Kurt Cobain's "Nevermind" Guitars History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- This is the second part of the three-part series about Kurt Cobain's guitars. In this video, we'll focus on the guitars that Kurt used during Nirvana's "Nevermind" era.
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0:00 Intro
1:11 1965 Fender Jaguar
4:48 "Endless, Nameless" Strat
7:46 "Vandalism" Strat
10:02 Competition Mustang
12:27 "Heart Courtney" Telecaster
14:15 Ferrington Custom
15:39 "Disposable" Guitars
18:41 Outro
Links:
Shop Fender "Kurt Cobain" Jaguar - amzn.to/3NORqTI
Rick Beato Butch Vig interview - • Butch Vig: From Smashi...
JQ - Single Coil vs Humbucker comparison - • Nirvana Tone: Fender M...
Kurt Cobain's Journals - amzn.to/3YfYGMf
LiveNirvana Concert Chronology - www.livenirvana.com/concerts/
The video narration was made with the help of ElevenLabs. - บันเทิง
Finally... the nevermind video comes out
Now we will wait 7 months for the In Utero video.
@@cherrykoolaiddisasters My bad, I didn't know people were actually waiting for these. I'll hurry up the next one.. 😄
@@groundguitaryea tell ur youtube automated ai bullshit video nerds to get a move on
@@steezgodtom No
@@groundguitar17:30 17:32
Bruh how does this guy only have 3k subscribers? His production is amazing.
Is it really? I've had a few people disagree. 😅Anyway, it's a relatively new channel, but we growin'. 🥳
@@groundguitar Yeah I’d say so, they’re really informative and entertaining. People that say otherwise are just haters and probably don’t even know how to research or record a video.
@@williamringler9304 Well, I appreciate that very much.
yeah 3k
So much waiting and it's out! Great video
Congrats for the video, really awesome! Its like a documentary, very detailed.
This is my kind of journalism - love it ❤❤
At the paradiso show, the Vandalism Strat's Fernandez neck was replaced with a Kramer Focus neck, I believe.
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO
Happy New Year Mister and glad to see a new video on this channel😃
Thanks and Happy New Year to you too!
Great info. I’m always down for anything Kurt!!
12:22 - The Blue Mustang is a part of Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and his personal collection of musical instruments and other things. He puts everything on display and has a little concert. It’s an “invite only” where you have to request tickets to the event. Saw the guitar, nicks and all, hung up in a case in the summer of 2023 at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN. Also there, Elton Johns Piano, David Gilmour’s black strat, a bass from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr’s drum kits and other things. If it’s ever in town, it’s free to go, and there’s a neat concert at the end with Irsay, and we even got to see John Mellencamp. About 30,000 were in attendance.
Jim Irsay is doing with his money exactly what I would be doing if I was that rich. Man has so many iconic pieces.
Kurt also had a bunch of Mustang-like guitar bodies made for the purpose to be smashed. If you see him with a aqua-green finish guitar that's one of the "no names" guitars. He also had a light blue and, I think a dark blue.
Yeah, those are all mentioned in the the Bleach guitars video.
@@groundguitar IDK, I didn't see that video. Don't wanna sound nasty, but you aren't the only person who made videos or blogs about Kurt guitars. Just saying.
Peace.
@@areamusicale Lmao, what was that for? I am literaly just saying it's in the other video. I didn't mean it as an ego thing, or "yeah I know it all" - it aint that deep bro. What the... 😄
@@groundguitar Look, I said I didn't mean to be nasty. I am sorry I said that. If I offended you I apology. There is no need to continue this "silly" conversation (RE- Lmao 😄)
@@areamusicale I was just suprised with the tone of your comment, didn't understand what caused it. I didn't mean anything bad at all with my first comment btw, you're right about those guitars, and I was just saying they are not in this video. Cheers.
Crazy how he comfortably changed from a Jaguar to a Mustang mid-set. Mustangs necks are so thin compared to Jags, especially them vintage models.
Awesome video man. Also, I believe his white K-Records strat was his 1st Japanese Fender. What are your thoughts on this 1?
Finally someone explained the mystery (to me) of the tune-o-matic Strat! I thought the Jaguar was bought after the Endless Nameless's Strat destruction. I recall Butch saying something about they now needed a new guitar with humbucker pickups and then Kurt and Krist went shopping that very afternoon. But I guess I either misunderstood it or Butch got confused. Very nice and illustrative video. Thanks so much!
The Jaguar WAS bought after the loss of the K strat & Gospel, but not the TOM! It's really interesting
How could Kurt and Krist go shopping the next day when the session was on a Saturday and the guitar stores and pawnshops were closed on Sundays?
@@georgeprice4212 Butch said that very afternoon, but nevermind...
Butch is full of shit, really. He shouldn't be trusted abour gear OR songs recorded.
He thought an album he did after Nirvana called "Song in D" was a Nirvana song. Kurt had 2 guitars stolen after the session and got a replacement for one of them, and then received Vandy from Japan and he fixed up the TOM strat.
