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[N] I have the [Ab] lead singer here with me and we're going to talk about his [D] music.
Gene Clark, [Bb] an original member of the Birds.
And I wanted to start off with [Bbm] a
Birds related question.
Okay.
Being the one of the writers [B] of the song Eight
Miles [Bb] High, which is one of your bigger hits, and is [C] it true that you really left
the Birds because you [B] were afraid of flying?
Well that's such a great, that's [Eb] a
classic question.
[Gb] First of all, the actual song, let me [Bb] just quickly run
through it.
The actual song Eight Miles High [G] [Bb] was started writing, I actually
wrote [G] the song and then presented the [Gb] song to McGuinn and Crosby on tour.
We
were on a bus tour at the time [Bb] and we were listening to a lot of John
Coltrane, a lot of Ravi Shankar, a lot of things like that.
And they helped me
[Bbm] finish the song.
The melody and [Dbm] lyrics I wrote myself in a hotel room with Brian
Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
So that's
You should have got a part [B] credit on there
somewhere?
Well I thought so [Ab] at the time, you know, [Bb] but of course he didn't care.
You know, I just came out of a conversation.
Anyway, the fear of flying
wasn't really the reason I quit the group.
[Gm] When you're 19, 20 years old and
you start on a fantasy, you're a bunch of [Eb] kids on the street and [B]
you've got [Bb] all
these things happening to you and then once you're thrown in the, you know,
two, three [G] months, six months later you're hanging [D] out with the [Bb] Beatles in the
Rolling Stones and there's mob scenes in London and all these [D] things happening to you.
It can cause [C] you to become a little [D] bit disturbed.
Let's say [A] that really the
reason for [Bb] the group breakup [A] was [Bb] much [Ab] less the fear of flying than it was the
fact that we were too young to handle the amount of success that was thrown at
[Bbm] us all at once.
Okay, [Bb] but are you afraid of flying?
No, I love it.
Oh, who came [C] up with that one?
No, I
That's what I used to read about.
Well, I think that was good at the [Ab] time.
[D] At that time I wasn't as comfortable with flying as I am [A] now.
So it was sort of blown up.
So [G] it was an easy way to make an excuse for [E] the group
of having some problems.
[D] What about your
I wanted [Bb] to talk about your influences.
[A] As [Bb] a writer and a performer, [A] you seem to have a lot of folk and bluegrass
[D] influence, but your ballad [Bb] style, which is pretty prominent on a lot of your
recordings, adds another dimension.
I just want [B] to
What do you
Can you talk about [G] that?
That's really hard to pinpoint.
I [A] can't really [Bb] say that [D] exactly
[Gb] where maybe the ballad style [G] came from, except that maybe I [Fm] appreciated a lot of
the beautiful folk songs, the ballad, [E] the folk type songs.
[Bb] But my father was a
bluegrass musician.
[Gb] I came [E] from the Missouri Ozarks and I was a rock and
roll kid.
[Gb] I loved Elvis Presley through high [F] school.
I had rock and roll [Fm] bands.
And when the folk music thing came on [G] in the early 60s, it was just
natural for me to fall into it because I had [Gm] that background of folk [Bb] and
country music in my existence.
[Db] The band you have now, the [Bb] Firebirds, that even
the title is [Ab] kind of an in-joke there, if you can pick [Bb] up on it.
[B] With Michael
Clark from [Bb] Firefall and the Birds, and of course the [Ab] Birds with a Y.
Do you do much older material?
What are people going to hear when they go [Gm] down?
We're doing a bit of the older material.
We're doing the classics.
We're [Gb] doing
So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll [E] Star, Feel a Whole Lot [Bb] Better.
On the new
record that I've just got coming out in a couple of [Ab] months, I did what I've wanted
to do for a long time.
I recorded a three-verse version [G] of Tambourine Man,
a longer verse version.
[Ab] And it sort of made it, you know, here's the classic,
here's the longer length version.
Now any more than [F] three verses, of course, I
think [Bb] the song is what, five, six verses long or something like that.
Any more than that
would have gotten a little bit long, but we did a three-verse version.
So we do
[G] Tambourine Man, we do the new version [Bb] of it, [A]
and [Bb] you know, [Db] Feel a Whole Lot Better,
those things [Bb] like that.
So am I going to be able to pick your [D] record up in town here?
[F] I [Db] hope so.
We're not finished doing all the negotiations yet, but I do know for
sure that if it's not out before Christmas, it will be out [E] right after.
Well that's [Bb] great, Gene.
And [B] we'll see you tonight, Thursday night, Friday and Saturday
down at Harpo.
Okay.
[Db] And I hope all of you come down.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to
everybody.
And I gotta give you my top ten this week.
I have to,
Gene Clark, [Bb] an original member of the Birds.
