Chords for Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa: Live From Amsterdam - Episode 3

Well, we don't travel in the traditional way.
I'm more of a bus at the end of the show, and we're on to the next day.
With this, [A] we would play a show, stay, and then wake up and travel the next day.
And it's really a travel of sorts.
We take planes and trains and [Am] buses.
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_ _ I think for me, the hardest part is _ _ _ [E] remembering all the [A] stuff, and remembering the parts and hitting the cues. _
[Am] And also, [A] not being the singer, when you're the singer, you're used to throwing the cues to the rest of them.
So I have to keep a [Am] real keen ear [D] to Beth, because [Am] sometimes we'll hit a couple bars in the song before [E] the chorus turns around.
And that would be something I would do [Am] intrinsically and go, why didn't you guys follow along?
So now I have to be the guy following along.
It's an interesting [A] _ dynamic change for me, to have to be really listening to the cues and really critical [D] on _
[A] where [A] _ we're [D] at within the song.
Because it could change radically.
And it would [E] be like trying to steer a cruise ship through an F1 course if it had to change.
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_ _ _ _ [Cm] He's a total ace.
When you [G] meet people that are total aces, you want to watch, you want to see, [Gm] you want to learn.
_ Or just simply be moved.
[G] And he's definitely moving.
[Cm] He means every note he plays.
And it's wonderful to see Joe and everyone up there, how much they love what [G] they do.
It's very [Gm] inspiring.
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_ _ _ [Ab] Yeah, totally different show.
He actually really likes being [G] back here and hanging out with fellas and looking at the venue, looking at people, [Cm] watching someone else do a performance.
It's actually very educating [Eb] too for him, because he's thinking [Cm] what the next step's going to be for [F] years, going to be down the line too.
And it's really healthy [A] to take a back [Ab] step of your own thing [G] and just kind of hang out with everybody else.
[Gm] [Cm] It's really very cool.
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I think it's nice for him.
Because he [Gm] does that where he's the front man, the guitarist, [Ab] the leader, the focal point the whole night.
It's great for him.
He's been looking forward to it.
We're more than happy to [Eb] have him come back.
[D] Hang with us, yeah.
Hang with us and play with us.
It's great for him, it's fun [Bb] for us.
And he's great.
And then when he has to step out, he steps out.
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_ _ _ I think it's right.
I think [G] it's fun for Joe [Bb] to just [Gm] kind of hang with the band.
You know [D] what I mean?
You can tell [G] he doesn't want to step out [F] there.
He can.
But he's just sitting and grooving with us.
[Db] I think it's like a little pressure off him [Bbm] in a way.
And it's just like [Ab] he's just going to have fun.
[Bb] When I'm up there, I'm pretty concentrated.
[F] I'm standing in a good spot because basically Carmine, Anton and I, [Db] we're kind of the nucleus of it.
[Fm] And then Blondie fills in the gaps and Arlen gives [F] you the color and Lee with the [Bb] horns.
But the nucleus is [Fm] really almost a three-piece group.
So Carmine and Anton and I are very [Ab] much glued [Db] together.
We're trying to keep it rock solid for everybody.
[Bbm] Again, [Ab] _ [Bb] it's a big train _ [Db] when it goes [F] off the track for all the cars following.
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_ _ [N] Besides the fact that the instrument should never be operated before the sun.
Right.
It also says something _ _ _ _ about below 60 degrees.
Yeah, not at extreme temperatures.
The instrument should not be operated before the sun. _
I feel [G] like all venues, this just might sound ignorant, but [Ab] I always look at a venue of,
it's not [Bbm] built for a certain kind of music.
[F] You make it for your music.
[Bb] And no matter what it is.
And I think that's one of the cool challenges about being [Bbm] out on the road and touring.
Is that you get to go into very different venues [Gb] night after night where you're going,
oh [Am] my God, this is totally [F] opposite type of venue from where I just was last night.
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_ _ _ [F] _ [A] With Ambient Court, I was concerned.
[E] I was like, I don't [Ebm] really know how to do this.
So I'm just going to follow the audience.
I'm going to go out there [Bbm] and be positive and try and start out that first song,
you [Eb] know, then their eyes.
Just have fun with that, [Bbm] shake it around.
_ But kind of [F] listen to their vibe.
Be [Bb] aware of it and see.
Because after all, you want to do the best show for the audience in front of you.
And I don't think you can really guess that before [E] the show.
I think you only know that once [A] you've stepped out there.
It's like you're getting to [Abm] meet someone.
_ [G] So it ended up being really _ great.
And I didn't know if it would because it is a different type of thing,
especially for what we were doing.
But they just came right along and they were so sweet.
It was such a wonderful audience.
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Lord have mercy on [G] me.
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[Gm] _ Well, if [D] I don't somebody wrong, _ [C] _
have mercy.
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