Darryl Hunt is selling his 1963 Pogues Fender Precision Bass @bonhams1793 on November 17th.
Bought in1988 at Manny's, NYC whilst on tour, he used it for everything after that date up until The Pogues last UK show at Hyde Park in 2014.
It's a thundering chunk of Pogues history!
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26822/lot/335/
THE POGUES: DARRYL HUNT'S FENDER PRECISION BASS GUITAR,
1963,
£ 3,000 - 5,000
US$ 4,100 - 6,800
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Bid
Film, Rock & Pop
including property from the Estate of Dame Diana Rigg
17 Nov 2021, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge
Rock & Pop
THE POGUES: DARRYL HUNT'S FENDER PRECISION BASS GUITAR,
1963,
serial no.L05378 stamped on the neckplate, wide C profile maple neck with dark Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and clay dots, double cutaway solid ash body, black refinish, and tortoiseshell-effect plastic scratch-plate, with a 'Top of The Pops' sticker applied to the body from the band's performance on the show in 1994, accompanied by a red plush-lined Fender guitar case with a pink label on the outside inscribed The Pogues Darryl Hunt as well as a 'global motion' sticker, together with a packet of 32-34in standard gauge swing bass strings, a maroon leather Westbury guitar strap, a black fabric guitar strap, three packs of Rotosound short and long scale swing bass strings, and a letter of provenance from Darryl Hunt, CITES no.596239/01, 46 1/2in (118cm) long
Footnotes
Provenance:
Purchased by bass guitarist singer, songwriter, Darryl Hunt from Manny's Guitar Shop in New York in 1988, and used by Hunt as his primary instrument for the next eight years, featuring on numerous studio recordings, tours, promotional work, and live performances whilst with Celtic punk band, The Pogues.
Founded in London in 1982, Hunt joined The Pogues in 1986 as bassist. During the next ten years the band reached international prominence recording several hit albums and singles, specifically their Christmas hit Fairy-tale of New York (1987) for which the band may best be known, as well as Peace and Love (1989), Hell's Ditch (1990), Waiting For Herb (1993) and the band's seventh and final studio album Pogue Mahone (1996). Released in 1987, "Fairy-tale of New York" reached No.1 in the Irish charts and No.2 in the British charts over Christmas, and has since become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland.
Hunt stayed with the Pogues until 1996 when the band separated. Apart from playing the bass guitar, Hunt contributed to drums, guitar and backing vocals to the band. He also wrote several songs for The Pogues one of which "Love You Till The End", from the album Pogue Mahone was used in the credits of the Burt Reynolds film Mystery Alaska (1999), and was also used throughout the Richard LaGravenese film P.S. I Love You (2007).
Following the 1996 split, the band has reunited on several occasions, playing the GuilFest festival in Guildford and three shows in Japan in 2005, several shows on US and UK tours in 2006-2007, and again in 2011-2013. The Pogues' last performance in Britain was on 5 July 2014 at the British Summer Time festival in London's Hyde Park, this being the last public performance at which Hunt used this guitar.