And I wanted to start off with [Bbm] a
Birds related question.
Okay.
Being the one of the writers [B] of the song Eight
Miles [Bb] High, which is one of your bigger hits, and is [C] it true that you really left
the Birds because you [B] were afraid of flying?
Well that's such a great, that's [Eb] a
classic question.
[Gb] First of all, the actual song, let me [Bb] just quickly run
through it.
The actual song Eight Miles High [G] [Bb] was started writing, I actually
wrote [G] the song and then presented the [Gb] song to McGuinn and Crosby on tour.
We
were on a bus tour at the time [Bb] and we were listening to a lot of John
Coltrane, a lot of Ravi Shankar, a lot of things like that.
And they helped me
[Bbm] finish the song.
The melody and [Dbm] lyrics I wrote myself in a hotel room with Brian
Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
So that's
You should have got a part [B] credit on there
somewhere?
Well I thought so [Ab] at the time, you know, [Bb] but of course he didn't care.
You know, I just came out of a conversation.
Anyway, the fear of flying
wasn't really the reason I quit the group.
[Gm] When you're 19, 20 years old and
you start on a fantasy, you're a bunch of [Eb] kids on the street and [B]
you've got [Bb] all
these things happening to you and then once you're thrown in the, you know,
two, three [G] months, six months later you're hanging [D] out with the [Bb] Beatles in the
Rolling Stones and there's mob scenes in London and all these [D] things happening to you.
It can cause [C] you to become a little [D] bit disturbed.
Let's say [A] that really the
reason for [Bb] the group breakup [A] was [Bb] much [Ab] less the fear of flying than it was the
fact that we were too young to handle the amount of success that was thrown at
[Bbm] us all at once.
Okay, [Bb] but are you afraid of flying?
No, I love it.
Oh, who came [C] up with that one?
No, I
That's what I used to read about.
Well, I think that was good at the [Ab] time.
[D] At that time I wasn't as comfortable with flying as I am [A] now.
So it was sort of blown up.
So [G] it was an easy way to make an excuse for [E] the group
of having some problems.
[D] What about your
I wanted [Bb] to talk about your influences.
[A] As [Bb] a writer and a performer, [A] you seem to have a lot of folk and bluegrass
[D] influence, but your ballad [Bb] style, which is pretty prominent on a lot of your
recordings, adds another dimension.
I just want [B] to
What do you
Can you talk about [G] that?
That's really hard to pinpoint.
I [A] can't really [Bb] say that [D] exactly
[Gb] where maybe the ballad style [G] came from, except that maybe I [Fm] appreciated a lot of
the beautiful folk songs, the ballad, [E] the folk type songs.
[Bb] But my father was a
bluegrass musician.
[Gb] I came [E] from the Missouri Ozarks and I was a rock and
roll kid.
[Gb] I loved Elvis Presley through high [F] school.
I had rock and roll [Fm] bands.
And when the folk music thing came on [G] in the early 60s, it was just
natural for me to fall into it because I had [Gm] that background of folk [Bb] and
country music in my existence.
[Db] The band you have now, the [Bb] Firebirds, that even
the title is [Ab] kind of an in-joke there, if you can pick [Bb] up on it.
[B] With Michael
Clark from [Bb] Firefall and the Birds, and of course the [Ab] Birds with a Y.
Do you do much older material?
What are people going to hear when they go [Gm] down?
We're doing a bit of the older material.
We're doing the classics.
We're [Gb] doing
So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll [E] Star, Feel a Whole Lot [Bb] Better.
On the new
record that I've just got coming out in a couple of [Ab] months, I did what I've wanted
to do for a long time.
I recorded a three-verse version [G] of Tambourine Man,
a longer verse version.
[Ab] And it sort of made it, you know, here's the classic,
here's the longer length version.
Now any more than [F] three verses, of course, I
think [Bb] the song is what, five, six verses long or something like that.
Any more than that
would have gotten a little bit long, but we did a three-verse version.
So we do
[G] Tambourine Man, we do the new version [Bb] of it, [A]
and [Bb] you know, [Db] Feel a Whole Lot Better,
those things [Bb] like that.
So am I going to be able to pick your [D] record up in town here?
[F] I [Db] hope so.
We're not finished doing all the negotiations yet, but I do know for
sure that if it's not out before Christmas, it will be out [E] right after.
Well that's [Bb] great, Gene.
And [B] we'll see you tonight, Thursday night, Friday and Saturday
down at Harpo.
Okay.
[Db] And I hope all of you come down.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to
everybody.
And I gotta give you my top ten this week.
I have to,
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[N] I have the [Ab] lead singer here with me and we're going to talk about his [D] music.
Gene Clark, [Bb] an original member of the Birds.
