I was visiting my son in Los Angeles in February.  We were driving through Burbank, when I heard a song on the radio that had a very familiar sound.  “Is this a new Ozzy song?” I thought to myself.  Then, as if he was reading my mind, my son said, “Dad, this is the new Ozzy song.”  I immediately reserved my vinyl copy of Ordinary Man at a local record store in Sherman Oaks, called Freakbeat Records.  The owner was a pleasure to deal with.  I could not wait to listen to the full…

My wife gets on me so much for calling people "idiots." So, I'm going to make sure she doesn't see this blog post.

The first time I "met" Spelling, as at a show in Los Angeles. I was with Steve Cyrkin, who had a booth set up at an autograph show. He was trying to drum up some subscriptions to Autograph magazine, and I happened to be in town because I…

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I would be interested in purchasing an article signed by Amy Winehouse

but I'm afraid it's false and spending money on something false

do you think any of these is…

Check out these laughable forged Derek Jeter cards sold by Ebay seller Njcb05291989.

Crap like this continues to sell on Ebay, because Ebay is so heavily-populated with delusional autograph collectors and impulse buyers, and that's why the forgery business is so huge.

Over 80% of the people who buy autographs, simply DO NOT know autographs, and the sellers of forgeries…

Im planning on selling these, if interested message me, however before I sell these I want to make sure they are 100% authentic. I bought it from a user on a sales website.j

"Sweet songs never last long on a broken radio."

For me, Prine was in the category I have Bob Dylan in. Both are amazing songwriters, which voices that weren't my favorite. Yet they both have such strong lyrics, you can overlook the raspy vocals.

I was saddened to hear that Prine, at 73, passed away from complications due to the…

I purchased this Guy Clark signed LP from the estate of a canadian radio DJ named John Balge (Psychedelic Pete’s Underground Freakout show) after he died in 2014.  

As a late teenager in the early-mid 1990's I went to a LOT of concerts.  Concert poster art was coming in to it's own at that time, and artists like Copp and Kozik were KILLING it.  I remember going to a record store in Tallahassee called Vinyl Fever and seeing a kozik poster on the wall and being floored.  Several years later I purchased what it arguable the second most desirable Kozik poster of all time and this is it.  It is for a Nine Inch Nails, (then relatively unknown) Marilyn Manson,…

In 2001 I was living in Ithaca, New York when the Strokes first came out with "Is this it".  I immediately fell in love and joined the fan club via snail mail.  They sent me this autographed poster and it has been on my wall ever since.

Not too long ago I had the opportunity to purchase a concert poster from the early 1980's.  The thing that makes it cool is that it is signed by the organizer of the concert, a member of the local Hell's Angel's Chapter in California.  The concert was a double bill with Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings in San Jose.  The poster is signed by both of them twice, and signed by "Charlie Magoo Hell's Angels Oakland Chapter".  Apparently the poster had been hanging in a biker bar since the 1980s…

First, immediately below, are a few links to previous threads on Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators (GFA and Stephen Rocchi).

https://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/guaranteed-forens...…

The seller of this guitar never mentioned a word about the writing (autograph?) on it when posting it for sale on-line.  He reduced the price because of it.  This was not sold to make more money because of the signature.  The seller seemed to be unaware as to who "Jim Morrison" may have been.  The guitar itself was a FIRST YEAR ISSUE of C. F. Martin & Co.'s Sigma line.   It was a comparatively expensive guitar in 1970.  It is difficult to believe that a guitarist (most of us worship the…

I figured during this pandemic, I wouldn't be getting any autographs. But I got one I totally wasn't expecting.

A guy that I played racquetball with for 20 years, used to manage a movie theatre. He has a lot of interesting items from his days running it. One of them was an original Star Wars movie poster, when the film had a different title (I forgot…

Before I continue, below are links showing hundreds of examples of forged Mickey Mantle baseballs, photos, etc. found on Ebay (the most dangerous place to buy autographs if you're a casual collector or impulse buyer).…

Before I continue, below are links showing hundreds of examples of forged Mickey Mantle baseballs, photos, etc. found on Ebay (the most dangerous place to buy autographs if you're a casual collector or impulse buyer).…

Before I continue, below are links showing hundreds of examples of forged Mickey Mantle baseballs, photos, etc. found on Ebay (the most dangerous place to buy autographs if you're a casual collector or impulse buyer).…

Before I continue, below are links showing hundreds of examples of forged Mickey Mantle baseballs, photos, etc. found on Ebay (the most dangerous place to buy autographs if you're a casual collector or impulse buyer).…

COVID-19 may change our hobby forever.

We all know how difficult it is to procure the autographs of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Jim Morrison.  The unfortunate reason for the difficulty is that their tragic deaths have prevented them from signing the number of autographs that they would have if they had lived for many years.

Consider our current situation.  Comic conventions and social distancing are mutually exclusive.  Anyone who has ever attended New York Comic Con can…

Immediately below are links to previous threads on forged/counterfeit Kobe Bryant "2000-01 Ovation" cards.

People are continuing to emotionally impulsive buy Kobe Bryant forgeries on Ebay.

I find all of this disgusting.

People don't realize what a TOUGH PULL this particular card was and yet they are all over…

Before I continue, below are links showing hundreds of examples of forged Mickey Mantle baseballs, photos, etc. found on Ebay (the most dangerous place to buy autographs if you're a casual collector or impulse buyer).…