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Originally Posted by speeder
Wouldn’t Eddie just sign anyone’s guitar that asked him to? It isn’t worth dick.
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No. Well, back in the day, probably. But once he got serious about endorsement deals around 1991, he stopped signing any brand other than his current endorsement deal. He never ever would have signed a Fender Squire unless it was from some terminally ill child in the room next to his own at Cedars Sinai. Those no name, cheapo guitars with all the band members' autographs you see at that memorabilia shop in the Cesar Forum Shops in Vegas are total fakes. I have his autograph on a B&W photo from an old Kramer ad, but the president of Kramer personally gave it to me in 1986 when Ed with still with Kramer. So I think it's authentic.
That Marshall JCM800 is a total joke. Ed never used it, probably never even turned it on. I heard his '68 Plexi, the one he bought when he was 16 and was used on every album, sold privately for $250k when Ed knew he was terminal. But that was a truly special amp, like holy grail even if Ed hadn't owned it. Having it on every VH album was icing on the cake.