Three baggage claim ticket stubs are attached to the handle, along with an Alaska Airlines sticker affixed to the case and the storage compartment contains Cobain’s half-used pack of guitar strings, picks and a suede “stash bag”. It came with the original hard-shell case decorated by the singer-songwriter with a flyer from the punk rock band Poison Idea’s 1990 album Feel The Darkness. The guitar was the seventh of only 302 D-18Es built by Martin and was customised by Cobain, who added a Bartolini pickup to the soundhole. He said he had no limit on what he would have paid.įreedman said: “There were some seriously rich people here and I suppose I could have been completely scared shitless and somebody who has got billions and billions just pays, what, 20, 30 million? But I would have kept going.” We’ve been in that game forever so I’ve been very lucky with Rode and I’ve been able to give away lots of money, quite a few mill.” I paid for it but I’m going to use it to highlight the plight of artists worldwide by touring it around and then I’m going to sell it and use the dough for that as well, later.”įreedman, whose family first opened an electronics shop in Sydney in 1967, added: “The musicians and artists have supported my family since the 60s. He told the PA news agency he was “scared shitless and shaking” when the auctioneer’s gavel dropped, but he is proud to be able to use the guitar to support artists and is already thinking of what to do with it next. The guitar he spoke of at the event (not the one he played- note my error earlier in thinking it was borrowed) was the guitar of the singer Lead Belly who had also sung this song.Julien’s Auctions said the sale set five world records, including most expensive guitar and most expensive piece of memorabilia.įreedman plans to display the guitar in a worldwide exhibition tour, taking the instrument to galleries and art spaces with all proceeds going to the performing arts. But Kurt wanted to honor his personal heroes and inspirational singers so he knocked this one out of the park with a hair-raisingly emotional rendition that was Cobain to its core. A song he was not asked to sing and was even asked not to because MTV wanted to hear Nirvana favorites. I will likely never post it but I will record it for myself and then I can watch it and appreciate the incredible stress he must have been under performing this song. I have never been interested in doing video with any of my cosplays but with this one, I will sing this song. This is the driving force behind why I wanted to put all of this together. The guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the band’s famous MTV Unplugged in New York concert has sold for more than 6m (£4.8m) at auction. My favorite, ever, performance was the MTV Unplugged and Kurt's rendition of "In the Pines" or a.k.a. It only needs to be a black watch band.Ī bit of history here too. And, as always, the "OK at pose distance" applies here. On the Unplugged in New York special, Kurt Cobain performed an acoustic set. He was used to hearing this guitar through his Fender. Coletti said, 'It was Kurt's security blanket. Coletti built a fake box in front of the amplifier to disguise it as a monitor wedge. A Martin D-18E guitar owned by Kurt Cobain was auctioned off for more than 6 million. Despite the show's acoustic premise, Cobain insisted on running his acoustic guitar through his amplifier and effects pedals. He played it on the MTV Unplugged in New York album and used it for the song All Apologies. Because I am not completely convinced it always had a gator band anyway, I will stick with the regular leather band it came with. Kurt Cobain’s acoustic guitar was a Martin D-18E.
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