Musicians On Call Auction Features Autographed Guitars From Springsteen, Sting, Bon Jovi

The latest Musicians On Call auction goes live today at the organization's official site. Some of the top swag up for grabs includes a series of autographed guitars (including 1952 Telecaster Reissue signed by Bruce Springsteen and six-strings belonging to Bon Jovi and Sting), a one-on-one with Seal and a private piano lesson with Gavin DeGraw. Musicians On Call provides live and recorded music to patients in hospitals and healthcare facilities in order to promote the healing process. Bidding will remain open until next Tuesday, January 29th.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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