@@pennsy77 give him a brake, man. Nobody thought those sessions would be so fully scrutinized so many years after. But, anyways, my original comment was about the origin of the TOM Strat, which I didn't know anything about and, according to all your comments, it seems clear that that was the Strat used and destroyed in Endless Nameless.
Fantastic insight, Thank you.”
Great job❤
You forgot about him playing the competition mustang in rio very iconic performance
He played in Buenos Aires Argentina too. Only used it for Polly
My favourite album of all time
More pictures and information about the Martin Jenner Jazzmaster modifications in another video lesson would be nice. I had no idea that Martin Jenner made all those modifications to that 1965 Jazzmaster which is very unusual as to why he did them and have all those custom jazzmaster control plates made.
Jaguar u mean not jazzmaster
@@UltraZombie Yes I meant Jaguar sorry
The mustang actually had a single coil not a hot rails in 91’, this is confirmed by the julien’s auction page for it where Earnie Bailey stated the hot rails was put in early 92’. And that replica isn’t very accurate Kurt’s had a 5 way start style switch and a switch for coil split and parallel for the v88-d in the bridge
Smashing video
I remember seeing a cribs style video at Dave Navarro’s house where he has what he claimed was one of Kurt’s Mustangs.
Come to think I Own a fender strat customized snd modified as the vandalism strat, since It's my personal favorite guitar of he's :).
the blue mustang was used in Argentina & Brazil Rock in rio, both 1992
Welp, I'll see you guys in four years when the In Utero video comes out, lol
I'll hit you up on DIscord when it's out.
9:10 This is the first time I noticed that the vandalism sticker was censored, or shall I say, vandalized.
Yeah. that's crazy they had to cover that up for MTV. 😄
Thanks.
Thaaaaaaanks 😎
The teen spirit competition mustang might seem like its lake placid blue but it’s actually called competition burgundy
Eyyyyyyyyy finally its out
There is some misinformation off the bat.
Kurt obtained his Jaguar following the Nevermind sessions, several weeks after in fact (if you checked his journal, you would know this). His GOSPEL (not Mosrite) was stolen after the Nevermind sessions at a show the night they ended, along with a Stratocaster. Butch is not to be believed when it comes to gear used.
Earnie has claimed that the Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the Competition Mustang was installed in 1992 when the mustang was restored. Photos show that it had a single coil early on, and it was used for the intro & cleans of Smells Like Teen Spirit, which clearly sounds like a single coil. The TOM was also installed around October 1992 before the Argentina show.
Information is shaky throughout, but it's mostly little ones. Love the presentation
If I got that wrong - that's a big one, my bad. Where did you find the info about that gig after which the guitar was stolen? I have the Journals, and I can only find Kurt saying it got stolen sometime in the past two months, obviously from the date he wrote that. Also, Kurt refers to the guitar as a Mosrite, so I decided to do that aswell, but yeah, I understand the issue.
@@groundguitar Said info comes from NirvanaGuitar's video on the K Strat, however I do not know where the information comes from solidly.
LiveNirvana does suggest this, however, as it is shown that both the K Records Stratocaster and Gospel disappeared following that show, and live photos & videos prove this.
It's also worth noting that the guitars likely used during the Nevermind sessions are:
K Records Stratocaster
Endless, Nameless Stratocaster
Smells Like Teen Spirit Competition Mustang
Gospel
Could have mentionned Rio for the mustang
The original jagstang design looked so much better than what they actually made
Martin Jenner's Jaguar has block inlays and Kurt's has dots.
The hypotesis is that the neck was swapped, since it's a bolt-on.
His jaguar was actually a 66 the original owner he had just replaced the neck with a Stratocasters which would make it look like 65 and for his blue mustang it had all stock pickups when he got it and some time in 92-93 he replaced the bridge pickup
It seems strange that Kurt put a Duncan 59 humbucker in the strat when he mainly swapped it out for a JB in every other guitar. The telecaster is a 62 custom, you can tell from the front and back binding, also it was painted with house paint and a roller according to Cuntney
Do you maybe have a link to that interview with Courtney?
Tbh, I initially assumed it would be a JB, but someone made a pretty good case that it's more likely a 59 neck, based on the pole pieces not lining up with the strings.
@@groundguitar I was hoping you weren’t going to ask because it was yeeears ago I read that but I’ll see what I can dig up. As for the JB, if it’s the pole pieces that you’re going off, the JB doesn’t line up in a strat, that’s why you get the trembucker version. I know because I have a JB in a Strat lol. I could be wrong but I doubt Kurt used a low output pick up and a neck pickup which has even less output in the bridge position. Doesn’t make sense but I stand to be corrected 🤷♂️
@@spudvader Yeah, if you end up finding it that would be awesome. I myself couldn't find anything from Courtney on the guitar while working on the vid, but thought for sure she had to mention it somewhere.
Idk, I'm really not sure either way, and can't see how anyone can be without actually opening the guitar. I was hoping to find Earnie's quote somewhere, since he did in fact open up the guitar, but I only found random forum posts mentioning that he said it's a '59 on a dead Facebook page somewhere. For what it's worth, it seems to me lke Kurt didn't care too much about technicalities, at least not in his Strats, so I think he would've used either one he had laying around.
