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Cult status has its price – and Kurt Cobains smashed guitar from 1992 proves it. The instrument that Cobain destroyed during Nirvana’s European tour in the early 90s now caused a bidding war. Here are all information about it.
Exceeded all expectations
Dylan Kosinski, the head of the Gottahaverockandroll platform, where there was the good piece to buy, confirmed to “TMZ” that five collectors delivered a hard competition before a buyer from the US state was finally awarded the contract. The minimum bid was originally only $ 30,000-the final price clearly exceeded all expectations. The Fender Stratocaster was finally sold for $ 101,500.
Even though the guitar was demolished during the tour, Crew members were still repairing them again. A former employee who worked for Nirvana in the early 1990s saved the play. The authenticity was later confirmed by Big John Duncan, a well -known guitarist from the band.
A piece of rock story
Even if Cobain’s famous guitar from the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video already changed hands for breathtaking $ 4.5 million, this sale shows that a broken piece of rock history can turn out to be a real gold mine. A few individual cobain hairs were recently auctioned, with a strand of the Nirvana front man generated a total of 13,620 euros. Kurt Cobain committed suicide on April 5, 1994, a few months before the Nirvana Live album MTV Unplugged was released in New York in November of the same year.
Auction sensations like this are not only limited to Grunge legend Cobain. Cult symbols such as the throne of “Game of Thrones”, or a piano from Oasis, are always auctioned for good money. A man recently acquired a signed guitar from Taylor Swift for $ 4,000, just to destroy them directly in the live stream with a hammer.
Compared to an earlier auction, the Fender Mustang is almost a bargain with $ 100,000. The iconic acoustic electrogitarian with which Cobain shaped the “MTV Unplugged” concert was sold two years ago for astonishing six million US dollars. The buyer, an Australian audio technology company, acquired the play.