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This Rock God's Guitar Just Sold for Nearly $5 Million · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, thirty one years after
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Speaker 1: Nirvana chains the landscape of popular music forever with their
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Speaker 1: breakout single Smells Like Teen Spirit, and the guitar that
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Speaker 1: Kurt Cobain slung around in its iconic video and his
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Speaker 1: all time favorite, has been auctioned for a staggering four
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Speaker 1: and a half million dollars. The late Placid Blue nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty nine Fender Mustang is a rare guitar even without
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Speaker 1: Kurt's ownership, as he originally explained in his final interview
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Speaker 1: with Guitar World, saying I'm left handed and it's not
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Speaker 1: very easy to find reasonably priced, high quality left handed guitars.
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Speaker 1: But out of all the guitars in the world, the
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Speaker 1: Fender Mustang is my favorite. Kurt also used the instrument
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Speaker 1: in the recording sessions for Nirvana's seminal albums never Mind
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Speaker 1: and in Uterome. While the guitars four and a half
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Speaker 1: million dollar price tag far surpassed the six thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: it was predicted to sell for, it didn't break the
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Speaker 1: record for the highest guitar auctioned off Ever, that title
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Speaker 1: goes to another Kurt Coban guitar, the acoustic one he
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Speaker 1: played at Nirvana's iconic MTV unplug taping went for six million.
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