6 million dollars for Kurt Cobains acoustic!!!

Roysterdoyster

Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged guitar sells for $6m at auction
http://news.sky.com/story/kurt-cobains-mtv-unplugged-guitar-sells-for-6m-at-auction-12011622

JerkMoans

Probably on Facebook Marketplace for $9.5 million by now 

UnclePsychosis

Loving the black humour / irony / appropriateness here. 

"this guy representing the leadbelly estate wants to sell me leadbelly's guitar for five hundred thousand dollars. I even asked David Geffen personally if he'd buy it for me".

prlgmnr

Who actually owned it at this point?

grungebob

So I take it you don’t think I got a bargain then?

Seziertisch

I think Kurts daughter gifted it to her ex-husband and was unable to recover it in the divorce

Caffeine_Vampire

I'd like to offer my congratulations to Joe Bonanassa on his ngd.

Roysterdoyster

JerkMoans said:

Probably on Facebook Marketplace for $9.5 million by now 

Auction house not happy that their original ad wording is being used now as well! 

barnstorm

That seems a crazy price to me. Most artist guitars are expensive because guitar people care about them. Cobain wasn't exactly a 'guitarist's guitarist', and grunge seems far less culturally relevant now than most things that came before and after. Do people still spend time thinking about him and his music?

WezV

barnstorm said:

That seems a crazy price to me. Most artist guitars are expensive because guitar people care about them. Cobain wasn't exactly a 'guitarist's guitarist', and grunge seems far less culturally relevant now than most things that came before and after. Do people still spend time thinking about him and his music?

Yes

ICBM

Nirvana MTV Unplugged is an iconic reference point for a generation, whether or not they play guitar - probably as much or even more so than Hendrix at Woodstock was in the late 60s.

Personally, I'm not a big Nirvana fan even though their cultural influence was enormous and Kurt was quite a big influence on me as a guitarist - which sounds counterintuitive I know, but it is true. Would I pay that much for his guitar? No, of course not. I recently had one of the pickups that's in it too - the original DeArmonds were disconnected apparently, it was the Bartolini soundhole pickup which was used - but I sold it recently... just didn't give me the sound I wanted.

WezV

Have to say though, surely Kris Knobsacks harmony made buck Owens American is the most iconic guitar from MTV unplugged.   The striped one played by Pat Smear

mikeyrob73

barnstorm said:

That seems a crazy price to me. Most artist guitars are expensive because guitar people care about them. Cobain wasn't exactly a 'guitarist's guitarist', and grunge seems far less culturally relevant now than most things that came before and after. Do people still spend time thinking about him and his music?

Yes and that’s why it sold for that amount, there is a generation out there that “grunge” was their punk. 

sawyer

So is this now the most expensive guitar sold? Makes Greeny Les Paul look a bargain! 

munckee

WezV said:

barnstorm said:

That seems a crazy price to me. Most artist guitars are expensive because guitar people care about them. Cobain wasn't exactly a 'guitarist's guitarist', and grunge seems far less culturally relevant now than most things that came before and after. Do people still spend time thinking about him and his music?

Yes

Not only is the unplugged probably the main point of the grunge era nirvana appears to be the ‘cool’ old band for the yoof guitar types. My 15 year old daughter and her friends are way more into nirvana than Beatles stones led zep etc. 

maltingsaudio

We just don’t realise how much spare change some people have! 

shaunm

munckee said:

WezV said:

barnstorm said:

That seems a crazy price to me. Most artist guitars are expensive because guitar people care about them. Cobain wasn't exactly a 'guitarist's guitarist', and grunge seems far less culturally relevant now than most things that came before and after. Do people still spend time thinking about him and his music?

Yes

Not only is the unplugged probably the main point of the grunge era nirvana appears to be the ‘cool’ old band for the yoof guitar types. My 15 year old daughter and her friends are way more into nirvana than Beatles stones led zep etc. 

Yes indeed. Like it or not that performance is one of the most iconic performances ever recorded. 

Nirvana were not even my favourite grunge band but without doubt they were the biggest and most influential band out there and probably still are. 

Jetfire

I find it interesting that when this is being discussed on FB, it always comes up with "He wasnt even that good a guitarist". 

75 million record sales prove that him and Nirvana wrote some good songs that people like to listen to. 

"But its all because of popular culture MAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN"

Well, maybe but does that mean he couldn't write a good song because of his "involvement" in popular culture? He wrote some bangers. 

Teyeplayer

WezV said:

Have to say though, surely Kris Knobsacks harmony made buck Owens American is the most iconic guitar from MTV unplugged.   The striped one played by Pat Smear

I agree, Pat’s guitar on there was it for me as a teen -possibly still is somewhere at the back of my mind.

barnstorm

Jetfire said:

I find it interesting that when this is being discussed on FB, it always comes up with "He wasnt even that good a guitarist".

That wasn't my point at all. The price shocked me because:

– He's not a player whose gear is a constant source of fascination to guitar nerds.

– My impression is that there's not much discussion of him these days, and that his music isn't part of life in the same way as records by other big acts of the past.

Grunge has always seemed a relatively inessential part of music history to me and I struggle to see many of the songs enduring, but young people always get to decide what matters in the end, so if Munckee says the yoof are rediscovering the music and care about it, then I'm wrong.

prlgmnr

Do you think a young person just dropped 6 million dollars on this?