The ferrington was used alot on in utero
I hope in utero video will come out soon
I'll start working on it tomorrow.
The bridge pickup of the vandalism strat is a actually a SH-4 JB humbucker, lol.
100%?
100% yeah, his guitar tech said it in a interview somewhere, could try and find it @@groundguitar
If you find it please do link it here. I myself couldn't find any quotes from Ernie, apart from some random website saying that he said it's a 59 on his Facebook page (which is now deleted completely)
NIRVANA IS THE GUITAR SOUND WE AIM FOR IN OUR BAND
7:47 vandy!!!!
L O V E D this👍
Poor guitars . I love kurt , but I don't understand why he destroyed so many of them . He didn't have the respect for he's instruments, but anyway rest in peace . It's funny and wired that a few days ago he came to my mind for some reason and I listened to the song 'Teritorial pissin' and then watch some stuff about him , and a few days after was the day he died, and I didn't knew it will be . And this is the second time it happen , wired. I remember as a kid i was so sad when I heard he died. He was like a hero to me . And a few years later I start to play guitar , and I'm also lefty . For sure he's a legend. RIP ❤
Those were not moserite guitars,they were uni vox high flyers,they looked just like a moserite but could be picked up a pawnshops sometimes for under a 100 dollars, Kurt sought them out for that reason.
Which guitar in particular was not a Mosrite? Kurt did own a lot of Univoxes, but mostly in the "Bleach" era (we have an older video mentioning all of them on the channel)
I've never understood the destruction of instruments. I thought Townsend was ridiculous and, as much of a Nirvana fan as I am, I thought it was ridiculous then. I remember seeing NIN 3 nights in a row at Madison Square Garden back in 1994 and thinking about how many keyboard/synths Reznor destroyed and how ridiculous it was. I think I was 24 years old?
Kind of like I never understood slam dancing. I think that level of rage is for the personality disordered crowd.
Isnt it a jagstang?
The last time Kurt used the Mosrite was in SNL 1993
That was his Univox, will be mentioned in the "In Utero" vid.
Krist Novo..what?
...selić
nevoselich
@@groundguitarI don't think that's how you pronounced it
in utero video when ?
Probably in around two weeks.
i so pumped, loved both the bleach video and this one, you said the in utero video was already out at the end lol
@@groundguitar
@@tomstone4877 Yeah, that's for the future watchers. Today watchers have to wait. 😄
kurt cobain: just be yourself,
Nirvana fans: this video
IK you just trolling, but Kurt was actually quoted saying "I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own." 😄
@@groundguitar he said being someone else is a waste of the person you are, The whole the nice thing is that he did his best with the crappy things he had, he just wanted to express himself, not making aa clone army
@@redmodpedals9100 Sure, but I don't think this video is really about that. It's just taking an objective look of guitars that he used. I think there are far more "fanboy" oriented videos out there (which I personally don't mind).
It's crazy to me how huge and "classic" Nirvana became since the 90's. I remember liking them in the 90's, most people did, but not everyone... you sort of had to be into that kind of music. And the same people held Pearl Jam or Soundgarden etc to the same level. Part of it might be that kurt died young... but still, who would have thought that the two most expensive guitars of ALL TIME would be from Kurt Cobain?? They've BY FAR surpassed Pearl Jam and other bands of that era in fame. And might even rank on a lot of lists in the top 5 greatest bands of all time. Certainly almost everyone's top 20 greatest bands of all time. Just weird... cause I grew up with Nirvana, and a lot of people obviously loved them, but I'm not sure anyone would have guessed that they would go down in history as a top 5 or 10 greatest band of all time.
As a guitar lover this makes me like Kurt less as human beings
As a lefty myself, i can't condone the abuse.
in utero guitar history when?
Soon, it's about 40% done.
im sorry krist who?
I swear to god, everyone on TH-cam is just watching videos to call out someone on a mispronunciation.
I know it's wrong, I'm actually Croatian myself, but the AI narrator is unfortunately not. 😄
@@groundguitar im just messin 🙂
Jag wire
Remember when you first listened to this album after learning guitar??
Never listen again, personally.
I know she didn’t just give the jag to that guy bruh…
Did they break stuff every show or just bad shows. If ot was every show then its just a gimmick
Funny.. Kurt doesn't seem to care about guitars or any specific tone.
He was talented no doubt but he was a psychraitic patient who didnt get a right treatment because his wife a drug addict too😊
Kurt is a good songwriter & a novice guitarist. Focus on his songwriting, not his guitar playing.
You saying this video is focusing on his guitar playing? Or you saying in general?
Kurt couldn't play gutiar yet ...I thought he was sooo good back then but now I'm like wtf...he couldn't even play ..a lot of people make noises with thoer gutiar like chilli peppers change the key to make it hard steal you lyrics and lie...smells like tenn sprit is the same way under the bridge came out to be listen to the story ...he had nice guitars but guitars only.he would buy. ...curt needed to smoke pot and give heroin up back then there wasn't any heroin in the us 3 percent all time low almost complealty eradicated....till oxy cotton ...it just didnt exist.. why did he think this helped him .. csn you imagine of hed ate a bean,? Life would have changed ....