Terri Theodore of Canada.com is reporting that a businessman who thought he had a guitar belonging to late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is suing a Washington state man for fraud.
The lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court claims Earnest "Guitar" Bailey falsely represented a left-handed Fender Stratocaster guitar as Cobain's.
Phil Gross, a resident of North Vancouver, traded his own six-string Gibson S.G. electric guitar for the guitar, believing it was used by
Cobain in one of his band
Nirvana's last concert tours before
Cobain's 1994 suicide.
His plans to market the guitar at several auction houses were squashed when a famous British rock-collectibles auction house found out the claim was false.
Gross is suing Bailey for negligence and wants special and punitive damages.
Bailey lives in Gig Harbour, Wash., and was the guitar tech for Nirvana during the 1991-92 Nevermind Tour. The suit alleges a conspiracy to defraud.
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