Cobain

Late last week, the guitar that Kurt Cobain used in the video for Nirvana's "Smells like teen spirit" went to the auction block. The 1969 Fender Mustang Competition Lake Placid blue finish electric guitar was estimated to sell between $600,000-$800,000. It ended up bringining in $4.5 million!. According to Julien’s...

A piece of music history sold for millions over the weekend. Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s 1991 “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video sold at auction for far more than the pre-auction estimate of $600,000. Cobain’s 1969 Fender Mustang Competition Lake Placid blue finish electric guitar sold...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay spent years putting together his expansive guitar collection. Now he’s trying to add a Fender Mustang electric guitar used by Kurt Cobain. Cobain’s family is auctioning off the blue guitar used in Nirvana’s iconic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video...

(INDIANAPOLIS) – The Colts and the family of a rock icon are teaming up to fight mental illness. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain said in interviews the vintage 1969 Fender guitar he played on the blockbuster “Nevermind” album, including in the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” was his favorite. 28 years after Cobain’s death by suicide, his family is selling the guitar and some of his other belongings at auction later this month, with some of the proceeds to go toward mental health. That brought them to “Kicking the Stigma,” the foundation created two years ago by Colts owner and guitar collector Jim Irsay.

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