Erik Pedersen Managing EditorCome as you are — leave with a multimillion-dollar ax. A guitar that Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged concert sold for a cool $6.01 million at auction Saturday.
The price was more than 50% higher than any other guitar ever sold at an auction.The late singer-songwriter’s 1959 Martin D-18E, along with its case and some personal items inside, had been expected to fetch $1 million-$2 million.
Instead, it dwarfed the previous record high for a guitar — the $3.95 million paid for a Stratocaster owned by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Julien’s Auctions said.Nirvana was at the top of its game when MTV recorded the Seattle band’s acoustic concert in November 1993.
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