Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugges Guitar Sells for Over $6 Million
  • The guitar that Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain used during the band’s 1993 MTV Unplugged performance is now the most expensive guitar ever sold.
  • The 1959 Martin D-18E was only supposed to fetch maybe $2 million at auction, but RODE Microphones founder Peter Freedman won the auction with a $6,010,000 bid.
  • Prior to this auction, the most expensive guitar ever sold was a black Fender Stratocaster owned Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.  That guitar sold for nearly $4 million at auction.
  • Back in 2019 the unwashed cardigan that Cobain wore during the MTV Unplugged appearance fetched over $330,000.
  • Why do you think someone would bid over $6 million for a piece of rock and roll memorabilia?  Can you think of any rock or metal memorabilia that’s priceless?