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Why Ben Gibbard wants to save The Showbox

KUOW PHOTO/Megan Farmer
Seattle musician Ben Gibbard from the band Death Cab For Cutie

This week, people who want to save Seattle's Showbox theater came to City Hall.

They don't want a developer to turn the 80 year old downtown concert venue into a high rise apartment building.

One of those testifiers was a man who's played the Showbox dozens of times, Ben Gibbard of the platinum-selling band Death Cab For Cutie.

Gibbard lives on Capitol Hill and his latest single Gold Rush just happens to be about the swinging of the wrecking ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTPZWG5eLf8

Gibbard joined Bill Radke for a conversation about the Showbox, nostalgia and changing places.

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