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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Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York: 30 Years Later
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s death reverberates a ripple ... They were angsty, they pushed limits, they played loud. So when MTV Unplugged invited them to play a live show in late 1993 ...
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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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Portland Musician to Auction Rare Kurt Cobain-Smashed Guitar
while his MTV Unplugged Martin D-18E acoustic guitar sold for more than $6 million in 2020. Footage from Nirvana’s ESC show can be seen in the 2015 documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck ...
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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 ... (“I smell ratings” a deeply sarcastic MTV producer, Alex Colletti, was heard to remark). It worked commercially, as most of ...
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Guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed before Nirvana made it big sells for more than $157K in York
UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt Cobain during ... and the Martin D-18E he used on Nirvana’s iconic appearance on MTV’s “Unplugged” garnered $6 million.
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York shop auctioning a guitar Kurt Cobain destroyed before Nirvana made it big
As the song progressed that night, the band’s guitarist/lead vocalist/songwriter Kurt Cobain ... Martin D-18E he used on Nirvana’s iconic appearance on MTV’s “Unplugged” garnered $6 ...