Chords for Alvin Lee of T.Y.A. - Interview 1988 (Extremely Rare)
Tempo:
139.1 bpm
Chords used:
E
Em
A
C
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[B]
[A] [B]
God knows how many of my brain cells I destroyed [A] listening to LPs like Stonehenge,
Clicklewood Green, [C] and Shhh by Ten Years After.
[N] Of course, through no fault of the music.
Anyhow, no matter what happens, Ten Years After's lead guitarist, Alvin Lee,
achieved rock and roll immortality for his 20-minute rendition of the song
Going Home [E] in the motion picture Woodstock.
Here's Alvin Lee.
[Em]
Hi, I'm Alvin Lee.
I play guitar.
I'm playing guitar on this album called Guitar Speak.
I do a [E] song called No Limit.
[C]
I think that's a good title.
[A]
I don't like things to be too exact.
I like [Em] the freedom to feel your own way.
I mean, I don't play exact guitar.
I've never read music.
I [D] play from the hip, [C] you know, like a [Em] gunslinger.
[Am]
I'm a jammer.
You know, I don't [Em] often play something good [E] and will never [B] play it again
because I [G] don't remember what it was.
I play purely by instinct, and I play from adrenaline.
[A] You know, you get your adrenaline here and it comes out here, and it comes out the fingers.
[Bm] I started when I was 12 years old.
I took up the clarinet.
And I played for a year, took lessons.
[E] Didn't get on with the [C] instrument, but I listened to Benny Goodman.
Through listening to [E] Benny Goodman, I [A] heard Charlie Christian,
[E] who I suppose was the earliest influence there was.
[G] Django Reinhardt, and then I started playing jazz, actually.
[C]
[E] Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Bonny Kessel, George Benson.
But then I moved [A] on to blues.
I like Big [E] Bill Brunsey, John Lee Hooker.
[B] [C]
Yeah, the guitar I used in Woodstock [E] I called Big Red.
It's a 335 Gibson 1958.
[Em] And I still have that guitar.
I still [G] play it live on stage.
I [A] bring the guitar out towards the end of the set.
I've got a Japanese, hasn't everybody, a Japanese [B] copy of the guitar
with the wang bars and everything else, which is [D] good fun.
I play that most of the set.
[A#] And then I say I might get to meet a friend of mine from [G] Woodstock
and bring out the original guitar.
It's still got all the old [Am] stickers on it.
People used [A] to throw stickers up on stage, these [Dm] signs, and I'd stick them on there.
[D] And then one day I had some repairs [A#] done, sent it back to Gibson,
and they lacquered all over the stickers [G] so they'd never come off.
Which I thought was pretty stupid [D] at the time, but now I'm quite pleased about it.
[G] [Am] The guitars are shaped [Em] like women, they behave better.
[C]
[A] There's a lot of very [E] good young guitarists coming up.
Some of [G] them are maybe a little too much on [F#] the lead guitar
and don't do the [Em] basics on chords.
I meet a lot of young kids, you know, and they say,
well, let me have a go on [Am] your guitar, and they [E] play like
[Em] And yet they still have difficulty playing F, you know,
or knowing what the 12 bar is,
but they can play [E] all the Eddie Van Halen songs.
[C]
But as I say, that's healthy.
Really, [E] and I used to get criticised.
People used to call me Captain [Em] Speedfingers,
because I'd play fast.
I mean, I don't really play that fast.
I don't play as fast as Django [C] Reinhardt, who was doing it in 1930.
I sometimes [E] think [Em] I'm like firing a machine gun when I'm playing the guitar.
I think in more dramatic [Bm] visuals like [F#] that.
I don't really [A] think about the guitar at all.
It's just [D] there, and it's from the [Em] brain to the [B] amplifier.
[F#m]
[F#] Some guitarists play with such control,
they appear to be flying, but in fact everything is [F#] under control.
[D] Whereas I sometimes get a little out of control.
It's like you get your car sideways on a [B] tight corner,
[F#]
and you're not too sure if you're going to come out of it,
so you just [C#] go for it.
[Bm] That's the excitement to me.
