Kurt Cobain: Weitere Gitarre für 4.5 Millionen Dollar versteigert

Die Gitarre wurde von der Jim Irsay Collection aus Indianapolis in einem Bieterkampf zwischen Sammlern und anderen Bietern aus der ganzen Welt erworben, die sich im Hard Rock Cafe® New York, online auf juliensauctions.com und am Telefon. Anlässlich des Mental Health Awareness Month spendet die Cobain-Familie einen Teil des Erlöses der legendären Gitarre und anderer ausgewählter Gegenstände von Kurt Cobain an Kicking The Stigma, eine Initiative der Irsays, um das Bewusstsein für psychische Erkrankungen zu schärfen und das mit diesen Krankheiten verbundene Stigma zu beheben.Auktionshaus Julien's

Dave Grohl was dating Kathleen Hanna of the band Bikini Kill and Cobain was dating her bandmate, Tobi Vail. They often hung out together and as Cobain explained to Patrick MacDonald of The Seattle Times, “We were having a really fun time talking about all kinds of revolutionary things, and we ended up destroying my bedroom. We ended up throwing my art supplies all over, and paint, and breaking the mirror, and tearing my bed up. It was a lot of fun. And so we were writing all over the wall with paint and my friend [Hanna] wrote, ‘Kurt smells like teen spirit,’ and I took that as a compliment. What she actually meant by it was that I smelled like this deodorant that is for teenagers called Teen Spirit. She’d seen it on television and I guess I stunk that night. It’s basically just about friends. The friends that we have now, in a way. We still feel as if we’re teenagers because we don’t follow the guidelines of what’s expected of us to be adults. We still screw around and have a good time. It also has kind of a teen revolutionary theme to it.”Kurt Cobain