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What do you think about this autograph? (Dio)

Tags: Black, Dio, James, Rainbow, Ronnie, Sabbath

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Permalink Reply by Brian Burger on August 15, 2015 at 5:58pm

Sorry I don't like it! Ronnie loved the fans and took a few minutes for every single fan therefore took the time to spell out his entire name with each fan encounter. He told Lzzy Hale of Halestorm after the last show of Heaven and Hell tour when they opened for them that she should meet and greet every fan and make it special because it may just be another town or tour stop to her on whatever tour but to the fans that one encounter means 1000 times more and the memory of meeting her will last a lifetime. I saw him in 2006 sign 30 albums for a fellow fan and each autograph was completely spelled out with a full name. There are better out there. I'd pass just me though and my opinion only.

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Permalink Reply by ABlackmore on August 15, 2015 at 6:21pm

Thank you for your opinion Brian.Also I thought so until Bjarne gave his explanation. I bought this item for the confidence I have in the person who sold me. I told her I had never seen a Dio this way! So I came up to you guys! See my best Dio in the picture:

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Permalink Reply by Bjarne Soderholm on August 15, 2015 at 6:07pm

I think it has a good chance of being real. When Ronnie stacked his signature, he wrote every single letter. But sometimes when he signed his name in a straight line, he skipped a lot of the letters in his name.
I have a few that is very similar to this one.
And this looks like a index card, so it might be that he didn't have good support when he wrote the autograph.
I agree that there is better examples of his autograph out there for a decent amount of money.

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Permalink Reply by ABlackmore on August 15, 2015 at 6:23pm

Bjarne! You will always have my respect and my friendship. Thank you for expressing opinions!

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Permalink Reply by J. Mikael on August 16, 2015 at 2:12pm

Agreed, authentic, but rushed.

Ronnie was the fan friendliest guy the music business has ever seen. He always took care of his fans, but even he had to hurry things up once in a while.

I got a few of these "RJD" signatures over the years. Other times you could even get inscriptions, the "Magic" one being the most common.