[F#m] That's the excitement of playing.
[F#]
[G]
[A] [B]
God knows how many of my brain cells I destroyed [A] listening to LPs like Stonehenge,
Clicklewood Green, [C] and Shhh by Ten Years After.
[N] Of course, through no fault of the music.
Anyhow, no matter what happens, Ten Years After's lead guitarist, Alvin Lee,
achieved rock and roll immortality for his 20-minute rendition of the song
Going Home [E] in the motion picture Woodstock.
Here's Alvin Lee.
[Em]
Hi, I'm Alvin Lee.
I play guitar.
I'm playing guitar on this album called Guitar Speak.
I do a [E] song called No Limit.
[C]
I think that's a good title.
[A]
I don't like things to be too exact.
I like [Em] the freedom to feel your own way.
I mean, I don't play exact guitar.
I've never read music.
I [D] play from the hip, [C] you know, like a [Em] gunslinger.
[Am]
I'm a jammer.
You know, I don't [Em] often play something good [E] and will never [B] play it again
because I [G] don't remember what it was.
I play purely by instinct, and I play from adrenaline.
[A] You know, you get your adrenaline here and it comes out here, and it comes out the fingers.
[Bm] I started when I was 12 years old.
I took up the clarinet.
And I played for a year, took lessons.
[E] Didn't get on with the [C] instrument, but I listened to Benny Goodman.
Through listening to [E] Benny Goodman, I [A] heard Charlie Christian,
[E] who I suppose was the earliest influence there was.
[G] Django Reinhardt, and then I started playing jazz, actually.
[C]
[E] Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Bonny Kessel, George Benson.
But then I moved [A] on to blues.
I like Big [E] Bill Brunsey, John Lee Hooker.
[B] [C]
Yeah, the guitar I used in Woodstock [E] I called Big Red.
It's a 335 Gibson 1958.
[Em] And I still have that guitar.
I still [G] play it live on stage.
I [A] bring the guitar out towards the end of the set.
I've got a Japanese, hasn't everybody, a Japanese [B] copy of the guitar
with the wang bars and everything else, which is [D] good fun.
I play that most of the set.
[A#] And then I say I might get to meet a friend of mine from [G] Woodstock
and bring out the original guitar.
It's still got all the old [Am] stickers on it.
People used [A] to throw stickers up on stage, these [Dm] signs, and I'd stick them on there.
[D] And then one day I had some repairs [A#] done, sent it back to Gibson,
and they lacquered all over the stickers [G] so they'd never come off.
Which I thought was pretty stupid [D] at the time, but now I'm quite pleased about it.
[G] [Am] The guitars are shaped [Em] like women, they behave better.
[C]
[A] There's a lot of very [E] good young guitarists coming up.
Some of [G] them are maybe a little too much on [F#] the lead guitar
and don't do the [Em] basics on chords.
I meet a lot of young kids, you know, and they say,
well, let me have a go on [Am] your guitar, and they [E] play like
[Em] And yet they still have difficulty playing F, you know,
or knowing what the 12 bar is,
but they can play [E] all the Eddie Van Halen songs.
[C]
But as I say, that's healthy.
Really, [E] and I used to get criticised.
People used to call me Captain [Em] Speedfingers,
because I'd play fast.
I mean, I don't really play that fast.
I don't play as fast as Django [C] Reinhardt, who was doing it in 1930.
I sometimes [E] think [Em] I'm like firing a machine gun when I'm playing the guitar.
I think in more dramatic [Bm] visuals like [F#] that.
I don't really [A] think about the guitar at all.
It's just [D] there, and it's from the [Em] brain to the [B] amplifier.
[F#m]
[F#] Some guitarists play with such control,
they appear to be flying, but in fact everything is [F#] under control.
[D] Whereas I sometimes get a little out of control.
It's like you get your car sideways on a [B] tight corner,
[F#]
and you're not too sure if you're going to come out of it,
so you just [C#] go for it.
[Bm] That's the excitement to me.
[F#m] That's the excitement of playing.
