Chords for An interview with The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band | Weekender Sessions
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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We are here with Reverend [A] Payton's [E] Big Dan Band at Toyota [F#m] Pavilion at Mountage for Van's [C#m] Warped Tour.
Who just played a great [E] set, not too [A] far away from where we're sitting.
[E] Tell us about your [B] guitar, that's a pretty interesting instrument.
[A] Well, [E] basically what I'm playing up on stage is, I'm playing two National [C#m] Trojans.
One's a [G#m] 34 [A] and the other's a [E] 1935.
And then I'm also playing a flat [G#m] top Gibson [A] [E] 29L2s.
And did you have to do [B] much to them [E] to do what you do to them?
Well, I mean, a little bit.
I've got a really good guitar luthier who's [B] able to kind of set [E] things up.
I'm hard on them.
So, you know, [A] they get worked over, they get played.
[B] [A] Your [E] instrument is rather [C#m] interesting too.
Tell us a little bit about [E] how you developed that and how you use it in the band.
It's a 2010 Washboard.
You know, I don't know.
The Rev and I listen to a lot of old music.
I [B] like some old jug band [C#m] music and old blues, like [E]
old Washboard players from the 20s and 30s.
[B] I said, man, it would be [C#m] fun to play a [E] Washboard sometime.
And I played around on other percussion [A] instruments.
The [C#m] next day the Rev brought me one home [B] from an antique store.
So we [E] started playing it on our front porch.
[C#m] They're easy to come [G#m] by in our [A] [C#m] little town.
You can buy them at the hardware store in [G#m] town.
[E] The not using a [C#m] bass player thing, I wouldn't really notice [A] it if I wasn't watching.
I guess [E] that's by design.
But did [B] you ever try working with a bass [E] player and just didn't like it?
Or what's the idea there?
Well, I mean, I play the old style [F#m] fingerstyle guitar where you play [E] the bass with your thumb and the lead with your fingers at the same [F#m] time.
So, you know, [E] really a [A] lot of things in there, a lot of additional things like [E] bass, whatever, just steps on what I do.
You know what I mean?
Bass players are generally trouble.
[A]
[E] Yeah, they're expensive.
The Rev pays himself twice now since he's the bass player.
Yeah, I feel like I deserve it.
Right.
Sure.
You [Em] talked about how you developed your guitar.
I wanted to ask about how you developed your playing style.
And I read about, you know, there was a problem you had physically and how that, you know, [G#m] manifested.
Oh, that's quite a scar.
Yeah. Right there.
And right [C#m] there.
Well, when I was 19, [Am] [E] I woke up one day and couldn't play anymore.
And it was just, I thought [Am] it was the worst thing that ever happened [E] to me.
And I almost [Bm] two years, a year and a [Em] half, something like that, I couldn't play.
[B] And I went to all these doctors.
They said, hey, find something else to do.
[Em] Well, when I was, by the time I was 13, I was giving guitar lessons.
You know, I'd been playing guitar forever.
And then not being able to do it was heartbreaking.
But, you know, the thing is, when I finally was able to have surgery and get them back,
and I found someone that could help me, you know, I'd lived so much life.
And I, you know, [A] I [C#m] don't know what [G] it was.
There was a lot of reasons.
But it was the end up being the [E] best thing.
It was like a miracle.
[Em] And I could play the way I [A] always wanted to play.
[Em] And a week after my surgery, I met Breezy.
Personally, I think that's what set him over the edge.
But either way, you know, I'll never take it for granted again.
I can tell you that much.
Your lyrics are, you know, all [A] over the map.
They seem very authentic.
[Em] They seem like coming from life experience, which is a [A] little bit scary.
Because I would think if you lived that kind of life, you [E] probably wouldn't be [A] alive to write those lyrics.
But [Em] where are they coming from?
Is it people you [B] know, characters you've grown up with?
All the songs I write are true.
They're either my family, my friends, me, [Em]
people I knew growing up,
things I like and things I don't like, and everything in between.
I've never been someone that just makes up a story out of thin air.
Some songwriters, they do, and they're great at it.
