Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugges Guitar Sells for Over $6 Million
June 22, 2020 8:33AM CDT
Expensive steel-string acoustic guitar. Red cedar top, ebony fretboard, koa back and sides (not visible here). Camera: Canon 5D.
- 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?
