I got a chance to meet Billy Gibbons a while back, and despite his handlers saying there would be not autographs, managed to get his undivided attention for a few minutes and asked him for one. He pulled out a little pad for that specific purpose, but I handed him an ancient cassette paper insert I’ve had since the early 80’s of a tape that was special to me. It was the double tape with Tres Hombres on one side and Fandango! on the other. Listened to it thousands of times. It lived in the cassette player in the Jeep for years.
He looked at it and gave me a big smile and said he hadn’t seen one of those in decades! He signed it, as will as a second one on his little pad.
I framed them with the tour poster and backstage pass. Hangin’ in the bedroom.
I was gonna have Drive-By Truckers sign my Trucker Speed Coffee can drive by truckers coffee - Bing but just had them sign a tour poster instead.
Autograph grabbers - the ones who hang out at airports and look for sightings and have a box of headshots of celebrities in their trunk to be ready - I have heard where they may toss a cheap-ass guitar in their trunk if the celebrity sighted is a rock star. Why such an accosted celebrity would sign anything for a mercenary autograph hound like that is beyond me.
When Les Paul played at the club Iridium in NYC up to his death, fanboys would line up for autographs. Some lugged their actual Les Paul guitars - I couldn’t imagine playing it after that if I really valued the signature. Most smart folks just brought a Les Paul pickguard
In 1992 or 3 I got hold of a pair of red firefighters helmets. We had painted the Buffalo Bills logos on the sides and took them to training camp. It was a lot more relaxed than.
We each got about two dozen autographs, I have the hall of gamers Andre Reed Thurman Thomas and Bruce Smith. My friend got Jim Kelley ( bastard) and a bunch of scrubs that never made the team.
Anyways, when I got to Bruce Smith he said something to the effect, what the hell I just signed this. I told him, no my buddy has it’s twin.
I heard a (probably apocryphal) story that Keef Richards was handed a guitar to sign as he was getting on the tour bus… so he signed it, and hopped on the bus, still carrying the guitar. His explanation was that he was sick of seeing guitars he’d just signed turn up on eBay a day later.
Circa 1983, got a Richard Scarry book signed by the author. Not unusual. He asked if my son had any pets, and my son said, “A big black cat.” (Cat was a kitten at that time, not all that big really, but…). So Richard Scarry went through and drew a black cat on several of the pages, incorporating him into the action (Cars and Trucks and Things That Go). So that’s unique. Also we had to buy another copy of the book, for him to actually read.
A guy on reddit posted a picture of his Lego Slave 1. He had the canopy piece signed by Jeremy Bulloch - the actor in the Boba Fett suit in *ESB - *at a convention.
The Lakers couldn’t go 12-0 because the first series was only three games back in the day. The achievement is going undefeated through the playoffs, no?
Two different things. One is being undefeated, the other undefeated with a particular record.
There’s a similar situation in the NFL. The Miami Dolphins are the only team to win a Super Bowl after having a perfect season. In those days you would have 14 regular season games, then if you made it to the playoffs you’d need to win at least one divisional round game, then the conference championship, then finally the Super Bowl. (There’s also potentially a wild card game but that’s reserved for teams that barely make it into the playoffs and if you are undefeated in the regular season that shouldn’t apply to you.) In 1972 the Dolphins won every game they played, including the Super Bowl, giving them a 17-0 perfect record.
In 1978 the NFL extended the regular season to 16 games. Today, if a team were to win every game in the regular season, and go on to win the Super Bowl, they would have a 19-0 record which would be the first of its kind in NFL history and noteworthy. It wouldn’t be the first perfect season but it would possibly eclipse that Dolphins record.
So again… In one sense it’s the same but in another it’s not. And that’s not nitpicking; one or two extra wins is a big deal. Remember that often in sports having just one more win can be the difference between being a champion and almost being a champion.
Actually, you reminded me - my hat wasn’t the most interesting or unique item I asked him to sign. That honor would go to my very realistic rubber severed arm (the security people looked at me real funny when they searched my bag on the way into the venue–they wanted to keep it for me until the meet and greet but I talked them out of it). I got it from a Chuck Palahniuk reading, and he signed it too. Alice thought it was cool (or at least he said so!)
I also have a drumhead signed by the entire Alan Parsons Live Project (including Alan himself, Ian Bairnson, and Stuart Elliot).
No, because back in post #10 I said the Warriors are the first-ever team to go undefeated, 12-0. That’s how I defined the achievement. You are wanting to define the achievement differently, which is fine, but it lowers the bar a little.
Many years ago Tony Stewart was at a local Home Depot autographing stuff. Some guy came in with an blow up doll for Tony to sign. Bet no one has another.
John Astin played Gomez Addams. He also played Dr Grangrene in a few Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes projects. I had him sign a can of tomatoes. He was really entertained by the idea. He didn’t just write his name. He drew a medal, Dr Gangrene’s seal of disapproval and wrote “Don’t Eat, Fool!”
I met Clive Barker at a film festival in the nineties. He was flattered people had brought things and said he’d happily “deface them”. I have a wooden puzzle cube I decorated to look like a Lament Configuration (the puzzle box from Hellraiser). If you pull out the lynchpin final piece, you will find Barker’s autograph.
