{"id":483119,"date":"2019-03-07T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=804763"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:26:40","slug":"kurt-cobains-reading-fest-hospital-gown-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/kurt-cobains-reading-fest-hospital-gown-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Cobain\u2019s Reading Fest Hospital Gown Up for Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-85336745W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The hospital gown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kurt-cobain\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kurt-cobain\" data-tag=\"kurt-cobain\">Kurt Cobain<\/a> famously wore during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nirvana\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nirvana\" data-tag=\"nirvana\">Nirvana<\/a>\u2019s headlining set at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nirvana-public-enemy-beastie-boys-cross-the-pond-for-reading-fest-83644\/\">Reading Festival 1992<\/a> is currently up for auction via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrauction.com\/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=4738\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">RR Auction<\/a>. The gown is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrauction.com\/browse_gallery.cfm?Category=0&amp;SortOrder=HP&amp;SearchCrit=&amp;ByItem=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Marvels of Modern Music Auction<\/a>, which started March 7th and ends March 14th. Cobain\u2019s hospital gown is estimated to be worth $50,000 or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nirvana\u2019s 1992 set at the Reading Festival remains one of the band\u2019s most famous live performances, and it was released as a concert film and live album in 2009 after being a cherished bootleg for years. Cobain famously wore the hospital gown as a way to poke fun at rumors about his health. To complete the bit, Cobain not only had music journalist Everett True push him on stage in a wheelchair, but he opened the performance by warbling a few notes of Bette Midler\u2019s \u201cThe Rose\u201d before pretending to collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the years since Cobain\u2019s death in 1994, the gown has been in the possession of a fan, who said they received it from Courtney Love at a Seattle vigil following Cobain\u2019s suicide. \u201cLate that evening, Courtney Love showed up accompanied by Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland with a bag of Kurt\u2019s clothes,\u201d the fan recalled. \u201cShe was visibly grief-stricken and proceeded to pass the clothes out while asking trivia about Kurt\u2019s life\u2026 She handed me his hospital gown from the legendary Reading Festival performance from 1992. She then cried on my shoulder for a while. I tried to say something reassuring about his love for her and she pushed me away, insisting that he only loved Frances\u2026 The entire incident was sad. And weird. And it blew my teenage mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with Cobain\u2019s hospital gown, the Marvels of Modern Music Auction also boasts items like Keith Moon\u2019s annotated address book, an angry letter John Lennon wrote to Beatles producer George Martin and Prince\u2019s customized VOX guitar from the 3RDEYEGIRL era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nirvana-kurt-cobain-hospital-gown-reading-1992-auction-804763\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hospital gown Kurt Cobain famously wore during Nirvana\u2019s headlining set at Reading Festival 1992 is currently up for auction via RR Auction. The gown is part of the Marvels of Modern Music Auction, which started March 7th and ends March 14th. Cobain\u2019s hospital gown is estimated to be worth $50,000 or more. Nirvana\u2019s 1992 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:28:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}