Brian Gorsegner, a music booking agent by day and self-proclaimed punk rock archaeologist by night, has spent over two decades recovering forgotten music artifacts. Recently, Gorsegner unearthed a treasure trove in Queens, finding the original case for Johnny Ramone's favorite guitar, which sold for nearly $1 million at auction in 2021. He discovered the case while combing through the belongings of an old NYC rocker who was moving and clearing out their house.
Brian Gorsegner appears to be your average punk rock er-turned New Jersey dad, but in truth he’s really an alt-rock Indiana Jones — an urban archeologist bent on recovering
Fiend accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway is illegal migrant from Guatemala who sneaked into US after he was deportedGuatemalan migrant busted for setting sleeping woman on fire in subway ride from hell, watching her burn to death: cops “This thing was in the trash four years before I was born,” Gorsegner said. “And now, going on 50 years later, here it is, almost getting ready to hit another dumpster. That kind of excitement is why I really just got so into doing this stuff.”
Over the years he’s crisscrossed the country times — he now takes his wife and 11-year-old daughter under the guise of family vacations — following down leads and tips about collections or cachesSome of his best scores include fan mail a 15-year-old Dave Grohl wrote to the band Necros requesting stickers and D.C. tour dates; an early Beastie Boys concert poster hand-drawn by the band; and metal spikes from the Misfits’ leather jackets that one of their fathers machined at his factory job.
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