“Wow, Chris,” she recalled telling her friend with more than a drop of sarcasm. “A broken guitar. That’s so weird.” Brady said it was Kurt Cobain’s guitar. “What?!” was her response.

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 ...

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