Scott Mussell, Director of Americana at Hake's Auctions, with the guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed onstage at a Jan. 18, 1991 gig in Olympia ... hand-painted head and hair hand-rooted in a pattern ...

Scott Mussell, Director of Americana at Hake’s Auctions, with the guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed onstage at a Jan. 18, 1991 gig in Olympia ... hand-painted head and hair hand-rooted in a pattern ...

Scott Mussell, Director of Americana at Hake’s Auctions, with the guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed onstage at a Jan. 18, 1991 gig in Olympia ... Princess Leia body with a different, hand-painted head and ...

Kurt Cobain destroyed a cheap Japanese copy of a Fender Stratocaster on stage at one of Nirvana's first shows. Now you can ...

A smashed guitar once owned by late Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain sold at auction last week for more than $157,000 at a ...

THAT’S BECAUSE IT WAS KURT COBAIN WHO TOOK A HAMMER TO THE INSTRUMENT AT THE END OF HER NIRVANA CONCERT IN 1991, IN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON. DURING THAT JAM SONG ENDLESS, NAMELESS. THE LATE ROCKER ...

Kurt Cobain destroyed a cheap Japanese copy of a Fender Stratocaster on stage at one of Nirvana's first shows. Now you can ...

A guitar played and smashed by Kurt Cobain is up for auction. Before you say “oh well, whatever, nevermind,” know the guitar’s history holds considerable Portland connections. Janel “Hell ...

As the song progressed that night, the band’s guitarist/lead vocalist/songwriter Kurt Cobain assaulted ... dollar strap,” he said shaking his head. Cobain was a troubled soul.

It afforded a glimpse into Cobain’s damaged mindset, too. “You kind of had Kurt Cobain at his wits’ end with everything going on with him in his life,” said Nirvana biographer Charles R Cross.

“I didn’t know then that Kurt had taken an overdose," explains Frohman ... he “had something special”; but it wouldn’t be until the following year, when Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994, that ...

Unfortunate members include Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin, who all died at the same young age. Some say these people may have had difficult childhoods, grew up as ...