Which guitar kurt cobain used

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Sign up to receive bespoke guitar deals and our latest content. Honest guitar and effects pedal reviews by real musicians. Important Bits. He salvaged the neck, hardware and electronics and made a new body for the guitar in wood shop, but Cobain lacked the skills to make the restored instrument intonate properly.

When Cobain was 17, his mother married Pat O'Connor, whose ensuing infidelity led to a situation that greatly facilitated Cobain's acquisition of musical gear.

After Cobain's mother learned that Pat was cheating on her, she dumped his gun collection in the river. Cobain observed his mother's antics and later encouraged some of the neighborhood kids to fish his stepdad's weapons out. Cobain sold the guns and bought a used Peavey Vintage amplifier with two inch speakers with the proceeds. In early , Cobain moved in with his natural father who discouraged his son's musical pursuits and convinced him to pawn his guitar.

After about a week, Cobain got his guitar out of hock and moved out. He almost lost the guitar again when he loaned it to a drug dealer, but managed to repossess it a few months later. With this unknown guitar and the Peavey amp in hand, Cobain formed his first band, Fecal Matter, in late The Peavey amp disappeared sometime between early and late Krist Novoselic remembers that Cobain gave the amp to him for about a week, in what apparently was a friendly attempt to get him to join Fecal Matter.

Novoselic declined on both offers. The amp disappeared sometime after that. By late Novoselic finally agreed to form a band with Cobain and drummer Aaron Burckhard, which they called Skid Row. Photos from this era show Cobain playing a right-hand model sunburst Univox Hi-Flyer flipped over and strung for left-handed playing. According to Azerrad, Cobain's amp during this period was a tiny Fender Champ.

Also around this time, Cobain acquired a Univox Superfuzz, but it was stolen from his rehearsal space. Eventually they settled on Nirvana. When Burckhard proved too unreliable, Cobain and Novoselic kicked him out of the band and enlisted drummer Dale Crover, who they temporarily stole from the Melvins. A few months after working with Nirvana for the first time, Endino played the band's demo tape for Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop Records, who signed the band to the label.

Three of the songs that Nirvana recorded during that session ended up on Bleach , the band's first album. The band liked working with Endino, and they returned to Reciprocal Studios several times during the year to record more songs, although Chad Channing replaced Crover on drums. Most of the remaining songs from the various Reciprocal sessions were released several years later on Incesticide. When he was out on the road he'd call them up and say, 'I don't know what got into me, but I just smashed up my guitar'.

I ended up getting one of those pickups from him once, because he was smashing those guitars all the time. I said, 'You must have some extra pickups,' and he said, 'Oh yeah.

Here's one. I was able to stick the wires together and use it. Earnie says he may have sent this out with the band when they were recording In Utero. The band was supposed to mime their way through a backing track of Smell Like Teen Spirit — the only thing to be performed live were the vocals.

As with various other bands who took issue with this over the years, Kurt did his best to ruin the performance the finest middle fingers to ever grace the Top of the Pops airwaves.

People who say that Kurt did not care for Marshalls are spot on, however. I think it was too generic for him. This is a likely reason why he used them considering how often they had to be replaced. Kurt using a Marshall head for a power amp is pretty out there. In spite of all of this, there was actually one time that Kurt did use a Marshall. As the story goes, he showed up to the studio without any gear and had to use one that was at the studio. Earnie did some preamp tube swapping with another amp, to lower the gain structure and dial in the sound of the watt combo for Kurt.

Those were switched out for two Crest power amps, which were much more durable. However, Cobain did have a short-lived Marshall Series power amp during Kurt also was known to use a Carver power amp, which was built by the great Bob Carver. In the studio, he would often use a watt Fender Twin Reverb Blackface [we believe it was a ]. Which had a set of four 6L6 in the power stage and tubes in the preamp stage.

In the years since, however, people often remark that not only did Kurt approve of this pedal, he actually used it live. Well, sort of. As you can see from the video, even if we want to claim that Kurt did use the Grunge pedal, it was clearly as a joke, and his tossing it into the crowd probably reveals what he thought of this cash-in on the movement his band had created.