Again, if people are into autographs, that's great! Lots of winning enthusiasm on display in this thread, and that's always a good thing. In my case, I did it more as an interesting entryway into talking with a couple of my musical heroes. I wasn't sure if after all that time they even remembered the unusual configuration of the U.S. release of S.F. Sorrow, and thought they might get a kick out of seeing one.
Dick Dale Patti Smith Johnny & Joey Ramone Superchunk (all members) The Mavericks (all members) Man or Astro-man? (all members) Ziggy Marley Al Jourgensen (Ministry) Dave Wakeling (English Beat) Ian McCulloch & Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen)
Rick Wakeman: on an old A&M Records Poster of him Steve Hackett: on Armando Gallo's photo book of Genesis Rod Price (Foghat) on Foghats' "Rock and Roll" Lonesome Dave (Foghat) and Roger Earl (Foghat): both on Savoy Brown's "Blue Matter" Larry Fast: One of his Synergy releases
David Bowie Neil Peart Geddy Lee Alex Lifeson Brian Eno Neil Hannon Kings Of Leon (all) Charlie Watts Steven Wilson Tori Amos Steve Hackett Andy Partridge & many more (though I'm not really 'into' autographs..!)
I used to have a STUNNING set of signatures from The Who on a copy of Quadrophenia - all really clear in black marker but sold on as part of our move to South Africa 10 years ago. I also had a number of personalised letters and note from Pete and John and a Keith signature mounted under a picture of him and Dougal at an airport in 1973 - again sold to fund the move.
Stevie Ray Vaughn Steve Morse Steve Hackett Steve Howe Bill Bruford Chris Squire Rick Wakeman Alan White Trevor Rabin Tony Kaye Robert Plant John Paul Jones Roger Daltrey Bob Dylan Robert Fripp Jeff Beck Carl Palmer Billy Gibbons Frank Beard Ian Anderson Mark Knopfler Bono The Edge Adam Clayton
I have a Rock-n-Roll HOF groundbreaking program with Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, and Billy Joel autographs.
Springsteen Escovado Petty Jimmy Webb Sebastian Yanovsky Butler Boone Furay I think that’s it. 99.9% on an lp, program, or on a photo I took.
Johnny Marr, Ash, Chromatics were all signed at shows and amazing to talk to. The coolest of all was Ian Brown. My wife had surprised me with tickets to a Manchester City match. The time we would be in Manchester coincided with the release date of Ian’s latest album. So I preordered it and four hours after our plane landed joined the queue for the record signing at Piccadilly Records. Talking to the people in line was a blast and people kept asking if I’d flown in just for the signing. Ian himself was just as cool as I thought he’d be.
Cyril Jordan Powell St John Paul Kantner David Freiberg Prairie Prince Peter Zaremba Kim Simmonds Stan Webb Nic Potter Neil Innes and John Halsey, of The Rutles John McNally and Frank Allen, The Searchers Judie Tzuke All of The Planet Wilson I have the cardboard packaging from an LP I bought from Hellmut Hattler, bass player with both Kraan and Hattler, with him having addressed it to me, and with a little drawing of a shattering glass on the packing to signify that the contents were fragile. Also the USPS Customs Declaration Note which Faine Jade completed when mailing me an LP (no signature though).
These I acquired myself... Charlie Watts Mick Taylor Jimmy Carl Black Mark Eitzel Peter Buck Marc Ford Kurt Wagner all 4 members of 90's indie band Superstar Steve Coogan (not a rock star, but still cool) I also have a fully signed copy of Ten Years After's debut album which I purchased from a friend who obtained the signatures back in the late 1960's.
I went to a lot of in-stores at Tower/HMV back in the day and got things signed by Buzzcocks and Go-Go's among others...
All four original members of KISS, plus Vinnie Vincent, Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer Joey, Johnny, C.J. and Marky Ramone Rob Halford John Gallagher, Mark Gallagher and Joe Hasselvander of Raven Bobby Gustafson (ex-Overkill) Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen) Steven Adler (ex-GnR) Dave Mustaine Stephen Pearcy (Ratt) All five members of Metal Church (on their Damned if You Do CD) Tim Gaines and Robert Sweet of Stryper ...and probably a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head.
Not sure if this counts… but: I had Tom Evan's (Badfinger) autograph on a napkin for a couple hours when I met him at a bar in late 1982. We had a great conversation, a lot of laughs & several drinks. Such a nice guy. My memory is a little fuzzy on details., other than I think he (or his manager?) was based in Minnesota at the time. He said the band had recently completed 4-5 demos (maybe recorded in Minnesota?), and he expected to release a new Badfinger single was within a 3-4 months. Joey Molland was not in the band, but Gibbons was there. I don’t think the single ever happened. He thought it was really funny that my autographed napkin got all smudged-up when one of us mistakenly used it as a drink coaster. @(#(*&#!
Off the top of my head: A lot of The Beach Boys world including: Brian Wilson Al Jardine Mike Love Bruce Johnston David Marks Jeff Foskett The Wondermints James Burton Ronnie Tutt Glen D Hardin Jerry Scheff Albert Lee Chubby Checker Johnny Tillotson Bobby Vee Others like: Keith Urban Tommy Emmanuel Slim Dusty Tim McGraw Kris Kristofferson Bobby Bare
The only three autographs in my modest collection that I truly care about: David Gilmour Roger Waters Nick Mason
McCartney (met him) Ringo - signed book Radiohead signed Moon Shaped Pool box Debbie Harry (met her) Kim Gordon (met her) Ray Davies (met him)
I have a copy of Paul McCartney's children's book High In The Clouds signed by him. Japanese CD of Japanese Tears signed by Denny Laine. Japanese CD of Stuff signed by Bill Wyman.
