This A3-sized Art Poster features a detailed illustration of Kurt Cobain’s Vandalism Strat, from George Morgan.

Produced on 250 gsm silk art paper this Art Poster is suitable for framing with or without a mount and will be supplied inside a sturdy cardboard postal tube.

Kurt Cobain’s Vandalism Strat

Kurt famously used this 1990 Japanese Fender Stratocaster at the Reading Festival in 1991. It was built with a rosewood fingerboard, black pickguard, 2 white single-coil pickups and a black Seymour Duncan humbucker in the bridge and known as the ‘Vandalism Strat’ due to the bumper sticker which reads ‘Vandalism: Beautiful as a Rock in a Cop’s Face’ which came from the Feederz album Teachers in Space. Owing to Kurt’s propensity for smashing his guitars on stage, it required several replacement necks during its short life, including a Fernandes neck fitted for the 1991 Seattle Paramount Theatre show where the neck was broken once again. The guitar was finally smashed in Paris in the spring of 1992. Following Kurt’s death the guitar was rebuilt by Nirvana’s guitar technician, Earnie Bailey then displayed at Seattle’s Experience Music Project museum as part of the Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit.

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