Chords for Behind The Vinyl: "Roller" with Myles Goodwyn from April Wine

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_ _ [E] _ _ _ What a catchy intro that is.
_ _ Let's grab him right away.
Take him for a ride. _ _ _ _
Oh yeah.
_ _ So yeah, that song I wrote after going to Vegas for the first time.
_ _ [Em] _ [E] It was _ _ 1977.
_ _ _ I stayed at the Thunderbird Hotel, [Em] _ one of the old hotels [E] when Vegas was Vegas before
it turned into Disneyland.
And [F#] the kids' streets are crawling with kids.
But back then it was an adult place still.
And I stayed at the Thunderbird with his arches and his pastel colors and his [E] wonderful _ _ [D] vibe.
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[E] _ _ _ And I continued to go to Vegas for years.
I was there last weekend.
We had a sold out show in Vegas last _ weekend.
[Em] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ And this is one of the few songs, and I wrote about my experience.
It's about a lady who likes to gamble.
So I was coming back from Vegas, sitting down with a great guitar.
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_ _ _ And [D] I just had a [E] blank piece of paper and started writing about a lady who likes to
gamble too much.
[D] But this is [G] one of the few [E] songs that April [F#] Wine ever took on the road before [E] recording.
_ _ [D] _ And [E] this song was a lot more complicated _ than we know it.
_ There was a lot more to it.
Now if you listen to it with this in mind, it pedals a lot. _ _
On that E string, that low E [G] string.
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_ _ [F] Wonderful guitar work here.
[A] We could do this with three guitar [G#] players.
And it's [B] all mathematical.
Music is math.
Here's math.
I'll show you what I mean.
[A] _ _ [B] _ Three guys, four parts.
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[D] Now we go into the solos.
Me first.
[Em] _ _
[E] Oh no.
Here's [Em] math. _ _ _ _
_ _ Together. _ _ _ _
Together.
_ Together.
Stop.
[E] _ _
Like that.
It's math.
It's always math.
Math and _ music.
Bedfellows. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] So, yeah, just full of licks.
Just full of ear [E] candy, this one.
And it just rocks.
_ And we did it at La Studio up north in Montreal, the famous La Studio.
_ And the engineer was Nick Lagona.
_ _ Again, one of our [D] great engineers ever.
[E] _ So we put it all together.
But we took it on the road, having not recorded it.
And we simplified a very, very complex song.
And it brought it down to lots [D] of pedals with [A] _ [E] accents _ at certain parts. _ _ _ _ _
Especially the verses.
[A] _ So [E] Frank Sinatra once said, I won't take a song on the road until I get to know it.
I won't take it in the studio until I get to know it on [A] the road.
_ _ [F#] This is what he was talking about.
You don't really get [E] comfortable with a song until you spend [A] some time with it.
_ _ [E] And I wish I [F#] had the luxury of doing it all my songs, but I don't.
Especially today, because if I take something new on stage, somebody's out there filming
it, recording it, and the next thing my song is stolen, those days are dead.
Gone.
[D] _ [E] And it's really a pity. _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ And [F#] I write for stage all the time.
You hear that, bye, bye, bye, bye?
That's on purpose.
This is the end of the night, folks.
We're leaving the stage.
Bye, bye, bye, bye.
_ [F] All has a [E] reason.
Bye. _
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