ESP James Hetfield Vulture Gets $32,000 for MusiCares Charity Relief Auction

ESP James Hetfield Vulture Gets $32,000 for MusiCares Charity Relief Auction

For over 30 years, MusiCares Foundation -- the non-profit charitable organization of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences -- has been a tremendous help to many musicians. They give musical artists a place to turn in times of financial, personal, or medical crisis. For the past two years, there's been perhaps no greater time of need for musicians, with MusiCares assisting hundreds of bands and artists who were unable to tour or perform due to pandemic restrictions.

For a special fundraising auction intended to coincide with what would have been Grammy week, MusiCares partnered with Julien's Auctions for a huge collection of music memorabilia on January 30. One of the parts of this collection was a batch of items provided by Metallica's James Hetfield. The items included:

  • A black ESP James Hetfield Signature Series Vulture, signed by Hetfield, with hard case and Certificate of Authenticity
  • A Metallica "got riff?" t-shirt, also signed by Hetfield
  • Two Dunlop Hetfield White Fang guitar picks
  • Photographs of James signing the guitar

This batch of Hetfield gear alone brought in $32,000 for the worthy charity, with the ESP Vulture provided by ESP at the request of James. This isn't ESP's first time lending a hand to the MusiCares Foundation; in 2020, ESP sold two hand-signed guitars with the sales amount being matched by ESP, and then matched again by a corporate sponsor for a total $60,000 donation to the charity. 

Other pop, rock, and country bands and artists who participated in this week's highly successful fundraising auction included BTS, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, Chris Cornell, Slash, and many others.

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It's just wonderful! I love news like this about charity, honestly.
It is especially interesting to observe how much it turns out to help out for this or that memorabilia. Especially here, Hatfield is amazing again. $32,000 is really incredible amount.

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