To me, it's the difference between a fiction novel and a non [C#m]-fiction novel.
I write [C#] non-fiction.
On the stage today, you [C#m] remarked [Em] pretty enthusiastically about this area.
When you woke up today, it [C#m] reminded you of home [Em] and whatnot.
Expand on that a little bit and what really caught your eye.
Well, these [B] hills, you know, this morning we got up out of here.
You look [E] up and there's all this mist on these hills.
Man, it just looked just— Trees.
And trees, real trees.
[A] A lot of times, Warped Tour's just in a flat parking lot.
A field.
And [E] people who live—we live in [Gm] southern Indiana, but people who live on [F#m] the west coast,
they say, well, I just couldn't [E] live in a place without mountains or whatever.
[A#m] I couldn't [B] live in a place without hills and trees.
[E] Oh, yeah.
I love these trees [C#] and these hills.
It looks just like Brown County, Indiana, where we live, down in southern Indiana.
I love it.
To me, this [A] was the prettiest place we've played thus far.
With your [B] style being—your musical style [E] being so over the map,
you could fit into almost any kind of [A] festival.
I would assume blues festivals and Warped Tour, [E] which you're on.
If there was a band out there now [B] that you could go [E] on tour with, who would it be?
[A] You know, we've been lucky [E] enough to go on tour with some of our favorite [A] bands.
Floggy Molly, [B] the Avett Brothers, [Em] J.J. Green, Mo-Fro.
The one band I'd [Bm] really like to go on tour [E] with [C#] is Social Distortion.
I think it would be a great [Em] show to go out with them.
I'd like to play with John Fogarty sometime, too, just because I love CCR.
And John [B] Mellencamp in [E] Indiana.
Yeah, just because the Indiana connection, the southern Indiana connection,
we'd like to do that, too, sometime.
We think that would be fun.
At least maybe just one show in southern Indiana.
Just one show.
That's all I ask.
That's all we're asking.
It's not asking too much, Mr.
Mellencamp.
We are here with Reverend [A] Payton's [E] Big Dan Band at Toyota [F#m] Pavilion at Mountage for Van's [C#m] Warped Tour.
Who just played a great [E] set, not too [A] far away from where we're sitting.
[E] Tell us about your [B] guitar, that's a pretty interesting instrument.
[A] Well, [E] basically what I'm playing up on stage is, I'm playing two National [C#m] Trojans.
One's a [G#m] 34 [A] and the other's a [E] 1935.
And then I'm also playing a flat [G#m] top Gibson [A] [E] 29L2s.
And did you have to do [B] much to them [E] to do what you do to them?
Well, I mean, a little bit.
I've got a really good guitar luthier who's [B] able to kind of set [E] things up.
I'm hard on them.
So, you know, [A] they get worked over, they get played.
[B] [A] Your [E] instrument is rather [C#m] interesting too.
Tell us a little bit about [E] how you developed that and how you use it in the band.
It's a 2010 Washboard.
You know, I don't know.
The Rev and I listen to a lot of old music.
I [B] like some old jug band [C#m] music and old blues, like [E]
old Washboard players from the 20s and 30s.
[B] I said, man, it would be [C#m] fun to play a [E] Washboard sometime.
And I played around on other percussion [A] instruments.
The [C#m] next day the Rev brought me one home [B] from an antique store.
So we [E] started playing it on our front porch.
[C#m] They're easy to come [G#m] by in our [A] [C#m] little town.
You can buy them at the hardware store in [G#m] town.
[E] The not using a [C#m] bass player thing, I wouldn't really notice [A] it if I wasn't watching.
I guess [E] that's by design.
But did [B] you ever try working with a bass [E] player and just didn't like it?
Or what's the idea there?
Well, I mean, I play the old style [F#m] fingerstyle guitar where you play [E] the bass with your thumb and the lead with your fingers at the same [F#m] time.
So, you know, [E] really a [A] lot of things in there, a lot of additional things like [E] bass, whatever, just steps on what I do.
You know what I mean?
Bass players are generally trouble.
