Ben Gibbard has today announced his own new signature Fender Mustang guitar – which he says is also inspiring the sound of the new Death Cab For Cutie album.
Watch our video interview with Gibbard above.Gibbard told NME about how he grew up seeing many “anti-hero” heroes from his native Seattle and the grunge scene playing a Mustang – including the likes of Mudhoney, Nirvana and Sonic Youth – before he finally got one himself over a decade ago for his first tour with The Postal Service.“When I was a kid growing up in the late ‘80s, I was really discouraged from playing guitar in public because at that time, at least in America, the only people you saw playing guitar were just shredding it,” he told NME.
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