Chords for Bad Books Q & A Part 1

_ _ _ _ Okay, do [B] we do some kind of intro here?
_ Nobody knows _ _
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_ [C#m] [F#] We're gonna be taking your
[B] Taking your questions here [D#] that you submitted online
[E] to ask bad books [G#] and shit calm
_ _ Here's the top of the list boom
[D#] Steven he asked this the [E] cover the album looks really great my question has [F#] to do with the artwork
What was the [B] inspiration for the front cover and all the album artwork?
[D#] And how does it relate to what will be [E] heard on the record?
[F#] Oh, man?
I don't know maybe we should call it Chris
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[D#] Yeah, I don't feel equipped to answer that question at all the [E] artwork is really awesome it is
[F#] And the cover is [E] the rice can seen but yeah Chris
[F#] Freeman who's also in bad books [B] designed it and he
_ [G#] He [F#] wanted to do something that was [E] different from the last record
But also [F#m] pretty kind of similar to play it off a little laid [B] off of the six of us
So yeah, I made this [D#] birds and then in our deluxe
_ [E] _ Packaging he [F#] created this story with this bear
This character, [D#] it's so cool.
So yeah there, [E] but I don't it doesn't have anything to do with the music
[F#] It looks cool.
Yeah, the bird the bear thing kind of yeah, it reminds [D#] me of
_ _ [E] this this
Street [F#] artists space invader.
Oh, [B] it's just like deep stuff.
Yeah next [D#] question exit the gift shop.
What's up?
[E] We _
_ [F#] _ picked this one to [B] advertise our own stuff from Alex
[D#] Are you doing the stuffing again this year before [E] Thanksgiving seen you both times and would enjoy [F#] doing it again?
We are we [E] are third annual.
Yeah, it's [F#] really cool lineup this year in Atlanta for those
you don't know what the [B] stuffing is we throw [A#] a
we [G#m] throw a kind of one day [F#] festival three [E] stages in Atlanta [F#] and
yeah, this year's lineups really sweet [B] and _
it's kind of [D#m] cool for bands to
[E] Yeah, those bands get bigger each year, you know
Her [F#] brother will be back this year now after they're kind of [B] victorious year and all getouts plan [D#m] and cage the elephant
We have a really special [E] surprise guest as well.
But [F#] um, yeah
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_ _ _ [F#] Dearest Kevin and Robert [B] J Andy [A#m] Christophin.
What's your favorite [G#m] animal?
Some of [F#] my favorite pictures of [E] you are with them like the cat see [F#] attached Oh
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_ [D#m] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] So [E]
Kev tell us [F#] that is a cat [B]
not the question what is [D#] your favorite?
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_ Cats [F#] domestic animals like the dogs [B] arch nemesis.
No, I [D#] like dogs better than cats
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But I like them both the [F#] cat you have to try to [B] get love from but it's more withholding [D#] and the dog is a little
Bit more open [E] minutes love that's a picture of [F#] me with a cat
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Just in case anyone
[D#] _ Didn't know what you [E] just said about cats and dogs [F#] now we know [E] yeah, that was from Emily.
Thanks em
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_ [F] _ _ [E] _ _ Okay, this is from David [A] Hollenbeck
_ [Em] That's really his name.
Yeah, David [E] Hollenbeck
_ _ _ Hey [A] guys, I was wondering how you handle
[C] _ Democracy
See [E] you did it in the band
Is there usually a general agreement of this sounds [G#] good or do you go back and forth with ideas until you [Em] all agree?
Oh, and how does this differ from how you do it with Manchester if it does?
_ [E] _ _ [Em] I [E] _
_ _ _ just want to make sure I can answer correctly.
Um
_ Yeah
[C] There's usually a general agreement I would think I think so
_ We [C] work really fast with bad books, [G] so a lot of [A] times
[Em] you know, I think the way we [A] started this record was with the song it never stops [B] and
I don't think you had [E] really music to it other than just like core melody [A] and quality and words and
[E] that was a that's a good example of a song where we just kind of started to craft it from top to [A] bottom and
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We just do it so fast and the you know, we don't even give our drummer really enough time to
Understand he totally [A] hears the song [Em] as it's yeah being and [E] then we yell at him
_ _ _ And he does a great job, yeah he does
_ [E] But yeah, it's usually kind of a pretty even, [Em] you know opinion and we're definitely
[Em] Hard on [E] ourselves and hard on each other to make sure that we get the song to the best place that it can [C#m] be
So it's not [E] just all kind of yeah, man, that's cool.
No, definitely not
It's definitely a point though where the song hits this threshold [Em] where we're like, okay
I'm so yeah.
Yeah, that's a [A] really fun part of the band for sure
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ [A] Kyle how many songs do you write [B] for an album and [A] how many actually make the cut?
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_ Exactly as many songs as are on both records.
[A] Yeah, you wrote five [Am] this time
I wrote six and time before [E] is five and five so we've written 21
Soundbooks, [A] oh, but there's like
Thank [E] You Franklin, there is _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] So 23, [C] um
_ Who is which [E] bird in the new logo thing which Chris actually knows
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[C] And he's guessing that [G] Katie's the red one asshole
_ [A] _ Whole group [E] super up. _ _
Is this still hollaback?
[B] I know this Kyle [A] now.
Oh, it's a cow
We don't know the answer to [E] that question no, but thanks for writing it _
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