Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) exchanged emails for The Thread near the end of 2014 and told several fun stories, including the time Gibbard pissed off an entire crowd in Boston. The two were back at it again this week, and Kozelek recounted a story about Modest Mouse.
The 48-year-old songwriter once dedicated an entire covers album to Isaac Brook and the rest of the “Float On” rockers, but there was, of course, a time when he had never heard of the band.
“I remember being on tour with the Cardigans in 1997, and our guitar tech told us Modest Mouse was at our show,” Kozelek wrote. “I was like, ‘Who the f——— is Modest Mouse?’ I was in a fight with my girlfriend at the time—she was up there with me—and she bolted back to the hotel after the show. I left the show immediately to go make things right with her. Anyhow, after Modest Mouse got pretty famous, the guys in RHP said, ‘Those guys were backstage in Portland back in ’97.' Who would have known that the band I didn't care about in 1997 would be a band I’d dedicate an entire cover record to in 2004?”
For his part, Gibbard had his own regrets about missing a post-show meeting with Elliott Smith in 1998.
“He and Janet Weiss came to a show we were playing at EJ's in Portland,” Gibbard wrote. “I was way too anxious to introduce myself to either of them. I always thought I'd get another chance to meet him, but I never did. Very sad.”
Gibbard and DCFC recently released the first single -- “Black Sun” -- from their forthcoming album. Check it out below:
