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Offered Here: Chicago 2023-2025 Humongous Lot of 330 Band Guitar Picks With COA
Item Details: This massive inventory features 330 authentic guitar picks representing the legendary rock band Chicago from their recent 2023–2025 touring eras. The extensive collection contains individual guitar picks from founding member Robert Lamm, along with band members Keith Howland, Tony Obrohta, and Ramon Yslas. Additionally, the lot includes a high volume of guitar picks printed with the classic Chicago band logo and various touring years.
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.
Formed in 1967 under the name Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago built its sound around a full horn section, blending rock, jazz and pop into a style that set it apart from its contemporaries and helped define the brass-rock genre. Founding keyboardist and vocalist Robert Lamm wrote several of the group's best-known songs, including "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?," "25 or 6 to 4" and "Saturday in the Park," and the band became one of the most commercially successful American groups of the 1970s and 1980s. Chicago was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 and has continued to tour steadily for more than five decades, making it one of the longest-running active bands in rock history.
Condition: Very good
SKU: RZC2011