Kurt Cobain
Smells Like Inexperienced Spirit …
Smashed Guitars Brings in 1000’s!!!
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Kurt Cobain smashed this white Fender Stratocaster again in 1992 … and, now it is smashing data — bringing in a whopping sum at public sale!
Dylan Kosinski — president of well-liked music public sale web site Gottahaverockandroll — tells TMZ … Kurt’s smashed guitar bought for $101,500 to a Texas collector when the public sale closed yesterday.
The piece of music memorabilia sparked a bidding struggle on the positioning … with 5 folks making a complete of 11 bids earlier than a winner was in the end topped.
The minimal bid was $30K … so, the guitar introduced in a complete heck of much more cash than initially thought.
As we informed you … this guitar was smashed throughout Nirvana’s tour of Europe manner again in ’92 — although it was restored to working order whereas the group was nonetheless on tour there.
The guitar was obtained by a crewmember who labored for Nirvana from 1991 to 1993 … and, it was later authenticated by Huge John Duncan — a well-known guitar tech recognized for his affiliation with the band.
Whereas this is not essentially the most a Cobain guitar has ever gone for — one in all his axes that he used within the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” sold for $4.5 million.
$100K ain’t peanuts although … definitely placing the vendor into the “inexperienced spirit.”
