Courtney Love's Gear

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But there is one very important aspect of the Seattle/Olympia/Portland grunge guitar legacy that Love claims as her own. "I contend that I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff, before the rest of the boys," says Love. "It was when I was in this purist Sixties garage band called the Venerays, with Kat Bjelland

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In this photo, one can see Love playing a Fender Jazzmaster.

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In this article it says that Courtney used this guitar, she was known for using it.

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At 4 minutes 28 you can see Courtney using a DS-1

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At 1:59 in the video, you can see Courtney using Kurt Cobain's previous touring rig before his death, which consisted of 2 Mesa Boogie Studio Preamps, and 2 Crest 4801 Power amps. Courtney began using this rig after Kurt died.

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In this image we can see Courtney with a Fender Mustang Electric Guitar.

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In this photo, on can see Love playing a Rickenbacker 360.

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Courtney Love can be seen playing a Univox Hi-Flier in this photo.

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Love can be seen using a Rickenbacker 425 in this photo.

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Love can be seen in this image playing a black and white Fender Strat.

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we can see it using this guitar on video-clip of "You Know My Name"....

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In the early '90s, Courtney Love is pictured with a Hagstrom II electric guitar, likely during a rehearsal for a tour. Notably, Kurt Cobain was also known to use Hagstrom guitars.

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In this photo, one can see Love using a Gretsch G6120DC.

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It can be seen that Courtney uses the 2203 right about the 3:00 minute mark. She's plugged into it and the sound of the recording sounds like a Marshall JCM 800 2203 playing.

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Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain pose with Hello Kitty guitars backstage at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards.

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Here Courtney love is seen with a red Fender Bronco. On tour in 1993.

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For the Celebrity Skin sessions, Love plugged into a variety of amps, including Fender tube gear, Matchless, Ampeg, Silvertone and a solid-state 1976 Randall Commander that formerly belonged to Love's late husband, Kurt Cobain. "He did like his Randall Commander," she says.

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In June 1999, Courtney Love was photographed in Mesa, Arizona, playing a Fender Telecaster. This image, user-uploaded on Tumblr, captures her with the guitar during that time.

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Courtney during the recording of Live Through This. 1993. Atlanta, Georgia.

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Courtney Love used an Epiphone PR-5E acoustic-electric guitar during Hole's MTV Unplugged performance

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At 1:59 in the video, you can see Courtney using Kurt Cobain's previous touring rig before his death, which consisted of 2 Mesa Boogie Studio Preamps, and 2 Crest 4801 Power amps. Courtney began using this rig after Kurt died.

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In this image, Love appears to be holding a Green Dunlop Tortex .88 Standard.

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In this image, Love's Mic stand appears to be loaded with Blue Dunlop Tortex 1.0 Standard picks.

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In a 2001 photo from NME, Courtney Love is seen playing an emerald green Ovation Celebrity CC28 guitar.

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Courtney Love played a Fender Jazzmaster Candy Apple Red from 1974 during the 1990s, as shown in a user-uploaded photo.

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Courtney used a Boss Ds2 Turbo distortion at 1:01 in this performance

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Courtney Love used the Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp with her Rickenbacker during later performances, as shown in a user-uploaded photo.

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Courtney played with Kurt's Martin acoustic guitar at Doll Parts performance.

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In a 1992 article from a fanzine, Courtney Love is documented as using a Pre-CBS Fender 'Black Panel' Twin Reverb amplifier, as evidenced by the image provided.

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