UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt Cobain during a 1991 concert sold for $157,773 during a recent ...

As the song progressed that night, the band’s guitarist/lead vocalist/songwriter Kurt Cobain assaulted his red left-handed ...

Included in that price tag are two double-exposure chromogenic prints by photographer Johny Baltimore of Cobain playing and smashing the guitar. Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain onstage during a ...

According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his ...

On Jan. 18, 1991, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana took a hammer to a cheap Japanese-made guitar at the end of a concert at Evergreen ...

Smashing guitars on stage became one of rock’s most rebellious acts. This video explores how legends like Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain turned guitar destruction into an art form.

UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt Cobain during a 1991 concert sold for $157,773 during a recent auction, Hakes Auctions reported. The guitar, a relatively inexpensive ...

It was 1991 when a friend handed Chris Brady a cassette of a new band called Nirvana. It was homemade recording, the music was raw and heavy, but with melodic hooks, Beatle-esque, Brady thought.