[F#]
[G]
Key:
E
Em
A
C
G
E
Em
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
God knows how many of my brain cells I destroyed [A] listening to LPs like _ Stonehenge,
Clicklewood Green, [C] and Shhh by Ten Years After.
[N] Of course, through no fault of the music.
Anyhow, no matter what happens, Ten Years After's lead guitarist, Alvin Lee,
achieved rock and roll immortality for his 20-minute rendition of the song
Going Home [E] in the motion picture Woodstock.
Here's Alvin Lee. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
Hi, I'm Alvin Lee.
I play guitar.
I'm playing guitar on this album called Guitar Speak. _ _
I do a [E] song called No Limit.
_ [C] _
I think that's a good title.
_ _ _ [A] _ _
I don't like things to be too exact.
I like [Em] the freedom to feel your own way.
I mean, I don't play exact guitar.
I've never read music.
I [D] play from the hip, [C] you know, like a _ [Em] gunslinger.
_ _ _ [Am]
I'm a jammer.
You know, I don't [Em] often play something good [E] and will never [B] play it again
because I [G] don't remember what it was. _
I play purely by instinct, and I play from adrenaline.
[A] _ You know, you get your adrenaline here and it comes out here, and it comes out the fingers. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] I started when I was 12 years old.
I took up the clarinet.
_ _ And I played for a year, took lessons.
_ [E] Didn't get on with the [C] instrument, but I listened to Benny Goodman.
_ Through listening to [E] Benny Goodman, I [A] heard Charlie Christian,
_ [E] who I suppose was the earliest influence there was.
_ _ _ [G] Django Reinhardt, and then I started playing jazz, actually.
[C] _
_ _ [E] Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Bonny Kessel, George Benson.
But then I moved [A] on to blues.
I like Big [E] Bill Brunsey, John Lee Hooker. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
Yeah, the guitar I used in Woodstock [E] I called Big Red.
It's a 335 Gibson 1958. _
_ [Em] And I still have that guitar.
I still [G] play it live on stage. _ _ _ _ _ _
I [A] bring the guitar out towards the end of the set.
I've got a Japanese, _ _ _ hasn't everybody, a Japanese [B] copy of the guitar
with the wang bars and everything else, which is [D] good fun.
_ I play that most of the set.
[A#] And then I say I might get to meet a friend of mine from [G] Woodstock
and bring out the original guitar.
It's still got all the old [Am] stickers on it.
People used [A] to throw stickers up on stage, these [Dm] signs, and I'd stick them on there.
_ [D] And then one day I had some repairs [A#] done, sent it back to Gibson,
and they lacquered all over the stickers [G] so they'd never come off.
_ _ Which I thought was pretty stupid [D] at the time, but now I'm quite pleased about it.
_ _ [G] [Am] The guitars are shaped [Em] like women, they behave better.
[C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ There's a lot of very [E] good young guitarists coming up.
Some of [G] them are maybe a little too much on [F#] the lead guitar
and don't do the [Em] basics on chords.
I meet a lot of young kids, you know, and they say,
well, let me have a go on [Am] your guitar, and they [E] play like_
_ _ [Em] And yet they still have difficulty playing F, you know,
or knowing what the 12 bar is,
but they can play [E] all the Eddie Van Halen songs.
_ [C] _
But as I say, that's healthy.
Really, [E] and I used to get criticised.
People used to call me Captain _ [Em] Speedfingers,
because I'd play fast.
I mean, I don't really play that fast.
I don't play as fast as Django [C] Reinhardt, who was doing it in 1930.
I sometimes [E] think [Em] I'm like firing a machine gun when I'm playing the guitar. _ _ _
I think in more dramatic [Bm] visuals like [F#] that.
I don't really [A] think about the guitar at all.
It's just [D] there, and it's from the [Em] brain to the [B] amplifier.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[F#] Some guitarists play with such control,
they appear to be flying, but in fact everything is [F#] under control.
[D] Whereas I sometimes get a little out of control.
It's like you get your car sideways on a [B] tight corner,
[F#]
and you're not too sure if you're going to come out of it,
so you just [C#] go for it. _
[Bm] That's the excitement to me.
