APPRAISER: I always thought I was the ultimate
music fan until I met you today. And here we have this guitar, 150 signatures
on this, some of the biggest names in music. Everyone from Johnny Cash to Johnny Winter,
and it took you 16 years to accrue these. Let's flip this over. How did you decide to do this? Why? It's such a journey. GUEST: When I got the guitar, it had been
painted-- model paint-- by someone, and so I took it, stripped that off, carved the front
of it and cut 23 spaces along the center of the back. APPRAISER: Right. GUEST: Those got filled a lot quicker than
I had anticipated, and it ended up where it is now. APPRAISER: How did you decide who to go after? GUEST: There was no real rhyme or reason--
people I appreciated-- and had them sign for that. APPRAISER: We span everything from jazz to
bluegrass to country to rock 'n' roll. I see one here, fabulous musician, unfortunately
no longer with us, Stevie Ray Vaughan. You said he was one of your favorites. How'd you get him? GUEST: Yeah, he was a really nice guy. I had gone down to Louisville, which is fairly
close, and it was a general admission concert. I went down the night before and was there
first thing in the morning, not knowing when he would arrive, and it started snowing. His tour bus pulled up, and he invited me
on. So then, I'm there talking to him and he's
signing my guitar--really, really nice guy. APPRAISER: We've got Dizzy Gillespie down
here. We've got Chick Corea. Peter, Paul, and Mary, all together. It's a "who's who." The way I would appraise this guitar is, A,
I'm looking at the fact that you have everyone from Bonnie Raitt to Don Was, John Denver. You have Timothy Leary--going back to the
acid age of the '60s. Johnny Cash, Elton John, David Crosby, Aretha
Franklin, Bill Monroe--bluegrass. So when you take that breadth and width of
musicians all together and put them into 150, it's amazing. A lot of them may not be rare and each one
of them separately may not be worth much, but you put them all together and that is
quite a grouping, plus the fact of the time. I mean, how many hours do you think you spent
on the road? GUEST: I couldn't begin to tell you. Way a lot. I really enjoy it, and these are people who
I've greatly admired, and it was a chance to actually get to meet them as well. APPRAISER: Absolutely. So that's really the thrill for you, is that
you get to meet these musicians. So looking at all of this, I would put an
auction estimate of the guitar for about $4,000 to $6,000. GUEST: Wow, thank you.
