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Offered Here: Sammy Hagar 1986 Autographed & Personalized Sammy With Headset Microphone 8 x 10 Photo With COA
Item Details: Add some pure backstage rock-and-roll magic to your wall with this incredibly vivid 1986 Sammy Hagar autographed 8x10 photo! This crisp color snapshot features the Red Rocker rocking his famous headset microphone and shredding on his iconic "I Can't Drive 55" red guitar. Even cooler, it is personalized directly to Van Halen's legendary guitar tech, Zeke Clark, in bold white marker across the top right, reading: "Zeke if i were as good as you no one could afford to book me!" Complete with a Certificate of Authenticity, this fantastic insider piece perfectly captures the humor and mutual respect of the 5150 era, making it the ultimate conversation starter for any true music fan.
Provenance/Authenticity: Randall "Zeke" Clark is a renowned luthier and legendary guitar/amp technician who got his start in the San Francisco music scene in the 70s, working with various A-list artists until moving to LA in the 80s, where he worked for Eddie Van Halen.
From 1985 to 1993, he served as Edward Van Halen’s lead guitar and amp tech, transitioning to the crew with Sammy Hagar to maintain the band's gear through the monumental 5150, OU812, and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge eras.
Beyond his historic tenure as the custodian of Eddie's tone, Clark's elite five-decade career includes building, repairing, and maintaining specialized gear for iconic artists such as Prince, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Heart, Poison, and others. This curated selection of items offers collectors a unique and direct connection to rock history through the hands of a master craftsman who shaped the sound of guitar royalty.
This item was personally handled, vetted, and released by Zeke Clark, ensuring its authenticity and rock-history provenance. Zeke Clark utilizes an Official Personal Signature Stamp to validate and inventory documents and artifacts released directly from his private estate. This item comes with his personal ink-imprinted signature stamp on the certificate of authenticity, which serves as his legally binding, authorized mark of verification and carries the full weight of a hand-signed signature.
Sammy Hagar first came to prominence in the early 1970s as lead singer of Montrose before building a solo career that included the 1984 hit "I Can't Drive 55." In 1985 he replaced David Lee Roth as Van Halen's frontman, and the following year's 5150 became the band's first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. The Hagar-era lineup went on to top that chart with four consecutive studio albums, reshaping Van Halen's sound with a more melodic, keyboard-inflected approach and sustaining the band as one of the most commercially successful hard rock acts of its time.
Condition: Very good with mild edge and surface wear
SKU: RZC2102