Chords for Blackfoot Interview with Shorty & Rick Medlocke

Because the Tom Caton album really was what started it for us over in Europe.
The Strikes album really didn't get started over there.
And now they're picking up on that right now.
But the Tom Caton album got everything started in Europe.
We went over with the Scorpions and did about 22 dates over there with them.
We just went back now _ to England, France and Germany.
We played seven festivals, outdoor festivals over there.
Well we had the number one, number two and number fourteen single on the heavy metal charts.
And their singles over there are so much different than our singles over here.
Like their single over there, Good Morning, was their single over there.
[Bb] That's a good song though.
That's a heck of a way to wake up.
_ Diary of a Working Man was number two and Fire of the Dragon was number fourteen.
I think people over there are more aware of music.
If you mention a certain musician, [C] they know who they played with like ten years ago, five years ago.
[Bb] Every band.
With an encore, you deserve it.
If you don't, they boo you.
_ Some audiences over here, _ it's like the thing where everybody [Bbm] gets an encore.
And over there, you deserve it.
Or you don't.
So you work for it.
As far as the new album, Blackwood Marauder, you've got Blip Hawk, right?
A Perican Falcon.
A Perican Falcon.
Now each [Bb] album of Strikes had the snake, Tom Caton had the Tom Caton of course.
This album with the Perican Falcon.
But I think that the animals represent the band.
_ _ Maybe for the live album we'll have them all fighting together.
Get a live?
_ No, we've been talking about it.
We want to try and do _ one more studio album before we take on a live thing.
We're thinking about taking the mobile unit out and doing some live, recording some live shows.
Just put away in a can and have ready.
Very refreshing, I'm sure, to all the people you meet because you're representative of Jacksonville.
It's funny because everybody asks us why _ Jacksonville is _ _ the hotbed of bringing all these bands around.
_ My whole answer to it all is I've really tried to figure it out.
Because it's an industrial town and there's a lot of people that flow through here.
_ He came through here from Georgia and he stopped.
_ So therefore his musical heritage picked up here.
_ _ And that's where all the trouble started at.
He's the one that caused it [Ab] all. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I think it's a mean city.
This is a mean city.
_ They're loyal though.
Oh, they're loyal.
And everybody says why is it that it's such a mess?
Well, it's the Transylvania of Florida.
Anything that comes out of here is going to be mean and right to the point.
How's it going to be the start?
You never have to do the roads or any of that.
All that grind stuff.
You let these guys take all the bumps.
Well, you've had your share, right?
Yeah.
He [A] never realized he'd make it in rock and roll.
He gave up country for rock now.
[G] _ _ When [Bb] I was a kid, we had the same beat.
I've always liked this.
I've always played it.
_ It was called different things.
Tell us [Bbm] what it was called.
Well, like Sousa Q and [Bb] stuff like that.
Of course, we had our hair, our fad, just like these kids.
Now _ _ that I understand kids at my age,
_ _ _ a lot of parents now think their kids should be grown.
But _ a [Bbm] kid's going to be a kid.
You've got to live with him.
There's still a lot of kid in you, though.
[B] Oh, yeah.
There'll always [Bb] be.
So we had a prom to go see.
_ Sweat, man.
So I used to tell a joke
_ _ that the Tappan boys had a little money,
and they'd get the regular hair tonic you put in your hair.
And of course, we'd have to use lard.
_ Boy, that odor.
Oh, shh.
The smell, you know, that lard.
_ _ _ And I could go on and tell you a lot of stuff.
Are you excited about _ the amount of exposure you have received
with, of course, Train Train and _ _ [F]
Fox Chase?
_ Also, you've been on the last three albums.
[C] How did Rick go about approaching you as far as getting [Bb] that,
or did you just hog time and say,
I'm going to have to record on this album?
Well, yeah, and then Rick helped me, you know.
All of them did.
Well, all of them, just like me youngin'.
You know, Greg, Gary, he was me and Rick.
And of course, Jack's been with me about the same thing.
But Greg, you know, and Ricky, there's about nine and ten and twelve, you know.
And my wife would go and chaperone with her band, you know.
_ Nice kids, too.
They used to make me mad, but I knew.
_ So they got hooked on watermelons and chickens, you know. _ _
Who ain't?
You know.
_ A lot of people think a kid can be grown, but he's got to grow up.
He's got to go right along with it.
Do you still refer to Rick and Jack as kids?
Sure, and I have found this out, that love is what it's all about.
If you send it out, it comes back. That's great.
That's a great philosophy, Shorty.
[Gb] You've got to have a lot of that mood all to live now, but [Bb] you know, that friend, that's what it's about.
You've got to love people.
Don't send out, you know.
I like to see everyone do well, do good.
The bands and anything else that you start sendin', you know.
Don't ever kick nobody.
Don't say something about somebody.
Because it comes right back to you unless you say something good.
_ That's what I find.
Well, speaking of friends, you guys, Blackfoot, made a [Bbm] tremendous amount of friends here in Jacksonville.
You've made them all over the country, and you've also taken your good spirits and friendship [Bb] _ across the ocean to Europe.
And Jacksonville salutes you for that, because you do a lot for this town.
Rick Medlock, _ Jackson Thunderfoot, _ Thumper.
[N] _ _ _
And Greg.
And Shorty Medlock.
Sign us off, Daddy, with a heart.
[Gb] Shorty's going to do a little piece for us.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _