Ask any vintage collector and they will tell you that there’s something special about old guitars, their stories, the songs they’ve made – especially acoustic guitars, which age particularly well, sounding better as the years pass and the wood dries out.
But all that mojo stuff, and the power of legend? It doesn’t work every time and not on every player. In an interview with Revolver, Opeth frontman/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt revealed that he had recently had the chance to play Kurt Cobain’s “haunted” Martin D-18 at the Martin Museum, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and even as a Nirvana fan it didn’t strike him as anything special.
