Here's one of my favorites. It's a Indiana Pacers team signed basketball from last season. It was the first season my oldest son and I started to really enjoy Pacers basketball. It took us the entire season to finally get every autograph from each player and the coach.
I don't have a great story about this, but this Nine Inch Nails signed and concert-used guitar is one of the prime pieces in my collection! I've always been a huge NIN fan, so I jumped at the chance to get one of Trent Reznor's guitars through a series of auctions he held on ebay to raise money for the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. He auctioned off guitars he used during the 2005 tour on ebay. Most of the guitars were absolutely trashed, and I was surpised how much they were selling for even in splinters! I found this one that was used in a concert in St. Paul, MN in October 2005. It's Trent's signature Dean Evo Noir black guitar, and it is still 100% intact. There are only some light scratches on it and a crack in the neck on the back. It's signed by everyone that was in the band on the tour, and I love how Trent drew in the NIN logo under his name! I later sent it into PSA/DNA, which it obviously passed. I love this piece!
I got it for a little over $2K, which to me was a bargain considering some of the splintered guitars sold in the $3K to $4K range! Plus, I know exactly when it was used, that it was indeed used by Trent in a concert, and it has a gorgeous autograph with the NIN logo drawn in by him. Most of the other guitars that sold did not have the logo drawn in under the autograph, and some had some pretty substandard autographs.
FYI, NIN is running some auctions on ebay right now in which Trent is selling some of the equipment from his recent tour and the studio since he's hanging up his gloves and heading into married life now. Unfortunately they don't offer any information as to whether or not Trent actually used any of the specific equipment, nor are any of the items autographed. Still some nice pieces of NIN history, though! The seller id is: ningear
This is one of my favorite autographs. It took me 13 hours to get Bob Dylan back in 1989. And it was his tour manager that got this for me. (So I hope it's real!)