Chords for Detroit Rock Life
Tempo:
100.1 bpm
Chords used:
Dm
G
Gm
Bb
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Dm] There's such a great history here.
There's a lot of people that have come from here that are good players.
There's a lot of different kinds of scenes that exist here,
and there's all different kinds of new music that [Gm] comes from here or gets to here all the time.
So there's always something new, and it's always evolving.
That's why it's great.
[G] [Dm]
[Bb] [G]
[C]
[N]
Being a musician from Detroit's a great thing, just because there's such a great history here.
When I came up, it was divided into two categories.
You had the dudes who all listened to Judas Priest and Ozzy and Black Sabbath and all that stuff,
and then you had the girls, and they all dressed up and they all listened to a lot of the early new wave stuff,
Depeche Mode and all that.
So they were the ones that went to St.
Andrews and all that stuff at first,
and all the dudes would all go to Harpo's to see the rock bands.
Then those two worlds kind of meshed up,
and every time an event like MTV coming out or some different aspect of the business,
the lines started to get blurrier and blurrier.
So now you have all these different things.
Now you look around Detroit, you have punk bands, you have techno bands, you have dubstep,
you know, all these different things and all these different kind of bands.
The cool thing about having that kind of variety is it leaves open a lot of venues for people to express themselves.
It leaves open a lot of places you can play.
That's one of the best things.
I think passion for music has changed in a lot of ways.
We used to have to go out and fly our 10,000 cars to hope that 50 people show up.
Now people sit at home and it's all Facebook and computer.
You know, after a show you used to go to a friend's house to see pictures from the show,
and now they just post them on the Internet.
You don't even have to go see your friend to see his pictures.
The Internet, that's the biggest thing.
Just because it's made everything that everybody does more accessible to everybody else.
You, me, or anybody can set up their stuff and get it to the whole world.
So the whole scope of everything has kind of changed.
It's not as localized.
You don't have to work so hard to get it out there.
You have more options and more opportunities to put your work out there.
People sit at home and watch YouTube videos of a concert the next day instead of going.
Something to me doesn't make any sense.
You have that right in front of you.
It definitely changed the world.
I don't think people have grasped how much.
All that has really changed what's going on.
It's so much more power.
I think the worst thing about doing this now and being this now
is because I wish I would have had all that when I started it first back then.
So now the best you can do is make the most of the opportunities that's there,
but you wish it was an opportunity that you would have had before.
There's a record store I used to go to on Michigan Avenue called Repeat the Beat,
or Desirable Disc, or some kind of crap like that,
but it was the only place that had Kerrang!
magazine.
So if you're into heavy metal or hard rock and roll,
you went there and bought this magazine that came from England.
And anybody who read Kerrang!
was cool.
That means you were hip to the music that was cool at that point in time,
and it's ahead of the curve of everybody else.
So you go back to the record store.
I remember one day I bought the first Ozzy record and the first Iron Maiden record,
both as imports before they're for sale here.
And I thought it was hot shit,
just because it was the latest and the greatest that was coming out.
So what that means is at that point you're actually having to go out
and make an effort to search for good shit,
to connect with people that know what that stuff is,
more on a personal level and more on an individual level.
Now with the Internet, it's just like, bam, one button.
Everybody can see anything.
All word of mouth.
Getting out there with posters and flyers, that was the big thing.
There really wasn't any other way for a band to promote themselves.
I certainly remember the return on flyers was 2%.
The Internet has changed things, obviously.
The state of radio has changed and how it affects bands
and how they promote themselves.
The effectiveness of radio has changed.
YouTube is almost like the new radio.
Videos are the new radio.
Those things have changed.
You just keep playing.
You get more stories, you forget more things, but you keep playing.
There's a lot of people that have come from here that are good players.
There's a lot of different kinds of scenes that exist here,
and there's all different kinds of new music that [Gm] comes from here or gets to here all the time.
So there's always something new, and it's always evolving.
That's why it's great.
[G] [Dm]
[Bb] [G]
[C]
[N]
Being a musician from Detroit's a great thing, just because there's such a great history here.
When I came up, it was divided into two categories.
You had the dudes who all listened to Judas Priest and Ozzy and Black Sabbath and all that stuff,
and then you had the girls, and they all dressed up and they all listened to a lot of the early new wave stuff,
Depeche Mode and all that.
So they were the ones that went to St.
Andrews and all that stuff at first,
and all the dudes would all go to Harpo's to see the rock bands.
Then those two worlds kind of meshed up,
and every time an event like MTV coming out or some different aspect of the business,
the lines started to get blurrier and blurrier.
So now you have all these different things.
Now you look around Detroit, you have punk bands, you have techno bands, you have dubstep,
you know, all these different things and all these different kind of bands.
The cool thing about having that kind of variety is it leaves open a lot of venues for people to express themselves.
