Courtney Love settles Kurt Cobain guitar murder plot lawsuit

She looks very botoxy.

I own a student Martin I picked up in Little Rock for 100 bucks. Yard sale find.

Its been in the case un-strung since the day I bought with a neck preserver on it. I wonder what my Martin is worth?

Nirvana MTV Unplugged best track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LdUQzCPPM

Love should listen.....

I really don't understand why his guitar would go for that much. Cobaine was a mediocre guitarist at best. In fact, he didn't play guitar on a lot of Nirvana albums. He was either technically unable to or too high on drugs so they would have other people play his parts.

Fresh from the Joan Rivers Plastic Surgery Clinic......

Cobaine was a mediocre guitarist at best. In fact, he didn't play guitar on a lot of Nirvana albums. He was either technically unable to or too high on drugs so they would have other people play his parts.

Not true.

What albums? What other people? A lot of Nirvana albums? There are only 3.

Cobain plays the guitar parts on all three albums. He composed the guitar lines, on the guitar - so there was no problem 'technically' for Cobain to perform the songs. His purposeful style is a riposte to hair metal bands and dinosaurs like Jimmy Page. Neither John Lennon or George Harrison are virtuoso guitarists - both with a band aka the Beatles, Cobain greatly admired. Nor was Cobain a 'fan' of stretched out guitar solos that sound like machine guns.

I will never understand people that idolise people that spend their lives in a drug induced stupor then either kill themselves by accidental overdose or suicide.

I wouldn't pay 1 cent for his guitar with the exception if the money went to a proper charity otherwise the money is just going to another full of themselves fool.

I wouldn't pay 1 cent for his guitar with the exception if the money went to a proper charity otherwise the money is just going to another full of themselves fool.

If you want to give money to a ‘proper charity’ you should. You don’t need to involve Cobain or us in it.

I really don't understand why his guitar would go for that much. Cobaine was a mediocre guitarist at best. In fact, he didn't play guitar on a lot of Nirvana albums. He was either technically unable to or too high on drugs so they would have other people play his parts.

You may think so but for the generations, Y and Z Cobain was a legend just like Hendrix, Morrison, Presley, and Joplin or even Holly back in the day it was the early 90's, and people were getting bored with the Synth sound that defined much of the 80's and many groups wanted to go back to the traditional sound of raw guitar, distortions, and flangers, the guy personified the early movement of the Grunge scene, and bands like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Pearljam and Hole were putting the Northwest in the US on the map. I saw the band twice and they rocked and Cobain could play, now the guy wasn't a guitar whiz like Van Halen or Allan Holdsworth, but for his style and chord playing and niche that he performed in, he did it, and did it well. As I always say, music is totally subjective and you may think he's lousy, but when you sell 27.6 million albums in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide that is nothing short of phenomenal.

Just because someone sells a lot of albums, doesn't make them a great guitarist. He was ok, that's it.

Just because someone sells a lot of albums, doesn't make them a great guitarist. He was ok, that's it.

Being a great guitarist isn't required to create great music. Nirvana changed the game, something only a few artists have ever done. Sure it wasn't the most skilled guitar music, but the only ranking of whether music is good or not is if people like it, and people LOVED Nirvana.

If you think that doesn't therefore convey value onto a guitar played by the guy who fronted the band that changed the game, you're not very clear on what people find valuable.

I wouldn't pay 1 cent for his guitar

You're right, because no one would sell it to you for one cent. And let's not pretend like you have enough money to actually buy it.

So the conditions of your purchase, and what you would do with it if you bought it, are really just fantasies played out in a public forum.

strangerland,

I wasn't commenting on the band. I was just saying Kurt Cobain wasn't a great guitarist, we was a great song writer. He wasn't even close to being great at playing the guitar. Dave Grohl is a great drummer and a much more accomplished guitarist than Cobain ever was. Eric Clapton, great guitarist and great song writer. David Gilmore. Great guitarist and great song writer. Their guitars should be priceless.

Just because someone sells a lot of albums, doesn't make them a great guitarist. He was ok, that's it.

It bothers you enough to try to discredit him with false information that he didn’t play guitar on his albums. I’d say he made quite an impression on you.

