me at all. It's one thing if we're talking a Custom Shop instrument that was signed by the builder...much the same way that I, as an artist, typically sign my own work. But to have "so and so" sign your guitar? Come on...does that signature somehow make the guitar sound better? Does it improve the action or the intonation? Obviously not...so what's the point?

Don't get me wrong...I have my favorite artists too. I would -love- to meet David Gilmore and just spend an hour or so talking guitars with him. To be able to sit down and just jam with someone like Clapton...that would get my rocks off to no end. And yea, if I could get Dave or Eric to play one of -my- guitars...who knows...maybe some of that mojo would rub off on the fretboard, LOL!!! I'd certainly love to get David Gilmore's feedback on how I setup my Strats! LOL! But to have said person's signature on a scrap piece of paper...I guess if you collect signatures, that's one thing and I can understand a personally autographed picture of the person, but on my guitar???? What's the point? I'd rather leave the guitar as is so that I can enjoy it for what it is - a guitar. I'm a guitar player...I play guitars, not signatures.

I just don't get it...

As always, just my not so terribly humble opinion.
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:31 am
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lomitus wrote:
Personally this is something that has just never impressed me at all. It's one thing if we're talking a Custom Shop instrument that was signed by the builder...much the same way that I, as an artist, typically sign my own work. But to have "so and so" sign your guitar? Come on...does that signature somehow make the guitar sound better? Does it improve the action or the intonation? Obviously not...so what's the point?

Don't get me wrong...I have my favorite artists too. I would -love- to meet David Gilmore and just spend an hour or so talking guitars with him. To be able to sit down and just jam with someone like Clapton...that would get my rocks off to no end. And yea, if I could get Dave or Eric to play one of -my- guitars...who knows...maybe some of that mojo would rub off on the fretboard, LOL!!! I'd certainly love to get David Gilmore's feedback on how I setup my Strats! LOL! But to have said person's signature on a scrap piece of paper...I guess if you collect signatures, that's one thing and I can understand a personally autographed picture of the person, but on my guitar???? What's the point? I'd rather leave the guitar as is so that I can enjoy it for what it is - a guitar. I'm a guitar player...I play guitars, not signatures.

I just don't get it...

As always, just my not so terribly humble opinion.
Jim

It's cool. I can understand your perspective. I guess, for me, it reminds me of the event. In the collectable world, unless you have documentation or a photo of you and the artist, no one is going to be interested in purchasing your signed, "whatever it is."


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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:01 am
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paris wrote:
It's cool. I can understand your perspective. I guess, for me, it reminds me of the event. In the collectable world, unless you have documentation or a photo of you and the artist, no one is going to be interested in purchasing your signed, "whatever it is."


Yea...from a collector's point of view, without documentation, any given signature really means precisely dick. Just got a hard lesson with this as my family was selling off my father's sport's memorabilia after he died. Dad had -a lot- of signed crap, most of which he had gotten signed personally at sporting events, shows, etc.. But because none of it had any documentation...not one single certificate of authenticity...the signatures just didn't mean diddle because at the end of the day, my brother or I could have easily just signed them ourselves. Not even including the other stuff we sold from Dad's estate...my mother's antique sewing machines, furniture, Mom's tea pot collection and lots of misc stuff, etc., Dad had thousands and thousands of sports cards, a couple dozen signed helmets and a ton of other memorabilia and "collectables"...much of which was signed and the sigs were indeed legit...quite literally tens of thousands of dollars of junk there and with EVERYTHING the family got a grand total of $1300...for all of it. Even a few COA's would have changed that, but Dad just never bothered...he just liked going to the stupid shows and like yourself, I guess it just reminded him of the event.


If he were still alive, I'd kick his a_s half way back to Poland for all the crap he put my brother and I thru with all of that......


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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:38 am
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lomitus wrote:
paris wrote:
It's cool. I can understand your perspective. I guess, for me, it reminds me of the event. In the collectable world, unless you have documentation or a photo of you and the artist, no one is going to be interested in purchasing your signed, "whatever it is."


Yea...from a collector's point of view, without documentation, any given signature really means precisely dick. Just got a hard lesson with this as my family was selling off my father's sport's memorabilia after he died. Dad had -a lot- of signed crap, most of which he had gotten signed personally at sporting events, shows, etc.. But because none of it had any documentation...not one single certificate of authenticity...the signatures just didn't mean diddle because at the end of the day, my brother or I could have easily just signed them ourselves. Not even including the other stuff we sold from Dad's estate...my mother's antique sewing machines, furniture, Mom's tea pot collection and lots of misc stuff, etc., Dad had thousands and thousands of sports cards, a couple dozen signed helmets and a ton of other memorabilia and "collectables"...much of which was signed and the sigs were indeed legit...quite literally tens of thousands of dollars of junk there and with EVERYTHING the family got a grand total of $1300...for all of it. Even a few COA's would have changed that, but Dad just never bothered...he just liked going to the stupid shows and like yourself, I guess it just reminded him of the event.


If he were still alive, I'd kick his a_s half way back to Poland for all the crap he put my brother and I thru with all of that......



I almost hate to say this, but you could have gotten the items certified yourself, granted it would have cost per item, but you would have walked away with alot more from the sounds of it. There are plenty of well respected places that will CoA items.

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Post subject: Re: Signed Strats
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:37 am
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Echoes71 wrote:
lomitus wrote:
paris wrote:
It's cool. I can understand your perspective. I guess, for me, it reminds me of the event. In the collectable world, unless you have documentation or a photo of you and the artist, no one is going to be interested in purchasing your signed, "whatever it is."


