Kurt Cobain’s Sears Catalog Bass Sold For $43,750 At Auction

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana | 03. Jan, 2010 by
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A  Sears-model bass guitar owned by Kurt Cobain as a teenager sold for $43,750 at an auction in 2009.  Cobain used the instrument on two early demo recordings he made at his aunt Mari Earl’s house near Seattle during his pre-Nirvana days.  The demos, one recorded under the moniker "Organized Confusion" in 1982 and another in 1985 under the name "Fecal Matter", most die-hard Cobain fans know these demos and the song “Spank Thru” from the 1985 recordings went on to become a staple of Nirvana’s live set and would become Nirvana’s first official song, according to Krist Novoselic.

Here's the Sears catalog from 1966 showing the same model bass guitar which sold at the time for $114.95.

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  1. imabeatlesfan2@yahoo.com says:
    April 14, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    The bass pictured in the Sears catalog ad is clearly not the same one pictured above. The bass that Kurt is playing and the one next to it are fairly nice Fender Jazz bass clones. The one in the catalog scan is a bottom of the line "Catalog" guitar/bass. 
    On a seprate note, my first electric guitar was the one labled number 9 in the catalog scan. Ieventyally destroyed it by chopping it up and doing homemade modifications to it. What a shame, it would probably be worth at least a few hundred dollars now. Oh well, I learned my lesson and I don't chop up guitars anymore.