If you want to take a little trip down memory and-or history lane, check out Bill Clinton puffing away on his saxophone during his 1993 inaugural ball above while various political potentates and musical faces jostle around on stage. Yes, it’s profoundly weird. But it’s also enough to make you wonder how American politics got so gruesomely cruel and embittered in the 30 years since then. Clinton also played “Night Train” that night along with saxophonist Clarence Clemons. And then of course, there’s the incomparable Fleetwood Mac, who performed a bunch of songs during the ball — but most famously played the in-theme “Don’t Stop,” to which Clinton and family seemed delighted to hear, per a YouTube mini-documentary.
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That entire historical moment is encapsulated in the saxophone Clinton wielded that night. As Page Six recounts, the sax was signed not only by all the members of Fleetwood Mac, but also by Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, Michael Bolton, Goldie Hawn, and more. All in all, it’s enough to make the reader wonder why it only went for $13,000 at auction. Page Six says that Guernsey’s, the auctioneers in charge of the 2021 lot — which included whoppers like Eddie Van Halen’s guitar, Buddy Holly’s stage coat, and Billie Holiday’s dress — expected to get at least $40,000 for Clinton’s sax. Plus, the auction house expected bidding to start at $15,000. Live Auctioneers, however, shows that the first competing bid started at $10,000.
