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Following the four-year development and successful release of the Fender Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar in January 2012 (see footnote to lots 82 and 83), Fender supplied this Signature Jaguar to Johnny Marr in its stock Olympic White finish in early 2012. When Marr had the idea to create a Black on Black variant of his Signature Jag, he asked expert luthier Bill Puplett to refinish the body in black and fit a black pickguard in preparation for his forthcoming Playland Tour. After Puplett delivered the refinished Black on Black Jag, Marr went on to use it as his second guitar throughout his 2014 Playland Tour, which kicked off on 13 October in Lincoln, UK, and ran through to 4 December 2014 in Calgary, Canada. Whilst Marr’s Sherwood Green Signature Jaguar (previous lot) served as his primary guitar for the main set, Marr used the custom Black on Black Jag for the open D tuning on ‘The Headmaster Ritual’ and would again switch to the Black on Black for the full encore, which varied from night to night but might include The Smiths’ numbers ‘Still Ill’, ‘How Soon Is Now?’ or ‘There Is a Light That Never Goes Out’, the Iggy Pop cover ‘Lust For Life’, the Bobby Fuller Four cover 'I Fought The Law', the album tracks ‘Dynamo’ or ‘Word Starts Attack’, or the Depeche Mode cover ‘I Feel You’, which was added to the set list towards the end of the tour.
Noel Gallagher made a surprise guest appearance during the encore of Marr’s largest London solo show to date at the O2 Academy Brixton on 23 October 2014. The pair performed the Iggy Pop cover ‘Lust for Life’ and The Smiths’ ‘How Soon Is Now?’ together. Gallagher had offered to join Johnny on stage to thank him for playing on his record ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’ but later revealed that he was suffering from a severe hangover on the night: I don’t think I’ve ever been so fucking hungover onstage in all my life. I was getting a back rub from his wife about two minutes before going onstage. If somebody had come up to me and said, “You don’t have to do this” I would have been, like, “Fucking, yes”. It was my wife’s birthday the night before and we’d smashed the arse out of it. I forgot I was playing with him. I promised him because he played on my record. He said, “Get up and do ‘How Soon Is Now’” and then he drops another song on me on the day. But I did it because I’m a fucking trooper. A highlight of the tour was Marr’s homecoming show at the O2 Apollo in Manchester on 25 October 2014, which was recorded along with the Glasgow Academy and Brixton Academy shows for the live album Adrenalin Baby, which would be released in October 2015.
A cover of the 1993 Depeche Mode classic ‘I Feel You’, which Marr first began playing in his dressing room on the US leg of the Playland Tour, was added to the set list in early December ahead of the show at the Top Hat Lounge in Missoula, Montana. When he returned to the UK in December 2014, Marr found time to revisit the song and decided to release his cover version for Record Store Day on 18 April 2015. I’ve surprised myself that it sounded so like me and my band, he commented on release. When you cover a song you have to bring something of yourself to it. I was playing it on tour, just in my dressing room, and it sounded good, and then I started to sing it and we worked it up in a soundcheck and played it immediately in the encore that night… I was invited to do something for Record Store Day and it was a really good fit. The song turned out surprisingly well. While Marr used his Sherwood Green Signature Jag to record the song, he opted to play the sleeker, sexier, Black on Black Jag in the official music video. All evidence suggests that Marr applied the three silver star stickers to the lower treble bout of the guitar just before that video shoot in mid-February 2015.
The guitar was next seen on 10 July 2016 when Marr joined Alex Turner, Miles Kane, James Ford, and Zach Dawes of The Last Shadow Puppets on stage to lend his guitar expertise on their Smiths’ cover ‘Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me’ and 'Totally Wired' during their shows at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl and Alexandra Palace. Following Noel Gallagher’s guest appearance at his Brixton Academy show in 2014, Marr returned the favour when he joined Gallagher on stage for the final date of the High Flying Birds’ Chasing Yesterday Tour at the same venue on 6 September 2016. After welcoming Marr on stage to play the fucking guitar like ringing a bell, the pair performed Oasis’ ‘Champagne Supernova’, which featured a rare minute-long solo by Marr, and their 2015 collaboration ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’. To promote the US release of his autobiography Set The Boy Free, Marr brought the Black on Black Jag to play a few riffs here and there on a brief US book tour from 15 to 19 November 2016. The guitar was last seen on stage when Marr performed with son Nile and his band Man Made at The Night And Day Café in Manchester on 30 December 2016.
Inspired by Marr’s custom refin, Fender released a special limited edition production run of the Black on Black Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar in July 2016. It’s the new version of my guitar, Marr said of the release. The black beauty rock n roll machine.
Noel Gallagher made a surprise guest appearance during the encore of Marr’s largest London solo show to date at the O2 Academy Brixton on 23 October 2014. The pair performed the Iggy Pop cover ‘Lust for Life’ and The Smiths’ ‘How Soon Is Now?’ together. Gallagher had offered to join Johnny on stage to thank him for playing on his record ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’ but later revealed that he was suffering from a severe hangover on the night: I don’t think I’ve ever been so fucking hungover onstage in all my life. I was getting a back rub from his wife about two minutes before going onstage. If somebody had come up to me and said, “You don’t have to do this” I would have been, like, “Fucking, yes”. It was my wife’s birthday the night before and we’d smashed the arse out of it. I forgot I was playing with him. I promised him because he played on my record. He said, “Get up and do ‘How Soon Is Now’” and then he drops another song on me on the day. But I did it because I’m a fucking trooper. A highlight of the tour was Marr’s homecoming show at the O2 Apollo in Manchester on 25 October 2014, which was recorded along with the Glasgow Academy and Brixton Academy shows for the live album Adrenalin Baby, which would be released in October 2015.
A cover of the 1993 Depeche Mode classic ‘I Feel You’, which Marr first began playing in his dressing room on the US leg of the Playland Tour, was added to the set list in early December ahead of the show at the Top Hat Lounge in Missoula, Montana. When he returned to the UK in December 2014, Marr found time to revisit the song and decided to release his cover version for Record Store Day on 18 April 2015. I’ve surprised myself that it sounded so like me and my band, he commented on release. When you cover a song you have to bring something of yourself to it. I was playing it on tour, just in my dressing room, and it sounded good, and then I started to sing it and we worked it up in a soundcheck and played it immediately in the encore that night… I was invited to do something for Record Store Day and it was a really good fit. The song turned out surprisingly well. While Marr used his Sherwood Green Signature Jag to record the song, he opted to play the sleeker, sexier, Black on Black Jag in the official music video. All evidence suggests that Marr applied the three silver star stickers to the lower treble bout of the guitar just before that video shoot in mid-February 2015.
The guitar was next seen on 10 July 2016 when Marr joined Alex Turner, Miles Kane, James Ford, and Zach Dawes of The Last Shadow Puppets on stage to lend his guitar expertise on their Smiths’ cover ‘Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me’ and 'Totally Wired' during their shows at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl and Alexandra Palace. Following Noel Gallagher’s guest appearance at his Brixton Academy show in 2014, Marr returned the favour when he joined Gallagher on stage for the final date of the High Flying Birds’ Chasing Yesterday Tour at the same venue on 6 September 2016. After welcoming Marr on stage to play the fucking guitar like ringing a bell, the pair performed Oasis’ ‘Champagne Supernova’, which featured a rare minute-long solo by Marr, and their 2015 collaboration ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’. To promote the US release of his autobiography Set The Boy Free, Marr brought the Black on Black Jag to play a few riffs here and there on a brief US book tour from 15 to 19 November 2016. The guitar was last seen on stage when Marr performed with son Nile and his band Man Made at The Night And Day Café in Manchester on 30 December 2016.
Inspired by Marr’s custom refin, Fender released a special limited edition production run of the Black on Black Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar in July 2016. It’s the new version of my guitar, Marr said of the release. The black beauty rock n roll machine.