[A]
[E] Yeah, they're expensive.
The Rev pays himself twice now since he's the bass player.
Yeah, I feel like I deserve it.
Right.
Sure.
You [Em] talked about how you developed your guitar.
I wanted to ask about how you developed your playing style.
And I read about, you know, there was a problem you had physically and how that, you know, [G#m] manifested.
Oh, that's quite a scar.
Yeah. Right there.
And right [C#m] there.
Well, when I was 19, [Am] [E] I woke up one day and couldn't play anymore.
And it was just, I thought [Am] it was the worst thing that ever happened [E] to me.
And I almost [Bm] two years, a year and a [Em] half, something like that, I couldn't play.
[B] And I went to all these doctors.
They said, hey, find something else to do.
[Em] Well, when I was, by the time I was 13, I was giving guitar lessons.
You know, I'd been playing guitar forever.
And then not being able to do it was heartbreaking.
But, you know, the thing is, when I finally was able to have surgery and get them back,
and I found someone that could help me, you know, I'd lived so much life.
And I, you know, [A] I [C#m] don't know what [G] it was.
There was a lot of reasons.
But it was the end up being the [E] best thing.
It was like a miracle.
[Em] And I could play the way I [A] always wanted to play.
[Em] And a week after my surgery, I met Breezy.
Personally, I think that's what set him over the edge.
But either way, you know, I'll never take it for granted again.
I can tell you that much.
Your lyrics are, you know, all [A] over the map.
They seem very authentic.
[Em] They seem like coming from life experience, which is a [A] little bit scary.
Because I would think if you lived that kind of life, you [E] probably wouldn't be [A] alive to write those lyrics.
But [Em] where are they coming from?
Is it people you [B] know, characters you've grown up with?
All the songs I write are true.
They're either my family, my friends, me, [Em]
people I knew growing up,
things I like and things I don't like, and everything in between.
I've never been someone that just makes up a story out of thin air.
Some songwriters, they do, and they're great at it.
To me, it's the difference between a fiction novel and a non [C#m]-fiction novel.
I write [C#] non-fiction.
On the stage today, you [C#m] remarked [Em] pretty enthusiastically about this area.
When you woke up today, it [C#m] reminded you of home [Em] and whatnot.
Expand on that a little bit and what really caught your eye.
Well, these [B] hills, you know, this morning we got up out of here.
You look [E] up and there's all this mist on these hills.
Man, it just looked just— Trees.
And trees, real trees.
[A] A lot of times, Warped Tour's just in a flat parking lot.
A field.
And [E] people who live—we live in [Gm] southern Indiana, but people who live on [F#m] the west coast,
they say, well, I just couldn't [E] live in a place without mountains or whatever.
[A#m] I couldn't [B] live in a place without hills and trees.
[E] Oh, yeah.
I love these trees [C#] and these hills.
It looks just like Brown County, Indiana, where we live, down in southern Indiana.
I love it.
To me, this [A] was the prettiest place we've played thus far.
With your [B] style being—your musical style [E] being so over the map,
you could fit into almost any kind of [A] festival.
I would assume blues festivals and Warped Tour, [E] which you're on.
If there was a band out there now [B] that you could go [E] on tour with, who would it be?
[A] You know, we've been lucky [E] enough to go on tour with some of our favorite [A] bands.
Floggy Molly, [B] the Avett Brothers, [Em] J.J. Green, Mo-Fro.
The one band I'd [Bm] really like to go on tour [E] with [C#] is Social Distortion.
I think it would be a great [Em] show to go out with them.
I'd like to play with John Fogarty sometime, too, just because I love CCR.
And John [B] Mellencamp in [E] Indiana.
Yeah, just because the Indiana connection, the southern Indiana connection,
we'd like to do that, too, sometime.
We think that would be fun.
At least maybe just one show in southern Indiana.
Just one show.
That's all I ask.
That's all we're asking.
It's not asking too much, Mr.
Mellencamp.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ We are here with Reverend [A] Payton's [E] Big Dan Band at Toyota [F#m] Pavilion at Mountage for Van's [C#m] Warped Tour.
