Chords for Billy Sheehan + Bumblefoot (Sons of Apollo) Play Their Favorite Riffs

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_ _ So someone asked me to illustrate a couple of things that made me want to pick up the bass and start playing.
So [N] for me that was, _ since I'm an old guy, I started very _ young, _ the Yardbirds.
Now a lot of people toss the name around as this iconic band and not many people really know a lot about the Yardbirds
or even can name a lot of their songs, but they were one of the foundation bands that started a lot of music we have today.
But they had a bass player, his name was Paul Samuel Smith, and he was an amazing bass player.
And he gets overlooked a lot because of Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton.
But he had this one riff, it's in the wrong key because I got a different tune bass here, but it was a song called Lost Woman. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ And that was at the time, about _ 66, _ _ _ _ that was Yngwie of bass.
No one could even imagine how anyone could play a bass line like that.
Paul McCartney of course, from the Beatles, was a huge thing for me.
Again, tuned differently, but the song Rain, _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ really great bass line.
And McCartney was quite an aggressive player too, he played a lot of notes.
_ But that's how pretty much I started like that and just came through and got into everybody and everything.
Ron, how about you? _
I was five years old and I heard the Kiss Alive album for the first time.
And as soon as I heard it, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
_ I'd say the Kiss Alive album, Ace Frehley solo, where he had _ that_
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But really the very first riffs that I learned when I started taking lessons, I remember the very first thing I was shown by my guitar teacher.
Which is just to get down a swing feel and everything was just this. _ _ _
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_ _ _ And I remember _ distinctly having trouble lifting this finger where I just kept going one and two notes here. _ _ _
And just developing the coordination to go _ [C#m]
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And then I remember the first real thing was Rock and Roll Ho Chi Ku.
This riff. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That thing [N] right there and just getting that down.
That was some of the early stuff.
The Beatles were a huge love.
It's like the Beatles made me love music.
Kiss made me want to get into music.
I wanted to get on stage and just explode with energy.
There was this store I would go to every Sunday.
My dad would drive us out to Jersey called Rock and Roll Heaven.
It was a place run by this wonderful couple named John and Marsha Zazulo.
Oh yeah.
And they would always_
I was about 10, 11 years old.
And I'd say, hey, check out this thing.
And they said, hey, check this one out.
Anvil, metal on metal.
I was like, okay.
_ And things like that.
And I would get all my Iron Maiden picture discs
and my Australian imports of ACDC and everything [C] over there.
So I do remember the first song I wrote.
It was a ripoff of Fox on the Run from Sweet.
_ Because that's what was on the radio at the time.
And that's just what I could retain. _ _
And I used to love writing about the solar system.
And as a little kid, I was _ really into _ _ astronomy and all kinds of stuff. _
_ _ So it was called Jupiter is Nice.
_ _ And it was exactly Fox on the Run.
Just Jupiter [G] _ [F] is nice. _
[G] _ _ Take [F] my advice.
And I [G] started with the chorus.
I'm a kid.
[C] Don't [G] chorus.
Get to the [F] chorus.
I say it on the ice.
_ [C] _ Jupiter [Gm] _ [F] is nice.
And then the [G] first verse. _
Many clouds [F] of gases.
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_ [G] Poisonous [F] they are.
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[C] _ [G] They [F] are so colorful.
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You can see them, they're [F] all for everybody [G] now.
_ Jupiter _ [F] is [G] nice. _
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[Em] _ _ that came from a band called Blood Rock.
[N] But they had a break in a song called,
I think it's I'm a _ _ Dyer, not a lover.
But right in the middle of the song, _
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_ _ broke into this other part.
And I just love that riff so much.
So I started to work on it.
And that became _ Sink Your Teeth Into That.
_ And I say good writers write and great writers steal.
_ So we're going to play a little bit of Goodbye Divinity,
the first song of the new _ 2020 _ MMXX album from Sons of Apollo.
I'm ready if you are.
I'm ready.
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_ _ _ _ I got two and a half.
_ Two, one, two, three, four.
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_ _ [A] You can hear I'm giggling [E] inside. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Well, here's a little, we'll start that little riff from _ _ Oblivion.
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