Tuesday Morning and Haunted

[Mick Molloy]

Yeah the U2 guys do that: in 2001 the guy on the guitar was playing the complete setlist

Ow how do you aplly to be the Pogues guitar tech

[Pogues Whistle Player]

Fact is that Tuesday Morning was a suprise chart entry and, as the band had all gone on their holidays Warners cobbled together that video with me and Terry for Top of the Pops. Letterman fell in the same month so me and Paul did it. No big deal.

[cougar]

We were seriously losing interest in making promos by that stage. In fact, we were seriously losing interest in anything that was not an actual gig, as witness the David Letterman show in early 1994 in which "The Pogues" consisted of Spider Stacy and my then guitar tech Paul "not the U2 manager" McGuinness.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the job of a guitar tech? To get them onstage? To repair them?

I have no idea if what I saw or about to describe was correct, but on that 1985 Pogues television recording of a performance available on youtube.com, I am pretty sure you can see Daryl in a plaid(?) shirt fixing something on the stage mid-show and then running off stage-left. I doubt Shane was ever concerned with having his guitar sound like a million bucks, so I am sure Daryl is "some other" tech. A Drink With Shane mentions his direct association with the band in areas like that, so I am guessing that the eventual takeover of Daryl on the e. bass for Cait is more or less along the lines of a perfect example of "techs taking over". Im no expert, but this is a pretty common thing for bands with musicians that have a bias for taking "post-shoot-up" or "3 fifths of whiskey-later" naps backstage instead of taking the stage.
I have to say, I have seen some of these guitar techs in action and they are incredible. The speed with which they can strip and replace strings, get a perfect tune electronically and get a player his instrument back is nothing short of exceptional in many cases. Sure gives a player peace of mind on stage - one of the perks for a musician who's act can generate enough nickels and dimes to pay for one of these gurus.

[philipchevron]

We were seriously losing interest in making promos by that stage. In fact, we were seriously losing interest in anything that was not an actual gig, as witness the David Letterman show in early 1994 in which "The Pogues" consisted of Spider Stacy and my then guitar tech Paul "not the U2 manager" McGuinness.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the job of a guitar tech? To get them onstage? To repair them?

I have no idea if what I saw or about to describe was correct, but on that 1985 Pogues television recording of a performance available on youtube.com, I am pretty sure you can see Daryl in a plaid(?) shirt fixing something on the stage mid-show and then running off stage-left. I doubt Shane was ever concerned with having his guitar sound like a million bucks, so I am sure Daryl is "some other" tech. A Drink With Shane mentions his direct association with the band in areas like that, so I am guessing that the eventual takeover of Daryl on the e. bass for Cait is more or less along the lines of a perfect example of "techs taking over". Im no expert, but this is a pretty common thing for bands with musicians that have a bias for taking "post-shoot-up" or "3 fifths of whiskey-later" naps backstage instead of taking the stage.
I have to say, I have seen some of these guitar techs in action and they are incredible. The speed with which they can strip and replace strings, get a perfect tune electronically and get a player his instrument back is nothing short of exceptional in many cases. Sure gives a player peace of mind on stage - one of the perks for a musician who's act can generate enough nickels and dimes to pay for one of these gurus.

Darryl did just about everything EXCEPT play bass before he played bass. He was there before we had people with fancy job titles like "guitar tech". And when Darryl played drums for a few shows during Andrew's septic finger episode, Elvis C was the instrument tech.

Brian Robertson was, I think, the guitar tech just before or just after Mad Dog McGuinness.

[Heather]

Spider kind of reminds me of Morrisey in the Tuesday Morning video.