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 ...
“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 ...
Guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed before Nirvana made it big sells for more than $157K in York
Kurt Cobain destroyed a cheap Japanese copy of a Fender Stratocaster on stage at one of Nirvana's first shows.
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Sells like teen spirit: Nirvana stopping being a band when Kurt Cobain died – now they're a brand
Thirty years ago this month Nirvana released Unplugged In New York, the live acoustic album recorded as part of MTV’s Unplugged series. It’s a brilliant record, so good in fact, that for many it sits ...
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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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Column | Remembering Nirvana’s iconic MTV live performance 30 years later
Nirvana, one of the most influential grunge bands of the ’90s, recorded their first live session at MTV Unplugged in November 1993, five months before the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain. The live ...
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Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York: 30 Years Later
His persona was curated as much as any other rockstar; Nirvana had a brand image, after all. They were angsty, they pushed limits, they played loud. So when MTV Unplugged invited them to play a ...