The guitar used by the American musician Kurt Cobain in his last concert was sold at auction for more than 1.5 million dollars (around 1.3 million euros), the auction house announced.
The left-handed Fender Mustang guitar was “a favorite” of the Nirvana singer, used on Nirvana’s last tour in 1993-1994, Julien’s Auctions said in a statement released Friday.
The instrument auctioned in Nashville, Tennessee, is intact, unlike many of the guitars smashed on stage by the grunge legend.
In May, a black Fender Stratocaster, destroyed by Cobain, was sold for €595,000 at an auction at the Hard Rock Café in New York.
After marking a generation of Nirvana fans with hits like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come as You Are,” Kurt Cobain committed suicide in April 1994, at the age of 27.
On Thursday, Julien’s Auctions also sold an Eric Clapton guitar for around $1.3 million (€1.2 million).
Nicknamed “The Fool”, this Gibson SG is strongly associated with the singer’s time in the band Cream, in which he produced one of the most characteristic sounds in rock.
Custom psychedelic decoration makes this guitar one of rock’s most recognizable instruments and a symbol of the “Summer of Love,” the 1967 counterculture movement that shaped a generation.
Eric Clapton first used “The Fool” on Cream’s first US tour.
Source: TSF
