Kurt Cobain’s iconic blue Fender guitar used during Nirvana’s final show expected to fetch up to $2 MILLION – as several iconic pieces of music memorabilia go up for auction
Music fans who collect iconic memorabilia will want to take note of this upcoming auction.
About a thousand pieces of rock ‘n’ roll history are up for grabs – at the right price – including Kurt Cobain’s iconic Skystang I guitar used during his last live performance with Nirvana on March 1, 1994.
Said to be among his favorites, the blue left-handed Fender electric is expected to fetch up to $2 million, as part of Julien’s Auction’s Played, Worn And Torn Rock N’ Roll Iconic Guitars & Memorabilia.
This is the first time that this particular guitar of the Cobain collection is up for auction, which comes amid the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s third and final studio album, In Utero.
Sadly, Cobain would take his own life at his home in Seattle, just one month after Nirvana’s final performance at Terminal 1 in Munich, Germany.
Kurt Cobain’s iconic Skystang I Fender guitar that he used during Nirvana’s final performance in Munich, Germany on March 1, 1994 is up for auction
Main Axe: Said to be among Cobain’s ‘favourite’, this particular Fender guitar was used for the majority of Nirvana’s 1993-1994 tour dates in support of their final studio album In Utero
This particular guitar was used for the majority of Nirvana’s 1993-1994 tour dates, in support of the In Utero album.
It was one of four Fender Mustangs that Cobain acquired sometime before the tour, which began on October 18, 1993, according to Ground guitar.
The guitar was first seen in the photos taken five days later, on October 23, during Nirvana’s show at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom.
From the time it was first seen, this guitar was used in almost all of Nirvana’s performances until their last performance on March 1, 1994 in Munich, Germany.
Former Nirvana guitar technician Earnie Bailey refers to this Electric Blue Mustang as the Nirvana frontman’s ‘workhorse’.
Cobain ended up using this guitar during 53 of the 63 In Utero tour performances, all the way through the final show on March 1, 1994.
The band ended up performing a 22-song set that noticeably didn’t include Smells Like Teen Spirit, the song that helped propel them to rock superstardom. But for the band, and Cobain in particular, the powerful track became so big and synonymous with Nirvana that they began excluding it from setlists.
The Munich gig, which had a capacity of 3,000, was reportedly beset by technical problems Radio X.
No Teen Spirit: Nirvana played a 22-song set at Terminal 1 in Munich, Germany, which ended up being their final show, but notably did not include Smells Like Teen Spirit, the song that helped catapult them to rock superstardom. to close, did not include
Come As You Are: Nirvana began their tour in support of their third and final studio album In Utero on October 18th and continued until their last show ever on March 1st 1994
Six songs into their set they were forced to stop playing Come As You Are due to a power cut and start again.
According to various reports, it was during this awkward moment that bassist Krist Novoselic used some humor to lighten the moment and yelled ‘We’re on our way out. Grunge is dead. Nirvana is over.’
Little did he know how prophetic his joke would prove, considering Cobain’s death at the age of 27 four weeks later marked the end of Nirvana.
Heat Shaped Box goes down as the last song ever played by Cobain and the rest of Nirvana, which also included Dave Grohl on drums and Pat Smear as the touring second guitarist.
Julian’s Auctions has gathered over 1,000 historic items owned and used by a range of music legends including Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, Prince, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Pete Townshend, Johnny Cash, Albert King , include Dolly. Parton, Eddie Van Halen, Frank Zappa, Dee Dee Ramone, Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, Slash of Guns N’ Roses, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, among many others.
Julian’s Auctions has gathered more than 1,000 historic items owned and used by a range of music legends which also includes Eric Clapton’s 1964 Gibson SG electric guitar which is also expected to fetch up to $2,000,000.
According to Ground Guitar, Clapton played the so-called The Fool guitar at Cream’s debut American concert on March 25, 1967 at the RKO Theater in New York City.
Coming: The Julian’s Auction event, featuring some 1,000 items, begins with a special evening session on Thursday, November 16, which will be followed by traditional sessions the following two days, November 17 and 18, live from Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville and online at julienslive.com
Along with Cobain’s Skystang I Fender guitar, one of the other hot ticket items being auctioned is Eric Clapton’s 1964 Gibson SG electric guitar, which is also expected to sell for up to $2,000,000.
Clapton is said to have acquired this guitar sometime in 1967. It first appeared at Cream’s debut US concert on March 25, 1967 at the RKO Theater in New York City, according to another report by Ground guitar.
By then, the guitar already had the custom body paint done by Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger, who later formed a design collective called The Fool.
The Julian’s Auction event will take place with a special evening session on Thursday, November 16, which will be followed by traditional sessions the next two days, November 17 and 18, live from the Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville and online at julienslive.com.