Get out the credit cards. This is one hell of a collection.
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QBs with blown out achilles and questionable abilities don’t just magically pay for themselves
My good god he had some amazing shit!! A lot of this should be donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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I was assuming it was a bunch of empty whisky bottles.
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I didnt open the link yet but i had heard he had quite the guitar collection.
A preview picture:
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Yeah, I knew he had an impressive collection, but some of those things I had no idea he had. I would have thought Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, etc would have some of these things themselves.
Sometimes the original owners/artists do buy back their memorabilia. I would guess at least a few of this things will find their ways back home.
You can see his addictions at work here in the obsessive nature of the rabid collector. It never fills the hole, no matter how much one accumulates. Only something beyond material can do that.
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Irsay was a big fan of music and viewed his collection as preserving history. Irsay was offered over a billion dollars for the collection at one time and turned it down because the collection would have left the country. Instead he opened the collection up to the public. I’m actually surprised his kids are selling it.
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Yeah, I didn’t mean to take anything away from his good work or diminish the enterprise is any way. But if you know, you know.
I saw a Johnny Cash acoustic in there.
I used to take some of my guitar repairs down to a guy in Kalamazoo named Pete Moreno. Pete used to work for Gibson in Kalamazoo before they moved their manufacturing to Nashville back in 1984 (I believe). Pete was such a cool dude to visit with and talk to. He had stories for days and he was always willing to stop what he was doing to visit. He told me that when he worked for Gibson that he’d buy a Les Paul every month or two with his employee discount and ended up auctioning them all off at one point to pay off his house.
Pete had two acoustic guitars that he was working on to go to museums, one belonged to Elvis and the other to Johnny Cash. I asked him if I could touch them, just to be able to say I touched one of Elvis’s and Johnny’s guitars and he let me, it gave me goose bumps when I even got near those guitars.
Pete passed a few years ago, I think he was 83 years old. It was a sad day when I found out of his passing.
Anyways, just figured I’d share that little story with ya’all.
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I know one of Irsay’s favorite guitars was the one Kurt Cobain’s Teen Spirit guitar. I didn’t notice it when I scrolled through there. I saw Clapton’s. I would have loved to have seen his collection before it went to auction
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It seems like a lost era.
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I think I saw it there.
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Only $7 million what a deal. I’ll never be a collector because I just don’t get the whole concept of collecting things.
I collect. I have mostly historical figures. Signatures, documents. I have some mob memorabilia. I do own some Eric Clapton guitar picks. He was my dad’s favorite singer. I don’t have Irsay money, but if you’re a billionaire what’s a few million for a historical guitar?
Rich people have to spend their money some way lol
If you’re worth 5 billion dollars, what else would you do with your time and money?
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Damn, that’s a shame.
Still, when I die I really don’t want anybody to feel like they need to keep my stuff around. No matter how much it meant to me