“There’s something about thesound of those old strings on that old guitar, it’s special”: Wait, what!? Feeder’s Grant Nicholas has not changed the strings on his Jazzmaster for eight years

Grant Nicholas onstage in 2022 with a 1966 Jazzmaster.

Representatives of D’Addario, Ernie Ball, Elixir and any other electric guitar string brands, please look away now. What you are about to read might shock you. Grant Nicholas, the frontman/guitarist for British alt-rock stalwarts Feeder, has admitted that he has not changed the strings on one of his go-to guitars for eight long years.

Speaking to Total Guitar, about the release of Feeder’s new double album, Black/Red, he said that it had been eight years since he changed the strings on his ’59 Jazzmaster, and it is one of the most important guitars he has for recording.