Flea Instagram – And now I say, god bless the great Irishman Shane MacGowan. Everytime I heard him sing I heard the truth, and my heart filled up with humanity. I once saw him sing with the Pogues at a festival in the late 80’s. It was so beautiful and I was reduced to tears. I approached him, and gushed “Man that was so beautiful, thank you etc…” He looked at me and burst into laughter, accidentally spitting beer in my face, and it was not thoughtless or mean at all, he was just so humble and being a dude singing it seemed absurd to him to be elevated, like I was doing to him. I have never been a church going man or a religious man, but if I ever felt baptised, it was that beer and spit in my face that did it. Im so grateful he sang his songs for us.