Chords for Gong Interview — a Last.fm/Presents Exclusive

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When I was playing with the parlour, you couldn't see him for faced
Dabbing a deodabbing a dab, paste and paper everywhere
Mum was stuck to the ceiling, kids were stuck to the floor
I never thought such a blooming family so stuck up before
There was another one which I revealed in singing
And there was some _ _ _
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer
I _ don't really have a thirst for memory music
I did piano lessons at the age of four
_ _ _ I've no _ consciousness or recollection of ever not having some musical activity
It's always been part of me _
I suppose before that maybe my mother singing Daisy, Daisy to me in my bed
Because you triggered the memory there
Maybe something like that or _ lullabies
I don't know
All my family used to gather round the piano and sing Irish style
So I was always hearing Gershwin and all of those great musical songs from the 30s
They'd drink lots of very tall bottles of beer
And get really pissed and just sing, sing and sing
My father complaining to me on the piano
So that was it, sort of like Irish stuff
There was no TV, there was radio
It was the war, wasn't it?
People were killing themselves in Europe
And what were we doing?
Getting pissed and playing around the piano and singing
_ That's what happens in Australia
_ _ Seeing Jimi Hendrix play at the Marquee Club
When he first started
_ When I was 15
_ _ Absolutely had a blistering experience
From which I still feel, still vibrates me now
More than 40 years later
So seeing that, I'm like
Wow, he can do that
I'd like to do something like that _
I met Hendrix before I heard him play
So I got to know him as a sort of sunny, funny, sadgy, friendly guy
Who played left handed and could make the room vibrate
With a guitar that wasn't even plugged into an amplifier
But _ _ _ _ for me, my big revelation and experience about the guitar
Was from Jeff Beck
And I saw Jeff Beck play in the Marquee
_ And he was like a cowboy riding a horse _
Or a motorbike or something
He was there and the guitar seemed to hang in mid-air
And he seemed to look at it with a sort of amused puzzlement _
And every time he touched it, amazing things would happen
Yeah, that's pure magic
Yeah, he was one of the _ greats
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_ _ _ _ Yeah, I can't stand that
I can't stand people [D] who just repeat blues riffs over and over again
Yeah, blues riffs over and over again
And blues singing now, it's like blues singing, it's all plastic
People [Eb] go, ah, _ Stevie Wonder effect
It's cool when Stevie Wonder does it, but [C] just like everybody else
Imagine, [Ab] millions of times that that particular lick must have been sung
_ Yeah, some R&B with all the wiggly vocals
I find that very irritating
And also I find that a lot of R&B video is extremely irritating
I mean, this seems to sort of just pervade like _ materialist stereotypes
It's like [F] product placements
It's just all _ _ money and bling and really shallow
I think it's going back to the 15th, 16th century I think if my history is correct
When nobody cared about who composed music
_ _ [Db] _ _ And, [N] you know, it was just the orchestra
It was just completely faceless and nameless
So what I do now is when I'm on my iPod and iTunes and stuff like that
I just rename everything with really surrealist poetic names
So I've got no idea who's playing in there
[Gb] And that puts me back in the 15th, 16th century
I [Ab] like that idea
I remember it well
Yeah, good time then, 15th, 16th century
Rocking, rocking, man, rocking
I was a black magician Oh yeah?
Yes, so I'm not sure whether we met or not
Definitely rocking, hard rocking
_ _ [G] Led Zeppelin
[Bb] Very bad [Ab] boy
_ _ I think it's, _ _ you know, the whole thing is a bit like
A lot of people bemoan the state of the industry
I hate that phrase industry
I bloody hate music industry
My God, I love that phrase
But it's a bit of a sort of, you know, the old thing of the pint glass half full or half empty
You know, one guy weeping because his half empty glass is half empty
And the other guy really happy because he's still got a half full glass
_ _ It's like swings and roundabouts
I think if the major record labels all collapse and die
In the short term it will cause income pain to artists
But in the long term something much more healthy will grow out of it
So [N] I'm for the, you know, like
I look in the papers and I'm looking for news of EMI collapsing
And it makes me happy when I read things like that
Seriously, I really do, I think their time has gone
_ They've ripped us all off for so long
You know, _ people _ _ free downloading
We don't earn anything from free downloading
But if it makes _ the major labels collapse
It will benefit us in the long term as artists
We will develop a new and more civilised relationship with the people who listen to our music
_ _ _ Yes, they're coming between us
_ They've been for years Yeah Bastards
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