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Kurt Cobain's Guitar From "MTV Unplugged" Show Draws Record-Shattering Price At Auction
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Ubiquitous
Jun 23, 2020, 8:00:19 AM6/23/20
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Come as you are — leave with a multimillion-dollar ax. A guitar that Kurt
Cobain played during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged concert sold for a cool
$6.01 million at auction Saturday. The price was more than 50% higher than
any other guitar ever sold at an auction.
The late singer-songwriter’s 1959 Martin D-18E, along with its case and some
personal items inside, had been expected to fetch $1 million-$2 million.
Instead, it dwarfed the previous record high for a guitar — the $3.95 million
paid for a Stratocaster owned by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Julien’s
Auctions said.
Nirvana was at the top of its game when MTV recorded the Seattle band’s
acoustic concert in November 1993. The aired a month later and was released
as MTV Unplugged in New York nearly a year later. That album was certified
eight times platinum a few months ago, and the longform video has sold more
than 700,000 units.
Backed by Nirvana bandmates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, along with
frequent collaborator Pat Smear, Cobain played a memorable set at Sony Music
Studios that mixed with radio hits and more obscure band tracks and covers.
Several other Nirvana-related items also sold at Saturday’s auction including
a set list from the Unplugged gig and typed lyrics to David Bowie’s “The Man
Who Sold the World,” which Nirvana famously played that night. Cobain died by
suicide less than five months after the concert.
Watch Cobain play “All Apologies” on the auctioned guitar from the MTV
Unplugged show here:
https://youtu.be/-BsB8A3Todo
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Cobain played during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged concert sold for a cool
$6.01 million at auction Saturday. The price was more than 50% higher than
any other guitar ever sold at an auction.
The late singer-songwriter’s 1959 Martin D-18E, along with its case and some
personal items inside, had been expected to fetch $1 million-$2 million.
Instead, it dwarfed the previous record high for a guitar — the $3.95 million
paid for a Stratocaster owned by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Julien’s
Auctions said.
Nirvana was at the top of its game when MTV recorded the Seattle band’s
acoustic concert in November 1993. The aired a month later and was released
as MTV Unplugged in New York nearly a year later. That album was certified
eight times platinum a few months ago, and the longform video has sold more
than 700,000 units.
Backed by Nirvana bandmates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, along with
frequent collaborator Pat Smear, Cobain played a memorable set at Sony Music
Studios that mixed with radio hits and more obscure band tracks and covers.
Several other Nirvana-related items also sold at Saturday’s auction including
a set list from the Unplugged gig and typed lyrics to David Bowie’s “The Man
Who Sold the World,” which Nirvana famously played that night. Cobain died by
suicide less than five months after the concert.
Watch Cobain play “All Apologies” on the auctioned guitar from the MTV
Unplugged show here:
https://youtu.be/-BsB8A3Todo
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Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.
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