And I wanted to start off with [Bbm] a
Birds related question.
Okay.
Being the one of the writers [B] of the song Eight
Miles [Bb] High, which is one of your bigger hits, _ and is [C] it true that you really left
the Birds because you [B] were afraid of flying?
Well that's such a great, that's [Eb] a
classic question.
[Gb] First of all, the actual song, let me [Bb] just quickly run
through it.
The actual song Eight Miles High [G] _ _ [Bb] was started writing, I actually
wrote [G] the song and then presented the [Gb] song to McGuinn and Crosby on tour.
We
were on a bus tour at the time [Bb] and we were listening to a lot of John
Coltrane, a lot of Ravi Shankar, a lot of things like that.
And they helped me
[Bbm] finish the song.
The melody and [Dbm] lyrics I wrote myself in a hotel room with Brian
Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
So that's_
You should have got a part [B] credit on there
somewhere?
Well I thought so [Ab] at the time, you know, [Bb] but of course he didn't care.
You know, I just came out of a conversation.
Anyway, the fear of flying
wasn't really the reason I quit the group.
[Gm] When you're 19, 20 years old and
you start on a fantasy, you're a bunch of [Eb] kids on the street and [B]
you've got [Bb] all
these things _ happening to you and then once you're thrown in the, you know,
_ two, three [G] months, six months later you're hanging [D] out with the [Bb] Beatles in the
Rolling Stones and there's mob scenes in London and all these [D] things happening to you.
It can cause [C] you to become a little [D] bit disturbed.
Let's say [A] that really the
reason for [Bb] the group _ breakup _ [A] was [Bb] much _ [Ab] _ less the fear of flying than it was the
fact that we were too young to handle the amount of success that was thrown at
[Bbm] us all at once. _
_ Okay, [Bb] _ but are you afraid of flying?
No, I love it.
Oh, who came [C] up with that one?
No, I_
That's what I used to read about.
Well, I think that was good at the [Ab] time.
[D] At that time I wasn't as comfortable with flying as I am [A] now.
So it was sort of blown up.
So [G] it was an easy way to make an excuse for [E] the group
of having some problems.
[D] _ What about your_
I wanted [Bb] to talk about your influences.
[A] As [Bb] a writer and a performer, [A] you seem to have a lot of folk and bluegrass
[D] influence, but your ballad [Bb] style, which is pretty prominent on a lot of your
recordings, adds another dimension.
I just want [B] to_
What do you_
Can you talk about [G] that?
That's really hard to pinpoint.
I [A] can't really [Bb] say that _ _ _ _ [D] exactly
[Gb] where maybe the ballad style [G] came from, except that maybe I [Fm] appreciated a lot of
the beautiful folk songs, the ballad, [E] the folk type songs.
[Bb] But my father was a
bluegrass musician.
[Gb] I came [E] from the Missouri Ozarks and I was a rock and
roll kid.
[Gb] I loved Elvis Presley through high [F] school.
I had rock and roll [Fm] bands.
And when the folk music thing came on [G] in the early 60s, it was just
natural for me to fall into it because I had [Gm] that _ _ background of folk [Bb] and
country music in my existence.
[Db] The band you have now, the [Bb] Firebirds, _ that even
the title is [Ab] kind of an in-joke there, if you can pick [Bb] up on it.
[B] With Michael
Clark from [Bb] Firefall and the Birds, and of course the [Ab] Birds with a Y.
Do you do _ much older material?
What are _ people going to hear when they go [Gm] down?
We're doing a bit of the older material.
We're doing the classics.
We're [Gb] doing
_ So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll [E] Star, Feel a Whole Lot [Bb] Better.
On the new
record that I've just got coming out in a couple of [Ab] months, I did what I've wanted
to do for a long time.
I recorded _ a three-verse version [G] of Tambourine Man,
a longer verse version.
[Ab] And it sort of made it, you know, here's the classic,
here's the longer length version.
Now any more than [F] three verses, of course, I
think [Bb] the song is what, five, six verses long or something like that.
Any more than that
would have gotten a little bit long, but we did a three-verse version.
So we do
[G] Tambourine Man, we do the new version [Bb] of it, _ [A]
and [Bb] you know, [Db] Feel a Whole Lot Better,
those things [Bb] like that.
So _ am I going to be able to pick your [D] record up in town here?
[F] I [Db] hope so.
We're not finished doing all the negotiations yet, but I do know for
sure that if it's not out before Christmas, it will be out [E] right after.
Well that's [Bb] great, Gene.
And [B] we'll see you tonight, Thursday night, Friday and Saturday
down at Harpo.
Okay.
[Db] And I hope all of you come down.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to
everybody.
And I gotta give you my top ten this week.
I have to,
Gene Clark, [Bb] an original member of the Birds.
