Chords for dave wakeling talks about pete townshend and dave gilmour

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_ _ _ Is doing this series of shows called live [Bm] at White City or something?
Mm-hmm, and he'd assembled this band.
He was [A] gonna go out and do these these things and he wanted to cover
[N] Save it for later.
That's right and
Of course in in in everybody's terms.
It was just gonna like okay Pete Towns is gonna cover a song makes a lot of sense so
He apparently sat down and listened to the song could not figure out for the life of him
How it was played and how the tuning was done.
That's right and
_ On the Pete Townsend thing he basically goes so I had to ring Dave up
He goes you know Dave from the beat of course because they call you the beat in England as opposed to English beat
I had a ring Dave from the beat up and
And here's the tuning and he basically sits there on his guitar and goes and he plays whatever the tuning was or is
And he goes isn't that weird of course and he goes and it's like he was like almost like making fun of the fact
Your tuning is very I don't know.
What's the word?
_ _ Juvenile infantile like not professional or whatever was because it wasn't anything that anybody else had done before right right it was
I it was actually it was an attempt a very old blues tuning called dadgad
And I tried to get that tuning because I wanted to play along with my John Martin records _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] I wanted to play along to it, so I tuned the [Ab] strings up and down until [Eb] it sounded about [B] right
And I thought oh, yeah, that's good, but it [E] didn't actually sound quite right on the John Martin [Bb] thing
There's this one string ringing [Gb] away, and it turned out that my [Ab] g-string if you might be saying
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_ Should [G] we just stayed in G _
But I had inadvertently [A] tuned it up to a [N] and it ended up with a tuning D a D a
_ Ad dad odd rather than dadgad and he thought it was dadgad
And he was sitting with David Gilmore whilst he was working out both of them presumed
It was dadgad and they couldn't work out the fingering in dadgad
It still did it didn't sound right to them compared to the record and it was about 11 o'clock [G] on a Saturday morning
[B] I never forget it
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Somebody passed me the phone and said it's Pete Townsend on the phone, and I was like yes course it is
phones about this time every Saturday
It's Townsend
So _ [E] I thought it was some you know [F] hungover friend of [D] mine trying to be smart [Eb] in that and I answered the [N] phone in that
Way really hello, Pete.
How you doing nice one, and he was like oh hello Dave
This is Pete Townsend here
Oh, it's the Peter
_ I'm sitting here with Dave Gilmore, and we're trying to work out the tuning to your song save it for later
_ Well, I nearly fell over I was like wow
_ _ Guy that even did like careful with that axe Eugene _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Pinball wizard
_ _ Struggling trying to find a tuning from one finger wonder wakeling
That was utterly bemused.
You know so I told him the tuning.
They're very happy.
They did it on the phone.
That's what
_ _ _ Their g-strings up to a and they were happy campers and off they went practicing the song
Beautiful beautiful version a couple of different versions of it one time he played at the Wilson with it like a stunning band
I mean [A] even Mac [Bb] and Katie Kissoon were there as the backing vocalist [Ab] bloke from a men [Gb] corner was the rhythm guitarist
You [Abm] know all-star [B] rhythm section most perfect band
They invited me down, and they said oh Pete [E] would like to meet you at [C] five o'clock.
He only has about 15 [N] minutes
He's really busy, but he would like to sit and talk you
We're the most amazing [Bb] conversation and he gave me almost I think
Grandfatherly advice about how [Ab] important our role was a [N] songwriters
I was really touched by really touched by him a
_ _ So they gave me a ticket afterwards and it was a one front row
Right at the front of the Wilton Theatre beautiful place anyway, so I'm all excited comes on stage tells the save it for later story
Points me out and dedicates the song to me and the band just strike into this amazing version of it
Everybody stands up dancing and cheering.
I just stood there and let the tears roll.
I didn't need to cry the tears _ _
Don't we don't get much better than this how long ago was that how was this it was like in the
Coming to the late 80s.
I think they're perhaps 80s
_ _ 89 or perhaps it was even later than that when I was working for Greenpeace, and yeah
I think it must have been later later than that because
_ [Ab] I've asked you this story before you've never brought up the [G] second part of it where you do way to that in front of you
Know [N] the Wilson Theatre I was stunned beautiful one of those little moments.
You'd never ever forget
So when you first and I'll have you go in that tuning in a minute
I'm gonna do a quick break here, but when you when you sat there in your was in the bedroom in Birmingham years ago
Yes, the first time and when you worked it out
Yeah
_ Started it in Birmingham and finished it in the Isle of Wight.
Yeah nice
And I was really pleased because it was like a step up from me from miming with my cricket bat in the mirror _ _
Like a cricket bat with strings this is great and suddenly you'd figure it all out and to me the fact that the
The song I mean lyrically the song has so many
Like nice twists and turn on twist and turns on it
But let me do this commercial break and and we'll have you unless is there another one you can do in that tuning you're in
Regular tuning I mean there's loads of them really what would you like to do?
And then we'll do the break and anything in that tuning before I make you _ _ _ _
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