The mod that made Kurt Cobain's $6 million MTV Unplugged Martin one of a kind
According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his ...
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Guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed before Nirvana made it big sells for more than $157K in York
The Fender Jagstang he played on “Smells Like Teen Spirit” sold for $4.55 million and the Martin D-18E he used on Nirvana’s ...
“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit”: The story of Nirvana's seminal MTV Unplugged set
Resisting network pressure to simply play the hits, Kurt Cobain, Pat Smear, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl pulled together a ...
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Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged guitar sells for $6m at auction
A guitar played by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a rare ... retro acoustic-electric 1959 Martin D-18E during a legendary MTV Unplugged performance in 1993, just five months before he died.
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York shop auctioning a guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed before Nirvana made it big
The Fender Jagstang he played on “Smells Like Teen Spirit” sold for $4.55 million and the Martin D-18E he used on Nirvana’s ...
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Guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain sells for $157,000 at York County auction house
A smashed guitar once owned by late Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain sold at auction last week for more than $157,000 at a ...
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Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York: 30 Years Later
MTV Unplugged was a show that touted itself ... the setup would simply entail a microphone and an acoustic guitar. Stripping Nirvana of their electric instruments would strip them of their ...
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Beauty. Pain. Catharsis. Whatever: Nirvana do MTV Unplugged
Thirty years after the release of the band's Unplugged in New York album, Marc Burrows explores the fraught session that saw ...