And I wanted to start off with [Bbm] a
Birds related question.
Okay.
Being the one of the writers [B] of the song Eight
Miles [Bb] High, which is one of your bigger hits, _ and is [C] it true that you really left
the Birds because you [B] were afraid of flying?
Well that's such a great, that's [Eb] a
classic question.
[Gb] First of all, the actual song, let me [Bb] just quickly run
through it.
The actual song Eight Miles High [G] _ _ [Bb] was started writing, I actually
wrote [G] the song and then presented the [Gb] song to McGuinn and Crosby on tour.
We
were on a bus tour at the time [Bb] and we were listening to a lot of John
Coltrane, a lot of Ravi Shankar, a lot of things like that.
And they helped me
[Bbm] finish the song.
The melody and [Dbm] lyrics I wrote myself in a hotel room with Brian
Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
So that's_
You should have got a part [B] credit on there
somewhere?
Well I thought so [Ab] at the time, you know, [Bb] but of course he didn't care.
You know, I just came out of a conversation.
Anyway, the fear of flying
wasn't really the reason I quit the group.
[Gm] When you're 19, 20 years old and
you start on a fantasy, you're a bunch of [Eb] kids on the street and [B]
you've got [Bb] all
these things _ happening to you and then once you're thrown in the, you know,
_ two, three [G] months, six months later you're hanging [D] out with the [Bb] Beatles in the
Rolling Stones and there's mob scenes in London and all these [D] things happening to you.
It can cause [C] you to become a little [D] bit disturbed.
Let's say [A] that really the
reason for [Bb] the group _ breakup _ [A] was [Bb] much _ [Ab] _ less the fear of flying than it was the
fact that we were too young to handle the amount of success that was thrown at
[Bbm] us all at once. _
_ Okay, [Bb] _ but are you afraid of flying?
No, I love it.
Oh, who came [C] up with that one?
No, I_
That's what I used to read about.
Well, I think that was good at the [Ab] time.
[D] At that time I wasn't as comfortable with flying as I am [A] now.
So it was sort of blown up.
So [G] it was an easy way to make an excuse for [E] the group
of having some problems.
[D] _ What about your_
I wanted [Bb] to talk about your influences.
[A] As [Bb] a writer and a performer, [A] you seem to have a lot of folk and bluegrass
[D] influence, but your ballad [Bb] style, which is pretty prominent on a lot of your
recordings, adds another dimension.
I just want [B] to_
What do you_
Can you talk about [G] that?
That's really hard to pinpoint.
I [A] can't really [Bb] say that _ _ _ _ [D] exactly
[Gb] where maybe the ballad style [G] came from, except that maybe I [Fm] appreciated a lot of
the beautiful folk songs, the ballad, [E] the folk type songs.
[Bb] But my father was a
bluegrass musician.
[Gb] I came [E] from the Missouri Ozarks and I was a rock and
roll kid.
[Gb] I loved Elvis Presley through high [F] school.
I had rock and roll [Fm] bands.
And when the folk music thing came on [G] in the early 60s, it was just
natural for me to fall into it because I had [Gm] that _ _ background of folk [Bb] and
country music in my existence.
[Db] The band you have now, the [Bb] Firebirds, _ that even
the title is [Ab] kind of an in-joke there, if you can pick [Bb] up on it.
[B] With Michael
Clark from [Bb] Firefall and the Birds, and of course the [Ab] Birds with a Y.
Do you do _ much older material?
What are _ people going to hear when they go [Gm] down?
We're doing a bit of the older material.
We're doing the classics.
We're [Gb] doing
_ So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll [E] Star, Feel a Whole Lot [Bb] Better.
On the new
record that I've just got coming out in a couple of [Ab] months, I did what I've wanted
to do for a long time.
I recorded _ a three-verse version [G] of Tambourine Man,
a longer verse version.
[Ab] And it sort of made it, you know, here's the classic,
here's the longer length version.
Now any more than [F] three verses, of course, I
think [Bb] the song is what, five, six verses long or something like that.
Any more than that
would have gotten a little bit long, but we did a three-verse version.
So we do
[G] Tambourine Man, we do the new version [Bb] of it, _ [A]
and [Bb] you know, [Db] Feel a Whole Lot Better,
those things [Bb] like that.
So _ am I going to be able to pick your [D] record up in town here?
[F] I [Db] hope so.
We're not finished doing all the negotiations yet, but I do know for
sure that if it's not out before Christmas, it will be out [E] right after.
Well that's [Bb] great, Gene.
And [B] we'll see you tonight, Thursday night, Friday and Saturday
down at Harpo.
Okay.
[Db] And I hope all of you come down.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to
everybody.
And I gotta give you my top ten this week.
I have to,