Yea...from a collector's point of view, without documentation, any given signature really means precisely dick. Just got a hard lesson with this as my family was selling off my father's sport's memorabilia after he died. Dad had -a lot- of signed crap, most of which he had gotten signed personally at sporting events, shows, etc.. But because none of it had any documentation...not one single certificate of authenticity...the signatures just didn't mean diddle because at the end of the day, my brother or I could have easily just signed them ourselves. Not even including the other stuff we sold from Dad's estate...my mother's antique sewing machines, furniture, Mom's tea pot collection and lots of misc stuff, etc., Dad had thousands and thousands of sports cards, a couple dozen signed helmets and a ton of other memorabilia and "collectables"...much of which was signed and the sigs were indeed legit...quite literally tens of thousands of dollars of junk there and with EVERYTHING the family got a grand total of $1300...for all of it. Even a few COA's would have changed that, but Dad just never bothered...he just liked going to the stupid shows and like yourself, I guess it just reminded him of the event.


If he were still alive, I'd kick his a_s half way back to Poland for all the crap he put my brother and I thru with all of that......



I almost hate to say this, but you could have gotten the items certified yourself, granted it would have cost per item, but you would have walked away with alot more from the sounds of it. There are plenty of well respected places that will CoA items.



Had it of been up to me, I would have...in a heart beat. Unfortunately my brother let his brain dead, meat sack son-in-law handle it, since he was (supposedly) the only one who knew anything about sports memorabilia and by the time I got there, everything had already been boxed up and shipped off to the auction house. The jerk off apparently took a whole 5 minutes to thumb thru thousands and thousands of sports cards and instantly determined that there just wasn't 1 card there that had ANY value...even though at least one large box of cards went at the auction -unopened- (the cards in the box were still in their original wrappers, also unopened). At the auction he just stood there, "oh...I didn't know you needed certificates for the signed stuff...". For that matter, I never would have gone thru a half-baked auction house to begin with...these people were literally running this so-called auction house out of the back warehouse of the Pella window factory! At the very least I would have done some research and would have found someone experienced with estate auctions, as apposed to some yo-yo who sells discount tools for a living....

Unfortunately crap like that was a re-occurring them during this whole affair...i.e. we had a ton of cosmetic jewelry that my wife and I had gone thru that belonged to my mother and my grandmother. Most of it was junk, but there could have been some stuff in there that had some value (some of that old cosmetic stuff actually has some value to the right collector now a days), so my wife and I took a couple of evenings, cleaned everything up, put matched sets on cards and such and we were going to try and sell it all separately from the rest of the estate. Then my brother got into the house when I wasn't there and gave every last f'ing piece of it to his 13 year old grand daughter...over 70 pairs of ear rings alone...all of which is now completely trashed.

Actually, that's one of the big reason's I dropped off the forums for a while here...on top of having just lost my father (not to mention watching Dad slip away at the hospitals), I was really loosing my mind trying to deal with these retards who are supposed to pass as my family and after a few months of this, pretty much every little thing was just pis_ing me off to no end. Honestly, whoever came up with the adage "blood is thicker than water" was a completely undeserving relative. Trust me, as soon as Dad's estate clears the statute of limitation for collections against the estate on August 1st (6 months from his date of death), I am -done- with those people. Up until my mother died in 2009, my brother was just "that guy" who I saw for an hour or two every few years -if- he could be bothered to come down for the holidays...and his whole family is even worse. There's absolutely no loss there at all. I had to play nice while Dad was in the hospital and while we were dealing with Dad's house and such, but once everything is payed out, that's it...I'm done.

Anyways...short answer...yea...I know.
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Post subject: Re: Signed Strats
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:22 pm
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lomitus wrote:
paris wrote:
It's cool. I can understand your perspective. I guess, for me, it reminds me of the event. In the collectable world, unless you have documentation or a photo of you and the artist, no one is going to be interested in purchasing your signed, "whatever it is."


Yea...from a collector's point of view, without documentation, any given signature really means precisely dick. Just got a hard lesson with this as my family was selling off my father's sport's memorabilia after he died. Dad had -a lot- of signed crap, most of which he had gotten signed personally at sporting events, shows, etc.. But because none of it had any documentation...not one single certificate of authenticity...the signatures just didn't mean diddle because at the end of the day, my brother or I could have easily just signed them ourselves. Not even including the other stuff we sold from Dad's estate...my mother's antique sewing machines, furniture, Mom's tea pot collection and lots of misc stuff, etc., Dad had thousands and thousands of sports cards, a couple dozen signed helmets and a ton of other memorabilia and "collectables"...much of which was signed and the sigs were indeed legit...quite literally tens of thousands of dollars of junk there and with EVERYTHING the family got a grand total of $1300...for all of it. Even a few COA's would have changed that, but Dad just never bothered...he just liked going to the stupid shows and like yourself, I guess it just reminded him of the event.


If he were still alive, I'd kick his a_s half way back to Poland for all the crap he put my brother and I thru with all of that......


If a person can get it authenticated by a handwriting expert, then that helps a bit.


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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:06 pm
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When I met Dickey Betts a few years ago, I asked him to sign my strat pickguard. he then asked me "Are you a player??"

I said yes and he then moved the pickguard around and signed BETWEEN the second and third pickup holes.

A great place to sign, it's under the strings when I play, won't easily be rubbed off. and the signature is easily read right side up when the strat is in a guitar stand.

p.s. when I went to get my picture taken with Dickey( By my wife),

HIS wife interferred, and told my wife to get in the picture too.

With Dickey Betts in the middle, and his arms around us...he tickled my wife in her ribs to make her smile (she was nervous about meeting him)

That was the last picture taken of my wife and I,... she passed away two weeks later/age 45...

I look at the pickguard and still smile and have good thoughts... all the day long


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