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“I’m embarrassed saying this, but I’d like to be recognized more as a songwriter,” Cobain told Details magazine in November of ’93. “I don’t want to read too much into it,” says Coletti in retrospect, “but that memory sure spooked me out a couple of months later.”Īpart from any of the show’s real or imaginary morbid overtones, for Cobain, the opportunity to do MTV Unplugged may well have meant the confirmation of his arrival as an important rock songwriter. “You mean like a funeral?” Coletti asked. In fact, when Unplugged producer Alex Coletti showed the Nirvana leader some preliminary sketches for the stage set, Kurt called for more flowers, more candles. And the lilies, candles and heavy drapery that adorned the Unplugged set that night were all chosen by Cobain. But of the six cover songs Cobain chose to sing that evening, five mention death in some way. Or singing to us from some tranquil, blue world beyond our own.Īn eerie coincidence? Probably. It was as if the guy was singing at his own funeral.

It may have helped some viewers find a calm, quiet way to resign themselves to Cobain’s violent departure. Seen, again and again, in the hours after the artist’s death, the somber MTV gig had an oddly lulling effect. It has become impossible to hear this music outside the context of Cobain’s terrible end. The recent release of Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York, the CD version of the television concert, was a mournful dÈj‡ vu experience for many. Instead, there was Nirvana Unplugged, taped just five months before Cobain’s death, and designated as the wake which, through its repeated showings served to diffuse the rock community’s grief and shock. Who can say why MTV chose to air Nirvana’s Unplugged performance over and over, like a tape loop, in the hours and days following the discovery of Cobain’s lifeless body on April 8, 1994? Many fans might have preferred some bracing footage of Nirvana fully amped up and defiantly live before a seething mosh pit. Kurt Cobain's acoustic guitar most expensive rock memorabilia item ever at £4.The images have already been burned into some deep, tender part of rock’s collective consciousness: Kurt Cobain, slumped over his Martin acoustic, his tattered librarian sweater and basketball sneakers, the clusters of lillies, the subaquatic blue light….Get breaking news to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter Read More Related Articles Kildare, Ireland from Thursday May 5 to Saturday May 7 2022. The exhibition is available to view at the Museum of Style Icons, Newbridge Silverware, Newbridge, Co. The video of Kurt playing this guitar has been viewed some two billion times and is culturally one of the most influential moments in rock-n-roll.” The guitar and other Kurt Cobain and Nirvana items will go for auction by Julien’s Auctions in a celebrity studded auction at the Hard Rock Café in New York from May 20 to May 22.Įxecutive director of Julien’s Martin Nolan said: “We consider this guitar to be not only the most important artifact to ever come to auction of Kurt Cobain or Nirvana, it’s also currently the single most important piece of pop culture history to come to auction. The rock star's Irish roots are well known, and while Cobain believed that his family originated from County Cork, his ancestors in fact emigrated to the US from Carrickmore, County Tyrone, in 1875. In my opinion this guitar could beat the current world record for a guitar sold at auction and could sell for in excess of US $10 million.”

“This guitar has been on display at the MoPop Museum in Seattle since 2010. It was also used in the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ music video and also while recording the albums ‘Nevermind’ and ‘In Utero’. “This electric Fender Mustang guitar from ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was Kurt’s favourite guitar and is much more iconic and an extremely important piece. Kurt Cobain with his guitar in Smells Like Teen Spirit music video