Kurt Cobain's ultra-rare 1959 Martin D-18E guitar sold for $6 million at an auction
Freedman explained his largess to the press in this charmingly unvarnished way: “It’s a big deal. I didn’t even buy it for me. I paid for it but I’m going to use it to highlight the plight of artists worldwide by touring it around and then I’m going to sell it and use the dough for that as well, later.”
The axe carries every bit of that thunderous import, and for his $6 million, Freedman got the case, a number of picks, a package of Cobain's strings for the thing, and, in a Greek-style rock-and-roll prefiguring of Cobain's death, what's being described as a stash bag.... [+]Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)
“The musicians and artists have supported my family since the 60s," Freedman said of his idea to take it on a global tour of art spaces."We’ve been in that game forever so I’ve been very lucky with Rode and I’ve been able to give away lots of money, quite a few mill.”
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