"It's like I'm sitting here playing Kurt's Gospel through his Nevermind rig – it's crazy, it sounds exactly the same": Proof that the lost Mosrite Kurt Cobain used to record most of Nirvana's breakthrough album is the key to its guitar sound

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YouTuber and polymath Aaron Rash has been on another Nirvana mission – and it's culminated in him buying the same year Mosrite Gospel as Kurt Cobain's own. Most fans know he used a Mosrite, less that is was the main electric guitar used on the band's 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind.

Cobain's left-handed 1966 Mosrite was white, and the story goes that it was stolen from Nirvana's van in mid-May – slap bang in the middle of sessions for the album with Butch Vig in LA. It was never seen again, but it had already played its part in shaping rock history.