Graham Coxon

A guitar hero growing up?

Graham Coxon.

Lyrics first or music first?

Music.

There's a sensible bit of you in there somewhere.

The, the worst one in the last few years was meeting Graham Coxon.

Coxon.[gasps] Oh, God.

And I think people are weird with him.

I do- I'm not, I'm not having it.

Ooh.

I think that the, your behavior with the number one, uh, and Graham Coxon.

I mean, yeah, I d- I don't, there's not much creeping.

But Cobain is only part of the story.

Mustangs have also appeared in the hands of David Byrne of The Talking Heads, Adrian Blue, John Frusciante, Graham Coxon of Blur, Belinda Butcher of My Bloody Valentine, Buzz Osborne of The Melvins, Todd Rundgren, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Rinaldo.

And here's a Mustang player you might not immediately expect, John McLaughlin.

Before becoming forever associated with high-powered fusion and instruments like his double neck Gibson, McLaughlin was photographed and performed with a Fender Mustang during the late 60s and early 70s.

And one of my favorite artists, what's the guitar player for Blur? Are you talking about

Graham Coxon?

Yeah, Graham Coxon does the music for that show.

Oh, wow.

And actually, there's a band that's called Blood Witch.

Well, the opening is a blues track, and then Graham...

It's Graham Coxon, isn't it?

Graham Coxon, yeah.

The guitarist.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love it.

I'm spinning it, and I love Graham Coxon playing blues guitar-

We didn't think about it at all.

Graham Coxon set up two kits.

Dave Roundtree and Graham started playing drums at the same time.

This real aggro beat.

in their first go round.

And then, you know, they broke up, went and did other things, but then they reformed many years later and they came back and they didn't do what most bands do when they do that, where they just sort of tour the greatest hits, you know, and then maybe eventually put out a new album just as a, you know sort of money maker or whatever they they came back and they put out straight away a new album they toured a new album and it was at least as good as the old stuff and you know they became quite prolific for a a few years and i can't think of any other band that's come back haven't been you know really influential now they're one of those bands that Hardly anyone's heard of them, but you hear them in so many bands, you know, and they've been covered by everyone from, like, Graham Coxon to Moby to REN various times.

But they came back and were probably even better than they were, like, you know, much tighter as a live act.

And I saw them a few times around that time when they came back and they were just absolutely brilliant.