Tim Mech

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Tim Mech is a Canadian rock guitarist. He is best known as a sometime collaborator with Rheostatics, for whom he was also a guitar tech for many years. Formerly associated with Ottawa punk rock bands such as Civil Terror, Snuff Maximus and Deep Six, Mech later moved to Toronto, forming The Bookmen with Dave Bookman, and working with Rheostatics.

He currently fronts his own band, Tim Mech's Peep-Show. In addition, he is currently Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies' guitar tech, and he joined them onstage with Jason Plumb 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.