![]() ![]() Keith Richards' Rolling Stones band signed 1999 Fender Classic Series '69 Thinline Telecaster electric guitar sold for $45,500 (€41,650).Dolly Parton's 1970s custom made, and stage worn cape: $10,160 (€9,300), sold five times its original estimate of $2,000-$3,000.Johnny Cash's owned Gibson Epiphone PR325S acoustic guitar played at a dinner for Joaquin Phoenix who would go on to play the Man in Black in the film Walk the Line: $63,500 (€58,000), nearly 20 times its original estimate of $3,000 - $5,000.Eric Clapton’s iconic 'The Fool' guitar sold for $1.27 million (€1.16 million) to The Jim Irsay Collection in Indianapolis, making the sale the first time a Clapton guitar has sold for seven figures at auction and set a world record for the sale of a Clapton guitar.At a two-day music auction this weekend, the Nirvana singer’s cardigan, which he wore at the band. Frank Micelotta Archive via Getty Images. Other highlights of the three-day auction include: Kurt Cobain’s vintage, olive-green cardigan is not only legendary, it’s now record-breaking. She recalled Kurt Cobain’s famous green cardigan that he wore during Nirvana’s 1993 appearance on MTV Unplugged (which sold at auction for a whopping 334,000 in 2019). It wasn’t just about the Nirvana frontman, mind you. Several other Cobain items were up for sale, including the jeans he wore in the 'Heart-Shaped Box' music video - sold for $412,750 (€377,000) a sketch and handwritten 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' lyric notes - sold for $91,000 (€83,000) a yellow argyle cardigan - sold for $13,000 (€11,900).Īll items were originally left to Cobain’s roommate at the Exodus Recovery Center in Los Angeles. Nolan added: “This is a really iconic guitar, original strings attached, and the original guitar strap with black masking tape covering the Fender brand name because Kurt just didn't love branding.” And of course, sadly, we lost Kurt in April of 1994.” This is the last guitar he ever played, ever, which was in Munich, Germany in 1994. The last guitar he ever played in the United States was in Seattle, January '94. Kurt Cobain’s unwashed cardigan from the iconic MTV Unplugged performance by Nirvana the year before his death has sold for a phenomenal amount of money. “Used on the ‘In Utero tour’, he played it on 53 out of 63 shows. It's his SkyStang 1 guitar, his workhorse, his most played guitar of all time,” said Martin Nolan, Executive Director of Julien's Auctions. “This is a really incredible historic guitar. The left-handed Fender Mustang electric guitar played by Cobain in his final public performance before he tragically died in April 1994 expected to fetch $1,000,000 - $2,000,000 (€922,000 - €1.8 million). “This pack was saved by Cobain’s roommate at the Los Angeles rehab clinic where he briefly stayed several days before taking his own life.”Įlsewhere, Cobain's Skystang I guitar sold for $1,587,500 (€1,453,229). Johnny Cash's owned Gibson Epiphone PR325S acoustic guitar played at a dinner for Joaquin Phoenix who would go on to play the Man in Black in the film Walk the Line: $63,500, nearly 20 times its original estimate of $3,000 - $5,000.“American Spirit menthols were the preferred brand of the late rock star,” the lot description describes.According to Julien's Auction, Zappa’s antique Crane & Sons pump organ sold for $5,850.Īdditional highlights of the three-day auction included (winning bids with buyer’s premium): During the final day of the auction, items from the life and career of legendary artist Frank Zappa sold upwards of 10 times their estimates.
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