Chords for Behind The Vinyl - "Strange Animal" with Lawrence Gowan

_ _ _ You ready track three on side two
_ _ _ _ Yeah _
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The cowbells the Jerry Marotta cowbells
[F#m] _ _ _ [C#] _
[E] Yeah
_ _ _ _ [C#m] I've heard the song thousands and thousands and thousands [B] of times
you know even before it came out and then a lot of times since but those cowbells I always make [C#m] reference to them because
[G#m] We recorded the record that people may know it place called Titner's Park where Ringo Starr was living in in 1984 and
_ Well, [C#m] we entered we actually entered the studio on February the 7th 1984 February 7th
1964 the Beatles [E] came to Canada so 20 years to the day we entered and
David tickle the producer he he loved this song among the among the demos that I had and he said [A] I just think that
Titled [E] strange animals fantastic, you know
And [F#] I you know, I agreed I [B] thought well, that's that's great
[A] But those cowbells the reason I keep coming back is when Jerry [C#m] Marotta, you know
[G#m] Legendary drummer one maybe [E] the greatest musician I've ever been in a room with [C#m] he kept playing them
I thought are we overusing [F#] those cowbells?
I've made reference to this before and I [E] remember but three days later
Ringo came into the studio because the studio was attached right onto the [F#] kitchen of the house
And he said [C#m] did everything work out the I'm not gonna do a Ringo impression because I've done too [A#] many bad ones
But he said did [G#m] everything work out
From [C#] the other day.
I heard you having a big disagreement in here and I thought it was sounding great
I said, [G#m] what was that about?
He said he kept going on about the [C#m] bloody cowbells saying, you know, the record sounds really great
But what about those bloody cowbells?
He said well, I love them and I thought it's [F#] funny
He says it now this 24 hours later.
I love them too, you know, so I had to like [E] I'm retracting going
Oh, no more more cowbell.
It was the first time that [A] phrase was ever uttered [E] by the way
so
_ And then Jerry and I [A] doing those background vocals of that
[F#] _ [F#] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#m] _ There's definitely magic in [B] this in this song, you know in the song and it but in the recording [G#m] of it, you know
David Tickle was such a quintessential producer in [E] the in the 80s and he really understood the type [C#] of sound it should have and
you know that that
[F#m] Fairlight doing it and the wolf howl.
Those are all [C#] Fairlight sounds fair light was a kind of a
[F#] electronic at first [F#m] computer keyboard that there ever was sampling keyboard and
[C#m] They were tough to come by
[B] _ [F#m] and
Again this part I always
[C#m] Envisioned the video so I brought props today because now TV's radios on [F#m] TV now
So the original bone [D] of the original strange animal video
Which is basically how you could get your song heard back [F#m] then was to get it on TV [A] first
_ [C#m] _ _
_ [B] This section of the song here
As [G#m] as Tony Levin begins to really open up on the bass.
I remember in the [B] studio
That [E] because he was overdubbing this bass part [C#m] right here
[G#m] Where he starts doing those slides [F#] he was playing sitting down and then suddenly he just he just burst up and started
Completely going into that whole section
If ever anybody's seen Tony Levin with you [C#m] know with with Peter Gabriel or [E] with any of the acts he's ever played.
He's an [B] intense
Individual to watch when he's playing [C#m] and he was so animated suddenly at this
[B] This whole section of the song and he was just I was [C#] so yes, [E] I was knocked out with it
[B] I was especially knocked out with it because in [E] 1981
I saw Peter Gabriel the gardens and they used [G#m] to come down through the crowd [F#] and Tony went right by me
I'd never met him and there you know they came [C#] through the crowd
I remember putting [E] my arm around him and he and he looked at me at the big flashlight
[B] And I said Tony we're gonna make a record one day
[C#m] And we made this record together [E] that actually happened
[B] And
_ God this [C#m] is this is the same place where John Lennon made imagine he built this home studio
[B] [E] so there's no way I can ever listen to it without [C#] kind of getting a _
[G#m] _ Phenomenal emotional charge about the whole thing
That's great.
Thanks for letting me play that
[Em] It takes me straight [G] back to the thrill of taking that record [Bm] home to my mom and dad
Yeah, putting it on [G] the record player.
It's just on the gramophone.
It's just really nice
Is it [Fm] a point where they may not even [G#m] know who wrote the song or recorded the song originally?
The song is almost that's that's when it becomes [E] a folk song
You say [B] we're not gonna take