Play online or download to listen offline free - in HD audio, only on JioSaavn. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images MTV’s latest reinvention. “I immediately knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to secure it and use it as a vehicle to spotlight the struggles that those in the performing arts are facing and have always faced. Listen to the English music album MTV Unplugged In New York (25th Anniversary) by Nirvana now on JioSaavn. MTV's 'Unplugged' is coming back to the airwaves, and we're celebrating by counting down the 15 best episodes, from Jay-Z to Nirvana. “When I heard that this iconic guitar was up for auction,” Freedman said through the auction house. Soon after the auction, the buyer was revealed to be Peter Freedman of Rode Microphones. The guitar also came with its original hard-shell case that Cobain had adorned with a flyer for the band Poison Idea’s 1990 album Feel the Darkness. Inside the case is a half-used pack of Martin guitar strings, three picks, and a “suede ‘stash’ bag” that’s decorated with a small silver spoon, fork, and knife. It features an acoustic performance recorded at Sony Music Studios in New York City on November 18, 1993, for the television series MTV Unplugged. The guitar received seven bids total, including the winning bid of $6,010,00, the Julien’s Auctions website stated. MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by American rock band Nirvana, released on November 1, 1994, by DGC Records.
Pre-auction bids on the 1959 Martin D-18E, purchased by the Nirvana singer at Los Angeles’ Voltage Guitars and modified for the left-handed Cobain, reached $1 million even bidding officially opened Saturday. The previous record was $3.95 million for a Black Stratocaster owned by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. Upon its television debut in December of 1993, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York session was already monumentalintensely intimate and unique among prior episodes of Unplugged, which usually operated as greatest-hits showcases. Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance sold at auction Saturday for a record $6 million.
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