Mike Mills Autographs
Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of R.E.M., his musical repertoire also includes keyboards and occasional lead vocals. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions and is the only member to have had formal musical training.
Michael Edward Mills was born to Frank and Adora Mills in Orange County, California, where his father was stationed in the Marines. While his father was away, six-month-old Mills, with his mother and grandmother, moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived for around ten years. The family moved to Macon, Georgia, in 1971. It was there that Mills met future R.E.M. bandmate Bill Berry when they attended high school. The duo started out in bands together. Early projects included the band Shadowfax, later called The Back Door Band. Berry kept his drum kit in the basement of Mills's parents' house, and Mills dabbled with it. Mills explained: "We had a turntable next to it, so I'd put on...I only had three records at that point. I had A Night at the Opera by Queen, Tres Hombres by ZZ Top, and I don't remember the third one." At high school, he began playing bass because he enjoyed experiencing the wooden bleachers vibrate from the sound of the bass in the school's jazz band. He borrowed two bass guitars from his mother's chiropractor, one being a Fender and the other a Gibson EB-2. After giving those back, he used the school's jazz bass for a long time. He played in the school's jazz band, which meant (per the school's rules) that he also had to play in the school's classical band and their marching band.
Records Mills regularly listened to during high school include Suitable for Framing by Three Dog Night (his favorite band for a long time), Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts and You Don't Mess Around with Jim by Jim Croce. Via his transistor radio, he listened to WNEX-FM, the only top-40 station available in Macon. "Loved it. I listened to everything because they would play everything. You'd get Motown, you'd get the Beach Boys, you'd get British Invasion." Being in the American South, he was also exposed to white gospel music on Sunday-morning television's Southern Gospel Jubilee. "You'd get the white gospel, and you could find some black gospel. Country music was everywhere. My parents were into classical music, and my dad was into jazz. So I was just surrounded by everything." Mills's mother played acoustic guitar.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Mike Mills (REM hand-signed guitar (Peter Buck & Mike Mills) w JSA COA) was sold in April 2026 for $1,098.00 while the cheapest item (Mike Mills Signed CD Booklet R.E.M. Out of Time w/ JSA AUTO) found a new owner for $2.25 in November 2016. The month with the most items sold (39) was December 2025 with an average selling price of $72.99 for an autographed item of Mike Mills. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2021 with $700.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $2.25 was November 2016. In average, an autographed item from Mike Mills is worth $85.98.
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