Gibson.com’s Lifestyle is reporting that Kurt Cobain’s infamous Fender Mustang that was used on Nirvana’s first US tour was auctioned off to an undisclosed collector who bought the guitar for a cool one-hundred grand.

The owner of the guitar, a punk guitar player that goes by the name “Sluggo”,  probably had no clue at the time that he would ever get that much for the guitar. I imagine as years passed he realized he was sitting on a gold-mine but probably didn’t really want to part with it.

The story goes that Cobain smashed the guitar onstage during a gig (which wasn’t uncommon for Cobain), leaving him guitar-less for his next gig. He ended up trading the smashed guitar to “Sluggo” for a working guitar so he could play the next gig during tough times for the band.

Source: Gibson.com/lifestyle

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Wow, 94 entries for the Reckless Road Guns N Roses book. Without further delay the winner is “Ron”. Ron, I’ll be sending an email to the address you provided to get your mailing address. Thanks to everyone that entered.

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I’ve sworn off buying Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy and I’m kind of glad I did. A friend let me borrow a copy and I really don’t know what to day to make this sound like a great record. I’m not a Gn’R fanboy so I will never say that I love this album.

You know those jig-saw puzzles have so many pieces and every one of them looks the same? It’s kind of like that in a weird way. It sounds like the entire record was pieced together like a giant, strange puzzle. I wouldn’t call it Guns N’ Roses. If it was Guns N’ Roses with most of the original member I would be wondering what the hell happened. It doesn’t sound like a Guns N Roses Album, it sounds like an Axl Rose solo album.

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Mohib from Mindcafe.org sent me this cool video of Guns N Roses Sweet Child Of Mine coved in a commercial from Channel V, Australia’s 24 hour music channel. There’s a simple message at the end.

A music video  is an extension of a song. A visual interpretation of the artists original product. There used to be a day when you could only see the video on a television music channel or video tape/dvd. Then Mtv stopped playing as many videos and filled the time with reality shows and more crap. They invented Mtv 2 mainly to bring back the video aspect. That too turned down an ugly road or ridiculous reality shows and more crap. Fuse used to be pretty good with with videos when they were Much Music…and then they didn’t show much music at all.

People wanted to watch videos but they wanted to do it on their time, when they wanted and only what they wanted.  Along came Youtube. Mainly for people to upload their own videos. Soon people started uploading music videos and the record labels saw dollar signs.

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Rolling Stones Top 100 Singles of 2008 shows just how out of touch this magazine has become with rock music. Of course we all know that Rolling Stone Magazine has been focusing more on Pop culture and Pop Music for a long time, but after seeing their list of the top 100 singles it just proves that this magazine is geared more towards exactly what it states…singles.

With only a handful of actual rock songs, and not even many good ones at that, it shows that it’s a corporate cuddling magazine. They even go on to criticize one of their top tracks. AC/DC’s “Big Jack” is number 53. Not even the best track off of the Black Ice album and not one I’ve heard them play on the radio at all.

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Nickelback’s song structure is almost all the same. Whether it be for on of their faster songs of one of their slower song. I was in the car the other day and a song was playing on the radio. When it was over the d.j. says that it was Theory Of A Dead Man or someone, honestly I can’t remember. I said to my wife, “I thought that was Nickelback” and she did too. Bands and labels see the popularity in Nickelback and if you sound remotely like them, chances are you might get signed. They’re the Pearl Jam of the 2k’s.

Dan, who also helps me write for Censored Metal now, sent me a link to check out this flash player. It’s two Nickelback songs being played at the same time through two different speakers. Give it a listen. The song structure is written almost identical. Of course if we pick on Nickelback for this then we have to point out every great AC/DC song that sound similar to the last one.

Check it out here: Knickelback-to-back

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Aerosmith’s Joe Perry recorded a version of Run, Rudolph, Run and has made it available for free download at Aeroforce.com. They state:

Joe has always loved Chuck Berry’s and Keith Richards’ version of this song and has wanted to record it for years now.  He also wants to share it with all the fans right here at AF1.

Download Joe Perry: Run, Rudolph, Run

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Legendary Irish pop/rockers U2 have set March 3rd 2009 for the release of their next album, No Line On The Horizon. No Line’ is the bands 12th album and was recorded in various locations. Look for an epic world tour in the coming year.

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Here is the video for Rev Theory’s Light It Up from their album under the same name on Interscope Records. Enjoy.