Post #31397 by Formikahini on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 10:04 AM

[i]On 2003-04-22 12:50, Luckydesigns wrote:
That's a good point too. I spent the day during the NAMM show with James Burton, a friend of a friend. Burton played guitar with Ricky Nelson, Orbison, Elvis in his TCB band, and countless others, even on some of the Ventures' records. He doesn't sign anything except glossy promo photos because he is such a legend. If he were to sign a guitar, the worth of that guitar would skyrocket. It's like athletes charging for their signatures. When do you get so big that you don't give out your signature for free anymore?

I remember reading that when Mike Tyson was in prison, they had to forbid him from signing anymore autographs for the inmates; as a prisoner, you can't have sellable commodities "inside", and his autographs were like cash, and good cash at that!