![]() ![]() Members of industry bodies ARIA and APRA met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday and the Government is reportedly considering more funding measures. ![]() The music industry has been calling for government support since March, when pandemic restrictions halted all live events and led to hundreds of millions of dollars in lost wages. "I’d be pretty low if I didn’t recognise that and give some back." These 10 Nirvana covers shed new light on Kurt Cobain's genius No services, no support, no mental health issue support, nothing." "People I know are sleeping on the floor, unable to eat," he told the SMH. Worth mentioning because it is an amazing album and you should play it for the whole family.Īccording to the Sydney Morning Herald, Freedman hopes to tour the guitar around Australia from mid-August, raising funds to help lobby the Australian Government to help the music industry. Cobain’s acoustic used during the Unplugged in New York special was by all accounts an incredibly low production model, although not necessarily very sought after. The guitar came with a hardcase that Kurt had decorated with a poster advertising Poison Idea's 1990 album Feel The Darkness. ![]() It's now the most expensive guitar ever sold, beating out David Gilmour's Fender Stratocaster, which sold for $4 million last year. The sale broke numerous records, according to auctioneers Julien's Auctions. Hear Peter Freedman discuss his purchase with Double J's Tim Shiel Only 302 of them were made, and Cobain's was reportedly the seventh.īut the fact that Cobain used the instrument on Nirvana's hugely influential 1994 live album, which has sold tens of millions of copies, is what makes it a significant buy. On March 4, 1994, Cobain was hospitalized in Rome following an overdose of painkillers. The 1959 Martin D-18E guitar is a rare beast without the Cobain connection. : 76 Cobain had two uncles who killed themselves using guns. – Rappler.Peter Freedman hopes to use the guitar to lobby the Federal Government for arts assistance. RIP Kurt Cobain 1967 - 1994 Version from song called Where Did You Sleep Last Night. Cobain, Nirvana singers and songwriter, died by suicide on April 5, 1994. In October 2019 Cobain’s iconic cigarette-singed cardigan worn during the Unplugged performance sold for $334,000.Īnd a paper plate Cobain had eaten pizza off of – and then written a Nirvana set list on for a performance at Washington’s intimate 9:30 club – that same year went for $22,400. Kid Cudis performance on Saturday fell on the same week as the anniversary of Cobains death at age 27. As mentioned in Ground Guitar, this guitar is very rare and it is the earliest Martins to feature electric pickups. He bought this guitar a few months before the gig in 1993. Other Cobain memorabilia going up for sale includes a black custom-made and smashed Fender Stratocaster guitar played during 1994’s In Utero Tour – starting at $60,000 – and a metallic silver lame long sleeve button-down shirt the artist wore in the 1993 “Heart-shaped Box” music video, starting at $10,000. Kurt Cobain used his Martin D-18E in Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance. The guitar will be on display in the front window of London’s Piccadilly Circus Hard Rock Cafe starting May 15 until May 31. It included renditions of Nirvana’s hits “About A Girl” and “Come As You Are” along with covers including David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World.” Nirvana’s acoustic performance during the taping for the popular MTV Unplugged series on November 18th, 1993 became what is considered one of history’s greatest live albums. The retro acoustic-electric 1959 Martin D-18E Cobain strummed for Nirvana’s career-defining performance in New York – just 5 months before his shock death at age 27 – will be open to the highest bidder the weekend of June 19th in Beverly Hills and online via Julien’s Auction’s.Ĭonsidering the starting estimate of $1 million for Cobain’s guitar, it will likely go for more than double that of a guitar that played a key role in Bob Dylan’s artistic evolution from folk to rock, which in 2018 fetched just under half a million. NEW YORK, USA – Decades after grunge’s reluctant poster boy took his own life, Kurt Cobain’s guitar played during his legendary MTV Unplugged performance is hitting the auction block at a starting estimate of $1 million. ![]()
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