Chords for Behind The Vinyl: "Wind Him Up" with Michael Sadler from Saga

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close enough
[Cm] _ _ wind them up
[Ab] worlds apart
_ [F] how many decades ago was that?
_ _ [G] farmyard studios little chal [Ab] font england
first time [Bb] working with rupert hein _ _
and steven taylor [C] the engineer two [Fm] guys that
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] they were it was like a psychic thing watching them work together i remember
being in the studio one day _ _
[Ab] and just sitting back on the couch [Bb] and and watching the two of them sit at the board
[Bb] they were listening to [C] something i can't remember what it was
[Ab] the playback finished and
[Bb] rupert was just [F] leaning, they were both leaning on the console and rupert just kind [Cm] of
glanced over at steve, they didn't say [Ab] a word, they just kind of looked at each other
[F] steve leaned forward and adjusted something and they played it again
[Cm] rupert just looked at him and just kind [Ab] of nodded
_ _ [G] what's going on here
uh_
they just, they had worked so much together [C] that they just knew _
[Ab] _ each of them knew [Bb] what each other was thinking and they were hearing the same thing at the same time
_ _ [Cm] _ [C] uh_
they were [Ab] real uh_
[Bb] perfectionists but really thinking out of the box with certain things
a [C] great example of that was in wind em [Abm] up
uh_
the quiet [Bb] section when it all breaks down in the middle
_ _ uh_
the [C] vocals were supposed to be really relaxed [Ab] and really quiet and it's an octave lower
[Bb] and they wanted a kind of smoky kind of
gritty kind of voice
[Cm] or singing it too _ [Ab] cleanly
uh_
so we tried it a few times the night before and [F] and we just
didn't quite [Cm] get it and rupert said you know what we'll leave that for now we'll try it again [Ab] tomorrow
_ and [G] uh_
it was about
_ _ [F] eight o'clock in the morning i think, eight [Cm] thirty in the morning
and the [Fm] accommodations were [A] the old uh_
it was an [F] old
_ [Bb] the studio itself was [G] the old [Cm] barn of the farm
uh_
[Ab] because you've got a great live room because of that
[Bb] _
the accommodation were the old stables so you had to walk across the
[Cm] big parking lot [Ab] area
and i was dead [F] asleep at eight thirty in [Bb] the morning and i hear somebody [G] walking
to [Cm] my room
and i'm barely [Ab] awake and i kind of open my [Bb] eyes a little bit and in comes the the _ engineer
[C] the tape op
and he's got a [Eb] boom
[Ab] and a microphone attached [Eb] and headphones and he walks over he [C] slips the headphones on me
sets up the mic i'm just still laying there [G] and he puts the mic right in [Bb] front of my face
[F] i got the headphones on he closes [Abm] the door and i hear
[F] either rupert or steve on the other end [Ab] of the headphones saying
morning michael
you know the song, [Bb] full wall lead in, just sing along
and they started the middle section of wind em up and [G] the part came and i just
kind of went wind em up
[Cm] one _ _
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Bb] take _
uh_
the tape op came walking back in the [Cm] room took off the headphones took the microphone
away and off he went [Fm] closed the door and i was laying [Cm] there going
[F] what just happened
_ [G] and
put my [Cm] housecoat on
went over to the studio and was like good morning and they were full at [Bb] it at eight fifteen in the morning
and i said what just happened [Gm] and he said well you remember we were trying to get that kind [Eb] of effect
and he said [C] listen to this
and he played it [F] back and i went
oh my [Gm] god because i wasn't thinking about it and [Eb] they just wanted that kind of very
relaxed don't [F] even think about the melody just kind of sing it off as if you were [Fm] just thinking it
[Gm] _ _ and they were loaded with [Eb] those kind of ideas
that _ _ [C] kind of an album [Fm] and uh_
i [Gm] remember writing this record in _
[Eb] maidenhead this little town we all lived in [F] the same house _
put this whole album together and [Eb] uh_
that was a lot of fun and i think the success of the album the [Gm] strength of the songwriting _
[F] came from
[Cm] uh_
the idea [C] the fact that we were [Ab] all working together every day
[Em] we'd get up in the morning have breakfast and go straight at [Bb] it and just the [Cm] change of
environment we've done the first three albums [Ab] in toronto with paul gross phase [Bb] one
and i think the change of environment the change of [Cm] producer _ _ _
[Ab] uh_
just shaking [F] things up a bit was a great influence [E] in opening our minds to a
different kind of [Cm] writing
_ and [Ab] consequently it became [E] one of our best selling [C] records _ _ _
_ one of my favorites [Ab] actually _ _ _
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