A smashed guitar from the late Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000.

Helen Hall, a broker in England, says it's the second-highest known price for an item of Cobain memorabilia. The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of The Grannies and Hullabaloo.

The sale was confirmed Tuesday by Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where the taped-up Fender Mustang guitar in sunburst finish was displayed for a time.

Money to burn huh? Mike

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Yeah, I wish I had money like that to just throw around !

I wouldn't pay 5 bucks for it. I don't get the whole Cobain thing. With all due respect for the dead, the guy was a waste of carbon. Never liked Nirvana.

Never did much for me. Mike

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I could send $100,000 on better things than a smashed guitar. I don't care who played it.

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I grew up listening to Nirvana and been influenced by them. They brought a different kind of rock music to the table. I can see why a fan would pay that much, but me...still..not even 5 bucks.

Crap playing, meaningless lyrics and shoegazing fans. Hardly exciting, to say he started the scene is completely untrue. Megacity5, soundgarden and sonic youth would all beg to differ. Nirvanah were nothing more than a vapid pop act in comparison to their peers. Kind of like the bay city rollers compared to the allmans.

100,000 for the guitar nah, truth is you couldnt give it to me.

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Yep exactly. Neil Young contributed more to the grunge scene than that clown.

I wonder if his name was Mark Teixeira seem he snookerd the Yanks for 180 million of cource it could be any of the three they just spent 480 million on make that kind of money you can buy it for fire wood.

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I like Nirvana, but I think they were pretty overated. I like them musically and lyrically, but as far as guitar playing is concerned it wasn't anything amazing. Personally for me I think Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden were better bands as far as musicianship is concerned. And Nirvana, though I like them, were given way too much credit for the whole grunge scene.

I read an article in the LA Times a year or so ago (and repeated on MSN) that guitar collecting had become "the" thing for baby boom era high earners. They have agents go find them guitars with a history and proof -- sometimes for a specific artist, other times just "something valuable" to add to the collection.

One of the first people to do such a service (don't remember his name) said he made quite a commission after finding a wealthy collector a guitar that had provably been played by a Beatle. He said there's a premium if you find a guitar not normally associated with the artist and/or it was provably used in recording a well known song. But he also suggested that collectors would have to start looking to newer artists because it was getting pretty hard to find 40 year old guitars that were not only all original but could positively be tied to a particular person.

So it makes sense that someone like a Cobain would now attract collectors. I think people with $100K to toss on an unplayable guitar probably are looking only at the investment value, not the artist, whether he was/was not a good guitarist or key to the grunge movement.

I agree. He was a loser that became the flag of a generation of losers.

And after he teached the youngsters that they didn't really need to play good to make "music", it was the end of good music for all.

Wow, I didnt know that there were so many snobs on this forum. Calling Cobain a clown and loser is a reflection on who you are and speaks volumes about you. Certainly ones taste in music is subjective and a matter of opinion but to personally attack an artist that has accomplished something in a few years and created a legacy that you will never in your life time come close to even scratching the surface of is pretty sad. Since you think Cobains music was so trivial and irrelevant why havent you produced something to equal or surpass it? If it was so easy why didnt you do it?

That is the dumbest post ever. And I do not mean in just this forum either ... that includes every Interent forum in existance. Congratulations ... that is quite an accomplishment.

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