Re: Estate of Bill Monroe Offers Rare Ownership of Prized Possess
Bill Monroe Brand Adult Diapers! This is a money grab by whomever is holding the estate. This isn't a curation of a legacy. This is capitalism at it's most base in my opinion.
Selling of his personal effects may be ghoulish but is better than selling the rights to his name and likeness, (again - IMO). Can't the family make tons of his personal effects and not need to sell his name and likeness off. I thought those awful KFC ads with the various new Col Sanders were funny but a tad creepy, imagine similar ads with a "new" Bill hawking whatever you could imagine!
I would love to sell people willing to give me $100 a box of No Part Of Nothin' and then donate the money to a bluegrass mandolin camp for tuition scholarships. But, not everyone's motives would be so pure.
Jamie
PS. Lisa Marie Presley did this with Elvis's estate in 2004.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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