It leaves open a lot of places you can play.
That's one of the best things.
I think passion for music has changed in a lot of ways.
We used to have to go out and fly our 10,000 cars to hope that 50 people show up.
Now people sit at home and it's all Facebook and computer.
You know, after a show you used to go to a friend's house to see pictures from the show,
and now they just post them on the Internet.
You don't even have to go see your friend to see his pictures.
The Internet, that's the biggest thing.
Just because it's made everything that everybody does more accessible to everybody else.
You, me, or anybody can set up their stuff and get it to the whole world.
So the whole scope of everything has kind of changed.
It's not as localized.
You don't have to work so hard to get it out there.
You have more options and more opportunities to put your work out there.
People sit at home and watch YouTube videos of a concert the next day instead of going.
Something to me doesn't make any sense.
You have that right in front of you.
It definitely changed the world.
I don't think people have grasped how much.
All that has really changed what's going on.
It's so much more power.
I think the worst thing about doing this now and being this now
is because I wish I would have had all that when I started it first back then.
So now the best you can do is make the most of the opportunities that's there,
but you wish it was an opportunity that you would have had before.
There's a record store I used to go to on Michigan Avenue called Repeat the Beat,
or Desirable Disc, or some kind of crap like that,
but it was the only place that had Kerrang!
magazine.
So if you're into heavy metal or hard rock and roll,
you went there and bought this magazine that came from England.
And anybody who read Kerrang!
was cool.
That means you were hip to the music that was cool at that point in time,
and it's ahead of the curve of everybody else.
So you go back to the record store.
I remember one day I bought the first Ozzy record and the first Iron Maiden record,
both as imports before they're for sale here.
And I thought it was hot shit,
just because it was the latest and the greatest that was coming out.
So what that means is at that point you're actually having to go out
and make an effort to search for good shit,
to connect with people that know what that stuff is,
more on a personal level and more on an individual level.
Now with the Internet, it's just like, bam, one button.
Everybody can see anything.
All word of mouth.
Getting out there with posters and flyers, that was the big thing.
There really wasn't any other way for a band to promote themselves.
I certainly remember the return on flyers was 2%.
The Internet has changed things, obviously.
The state of radio has changed and how it affects bands
and how they promote themselves.
The effectiveness of radio has changed.
YouTube is almost like the new radio.
Videos are the new radio.
Those things have changed.
You just keep playing.
You get more stories, you forget more things, but you keep playing.
Key:
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G
Gm
Bb
C
Dm
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Gm
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] There's such a great history here.
There's a lot of people that have come from here that are good players.
There's a lot of different kinds of scenes that exist here,
and there's all different kinds of new music that [Gm] comes from here or gets to here all the time.
So there's always something new, and it's always evolving.
That's why it's great.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Being a musician from Detroit's a great thing, just because there's such a great history here.
When I came up, it was divided into two categories.
You had the dudes who all listened to Judas Priest and Ozzy and Black Sabbath and all that stuff,
and then you had the girls, and they all dressed up and they all listened to a lot of the early new wave stuff,
Depeche Mode and all that.
So they were the ones that went to St.
Andrews and all that stuff at first,
and all the dudes would all go to Harpo's to see the rock bands.
_ Then those two worlds kind of meshed up,
and every time an event like MTV coming out or some different aspect of the business,
the lines started to get blurrier and blurrier.
So now you have all these different things.
Now you look around Detroit, you have punk bands, you have techno bands, you have dubstep,
you know, all these different things and all these different kind of bands.
The cool thing about having that kind of variety is it leaves open a lot of venues for people to express themselves.
It leaves open a lot of places you can play.
That's one of the best things.
I think passion for music has changed in a lot of ways.
We used to have to go out and fly our 10,000 cars to hope that 50 people show up.
Now people sit at home and _ it's all Facebook and computer.
You know, after a show you used to go to a friend's house to see pictures from the show,
and now they just post them on the Internet.
You don't even have to go see your friend to see his pictures.
The Internet, that's the biggest thing.
Just because it's made everything that everybody does more accessible to everybody else.
You, me, or anybody can set up their stuff and get it to the whole world.
So the whole scope of everything has kind of changed.
It's not as localized.
You don't have to work so hard to get it out there.
You have more options and more opportunities to put your work out there.
People sit at home and watch YouTube videos of a concert the next day instead of going.
Something to me doesn't make any sense.
You have that right in front of you.
It definitely changed the world.
I don't think people have grasped how much.
All that has really changed what's going on.
It's so much more power.
I think the worst thing about doing this now and being this now
is because I wish I would have had all that when I started it first back then.
So now the best you can do is make the most of the opportunities that's there,
but you wish it was an opportunity that you would have had before.
