Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) Acoustic – Miniature Guitar Replica (UK Seller)

When Grunge burst forth from a cold, grey Seattle in the early 1990s to save Rock music, (not to mention the Ozone Layer) from the scourge of Hair Metal, no band led the charge more effectively than Nirvana.
Born Feb 29th 1967 and sadly died by suicide a mere 27 years later on April 5th 1994, Kurt Donald Cobain was guitarist, frontman and chief songwriter of arguably the most influential band since The Beatles.
Nirvana were anything but your run-of-the-mill conventional Rock band and Kurt Cobain was never one for using conventional or standard guitars. Being left handed he never found it easy to find suitable instruments and as a consequence nearly all of his guitars were modified or customised in some way or other.
One of the guitars that Cobain favoured most was his well battered and modified Sunburst 1965. During the recording of the soon to be legendary Nevermind album in 1990/1991 he used his fairly extensively and it is largely responsible for the ground breaking sound of the album.
Among the modifications on Cobain’s 1965 were a pair of Dimarzio Super Distortion pickups in place of the standard single coil units. The guitar also had the normal one volume, one tone control set-up replaced with a two volume, one tone system which gave separate volume control for each pickup and a single master tone. The normal switching system was also changed to a more basic 3-way toggle system.
The guitar was purchased used through L.A. Recycler in 1991 for around $300 and there has always been speculation as to the identity of it’s previous owner. One theory is that it once belonged to Cliff Richard and Everly Brothers guitarist Martin Jenner. This remains no more than a theory however as it has never been confirmed one way or the other.
This is an unlicensed replica guitar.