Chords for GARY NUMAN TALKS ABOUT ULTRAVOX.

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_ _ The music scene at the time, _ _ there was no really electronic [E] thing going on. _
_ The new romantic thing hadn't happened, so there was no Duran Durans and Spelunk, there was none of that lot.
That hadn't [G] happened.
The punk thing was dying out and it was kind of a, _ almost like a void, I guess.
There was nothing really happening.
What had been was [E] failing and the next thing hadn't arrived.
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[Abm] I first came across Ultravox in one of my record [Ab] searches, trying to find anything else that was doing that sort of music.
And it was really just the [G] cover itself that grabbed me to start with and the name.
I thought it was the most brilliant name for a band ever.
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Hiroshima Monomore on [G] my section.
It was a really cool title that just [G] made you interested to hear what it was all about, just from the titles alone.
[A] And then I thought John had looked really interesting.
[G] And then I turned it over [A] _ and thought, that's a great picture. _
[B] Played it and just [Am] loved it. _
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They were just doing something that I'd never heard before.
They were doing what I wanted to do.
My _ move into electronic music hadn't been to replace everything.
I like drums and I love guitars.
_ And I wanted a conventional line-up with another layer point of it.
And _ I didn't find [B] anyone else that was really doing [G] that, except for Ultravox.
And John Fox was the _ _ focal point of [Am] that band. _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ Everyone [G] else was going one, two, three, four, blamma blamma.
And that was the whole form of music then.
I'd realised a few years before that it was going to change music.
Because electric guitars, cheap electric guitars, made the 60s possible.
The same thing was happening now.
_ Synthesizers were, they just got cheap.
All this stuff had just evolved.
And I thought, this is it.
This is what I'm interested in.
_ The way they were putting _
[Eb] the instruments together,
the conventional, including violins and things like that, with [G] electronics,
_ and the subject matter, was just amazing, I thought.
They [Ab] got an album called Systems of Romance.
A production on that, compared to what I [E] was doing, was just chalk and cheese.
They were so ahead of what I was doing.
_ [Ab] For a long, long time, for years, that [Gm] was the [Ab] standard that I was trying [G] to reach.
[Gb] And never did.
[E] Never did. _ [D] Never did.
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_ [Gb] _ _ [D] I [B] thought I'd take [D] a _ slide.
[G] I thought I'd be [Gbm] _ alright.
_ _ [B] When I found out [D] that Gary had been inspired [E] by what we'd done,
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I [Db] felt that was what [Gb] I intended to happen from the beginning.
Because [G] the whole point of ideas, for me, is that they're anybody's property.
Once they leave you, _ anybody can steal them.
And that's the [C] point.
It's not theft, _ it's evolution.
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_ _ I had no ambition for synths at all. _
I didn't know what I wanted to do, really.
But to me, it was always going to be based on the guitar,
because that was an instrument I grew up with and loved.
[C] And it was only finding this thing _ that _ changed it around.
_ None of us, I think, know how to program anything, really.
What you would do is plug it into the biggest amp you had,
and then play with it to see what were the nastiest sounds you could get out of it.
It was a room just like this.
You press that one little key, that simple little movement,
and the whole room shook.
_ [D] Jesus Christ.
I'd [G] been spending ages with my guitar, trying to get it to sound bigger [C] and more powerful.
[G] So from that moment on, I [Ab] was totally captivated [B] by it.
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_ [E] We want [Eb] the sound to feel [B] as if it's bigger than its [Ab] environment. _ _
Bursting out.
And I think that's a great definition.
That's [E] why guitars are [Ebm] distorted.
_ _ [B] And that's the whole point.
And [Gm] I think every succeeding [Eb] generation pushes that envelope a [B] little bit further with [Ab] the sound.
_ _ [Eb] What Gary did was he heard [Abm] elements of what we did,
[E] and took [Eb] it in a different direction.
[B] And he [E] took it on further in some ways, and distilled it into something purer.
[B] _ And I [Eb] really respect that.
It takes a lot of intelligence and sensitivity to be able to do that.
_ He did it.
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all credit to [Eb] him.
Not many people could do that.
In fact, [E] only Gary did it.
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