78 Saab is an Australian rock band, comprising Ben Nash (guitar, vocals), Jake Andrews (lead guitar), Garth Tregillgas (bass) and Nicholai Danko (drums). The band compare themselves to Neil Young, REM and The Rolling Stones as well as Australian bands Died Pretty and The Church http://www.78saab.com.au/ . Forming in Canberra, they have been based in Sydney since early 1997. History Early years The band was formed at Australian National University ? by Nash, Tregillgas and the since departed Darren Smith and Christovac Thompson - to perform in the Australian National Campus Band Competition, the name coming from the car that Nash drove at the time. "I used to own a 1978 Saab which I bought off my grandparents for around a-thousand bucks when I was at university", explained Nash, in a later interview, "Anyway, we entered a band competition [LINK: at] Uni and we had about 3 hours to come up w

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