There's a record store I used to go to on Michigan Avenue called Repeat the Beat,
or Desirable Disc, or some kind of crap like that,
but it was the only place that had Kerrang!
magazine.
So if you're into heavy metal or hard rock and roll,
you went there and bought this magazine that came from England.
And anybody who read Kerrang!
was cool.
That means you were hip to the music that was cool at that point in time,
and it's ahead of the curve of everybody else.
So you go back to the record store.
I remember one day I bought the first Ozzy record and the first Iron Maiden record,
both as imports before they're for sale here.
And I thought it was hot shit,
just because it was the latest and the greatest that was coming out.
So what that means is at that point you're actually having to go out
and make an effort to search for good shit,
to connect with people that know what that stuff is,
more on a personal level and more on an individual level.
Now with the Internet, it's just like, bam, one button.
Everybody can see anything.
All word of mouth.
Getting out there with posters and flyers, that was the big thing.
There really wasn't any other way for a band to promote themselves.
I certainly remember the return on flyers was 2%.
_ _ The Internet has changed things, obviously.
The state of radio has changed and how it affects _ _ bands
and how they promote themselves.
The effectiveness of radio has changed.
YouTube is almost like the new radio.
_ Videos are the new radio.
_ Those things have changed.
You just keep playing.
You get more stories, you forget more things, but you keep playing.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
There's a lot of people that have come from here that are good players.
There's a lot of different kinds of scenes that exist here,
and there's all different kinds of new music that [Gm] comes from here or gets to here all the time.
So there's always something new, and it's always evolving.
That's why it's great.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Being a musician from Detroit's a great thing, just because there's such a great history here.
When I came up, it was divided into two categories.
You had the dudes who all listened to Judas Priest and Ozzy and Black Sabbath and all that stuff,
and then you had the girls, and they all dressed up and they all listened to a lot of the early new wave stuff,
Depeche Mode and all that.
So they were the ones that went to St.
Andrews and all that stuff at first,
and all the dudes would all go to Harpo's to see the rock bands.
_ Then those two worlds kind of meshed up,
and every time an event like MTV coming out or some different aspect of the business,
the lines started to get blurrier and blurrier.
So now you have all these different things.
Now you look around Detroit, you have punk bands, you have techno bands, you have dubstep,
you know, all these different things and all these different kind of bands.
The cool thing about having that kind of variety is it leaves open a lot of venues for people to express themselves.
It leaves open a lot of places you can play.
That's one of the best things.
I think passion for music has changed in a lot of ways.
We used to have to go out and fly our 10,000 cars to hope that 50 people show up.
Now people sit at home and _ it's all Facebook and computer.
You know, after a show you used to go to a friend's house to see pictures from the show,
and now they just post them on the Internet.
You don't even have to go see your friend to see his pictures.
The Internet, that's the biggest thing.
Just because it's made everything that everybody does more accessible to everybody else.
You, me, or anybody can set up their stuff and get it to the whole world.
So the whole scope of everything has kind of changed.
It's not as localized.
You don't have to work so hard to get it out there.
You have more options and more opportunities to put your work out there.
People sit at home and watch YouTube videos of a concert the next day instead of going.
Something to me doesn't make any sense.
You have that right in front of you.
It definitely changed the world.
I don't think people have grasped how much.
All that has really changed what's going on.
It's so much more power.
I think the worst thing about doing this now and being this now
is because I wish I would have had all that when I started it first back then.
So now the best you can do is make the most of the opportunities that's there,
but you wish it was an opportunity that you would have had before.
There's a record store I used to go to on Michigan Avenue called Repeat the Beat,
or Desirable Disc, or some kind of crap like that,
but it was the only place that had Kerrang!
magazine.
So if you're into heavy metal or hard rock and roll,
you went there and bought this magazine that came from England.
And anybody who read Kerrang!
was cool.
That means you were hip to the music that was cool at that point in time,
and it's ahead of the curve of everybody else.
So you go back to the record store.
I remember one day I bought the first Ozzy record and the first Iron Maiden record,
both as imports before they're for sale here.
And I thought it was hot shit,
just because it was the latest and the greatest that was coming out.
So what that means is at that point you're actually having to go out
and make an effort to search for good shit,
to connect with people that know what that stuff is,
more on a personal level and more on an individual level.
Now with the Internet, it's just like, bam, one button.
Everybody can see anything.
All word of mouth.
Getting out there with posters and flyers, that was the big thing.
There really wasn't any other way for a band to promote themselves.
I certainly remember the return on flyers was 2%.
_ _ The Internet has changed things, obviously.
The state of radio has changed and how it affects _ _ bands
and how they promote themselves.
The effectiveness of radio has changed.
YouTube is almost like the new radio.
_ Videos are the new radio.
_ Those things have changed.
You just keep playing.
You get more stories, you forget more things, but you keep playing.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _