Chords for Billy Corgan Covers Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” (2017)

Do you do covers when you do a two-hour show?
You do a Neil Young now, huh?
Yeah, yeah.
What song do you do when you cover him?
After the Gold Rush.
Oh, no kidding.
Why?
Why that one?
You know, it's funny.
I have a friend in LA, and he wrote me one day and said,
I was just listening to this song, and I think you should do it.
When you decide to do that song, your friend suggests it, do you sit there and go,
gee, now I gotta work out an arrangement.
Do you start to change the song around, or are you just literal?
I think it's always bad if you do literal.
Right.
Because you can never do it like they do it, and you're singing to a song in your head.
Yeah.
And you start here.
You're never going to be better than the original.
Ever.
So do you try to learn the chords as he played them, or do you do your own version?
I do my own version.
You do your own version.
I'm sure I'm messing something up, but I try to make it personal.
Yeah.
You know, almost like a, it's like recounting a story.
It's like a memory, and you're trying to find what you like about the memory.
And then when you can make it personal, then every time you tell it, that emotion comes through.
If you try to be like a sycophant, like every note is precious,
and when Neil held the note four seconds, _ Neil would laugh at that, I think.
Right.
I agree.
Like, what, I just went in the studio one day and I did it, and I would do it different every time.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, because it would be karaoke.
It's not the testament.
Yeah.
Let me hear a little of that. Okay, sure.
Again, I'll shut [Abm] up.
You [G] seem to know what you're doing.
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