[F#m] That's the excitement of playing. _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
God knows how many of my brain cells I destroyed [A] listening to LPs like _ Stonehenge,
Clicklewood Green, [C] and Shhh by Ten Years After.
[N] Of course, through no fault of the music.
Anyhow, no matter what happens, Ten Years After's lead guitarist, Alvin Lee,
achieved rock and roll immortality for his 20-minute rendition of the song
Going Home [E] in the motion picture Woodstock.
Here's Alvin Lee. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
Hi, I'm Alvin Lee.
I play guitar.
I'm playing guitar on this album called Guitar Speak. _ _
I do a [E] song called No Limit.
_ [C] _
I think that's a good title.
_ _ _ [A] _ _
I don't like things to be too exact.
I like [Em] the freedom to feel your own way.
I mean, I don't play exact guitar.
I've never read music.
I [D] play from the hip, [C] you know, like a _ [Em] gunslinger.
_ _ _ [Am]
I'm a jammer.
You know, I don't [Em] often play something good [E] and will never [B] play it again
because I [G] don't remember what it was. _
I play purely by instinct, and I play from adrenaline.
[A] _ You know, you get your adrenaline here and it comes out here, and it comes out the fingers. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] I started when I was 12 years old.
I took up the clarinet.
_ _ And I played for a year, took lessons.
_ [E] Didn't get on with the [C] instrument, but I listened to Benny Goodman.
_ Through listening to [E] Benny Goodman, I [A] heard Charlie Christian,
_ [E] who I suppose was the earliest influence there was.
_ _ _ [G] Django Reinhardt, and then I started playing jazz, actually.
[C] _
_ _ [E] Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Bonny Kessel, George Benson.
But then I moved [A] on to blues.
I like Big [E] Bill Brunsey, John Lee Hooker. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
Yeah, the guitar I used in Woodstock [E] I called Big Red.
It's a 335 Gibson 1958. _
_ [Em] And I still have that guitar.
I still [G] play it live on stage. _ _ _ _ _ _
I [A] bring the guitar out towards the end of the set.
I've got a Japanese, _ _ _ hasn't everybody, a Japanese [B] copy of the guitar
with the wang bars and everything else, which is [D] good fun.
_ I play that most of the set.
[A#] And then I say I might get to meet a friend of mine from [G] Woodstock
and bring out the original guitar.
It's still got all the old [Am] stickers on it.
People used [A] to throw stickers up on stage, these [Dm] signs, and I'd stick them on there.
_ [D] And then one day I had some repairs [A#] done, sent it back to Gibson,
and they lacquered all over the stickers [G] so they'd never come off.
_ _ Which I thought was pretty stupid [D] at the time, but now I'm quite pleased about it.
_ _ [G] [Am] The guitars are shaped [Em] like women, they behave better.
[C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ There's a lot of very [E] good young guitarists coming up.
Some of [G] them are maybe a little too much on [F#] the lead guitar
and don't do the [Em] basics on chords.
I meet a lot of young kids, you know, and they say,
well, let me have a go on [Am] your guitar, and they [E] play like_
_ _ [Em] And yet they still have difficulty playing F, you know,
or knowing what the 12 bar is,
but they can play [E] all the Eddie Van Halen songs.
_ [C] _
But as I say, that's healthy.
Really, [E] and I used to get criticised.
People used to call me Captain _ [Em] Speedfingers,
because I'd play fast.
I mean, I don't really play that fast.
I don't play as fast as Django [C] Reinhardt, who was doing it in 1930.
I sometimes [E] think [Em] I'm like firing a machine gun when I'm playing the guitar. _ _ _
I think in more dramatic [Bm] visuals like [F#] that.
I don't really [A] think about the guitar at all.
It's just [D] there, and it's from the [Em] brain to the [B] amplifier.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[F#] Some guitarists play with such control,
they appear to be flying, but in fact everything is [F#] under control.
[D] Whereas I sometimes get a little out of control.
It's like you get your car sideways on a [B] tight corner,
[F#]
and you're not too sure if you're going to come out of it,
so you just [C#] go for it. _
[Bm] That's the excitement to me.
[F#m] That's the excitement of playing. _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _