{"id":803451,"date":"2020-01-25T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=942930"},"modified":"2020-01-25T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:57:01","slug":"bts-tour-microphones-sell-for-83000-at-musicares-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bts-tour-microphones-sell-for-83000-at-musicares-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 Tour Microphones Sell for $83,000 at MusiCares Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Seven microphones used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bts\" data-tag=\"bts\">BTS<\/a> during the K-pop group\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Love Yourself tours sold for over $83,000 Friday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/aerosmith-bts-musicares-charity-auction-2020-931623\/\">a Grammy week auction<\/a> in support of MusiCares. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The microphones, the first-ever BTS-authorized items to be auctioned, well exceeded their pre-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/auction\/\" id=\"auto-tag_auction\" data-tag=\"auction\">auction<\/a> estimate of between $10,000 and $20,000, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliensauctions.com\/index\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Julien\u2019s Auctions said<\/a>. BTS are scheduled to perform Sunday during the 62nd annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/grammys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grammys\" data-tag=\"grammys\">Grammys<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-942931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/69d167ea-6687-4695-8319-7c2ae409ff07.jpg?w=300\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With Aerosmith the honorees of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/aerosmith-musicares-person-of-the-year-2020-894830\/\">MusiCares annual Person of the Year tribute<\/a>, the band also contributed items to the auction, including Steven Tyler\u2019s autographed Shure SM58 microphone and accompanying scarves-covered white microphone stand that fetched $7,680 at auction. An autographed Joe Perry Gibson Les Paul Signature guitar also sold for $7,680.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A limited-edition watch made with the leather from one of Tom Petty\u2019s guitar straps \u2014 and engraved with \u201cMade with leather donated by Tom Petty\u201d \u2014 sold for over $22,000. Other notable items included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ySmBqIKZi3E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the artwork Halsey made live during her <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> performance<\/a> ($7,680), a Stevie Nicks-signed stage-used tambourine ($10,240) and Eddie Vedder\u2019s ukulele brandished with drawings by the singer ($8,960).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All proceeds from the Julien\u2019s Auction benefited the Recording Academy\u2019s MusiCares program, which provides health, financial, and rehabilitation resources to music people in times of need.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-microphones-musicares-auction-aerosmith-942930\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven microphones used by BTS during the K-pop group\u2019s Love Yourself tours sold for over $83,000 Friday at a Grammy week auction in support of MusiCares. The microphones, the first-ever BTS-authorized items to be auctioned, well exceeded their pre-auction estimate of between $10,000 and $20,000, Julien\u2019s Auctions said. BTS are scheduled to perform Sunday during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 16:47:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}