Chords for ACCEPT - Studio Trailer 2010

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_ _ _ [F] _ _ It all started basically in 2005.
We had such a huge [E] success on these festivals that we
knew we wanted to go back out again.
But to be here and make another record, pretty incredible.
Especially to have this _ almost original line-up is really fantastic.
I haven't [Gm] played with Wolf for about 15 years.
In 2005 we did a tour, but we haven't really
written anything, [F] from the _ _ [E] composing level.
We always were like the writing team in Accept
and we're just made for each other when it comes to writing.
So it was a thrill.
End of the day, the people want more back in 2005 when we do the reunion shows.
But _ _
Udo doesn't agree to continue, and so the whole thing stopped.
Udo was supposed to be part of this. _
We did the festival tour in 2005, and it was cut
kind of short because Udo was busy with U2, which we understood.
All of a sudden, like I said, just by pure luck, we found Mark.
I got a phone call from a friend of mine, a very good friend of mine, who I was doing
some playing with at the [G] time, and he [F#] asked me if it was okay if he gave out [F] my phone number.
And I said, [E] to who?
And he says, to Peter Baltus.
I said, the bass player from Accept?
He goes, yeah.
When we met Mark, we were totally amazed [G] because all of a sudden we have somebody who sounds
like Udo, but is not a [Fm] clone.
He's got his own character.
[E] We thought, well, why not start another version of Accept with Mark?
So we figured, you know,
this [G] might be an [A] opportunity.
Maybe the stars aligned in the right order or something, but
all of a sudden we felt there's a chance for us and there's a chemistry that's probably going to work well.
You can hit this high range, like this [Am] half-octave range, if you're not accustomed to it.
Remember that 20 years ago with Udo, but now we have somebody who can, you know, it gives
us room to write some other material where this can work in.
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definitely a lot of pressure, but I don't see it as pressure to _ _ be, _ _ _ _ how should
I put this, to be an exact _ [F] replacement or replica [E] of _ Udo, but I see it as _ trying to
be true to what Accept is.
And I think we're [G] doing that.
If I would describe it, I would say, _ _ _ [E] back to the glory of early days.
If you think where would it fit in with the old ones, for instance, I think it would just
be right there with most of all, Restless and Wild Breaker.
If you put these three albums
together, melt them together in a big bucket of steel, out comes the new record.
Well, we found Andy, [D#] well basically he found us through a mutual friend.
We talked with Andy about possibly producing our record and we met _ and turns out Andy is
an Accept fan from very early on.
I must have had 20 different vinyls in different colors, picture discs, you know, clear [C] vinyls,
_ _ _ anything Accept I could get my hands on, I was, you know, hooked.
And one of the first things Andy did when we met, he [A] forced us, locked us up in a room
and forced us to listen all the way through to Restless and Wild and Breaker and Metal
Heart and all these records _ and pointed out things that he thought were specifically Accept.
I was aware of a lot of [E] little traits that made Accept sound like Accept, you know, little
pushes on the drums, the anthemic feel at times, the scales, the _ riffiness of it at [A] times.
_ [F] So I [E] just wanted to make them aware of this and it was interesting to see, you know, what
they liked about the old recordings, what they didn't like, you know, I mean you could
see Wolf and Peter when they listened to it, they both sort of screw their eyes up at the
same time, you know, and I'd be sat there going, oh, that's a classic moment.
And there's Andy pointing out, that's you guys and that is not you guys.
So that was very helpful.
_ [D#] And [E] _ I think that's why the songs came out the way they did. _ _ _
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[E] I still see Accept as being a German band, even with me in it, yeah.
[G] I'm _ [B] not so much the outsider, [F] but I'm _ _ becoming slightly [E]
German.
You know, I live in the States now for 24 years, you know, we're all over the place,
all over the world, but we have our German roots and basically, mainly that [G] comes from
the style of music we're playing, [F#] which is still rooted [F] in that _ European heavy metal,
you know, Wolf's influence, the classical [E] influence.
_ I'm not a trained classical guitar player or anything, but I've always had a love for classical music.
I sort of always loved the [Bm] _ beautiful melodies [A] and the chord structures that are in classical
music, so I've always tried to incorporate little bits and pieces into our stuff.
So if you listen to Metal Heart, for instance, there's some really strong elements of classical
music in there.
And I think that's what makes Accept all these different ingredients.
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