The singer used it to play tunes including"About a Girl" and"All Apologies" at the Nov. 18, 1993, show in New York that came less than five months before Cobain died at age 27.performance sold for an eye-popping $6 million at auction.
The 1959 Martin D-18E that Cobain played in the band's rare acoustic performance and subsequent live album was sold to Australian Peter Freedman, owner of Røde Microphones, at the Music Icons event run by Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California.Cobain used it to play tunes including "About a Girl" and "All Apologies" at the Nov. 18, 1993, show in New York that came less than five months before the singer and songwriter died at age 27.
A day earlier at the same auction event, a custom guitar played by Prince at the height of his stardom in the 1980s and 1990s sold for $563,500, a small sum compared with the Cobain guitar but well over the $100,000 to $200,000 it was expected to fetch. Prince played the blindingly blue guitar with the artist's "love" symbol on its neck beginning on the 1984 Purple Rain Tour, as well as on the classic albumsArchivists going through Prince's possessions at his Paisley Park home and musical headquarters in Minnesota recently found the guitar that was thought to be lost during the four years since his death from an overdose at age 57.
Also Friday, a macrame belt that Elvis Presley wore about 30 times on stage brought in nearly 10 times its expected price, with a final bid of $298,000, and an ivory gown worn by Madonna in her 1990 "Vogue" video sold for $179,200.
Way more than the Leadbelly guitar Geffen was too cheap to buy him.
money laundering
Just morally repugnant
'Eye-popping' is not a poor choice of words, people. Grow the fuck up. 'Mind blowing,' however. Now that'd be something.
Where is leadbelly's guitar at?
Wow..
If Kurt hadn't off'd himself, Nirvana would not be anywhere near as popular as they are. They weren't great anyways. Thank the maker that grunge died out....
Hope the money went to his family.
Insane!
darrenrovell A guy paid a few hundred grand for that sweater too.
Non snarky question: who owned the guitar? I mean, Courtney Love just made 6 mil or nah?
darrenrovell That’s a travesty. The guitar belongs to Frances but her ex husband refused to give it to her in their divorce.
bgtennisnation Grunge is green
Guess my check that said “priceless” didn’t work
darrenrovell Six million to much tbh
darrenrovell That is mind blowing.
During this performance Cobain actually laughs at being offered Leadbelly's guitar for $500,000.
😮
Enough money to rebuild Steve Austin, yes
A steal.
Um, wow. I guess that stimulus check really is helping