Wow I can't believe how many people have a problem with the fact I said Cobain wasn't a great guitarist! There were a lot of famous rock guitarist that weren't great guitarist. They were famous for who they were and how they moved their fans. Elvis, Lennon, Cash, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, BB King, were all good at what they did but none of them were "great" guitarist. And believe me I love who they were and what they do and did.

I was just saying Kurt Cobain wasn't a great guitarist, we was a great song writer. He wasn't even close to being great at playing the guitar. Dave Grohl is a great drummer and a much more accomplished guitarist than Cobain ever was. Eric Clapton, great guitarist and great song writer. David Gilmore. Great guitarist 

A lot of non-musicians don't understand what makes a guitarist great. It's not technical skill, otherwise Clapton, Gilmore and most other rock guitarists would fall miles short of guitarists like Tommy Emmanuel or others you have never heard of.

A guitarist is seen as great because of the voice (the vision) he brings to the instrument. Sure technical skills can enhance the delivery of a vision, but it's the vision that matters. That's why technically superb guitarists who do a lot of studio work often sound flat when recording their own stuff. (Toto comes to mind, a band of excellent musicians making the world's most mediocre music - apologies to Toto fans.)

John Lennon's guitar work was excellent, yet he lacked technical skills and music theory and would never have gotten work as a session guitarist. He said as much himself, saying he couldn't play very well but knew how to make the guitar sing or scream.

Kurt Cobain brought a sound to guitar that touched millions of people and is admired (and copied) by musicians far and wide. So it's natural that people will place special value on a guitar he owned.

David Gilmore. Great guitarist and great song writer.

Great guitarist yes. Great song writer? Not so much.

I will agree with you that Kurt wasn’t a great guitarist, I guess many here are just why bring it up?

Wow I can't believe how many people have a problem with the fact I said Cobain wasn't a great guitarist! 

I have a problem with you falsely claiming he never played his recorded guitar parts, which you still haven’t addressed. That is a problem.

I saw Nirvana 5 times between 1989 and 1992. Sometimes sloppy, often out of tune but always incredible.

I wasn't commenting on the band. I was just saying Kurt Cobain wasn't a great guitarist, we was a great song writer.

How can you comment on Kurt Cobain without commenting on the band? Do you try talking about fish without mentioning water?

Strangerland,

Boy you get bent out of shape because I said Cobain wasn't a great guitarist. Nirvana was a good band, popular in the day, sold lot's of record's. I'm a much bigger fan of Dave Grohl, that's my opinion. And you are obviously a big fan of Cobain.

I think most of the people that read or didn't read this article, didn't know who Kurt Cobain or Nirvana was. But obviously there are some very passionate fan's of Cobain and Nirvana out there. That's good stay true to what moves you.

I think most of the people that read or didn't read this article, didn't know who Kurt Cobain or Nirvana was. 

Most of the people who read or didn’t read this article? So everybody in the world?

Most music fans know Nirvana whether they like them or not, same as most people know Clapton. I like Clapton, Cream are one of the greatest bands of all time as are Nirvana.

That's good stay true to what moves you.

If your idea of ‘stay true’ is posting about Cobain being replaced by session musicians to discredit him then I don’t think we need that kind of advice thanks.

No update on that? You said ‘In fact..‘

I've had a change of heart at the way I've been commenting on this post. I apologize if I offended anyone. I was looking at thing's with tunnel vision when I should have been looking at the whole picture.

I have many musicians who I wish I had met or could meet. Just to say how did you come up with that or how did you do that and I really appreciate and admire what you do.

I've had a change of heart at the way I've been commenting on this post. I apologize if I offended anyone. I was looking at thing's with tunnel vision when I should have been looking at the whole picture.

Nope.

Forget the whole picture, let’s go back again to the part where you started your involvement in this thread by claiming Cobain was too high or unskilled to play his guitar parts and was replaced by session musicians.

Do that first, then you can tell us about your awakening moment.

Sorry that part is true. I didn't say all the recordings but there was some. Research it.

You know there are many groups that never actually played the instruments on their albums. Have you never heard of The Wrecking Crew? Check them out very interesting.

Sorry that part is true. I didn't say all the recordings but there was some. Research it.

No, it is not true. If you have evidence provide it. But you don’t.