Chords for Black Lips - "Drive-By Buddy" Ernie Ball Set Me Up Session

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Probably the first thing that really [G#] set it off for me as far as guitar playing was
Hearing Nirvana like when I was in third grade.
[E] Smells Like Teen Spirit came out
I didn't learn for many years after that, but I kind of [E] just planted the seed.
The good thing about them is
They were a little like [F#] sloppy and weird.
I think before that
[G#] You know the hair metal scene like people like Slash and stuff like really great guitars, but almost seemed like
Something I could never achieve I just seemed like so technical like a mountain.
It was like I'll never [G] be that whereas Nirvana was a little
More yeah a little simpler or something you know then as I got older
[E] I got into more punk rock bands [G#] and stuff and I started getting into like 60s rock.
Link Wray is probably my favorite guitarist ever
He's like usually what I base most of my sound on is his sound.
He's one of the first guys to intentionally use
Overdrive or distortion.
He actually pricked holes in his amp to try to achieve an intentional distortion you know [E] in like 1957 I think _
_ This [G#] guitar is based off the Super-O guitar.
Link Wray played this same guitar
At one point in his career because there's pictures of him using it.
I always like old pawn shop guitars
So you'd find like an old Super-O like this maybe there or a [C#] Silvertone or
Tiesco almost like junkie [E] guitars even at times because I find they have a more unique sound
I feel like when I'm on a [Em] Fender Gibson or Gretsch when I hit
[G#] An E note it sounds exactly perfectly [E] like an E note just like [G#] everybody else's because they all play that too
When I play [C#] it on this guitar, maybe it's more likely to buzz or like be a little off sounding
So [G] yeah, I like sometimes imperfections in a [F#] guitar
[C#] Strings like rattle and they're loose [C#] or not stiff
Yeah, I find it to be more unique
_ _ [F#] _ This song is all kind of [E] a standard you like one four five kind of country rock song.
He plays the lead is like _
_ [A] Yeah, like yeah, Keensey Beatles he [E] kind of lead and then I just drummed up
_ [F#] Yeah, and then the lyrics and stuff.
I just kind of mumbled.
It's trying to go for [A#] like a little bit of
Two egos so like I'll do one low voice
It's kind of like Lee Hazlewood, and then do a high one
It was almost like two personalities or something on the course it just makes it all different we're like going it just [A] a at E like
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ [A#] Just simple two chord, but when he hits the [E] E
They'll bring it out and I'm going back out to a but he's still ringing out the E part.
So like
_ [A] Started the a part and then to the E.
I'll tell you
_ _ Let's just let the blacklist do [G#] us
It's hard [G] to explain.
I don't know I [F#] mean and I do he doesn't so at the end
So I think I'm Lee Hazlewood thing or it's just like
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That's like a joint [E] any kind of like
_ They go [B] up follow the [A] words of the song and then on the second part of soul
I just punched in with like some country licks that are like reminiscent of like a pedal steel like
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Try to get the overdrive the volume has to be just right where if I hit the guitar [A] hard
It breaks up, [E] and if I hit it light
[F#] It's kind of clean so I like to have it just at that [B] threshold between like overdrive and not
[E] So yeah, I'll just play it soft if I want to clean it.
I made it hard it gets like a little breakups
It's like there's a certain spot like on every amp
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Guitar sometimes you can use up maybe a little [E] overdrive pedal if you want and that's what I like about link grades always like
Huh over driven sound but it doesn't sound like a pedal sounds very earthy and organic.
So it sounds like it's coming from the amp _ _ _ _ _ _
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Read a review not too [B] long ago where someone said
_ [F#] this album sounds like another blacklist [E] record and
Yeah, you got him right it [F] does.
I mean what are you trying [G#] to say?
[E] Yes, it does
Yeah, I think they were trying to say that we don't really change too much of our thing
But it's like why are you gonna fix a Ferrari it already goes smooth and we [F#] got it.
We got a thing
[B] We know what we're doing.
This is I
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_ _ [E] remember not knowing a D chord and
Watching on TV.
They played an old buddy Holly
Video like [Em] Peggy Sue and just like, you know to TV like squinting [A] and seeing just the formation that [E] buddy Holly's doing
Like that so I always tell people I buddy [A#] Holly taught me how to play the D chord
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