Guitar/Vocals: Ben Gibbard
Guitar: Chris Walla
Bass Guitar: Nicholas Harmer
Drums: Jason McGerr
The name death cab for cutie comes from a satirical song performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla and was also also performed in a striptease act in The Beatles’s movie Magical Mystery Tour. The band hails from Bellingham, Washington and formed death cab in 1997. The band was originally only a one member band consisting of guitarist Ben Gibbard but after the release of a successful demo tape entitled ‘You Can Play These Songs with Chords’; Gibbard decided to form the solo project into a complete band. He recruited Christopher Walla, as an electric guitarist, Nicholas Harmer on bass, and Nathan Good to play drums.
This group released the LP Something About Airplanes in the summer of 1998 but Nathan Good soon left the band shortly after its release. New drummer Michael Schorr would first appear on The Forbidden Love E.P., released in fall of 2000. The band release another LP entitled ‘The Photo Album’. Death Cab once again had to find a replacement drummer Schorr would leave only to see new drummer Jason McGerr replace Schorr. McGerr would work the drums on their next full album ‘Transatlanticism’ which would become their biggest hit so far. Transatlanticism would sell 225,000 copies during its first year out.
In addition, tracks from the album appeared in the soundtrack of television shows The O.C. and Six Feet Under and the 2005 movie The Wedding Crashers. In November, 2004 Death Cab for Cutie signed a “long-term worldwide deal” with Atlantic Records. They soon released ‘Plans’ which was praised by critics and received a 2005 Grammy nomination for best alternative album. One of their hit singles was ‘Soul meets body’ which has been in rotation on this site’s radio station for some time now so take a listen to it. Otherwise, go and buy their album which is in stores now.
Thanks to http://www.wikipedia.org for some biography information.
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