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cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 11:30 PM Jun 2020

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged; In honor of Kurt Cobain's Guitar selling today;

Thanks to Sewa for the OP on the sale of the guitar...

The singer used it to play tunes including "About a Girl" and "All Apologies" at the Nov. 18, 1993, show in New York that came less than five months before Cobain died at age 27.

Grunge became gold Saturday as the guitar Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance sold for an eye-popping $6 million at auction.

The 1959 Martin D-18E that Cobain played in the band's rare acoustic performance and subsequent live album was sold to Australian Peter Freedman, owner of Røde Microphones, at the Music Icons event run by Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California.
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Nirvana - MTV Unplugged; In honor of Kurt Cobain's Guitar selling today; (Original Post) cayugafalls Jun 2020 OP
Wow! This is awesome Sewa Jun 2020 #1
Your super welcome! cayugafalls Jun 2020 #2
K&R Docreed2003 Jun 2020 #3
Kurt really sings the hell out of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" cemaphonic Jun 2020 #4
I am not sure anyone really knows who wrote it. cayugafalls Jun 2020 #6
Yeah, no doubt they learned from Leadbelly's version cemaphonic Jun 2020 #9
Have you seen this performance from 1994 BigmanPigman Jun 2020 #5
I had not seen that, thanks! cayugafalls Jun 2020 #7
I hadn't watched these in years, I just remembered that I used to know the woman playing the cello cemaphonic Jun 2020 #8
That is pretty cool. cayugafalls Jun 2020 #12
One of the best things I've ever seen on TV. Iggo Jun 2020 #10
Great post. Swede Jun 2020 #11

Sewa

(1,242 posts)
1. Wow! This is awesome
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:31 AM
Jun 2020

Kurt was such a breath of fresh air. It’s amazing that man from a tiny town in western WA turned the music world upside down.

Thank you

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
2. Your super welcome!
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:38 AM
Jun 2020

You inspired me. I had to listen to it all again and post the videos, once I found them all. The recordings were so well done, I had forgotten how good the concert was at the time. I saw it on a TV of that era, so 1993 technology, not very good sound quality. Listening to the videos now was like a new awakening for me. Sure, I had heard select songs from that concert every now and then, but never put it together like this.

So that thanks goes back to you as well, my friend.

Have a great night.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
3. K&R
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:15 AM
Jun 2020

Love Nirvana. Must have watched the Unplugged concert a hundred times in the early nighties! Thanks for this!

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
4. Kurt really sings the hell out of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:26 AM
Jun 2020

One of the best versions, and that's saying something considering how many people have done that song. (He's wrong though, Leadbelly didn't write it)

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
6. I am not sure anyone really knows who wrote it.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:30 AM
Jun 2020

Leadbelly did do a version of it though. I think he really wanted Leadbelly's guitar...

Kurt's version is the best I've ever heard, like you said. He really makes the song his own.

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
9. Yeah, no doubt they learned from Leadbelly's version
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:52 AM
Jun 2020

Same little bass run-up into the verses and everything.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
5. Have you seen this performance from 1994
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:28 AM
Jun 2020


His "gee-tar" crapped out ar 2:12 and he throws it down but carries on perfectly.

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
7. I had not seen that, thanks!
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:37 AM
Jun 2020

He did not miss a thing. The guitar snap/pops at 1:56 and he tries to recover it, but can't get it back.

Very cool...

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
8. I hadn't watched these in years, I just remembered that I used to know the woman playing the cello
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:49 AM
Jun 2020

I didn't know her all that well, but we had a bunch of mutual musician and theater friends. Lori was part of this musical ensemble that would play their own scores to silent movies and plays. Blew my mind at the time that someone that played on a mega-platinum album with goddammed Nirvana was just sitting on a couch over there.

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
12. That is pretty cool.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:15 PM
Jun 2020

I am sure it is a memory you treasure.

Pretty cool that she played with Nirvana, it meant she was really good and known to be good.

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