Kurt Cobain’s Guitar Sold For $100,000

Keep in mind: if you’re a famous person, even your broken things could worth A LOT.

The late Nirvana’s frontman, Kurt Cobain, proved the statement to be correct. A smashed guitar that was belonged to Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000. The sale was confirmed Tuesday by Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where the guitar was displayed for a time. This is what McMurray said about the Fender Mustang guitar, “It’s a really cool-looking guitar because it’s smashed and held together with duct tape and Kurt Cobain wrote on it.”

A broker in England, Helen Hall, said that it’s the second-highest known price for an item of Cobain memorabilia. The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of The Grannies and Hullabaloo. Sluggo said he traded a working guitar for the smashed one during the first U.S. tour of Nirvana. It’s a known fact that when on stage, sometimes Cobain smashed his guitar to completed his act.

McMurray said that when the band was on a tour in New Jersey, Cobain smashed the guitar on stage and went looking for one to play at his next gig. At the time, Cobain was staying at the apartment of Sluggo and Sluggo’s girlfriend. So that is why he traded it with Sluggo’s guitar. McMurray hoped the buyer would allow the instrument to return to Seattle for a Cobain exhibit he is preparing for 2010.

As an added information, the first item of Cobain memorabilia that holds the title for the highest price was Mosrite Gospel Mark IV guitar, for $131,000 at a 2006 auction.

Hmm… maybe from now on I should keep my broken things. Y’know, just in case.

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