Each time I visit a Hard Rock Cafe, I’m on the lookout for Depeche Mode memorabilia.  If you saw my earlier post, you know I went to the Hard Rock Cafe in London - the heart of the country where all my favorite music originated - and found only Seattle band memorabilia. *yawn*

I’ve traveled to Las Vegas three times and hadn’t made my way to the Hard Rock Cafe (HRC) until this past June.  I exchanged tweets with friends from Twitter and learned that I might find a suit Dave wore during the Singles tour or Ultra promo photos and a leather jacket signed by the band!  I have never seen any Depeche Mode memorabilia other than what I own, so I was looking forward to finding these items.

There were no DM items at the HRC in Las Vegas, so I checked the Hard Rock Hotel and asked employees if there were any DM items, just as I did at the HRC.  Nobody there could give me a good answer - they explained that the inventory rotates and changes all the time.  My friend Rebecca and I walked all over the hotel, looking ourselves and did not find anything DM-related. 

I was very disappointed but would not be defeated, so on our last day in town we went back to the Hard Rock Hotel and I noticed unmarked leather jackets placed above some of the casino games.  They were way up on the wall and it irritated me that they didn’t label them, so I slowly walked by and studied each jacket.

THERE IT WAS!  I would know those signatures anywhere!  I found the jacket that all four band members had signed!  It was a proud moment to have located exactly what I was looking for, and Rebecca and I snapped as many pictures as we could sneak.  We took this picture so that other fans could locate the jacket more easily than I did.  This was the only DM item I found.  The pictures probably look a little distorted, but you’ll get the idea:

This is a close up picture I took of the autographed Depeche Mode jacket:

While you’re there, you may as well ask to purchase a few of these babies for keepsake:

:)