Who just played a great [E] set, _ _ not too [A] far away from where we're sitting.
[E] Tell us about your [B] guitar, that's a pretty interesting instrument.
[A] Well, [E] basically what I'm playing up on stage is, _ I'm playing two National [C#m] Trojans.
One's a [G#m] 34 [A] and the other's a [E] 1935.
And then I'm also playing a flat [G#m] top Gibson [A] _ [E] 29L2s.
And did you have to do [B] much to them [E] to do what you do to them?
Well, I mean, a little bit.
I've got a really good guitar luthier who's [B] able to kind of set [E] things up.
I'm hard on them.
So, you know, [A] they _ get worked over, they get played.
[B] _ [A] Your [E] instrument is rather [C#m] interesting too.
Tell us a little bit about [E] how you developed that and how you use it in the band.
It's a 2010 Washboard. _ _
_ You know, I don't know.
The Rev and I listen to a lot of old music.
I [B] like some old jug band [C#m] music and old blues, like [E] _
old _ Washboard players from the 20s and 30s.
[B] I said, man, it would be [C#m] fun to play a [E] Washboard sometime.
And I played around on other percussion [A] instruments.
The [C#m] next day the Rev brought me one home [B] from an antique store.
So we [E] started playing it on our front porch. _
[C#m] They're easy to come [G#m] by in our [A] [C#m] little town.
You can buy them at the hardware store in [G#m] town.
_ [E] The not using a [C#m] bass player thing, I wouldn't really notice [A] it if I wasn't watching.
I guess [E] that's by design.
But did [B] you ever try working with a bass [E] player and just didn't like it?
Or what's the idea there?
Well, I mean, I play the old style [F#m] fingerstyle guitar where you play [E] the bass with your thumb and the lead with your fingers at the same [F#m] time.
So, you know, [E] really a _ [A] lot of things in there, a lot of additional things like [E] bass, whatever, just steps on what I do.
You know what I mean?
_ Bass players are generally trouble.
[A] _ _
[E] Yeah, they're expensive.
_ _ The Rev pays himself twice now since he's the bass player.
Yeah, I feel like I deserve it.
Right.
Sure.
_ You [Em] talked about how you developed your guitar.
I wanted to ask about how you developed your playing style.
And I read about, you know, there was a problem you had _ physically and how that, you know, [G#m] manifested.
Oh, that's quite a scar.
Yeah. Right there.
And right [C#m] there.
Well, when I was 19, [Am] _ _ [E] I _ woke up one day and couldn't play anymore.
And it was just, I thought [Am] it was the worst thing that ever happened [E] to me.
And I almost [Bm] two years, a year and a [Em] half, something like that, I couldn't play.
[B] And I went to all these doctors.
They said, hey, find something else to do.
[Em] Well, when I was, by the time I was 13, I was giving guitar lessons.
You know, I'd been playing guitar forever. _ _ _
And then not being able to do it was heartbreaking.
But, you know, the thing is, when I finally was able to have surgery and get them back,
and I found someone that could help me, you know, I'd lived so much life.
And I, you know, [A] I [C#m] don't know what [G] it was.
There was a lot of reasons.
But it was the end up being the [E] best thing.
It was like a miracle.
[Em] And I could play the way I [A] always wanted to play.
[Em] And a week after my surgery, I met Breezy.
Personally, I think that's what set him over the edge.
But either way, you know, _ I'll never take it for granted again.
I can tell you that much.
Your lyrics are, you know, all [A] over the map.
They seem very authentic.
[Em] They seem like coming from life experience, which is a [A] little bit scary.
Because I would think if you lived that kind of life, you [E] probably wouldn't be [A] alive to write those lyrics.
But [Em] where are they coming from?
Is it people you [B] know, characters you've grown up with?
All the songs I write are true.
They're either my family, my friends, me, [Em] _
people I knew growing up,
things I like and things I don't like, and everything in between.
I've never been someone that just makes up a story out of thin air.
Some songwriters, they do, and they're great at it. _
To me, it's the difference between a fiction novel and a non [C#m]-fiction novel.
