# Tim Mech

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{{Infobox musical artist  <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name                = Tim Mech
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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| caption             = Tim Mech 
| alias               = 
| origin              = [Toronto](/source/Toronto), Ontario, Canada
| genre               = {{hlist|Blues|Hawaiian|Rock}}
| years_active        = {{Start date|1996}}–2007, 2017-present
| label               = [DROG](/source/DROG_Records), Maple Music, [Zunior](/source/Zunior)
| occupation          = Guitar technician, Guitarist
| associated_acts     = <!-- see: Template:Infobox_musical_artist#associated_acts --> The Bookmen, Snuff Maximus, Deep Six, Civil Terror  Rheostatics, Bob Kemmis
| website                 = {{URL|timmechspeepshow.com}}
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'''Tim Mech''' is a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) rock guitarist and guitar technician. He is best known as a sometime collaborator with [Rheostatics](/source/Rheostatics), for whom he was also a [guitar tech](/source/guitar_tech) for many years, starting around 1988. Starting around 1982, he was associated with [Ottawa](/source/Ottawa) punk rock bands such as Civil Terror, Snuff Maximus and Deep Six. Mech later moved back to Toronto, his home town, forming [The Bookmen](/source/The_Bookmen) with [Dave Bookman](/source/Dave_Bookman), and working with Rheostatics. Mech is credited on Rheostatics' record ''[Whale Music](/source/Whale_Music_(album))'' and was featured in their video for "[Stolen Car](/source/The_Nightlines_Sessions)".

Mech fronts his own band, Tim Mech's Peep-Show, in which he plays the Weissenborn Hawaiian slide guitar and sings. He is also the principal songwriter for the band. Tim Mech's Peep-Show has made two records, ''Cocktails'' in 2001 and ''Topless'' in 2004. In addition, the band was one of the winners of ''[Musician](/source/Musician_(magazine))'' magazine's "Best Unsigned Band Competition" in 1997. Mech was a featured guest musician on ''[The Mike Bullard Show](/source/The_Mike_Bullard_Show)'', sitting with the house band.

Mech joined [Barenaked Ladies](/source/Barenaked_Ladies) onstage playing the guitar solo (which he played on the original album version) for a live cover of Rheostatics' "Legal Age Life at Variety Store" for the 2007 Rheostatics tribute album ''[The Secret Sessions](/source/The_Secret_Sessions)''.

Mech has been guitar tech for many notable artists, including [Bob Mould](/source/Bob_Mould), [The Tragically Hip](/source/The_Tragically_Hip), [Bruce Cockburn](/source/Bruce_Cockburn) and [Barenaked Ladies](/source/Barenaked_Ladies). From May 2011 to early 2019 he was the guitar tech for [Elvis Costello](/source/Elvis_Costello). Tim started working with [Carlos Santana](/source/Carlos_Santana) in 2018 and has been his personal guitar technician since. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Tim Mech {{!}} Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tim-mech-mn0001219430/credits|access-date=2021-04-14|website=AllMusic|language=en}}</ref>

In early 2017, Tim Mech started songwriting once again for Tim Mech's PEEP-SHOW after the hiatus from performing.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tim Mech's PEEP-SHOW|url=https://www.taxi.com/members/4mtQIhq4TUybzDuQ0iDC5Q-tim-mech-s-peep-show|access-date=2021-04-14|website=TAXI}}</ref>

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