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Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar from Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ era fetches nearly $600,000

A Fender Stratocaster guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has sold for nearly $600,000 at auction — more than 10 times what it was expected to go for.

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A battered guitar which Nirvana's Kurt Cobain gifted to his friend Mark Lanegan sells at auction for almost $600,000

Having parted with $596,900, an anonymous bidder is now the proud owner of a guitar once owned by Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain's broken guitar sells for nearly $600,000

The Nirvana frontman was known for smashing guitars during performances and in the studio. This one includes messages to his old friend, Mark Lanegan of the Screaming Trees.

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Is this the most expensive smashed guitar ever sold? Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for $600,000 – 10 times its initial estimate

The instrument, signed by all three members of Nirvana, er, smashed expectations in the recent sale

Guitar World

Joe Bonamassa pushes his voice and Stratocaster to the limit on up-tempo soul party single, I Want To Shout About It

Start the weekend right with Bonamassa's rendition of the Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters tune, taken from his forthcoming and as yet untitled new studio album

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Richie Faulkner says he used a Bigsby-equipped Fender Telecaster for his clean tone on Judas Priest’s Firepower

The Gibson-loving Judas Priest guitarist maintains, though, that the Flying V remains his, err, elegant weapon of choice

Guitar World

Steve Lacy on his new signature Fender Strat: "I kind of wanted to mix the old with the new – I think I always like that in everything that I do"

The artist and producer brings an auteur's touch to his first signature guitar; he tells us about striking a balance

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Maybury Cholla review

Most of us are happy with off-the-shelf guitar designs, but there’s nothing quite like ordering up your own custom-made guitar. We asked Maybury Guitars to build us one, and this is what we received

Guitar World

Joe Bonamassa names the biggest guitar geek he’s ever met

The blues rock guitar god and notorious gear head has been discussing the man he considers the guitar community’s “craziest anorak”

Guitar World

Fender debuts limited-edition British Racing Green finish – but you’ll need to be quick off the line to bag one

The firm has launched a European-exclusive Fender Special Run batch – including a Player Series HSS Strat, Tele and P-Bass, alongside a Blues Junior IV amp

Guitar World

Joe Bonamassa unpacks the influence behind his super-premium guitar tone – “It’s the two Erics, Clapton and Johnson”

Not too bright, throaty and musical – that's just how Bonamassa likes his tone, and he says a Dumble and a 'Burst are “not a prerequisite” for creating the sound in his head

Guitar World

PRS once made a prototype thinline model for Eric Johnson – and it’s one of the strangest 'what if?' guitar designs you’ll see

The quirky guitar was on display at the recent Dallas International Guitar Festival, alongside a particularly intriguing Fender signature model

Guitar World

Meet the Hell Kitty – the evil twin of the Squier Hello Kitty Strat hell-bent on destroying the meme guitar

Built from the bones of a battered Bullet Strat bought for $50, Zakk Farkas's Hell Kitty might be 2023's gnarliest home build, created to destroy a meme its maker says has gone too far

Guitar World

How Jeff Beck sparked Fender’s first Graffiti Yellow finish – and the Strat Plus design that helped revive its ’90s fortunes

One of the Fender Custom Shop’s first ever builds, owned and played by Beck, is up for auction. With it comes a tale of the guitar legend’s influential role in the firm’s ’90s output

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Catalinbread rethinks volume modulation with the Tremolo8 – eight trems in one pedal, with some reverb secret sauce too

The Tremolo8 covers classic and crazy alike, from vintage US-amp to weird robotic ring mod, and it even has parallel reverb pairings for dialling in ambience and spaced-out edsounds

Guitar World

The worlds of reverb and tremolo come crashing together in Catalinbread's new Tremol8 pedal

The Portland, Oregon firm's answer to the Strymon Flint and Fender Tre-Verb was inspired by the Fender Showman, but also features a wide variety of other tremolo/'verb effects, with plenty of tweakability, to boot

Guitar World

How a Tom Morello attitude and madcap Kemper experimentation shaped Enter Shikari’s genre-smashing tech-forward guitar sound

As the electro-rock quartet return with new album A Kiss For the Whole World, guitarist Rory Clewlow and frontman/production whiz Rou Reynolds unpack the synth-like guitar tones behind the tunes

Guitar World

Meet Fender’s latest Master Builder, who worked on its Game of Thrones guitars and some stunning signature models

Levi Perry joined the firm direct from high school and worked under the likes of Ron Thorn before his recent promotion

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Was Eric Johnson's unreleased PRS prototype guitar the precursor to the Silver Sky?

It was on display at the Dallas International Guitar Festival

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"This is one of the best amps I've ever played" – new video investigates the Fender Twin Reverb Kurt Cobain used on Nirvana's Bleach

Jack Endino's modded Fender amp was Cobain's go-to for Nirvana's debut album

Guitar World

Michael Landau recalls recording guitar in front of David Gilmour: “Playing for Pink Floyd was one of the most bizarre things ever”

The session heavyweight was once brought onboard to record a lead line that Gilmour “didn’t want to do”

Guitar World

Fender debuts the Steve Lacy “People Pleaser”, a signature Stratocaster with a built-in fuzz circuit

The pop/R&B guitarist and super-producer's Mexican-made signature model also boasts noiseless pickups and a host of striking visual appointments – including a unique Chaos Burst finish

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Fender and Steve Lacy team up for the People Pleaser Stratocaster – a unique, hot-wired Strat with onboard fuzz

The People Pleaser is decked out in an all-new Chaos Burst finish and comes equipped with The Internet guitarist's Chaos Fuzz circuit, Noiseless pickups and vintage-style trem

Guitar World

A Jimi Hendrix stage-used 1968 Fender Dual Showman cabinet is headed to the auction block

Acquired by Hendrix due to his need for more onstage firepower, the cab features a pair of 15-inch JBL 130 speakers, and was most prominently used for the guitar hero's performance at the 1969 Newport Pop Festival

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