
Claire Tole-Moir
Head of Department
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Head of Department
Provenance:
Acquired by the vendor in the 1990's via another attendee who was at the Cat's Cradle concert in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The vendor was friends with Sonic Youth via his merchandising company Tannis Root. On one occasion the vendor and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore initiated conversations about "this band from the Pacific Northwest called Nirvana", which led to the vendor attending Nirvana's concert at Maxwell's in April 1990, and later at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill in May 1990 where Kurt Cobain smashed all his equipment (including this amp).