Kurt Cobain’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ Guitar Sells for $6 Million at Auction

Rolling Stone ^ | Daniel Kreps

[BenLurkin]

Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance sold at auction Saturday for a record $6 million. The previous record was $3.95 million for a Black Stratocaster owned by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.

Pre-auction bids on the 1959 Martin D-18E, purchased by the Nirvana singer at Los Angeles’ Voltage Guitars and modified for the left-handed Cobain, reached $1 million even bidding officially opened Saturday. The guitar received seven bids total, including the winning bid of $6,010,00, the Julien’s Auctions website stated.

The guitar also came with its original hard-shell case that Cobain had adorned with a flyer for the band Poison Idea’s 1990 album Feel the Darkness. Inside the case is a half-used pack of Martin guitar strings, three picks, and a “suede ‘stash’ bag” that’s decorated with a small silver spoon, fork, and knife.

[Uncle Miltie]

just finished an evening serenading Mrs. Miltie on my Martin D-18.

[BEJ]

Ironic, that at the MTV gig he told the crowd he wanted Leadbelly’s guitar but the record company owner (forgot his name) didn’t want to give it to him — it cost a hundred some odd thousand.

[albie]

He was nothing but a smelly dirty hippie

[Mr Radical]

I’ve always suspected he was suicided because he upset people in high places.
Where have we heard the like before?