Musicians Who Sell Their Signatures In Shop.

We now have a Musician-Direct Autograph Sales Forum where you can post individual discussions of new offerings. It's a big change—and a big improvement. We closed this discussion after 8 years but it will always be available to read.

The new system has been in place for 2 months now and it's working well.

This video shows you how easy the new forum is to use.

You can follow the forum and be notified of new signings exclusively! And you can enter a musician's name in the forum's search box and find any discussions about them.

Be sure to click the Follow link at the bottom of the list of discussions.

Try it...I think you'll like it.

Steve Cyrkin

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Though I recall a member posting a blog asking about this a while ago, I could not relocate it for my purpose in this discussion.

It can be nice when one stumbles upon a musician's shop (via their website), to see that they are selling their autographs. I figured this could grow as a wee database for listing those musicians who partake in this.

I recently recieved a couple press photos signed in ballpoint from John Mayall's website (http://www.johnmayall.com/merch.html). I am also aware that you can purchase signed CDs from Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits(http://peternoone.com/store/). John 5 ( formerly Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie guitarist) sells various items signed, with an option to dedicate.

So, does anyone else know of this being done by other musicians?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on August 6, 2015 at 12:17pm

I like this thread and it helps build a collection, but what I'd like to know is how many of these so called artits website CDs are not hand signed by the artist. I have heard in the past some are auto-penned, stamped or in the case of Neil Diamond thru Looney Tunes, just not real. A list of any that may fit the above categories would be helpful. I would also like to know an address for Juice Newton as well!

Permalink Reply by Rich on August 6, 2015 at 12:21pm

The Neil Diamond one was puzzling but, from what I gather, an exception to the rule. I posted the Adam Lambert and Charli XCX ones I thought differed significantly from their in-person examples. But, for the most part, the ones I get through the artists' websites, Newbury, JB-Hi Fi etc look to be consistently authentic. That's not to say they're always nice examples, but it's rare that I see anything that looks questionable. I haven't run into any autopen or stamping situations.

Permalink Reply by Rich on August 6, 2015 at 12:28pm

Speaking of, has anyone confront Looney Tunes about the Neil Diamond thing? I really don't know how to feel about the authenticity, but the results of that were just all over the place - different pens, signature placement, signature styles. It was just weird, especially in contrast to the usual positive results from signed preorder opportunities.

Permalink Reply by Christopher Thompson on August 6, 2015 at 1:20pm

Looney Tunes never contacted me back when I asked about the Brian wilson autograph that came very smudged. Neil Diamond did some signings at Barnes and Nobles in NY around the same time as the Looney Tunes promotion as can be found all over ebay..maybe someone could do a comparison with some of those where there is picture proof of the signing?
In the end, I feel there will always be a risk with authenticity but to me buying direct is the safest and cheapest option available next to getting them in person.

Permalink Reply by Terry G. on August 6, 2015 at 1:53pm

We don't know for sure that the Looney Tunes Diamonds are not real. We have opinions on that but no real proof. And finding real proof is truly difficult.

Permalink Reply by Rich on August 6, 2015 at 1:58pm

No we don't, but the inconsistency with these brings up some questions about what was going on here. Signed on the back, signed on the front. Black pen, thin gold pen, thick gold pen . . . Hard to feel good about this one unless we're given some clearer insight on what happened. I was hoping that someone especially familiar with Diamond's signature would chime in at one point.

Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on August 6, 2015 at 2:26pm

I read about the Looney Tunes CDs on here pretty soon after the CD came out. I have no first hand experience with them myself. The B&N in store Diamond CDs are pretty consistent (all black pen, same placement, etc) and are still out there on ebay, so if anyone has a Looney Tunes example please post it.

Permalink Reply by Rich on August 6, 2015 at 2:29pm

We started posting our Looney Tunes examples here last year: http://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/musicians-who-sell-t...

Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on August 6, 2015 at 2:33pm

OK thanks. It certainly is different then the B&N examples (it is not even the cover of the CD is it?, BUT it does look like an IP I got from him about 12 years ago. So maybe they are good after all.

Permalink Reply by Rich on August 6, 2015 at 2:35pm

I compared mine and some of the others, and while it didn't immediately scream fake (at least to my untrained eye), the inconsistency - especially in contrast to what you see from other reliable sources of signed CDs and albums - is bizarre and raises plenty of questions.

Permalink Reply by Rich on August 9, 2015 at 7:09pm

Not sure if anyone brought this one up, but you can preorder signed copies of Eagles of Death Metal's new CD through JB Hi-Fi.

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/music/browse/hard-rock/zipper-down/747035...

Permalink Reply by Paul on August 9, 2015 at 7:33pm