Chords for Chas Hodges talks about Joe Meek..

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In 1960 to his [Dbm] mum's great delight Chaz became a [Gb] professional musician
[Ebm] _ _ [B] A year later.
He joined [Gb] the outlaws a successful band who toured with the [G] Beatles
We were topping the bill might very outlaws and the Beatles were supported
_ The main thing that [C] impressed was their harmonies and that they all had high [G] voices
_ [Gbm] remember [D] thinking well
_ [G] Their plane ain't ain't as good as the outdoors, but they can really sing
_ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ [G] Alongside Chaz in the outlaws was [C] guitarist Richie Blackmore later to [G] find fame with deep purple
_ [D] The outlaws were managed [G] by one of the first [Em] independent [Gm] producers in the country
_ legendary [G] innovator Joe Meek
_ Lots of English musicians cut their teeth playing with Joe me _ a
Slightly strange man by [Em] all accounts very eccentric.
He sort of created his own little fantasy world and based in this
_ Very very ramshackle homemade studio.
We had it was just like literally knee-deep in bits of tape
It really was it was just I thought it was amazing to me.
I loved it
He helped to popularize if not invent lots of techniques that we now take for granted
It's overdubbing and treating sounds and getting special sound effects and so forth
I learned so much off Joe make I'm here on the I can remember we did an instrumental called swinging low the outlaws down down
I don't know _
[Abm] We _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Db] did about
[Ab] _ [E] Seven or eight takes I suppose and Joe makes it.
That's it
_ We ain't got one where we're all playing good in it.
He went don't worry about it.
He said _
I'll sort that and I really didn't know what he meant.
I didn't know anything about editing at all didn't know existed
_ Then he showed me so we just get the tape like that, [B] you [E] know cut that [B] out as your base right there
_ _ [E] Anyway, we came back
Week later.
He's there.
I should play you your latest single
He said it's gonna be here and I did actually [F] go in the top 50 anyway
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for all his skills as a producer Joe make was not a trained [Bb] musician
[F] _ He knew what he wanted.
He had a very [C] good commercial ear in his in his way _
_ [Fm] But he couldn't play anything and couldn't sing in tune [Ab] and [C] [N] I was pretty good at figuring out what he meant _
He would sing his tune _ _ _ _
He _ knew what he meant, but he would be completely out of tune you'd go off key
Then he would give it to me this demo says my latest song Chaz
Can you work it out for the boys and write the chords out and that I would go home and then try and decipher?
What he meant right down the chords and come back and teach the guitar player the melody and way we'd go in _ _
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1963 the outlaws went on camera for live it up a feature film promoting Joe Meeks up-and-coming bands.
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] Was pretty bored really
_ Because that day [Ab] we had been given the chance to go on tour
[N] With Jerry Lewis as his backing band now you can imagine me like two years later after I'd seen him
I'm now gonna be in his band playing bass for him and they kept going
I will do another take do another thing and I thought we've got to get up there because we've got to have a rehearsal with him
and it just went on and [Ebm] went on and went on _ _
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we finally got away and
Got up and had a 10-minute rehearsal with Jerry Lee.
Thank [C] you very very much.
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_ _ _ Wasn't walking I was floating and throughout that tour the Jerry Lee Lewis tour because
_ Couldn't have been with him at a better time _
He [F] went on drugs and he was playing [C] absolutely fantastic
_ [A] _ [G] Better than he was in [F] the 50s
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Always quote [Am] the Jerry Lee taught me to piano which he did but he didn't know he was teaching me to piano
It was just like I'm watching him.
I think yeah, [Abm] that's how he little [G] things like [F] shaking
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I learned such a lot on that to [F] a piano playing
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Was it like work?
_ Nah, [C] so then yeah now when people guys got plenty [G] words.
I don't work.
[F] I play the piano
No, it's not worth it.
So
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