"While Marr did eventually hear back from UPS, he wasn't exactly enthused with the shipping giant's steps for resolution: "Asking me to describe what my guitars look like is not filling me with confidence. They look exactly like the ones you put in one of your a [sic] delivery vans days ago. Remember?" Marr's next tweet may have ultimately proven helpful to UPS, providing identifying information about his guitar cases"
"On Wednesday, September 17th, the guitar god himself revealed that he had been without his famed instrument for over a week after several guitars were misplaced by UPS. Get Johnny Marr Tickets Here "Dear @UPS where are my guitars? They disappeared a week ago," he wrote in his initial tweet, adding the hashtags #fuckUPSinc and #freemyguitars. "I'm hearing from you now that they've been lost.""
Mike Joyce is writing a book while former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr dealt with missing instruments. Several guitars were misplaced by UPS, leaving Marr without famed instruments for over a week. Marr publicly urged UPS to locate the guitars, using hashtags #fuckUPSinc and #freemyguitars and posting follow-ups "Ring Ring @UPS" and "Knock Knock @UPS". UPS asked him to describe the instruments, prompting Marr to note they matched guitars loaded into a delivery van days earlier. Marr identified the cases with stickers including '80's Icon' and 'Woke As Fuck', and later thanked whoever sorted out the missing guitars. The episode shows that famous musicians can face mundane logistical absurdities and respond with humor.
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