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If you’re a big Nirvana fan you likely already know how great their 1992 Reading Festival performance was and probably have your own bootleg of it. Now, on the 20th anniversary of the Bleach album release, you can not only pickup up the remastered Bleach album but a “Live at Reading” album on CD/DVD/Vinyl.
It’s a fantastic live album that you should have in your collection if you don’t already. Check out a review at snobmusic.
Tracklisting
- Breed
- Drain You
- Aneurysm
- School
- Sliver
- In Bloom
- Come As You Are
- Lithium
- About A Girl
- Tourette’s
- Polly
- Lounge Act
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- On A Plain
- Negative Creep
- Been A Son
- All Apologies
- Blew
- Dumb
- Stay Away
- Spank Thru
- Love Buzz (DVD ONLY)
- The Money Will Roll Right In
- D-7
- Territorial Pissing
Via multiple gaming news sites comes news of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5. (ign and evil avatar) The tracks in the game are Smells Like Teen Spirit and Lithium.
Looks like they have Cobain playing the humbuck-ified Fender Mustang in the game. See the photo and video below for a look at the virtual guitar and the lithium track as played in game.
It’s been well known that there were 2 original prototype jag-stangs made by Fender at the time Kurt Cobain died. There was a sonic blue prototype that was played by Kurt on a few European tour dates. (see video in previous post) It was given to Peter Buck of REM after Cobain died. You can see Buck playing the lefty jag-stang flipped righty in the REM video “what´s the frequency kenneth”. Does anyone know where the blue jag-stang is today?
The fiesta red prototype never made it to Kurt. Fender was preparing to ship the guitar to Kurt when they got news of his death. It originally ended up in the Fender Museum. Forum member ‘prospect’ posted some of his great photos and information from the Fender museum which is shared below. [forum link]
These photos are from Fender’s Museum in California from a few years back. It is my understanding that this is now currently on display either in Seattle or Cleveland.
On Kurt’s drawing the surrounding information you see is for when it was scanned for “Journals”. The “blacked out” area is contact information for Kurt and his guitar tech which was to not be printed in “Journals”.
(Click images below for larger versions)
If you have any more info on the current locations of the fiesta red or sonic blue prototype jag-stangs let us know.
While Kurt wasn’t alive long enough for us to see him play the jag-stang very much there were some shows during the ’94 European tour where he did.
Below is one of the better quality videos of Kurt playing the jag-stang on the song Dumb from the Slovenia 2/27/94 tour date. Thanks to Ryan for suggesting us post this on our blog! If you see other cool jag-stang videos that we should post let us know.
We like Best/Most/Worst/etc lists. They seem to generate great discussion in all kinds of directions.
So here we present you with Blender.com’s “28 Most Recognizable Guitars”. The Fender Mustang, as made famous by Kurt Cobain, comes in at a very respectable 14 on the list.
This list is shown below. You can also check out the Blender article which includes great descriptions and video links for each entry. (Blender article link)
- 28. Buck Owens: Red, White and Blue acoustic
- 27. Les Claypool – Primus: The Rainbow Bass
- 26. Michael Angelo Batio: The Reverse Double-Neck
- 25. Dave Grohl – Foo Fighters: Dan Armstrong/Ampeg ARMG-2
- 24. Michael Anthony – Van Halen: Jack Daniel’s Bass
- 23. Angus Young – AC/DC: Gibson SG
- 22. Ace Frehley – KISS: Laser Guitar
- 21. Albert King: Gibson Flying V
- 20. Zakk Wylde – Ozzy Osbourne/Black Label Society: The Grail
- 19. Jerry Only – The Misfits: The Devastator
- 18. Billie Joe Armstrong – Green Day: Blue
- 17. Bootsy Collins: Space Bass
- 16. Dimebag Darrell Abbott – Pantera/Damageplan: The Dean From Hell
- 15. Rick Nielsen – Cheap Trick: Hamer Five-Neck
- 14. Kurt Cobain – Nirvana: Fender Mustang
- 13. ZZ Top: Dean Spinning Fur Guitar/Bass
- 12. Gene Simmons – KISS: Axe Bass
- 11. Eric Clapton: Blackie
- 10. B.B. King: Lucille
- 9. Jack White – White Stripes: 1964 J.B. Hutto Montgomery Airline
- 8. Bo Diddley: The Big B
- 7. Willie Nelson: Trigger
- 6. Prince: Purple Glyph Symbol Guitar
- 5. Paul McCartney – Beatles: Hofner Violin Bass
- 4. Jimmy Page – Led Zeppelin: Gibson SG Double Neck
- 3. Elvis Presley: Martin D-28 Acoustic
- 2. Eddie Van Halen – Van Halen: Frankenstrat
- 1. Jimi Hendrix: Fender Stratocaster
According to this article at RollingStone.com listing the top 25 underrated guitarists Kurt Cobain is the #2 underrated guitarist. And who’s the #1 underrated? The great purple one, Prince himself.
The top 5 from their list of 25 is:
- Prince
- Kurt Cobain
- Neil Young
- George Harrison
- Ace Frehley
The list is sure to provoke some interesting discussions. Check out the full list of 25 at the link above.
