Kurt Cobain

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Aaron Rash's Kurt Cobain The Engine Pedal
A YouTuber has built a pedal to clone Kurt Cobain’s home demo tone

By Matt Parker Published

Producer/songwriter Aaron Rash has hand-wired a pedal he calls the Engine

Effects & Pedals
Kurt Cobain's Boss DS-1
Kurt Cobain’s Boss DS-1 sells for $75,000 – is this the most expensive pedal sold at auction?

By Matt Parker Published

The highly personalized distortion pedal recently went for more than Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys Octavia pedal

Effects & Pedals
Kurt Cobain and his 1973 Fender Mustang
Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed 1973 Fender Mustang sells for nearly $500,000 at auction

By Matt Owen Published

The sunburst offset was smashed in 1989, and its remains were swapped for a Gibson SG after Cobain's guitar-destroying performance left him without an instrument to play

Electric Guitars
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Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear Reflect on the Making of Nirvana's 'In Utero'

By Alan di Perna Last updated

Bands
Kurt Cobain (left), his battered 1973 Fender Mustang
Kurt Cobain-signed 1973 Fender Mustang – which he smashed onstage in 1989 – goes up for auction

By Matt Owen Published

The signed guitar was later exchanged for a Gibson SG, after Cobain's guitar-smashing antics left him without a guitar to play for Nirvana's gigs

Electric Guitars
Flea (L) and John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers perform during the ACL Music festival 2022 at Zilker Park on October 09, 2022 in Austin, Texas.
Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers cover Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit with John Frusciante on lead vocals

By Michael Astley-Brown Last updated

The funk-rockers tackled the grunge classic during a recent show at Flea’s Silverlake Conservatory of Music

Bands
Dave Grohl (left) and Kurt Cobain perform onstage at the Reading Festival on August 30, 1992
Watch Nirvana's legendary Reading 1992 set in full in remastered 4K

By Jackson Maxwell Published

The band's final UK performance – an explosive 25-song set widely regarded as one of the band's greatest – occurred 30 years ago today

Concert, Gigs & Tours
(from left) guitars played by Ace Frehley, George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix
Guitars played by Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Ace Frehley go up for auction

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Also going under the hammer is the destroyed neck of a guitar used (and subsequently smashed) by Kurt Cobain

Guitarists
Kurt Cobain and his Fender Mustang
Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit Fender Mustang sells at auction for $4.5 million

By Matt Owen Published

The winning bid from Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay makes the iconic offset the second most expensive guitar sold at auction, overtaking David Gilmour's Black Strat

Electric Guitars
Kurt Cobain Smells Like Teen Spirit Mustang
Bids on Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit Fender Mustang have already hit $2 million

By Matt Parker Published

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has made a generous early bid to kickstart an auction in aid of his mental health charity Kick the Stigma

Electric Guitars
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