![]() "Kurt," she told him, "they think you are Jesus Christ."Ĭobain's left-handed Fender Mustang guitar, which he used during the band's "In Utero" tour, sold for $340,000. The music cable channel MTV began its "Unplugged" series in 1989, recording live performances of acts that generally played their normally electrified music on sparse acoustics.Ĭobain's haunting "Unplugged" performance with Nirvana - recorded less than six months before his suicide at age 27 - is considered one of the most iconic shows of the series, and was released posthumously.Īlready deep into an emotional, drug-addled downward spiral, the depressive but singular talent with ocean-blue eyes reportedly lamented to "Unplugged" programmer Amy Finnerty after the set that the audience seemed not to like the show. The auction house had predicted it would fetch $200,000-300,000. "Kurt created the grunge look he didn't wear show clothes," Julien told AFP at a New York exhibition preview. "This cardigan, it's the holy grail of any article of clothing that he ever wore," said Darren Julien, CEO and president of Julien's Auctions. The seller, Garrett Kletjian, owner of Forty7 Motorsports, bought it four years ago for $137,500. The tattered, olive-green, Manhattan-brand, button-up sweater, which has never been washed since Cobain wore it, came with dark stains and a burn hole. What do you think of the reasons behind why the owner of Kurt Cobain's sweater is auctioning the piece? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.A quarter century after grunge's enigmatic rhapsodist took his own life, Kurt Cobain's iconic cigarette-singed cardigan worn during Nirvana's 1993 "Unplugged" performance has sold for US$334,000. You can read more about the background of the sweater here. So I liked the idea that, while he might have been tortured inside, this was a piece that offered him a bit of comfort.” The Six-Decade Odyssey of Kurt Cobain’s ‘Unplugged’ Cardigan The long journey of the 137,500 sweater worn by Nirvana's frontman By Brenna Ehrlich OctoFormer race car driver. I look at this sweater as something that he put on every day. “He was obviously in a bad way at the time. “I look at that sweater from a different perspective than maybe some people do,” Kletjian says. Cobain wore the sweater for months before his suicide, on the Unplugged performance and several times on tour before his death. He further elaborates on his thoughts about what the sweater meant to Cobain and how it must have felt wearing it. During the performance, frontman Kurt Cobain sported a ratty, olive green cardigan. God, I don’t want to wear this.’” Read More: Kurt Cobain sweater from 'MTV Unplugged' set is up for auction again The sweater Kurt Cobain wore for Nirvanas iconic performance on MTVs Unplugged is up for auction - and may fetch as much as 300,000. Novem1:42 PM EST B ack in 1993, Nirvana performed a now-iconic set for MTV’s Unplugged. “It’s like when they say you should walk in somebody else’s shoes. Replica of the one he wore when he was in Nirvana in the 90's. Gothic, Rock, Authentic, 90's oldies (77) 89.00 Kurt Cobain MTV Unplugged Cardigan. ![]() “It’s kind of a weird, powerful thing when you do something like that, when we put on somebody else’s ,” he said. FREE shipping Kurt Cobain sweater, grunge Red and Black striped jumper, Nirvana pullover. The publication asked him if he had worn the sweater at any point and his response only solidified the weight of owning the item. “I opened it up and it immediately hits me: ‘Oh, now I’m also going to be responsible for this.’ It was kind of like when my children were born years ago I was so happy to see them, but then I was like, ‘Oh no…’ ” Kletjian tells Rolling Stonethat when it arrived at his house via overnight mail, the impact of owning it hit him. There’s even cigarettes burns that you can see on the sweater.” “It’s very important that we don’t wash it,” Darren Julien of Julien’s Auctions tells Rolling Stone. ![]() He's kept it in acid-free tissues and stored in a safe. ![]() Kletjian, who previously wanted to remain anonymous, purchased it at Julien’s Auctions in November 2015. The auction marks the second time in four years that the never-been-washed sweater has gone up for sale. ![]()
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