I write [C#] non-fiction.
_ On the stage today, you [C#m] remarked [Em] pretty enthusiastically about this area.
When you woke up today, it [C#m] reminded you of home [Em] and whatnot.
Expand on that a little bit and what really caught your eye.
Well, these [B] hills, you know, this morning we got up out of here.
You look [E] up and there's all this mist on these hills.
Man, it just looked just— Trees.
And trees, real trees.
[A] A lot of times, Warped Tour's just in a flat parking lot.
A field.
And [E] people who live—we live in [Gm] southern Indiana, but people who live on [F#m] the west coast,
they say, well, I just couldn't [E] live in a place without mountains or whatever.
[A#m] I couldn't [B] live in a place without hills and trees.
[E] Oh, yeah.
I love these trees [C#] and these hills.
It looks just like Brown County, Indiana, where we live, down in southern Indiana.
I love it.
_ To me, this [A] was the prettiest place we've played thus far. _ _
With your [B] style being—your musical style [E] being so over the map,
you could fit into almost any kind of [A] festival.
I would assume blues festivals and Warped Tour, [E] which you're on.
If there was a band out there now [B] that you could go [E] on tour with, who would it be?
[A] You know, we've been lucky [E] enough to go on tour with some of our favorite [A] bands.
Floggy Molly, [B] the Avett Brothers, [Em] J.J. Green, Mo-Fro.
The one band I'd [Bm] really like to go on tour [E] with _ [C#] is Social Distortion.
I think it would be a great [Em] show to go out with them.
I'd like to play with John Fogarty sometime, too, just because I love CCR.
And John [B] Mellencamp in [E] Indiana.
Yeah, just because the Indiana connection, the southern Indiana connection,
we'd like to do that, too, sometime.
We think that would be fun.
At least maybe just one show in southern Indiana.
Just one show.
That's all I ask.
That's all we're asking.
It's not asking too much, Mr.
Mellencamp. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ We are here with Reverend [A] Payton's [E] Big Dan Band at Toyota [F#m] Pavilion at Mountage for Van's [C#m] Warped Tour.
Who just played a great [E] set, _ _ not too [A] far away from where we're sitting.
[E] Tell us about your [B] guitar, that's a pretty interesting instrument.
[A] Well, [E] basically what I'm playing up on stage is, _ I'm playing two National [C#m] Trojans.
One's a [G#m] 34 [A] and the other's a [E] 1935.
And then I'm also playing a flat [G#m] top Gibson [A] _ [E] 29L2s.
And did you have to do [B] much to them [E] to do what you do to them?
Well, I mean, a little bit.
I've got a really good guitar luthier who's [B] able to kind of set [E] things up.
I'm hard on them.
So, you know, [A] they _ get worked over, they get played.
[B] _ [A] Your [E] instrument is rather [C#m] interesting too.
Tell us a little bit about [E] how you developed that and how you use it in the band.
It's a 2010 Washboard. _ _
_ You know, I don't know.
The Rev and I listen to a lot of old music.
I [B] like some old jug band [C#m] music and old blues, like [E] _
old _ Washboard players from the 20s and 30s.
[B] I said, man, it would be [C#m] fun to play a [E] Washboard sometime.
And I played around on other percussion [A] instruments.
The [C#m] next day the Rev brought me one home [B] from an antique store.
So we [E] started playing it on our front porch. _
[C#m] They're easy to come [G#m] by in our [A] [C#m] little town.
You can buy them at the hardware store in [G#m] town.
_ [E] The not using a [C#m] bass player thing, I wouldn't really notice [A] it if I wasn't watching.
I guess [E] that's by design.
But did [B] you ever try working with a bass [E] player and just didn't like it?
Or what's the idea there?
Well, I mean, I play the old style [F#m] fingerstyle guitar where you play [E] the bass with your thumb and the lead with your fingers at the same [F#m] time.
So, you know, [E] really a _ [A] lot of things in there, a lot of additional things like [E] bass, whatever, just steps on what I do.
You know what I mean?
_ Bass players are generally trouble.
[A] _ _
[E] Yeah, they're expensive.
_ _ The Rev pays himself twice now since he's the bass player.
Yeah, I feel like I deserve it.
Right.
Sure.
_ You [Em] talked about how you developed your guitar.
I wanted to ask about how you developed your playing style.
And I read about, you know, there was a problem you had _ physically and how that, you know, [G#m] manifested.
Oh, that's quite a scar.
Yeah. Right there.
And right [C#m] there.
Well, when I was 19, [Am] _ _ [E] I _ woke up one day and couldn't play anymore.
And it was just, I thought [Am] it was the worst thing that ever happened [E] to me.
And I almost [Bm] two years, a year and a [Em] half, something like that, I couldn't play.
[B] And I went to all these doctors.
They said, hey, find something else to do.
[Em] Well, when I was, by the time I was 13, I was giving guitar lessons.
You know, I'd been playing guitar forever. _ _ _
And then not being able to do it was heartbreaking.
But, you know, the thing is, when I finally was able to have surgery and get them back,
and I found someone that could help me, you know, I'd lived so much life.
And I, you know, [A] I [C#m] don't know what [G] it was.
There was a lot of reasons.
But it was the end up being the [E] best thing.
It was like a miracle.
[Em] And I could play the way I [A] always wanted to play.
[Em] And a week after my surgery, I met Breezy.
Personally, I think that's what set him over the edge.
But either way, you know, _ I'll never take it for granted again.
I can tell you that much.
Your lyrics are, you know, all [A] over the map.
They seem very authentic.
[Em] They seem like coming from life experience, which is a [A] little bit scary.
Because I would think if you lived that kind of life, you [E] probably wouldn't be [A] alive to write those lyrics.
But [Em] where are they coming from?
Is it people you [B] know, characters you've grown up with?
All the songs I write are true.
They're either my family, my friends, me, [Em] _
people I knew growing up,
things I like and things I don't like, and everything in between.
I've never been someone that just makes up a story out of thin air.
Some songwriters, they do, and they're great at it. _
To me, it's the difference between a fiction novel and a non [C#m]-fiction novel.
I write [C#] non-fiction.
_ On the stage today, you [C#m] remarked [Em] pretty enthusiastically about this area.
When you woke up today, it [C#m] reminded you of home [Em] and whatnot.
Expand on that a little bit and what really caught your eye.
Well, these [B] hills, you know, this morning we got up out of here.
You look [E] up and there's all this mist on these hills.
Man, it just looked just— Trees.
And trees, real trees.
[A] A lot of times, Warped Tour's just in a flat parking lot.
A field.
And [E] people who live—we live in [Gm] southern Indiana, but people who live on [F#m] the west coast,
they say, well, I just couldn't [E] live in a place without mountains or whatever.
[A#m] I couldn't [B] live in a place without hills and trees.
[E] Oh, yeah.
I love these trees [C#] and these hills.
It looks just like Brown County, Indiana, where we live, down in southern Indiana.
I love it.
_ To me, this [A] was the prettiest place we've played thus far. _ _
With your [B] style being—your musical style [E] being so over the map,
you could fit into almost any kind of [A] festival.
I would assume blues festivals and Warped Tour, [E] which you're on.
If there was a band out there now [B] that you could go [E] on tour with, who would it be?
[A] You know, we've been lucky [E] enough to go on tour with some of our favorite [A] bands.
Floggy Molly, [B] the Avett Brothers, [Em] J.J. Green, Mo-Fro.
The one band I'd [Bm] really like to go on tour [E] with _ [C#] is Social Distortion.
I think it would be a great [Em] show to go out with them.
I'd like to play with John Fogarty sometime, too, just because I love CCR.
And John [B] Mellencamp in [E] Indiana.
Yeah, just because the Indiana connection, the southern Indiana connection,
we'd like to do that, too, sometime.
We think that would be fun.
At least maybe just one show in southern Indiana.
Just one show.
That's all I ask.
That's all we're asking.
It's not asking too much, Mr.
Mellencamp. _ _ _ _ _ _