Chords for History behind Joe Elliott's Side Band Down 'n' Outz
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Well the obvious influence for the down-and-outs is Mott the Hoople because the only reason the band exists [Db] is because of Mott the Hoople
Let me [Db] explain.
I've been a fan [Ab] since I was about 10 years [Db] old of Mott and
They [Ab] split up in 74 [Eb] and you know they they splintered Ian Hunter the singer went solo
The rest of the band carried on under the name of Mott by dropping the Hoople [B] off the name [Db] with a different singer and guitar player
[Fm] And then that band splintered into a group called the British Lions
And then they [C] all just went their separate ways and some of them never worked again and the [Ebm] announcer never stopped working
But come 2009 I got [Db] a whisper [Eb] that they were gonna reform
For some shows in London [Db] and then I got [Bbm] a call from [B] Ian and Trudy Hunter
Say [Bbm] we'd like you involved because I'd been basically
[Db] Flying the flag for the band never since Def Leppard [Eb] became popular and I'd get asked who did you grow up listening to they were?
Top of my list which was a big surprise for a lot of people because they thought it [Db] was gonna
I would be saying like Zeppelin [Gb] or deep [Dbm] purple
It was always more Mott [Bbm] Bowie
T-rex [B] for me when you're in a band that's as big as Def Leppard are those stories get back to the band members
Have you look that guy in their [Ab] club has been said about [Eb] us, you know
And so they wanted to I guess just [B] say thanks for doing what you did.
I said, what do you want me to do?
[Db] And
Thinking they wanted me to just maybe introduce them on stage and they said [B] will you open for them on the last?
Night of the five shows that they were doing in London and I said, [F] well, yeah, I will but it couldn't be Def Leppard
It would take away [Eb] from their glory
If we were to do that and [Dbm] so now we've got an idea [B] the choir boys are available [Bbm] spikes
He's manfully since [Ab] you know stepped aside to [Db] let you front them and they will be your band [B] for the night
So I [Db] had six months to pull this [Eb] round and I saw I started talking with Paul Geary the guitar player and I said, okay
I'm gonna pick ten [Db] songs
I think it'd be
Perfect to open for Mott with they had to be songs that weren't Mott the Hoople songs
So I chose a bunch of songs that they're [Ab] all involved with after Mott split up
so there were Ian Hunter songs or British Lions [Eb] one British line song and a ton of songs by Mott and
We picked ten [Eb] songs and when I finally got into [Db] London about the 1st of October 2009
we met and shook hands like Englishmen do and
Two hours later.
We were hugging and going to the pub [Gb] because everybody doing their homework and we had these songs down, you know
And the whole [Db] idea of it was to do one show
[Dbm] on October the 6th, [Db] I think he was and
We did the show and then we were gonna go our separate ways and that was gonna be the end of it
But as we kind of went [Gb] out to the to the bar [Db] in the foyer during the interval
[Dbm] We had all these kids coming up [Gb] going I can't believe what I just heard because I never thought I'd hear those songs ever again
[Dbm] especially on stage
Are you [B] thinking of maybe recording them and it never entered my head that we would but [Db] I asked the guys
You know, we went backstage afterwards.
We [B] watched Mott and then we all had a bit of a shindig with him later
[Ab] and I said, what do you think [Db] about recording while they're still fresh in our DNA and
[B] So they said sure [Ab] so they luckily have a friend that live close by the studio
So they went in the studio [Dbm] and long story short
they recorded all ten tracks [B] in two days and then sent me the files to [Ab] Dublin and
I went in the studio and [Db] I went between gigs
I picked at it until we finally had an album together and that [Ab] was the first down-and-outs album called my regeneration
Which came out in 2010 we gave it away in classic rock magazine in the UK
But we also put it on sale a few months later
And it was on sale in the States and lo and [Db] behold out of nowhere.
I had a number [Ab] five
Single at American radio with England rocks and overnight [Eb] angels went to number one on American rock media based radios
So it was like wow, this is this this is a whole new band.
It's [Db] actually got legs, you know, which is insane and
We did a few shows with Paul Rogers around the UK a year later
Did a huge festival in the UK [Ab] and then it went dormant because sky boys were busy
I was busy and then we got back together
[Eb] Sometime in 2013 and we managed to pull together
The second album which [Abm] was called the further
[Db] adventures of the [B] down-and-outs
[Db] Which by then we were [Abm] in a position to go to cover
Not the hoopla songs because we were now no longer opening for [Db] them
So we dipped into their catalog with [B] things like [Eb] marionettes and driving sister and rock and roll Queen
[D] Which again did really well [Eb] for us at radio [Eb] from that little mini tour did of the UK in
2014 came the live album the further live adventures of the down-and-outs and then of course then he goes massively [Dbm] dormant because
developers
[B] Trajectory just [F] started going through [Eb] the roof and it just got really difficult to pin down any time
Start this record [Db] really I had the demos pretty much [B] wrapped up [Eb] at least seven of the nine songs that got written and then
Luckily I just started picking away at it and then the guys were free and they'd [Eb] come in and sure joined in
2014 [Fm] so she was now on [Db] board and she's a fantastic [B] bass player.
So I was really happy with this stable lineup
She's a third bass player.
We were like Roxy music going through bass players like you wouldn't believe
And I like this lineup.
It's a it's a [Abm] good bunch of people and they they understand my vision of where I wanted to go
With his project it had to be very [Eb] different to what Def Leppard is because as I've said [Db] many times
I can't see the point of being in two bands that sound [Ebm] identical
So it [Bbm] had to be very different and most [Eb] of the songs on this album were written on a piano [Bbm] that gives it its
[Ab] Absolute [Db] distinction from Def Leppard
[Eb] So, you know eventually we got the album finished just before this whole [Db] tour kicked off this [Ab] year
So I've been sitting on it for like six or seven months
[Db] We got the artwork completed and we delivered it and [Db] now it's like [Ab] it's like just waiting to give birth
You know, it's like come on already
[Eb] No, no, enough is enough
It ain't ever enough, [Db] now
[N]
Let me [Db] explain.
I've been a fan [Ab] since I was about 10 years [Db] old of Mott and
They [Ab] split up in 74 [Eb] and you know they they splintered Ian Hunter the singer went solo
The rest of the band carried on under the name of Mott by dropping the Hoople [B] off the name [Db] with a different singer and guitar player
[Fm] And then that band splintered into a group called the British Lions
And then they [C] all just went their separate ways and some of them never worked again and the [Ebm] announcer never stopped working
But come 2009 I got [Db] a whisper [Eb] that they were gonna reform
For some shows in London [Db] and then I got [Bbm] a call from [B] Ian and Trudy Hunter
Say [Bbm] we'd like you involved because I'd been basically
[Db] Flying the flag for the band never since Def Leppard [Eb] became popular and I'd get asked who did you grow up listening to they were?
Top of my list which was a big surprise for a lot of people because they thought it [Db] was gonna
I would be saying like Zeppelin [Gb] or deep [Dbm] purple
It was always more Mott [Bbm] Bowie
T-rex [B] for me when you're in a band that's as big as Def Leppard are those stories get back to the band members
Have you look that guy in their [Ab] club has been said about [Eb] us, you know
And so they wanted to I guess just [B] say thanks for doing what you did.
I said, what do you want me to do?
[Db] And
Thinking they wanted me to just maybe introduce them on stage and they said [B] will you open for them on the last?
Night of the five shows that they were doing in London and I said, [F] well, yeah, I will but it couldn't be Def Leppard
It would take away [Eb] from their glory
If we were to do that and [Dbm] so now we've got an idea [B] the choir boys are available [Bbm] spikes
He's manfully since [Ab] you know stepped aside to [Db] let you front them and they will be your band [B] for the night
So I [Db] had six months to pull this [Eb] round and I saw I started talking with Paul Geary the guitar player and I said, okay
I'm gonna pick ten [Db] songs
I think it'd be
Perfect to open for Mott with they had to be songs that weren't Mott the Hoople songs
So I chose a bunch of songs that they're [Ab] all involved with after Mott split up
so there were Ian Hunter songs or British Lions [Eb] one British line song and a ton of songs by Mott and
We picked ten [Eb] songs and when I finally got into [Db] London about the 1st of October 2009
we met and shook hands like Englishmen do and
Two hours later.
We were hugging and going to the pub [Gb] because everybody doing their homework and we had these songs down, you know
And the whole [Db] idea of it was to do one show
[Dbm] on October the 6th, [Db] I think he was and
We did the show and then we were gonna go our separate ways and that was gonna be the end of it
But as we kind of went [Gb] out to the to the bar [Db] in the foyer during the interval
[Dbm] We had all these kids coming up [Gb] going I can't believe what I just heard because I never thought I'd hear those songs ever again
[Dbm] especially on stage
Are you [B] thinking of maybe recording them and it never entered my head that we would but [Db] I asked the guys
You know, we went backstage afterwards.
We [B] watched Mott and then we all had a bit of a shindig with him later
[Ab] and I said, what do you think [Db] about recording while they're still fresh in our DNA and
[B] So they said sure [Ab] so they luckily have a friend that live close by the studio
So they went in the studio [Dbm] and long story short
they recorded all ten tracks [B] in two days and then sent me the files to [Ab] Dublin and
I went in the studio and [Db] I went between gigs
I picked at it until we finally had an album together and that [Ab] was the first down-and-outs album called my regeneration
Which came out in 2010 we gave it away in classic rock magazine in the UK
But we also put it on sale a few months later
And it was on sale in the States and lo and [Db] behold out of nowhere.
I had a number [Ab] five
Single at American radio with England rocks and overnight [Eb] angels went to number one on American rock media based radios
So it was like wow, this is this this is a whole new band.
It's [Db] actually got legs, you know, which is insane and
We did a few shows with Paul Rogers around the UK a year later
Did a huge festival in the UK [Ab] and then it went dormant because sky boys were busy
I was busy and then we got back together
[Eb] Sometime in 2013 and we managed to pull together
The second album which [Abm] was called the further
[Db] adventures of the [B] down-and-outs
[Db] Which by then we were [Abm] in a position to go to cover
Not the hoopla songs because we were now no longer opening for [Db] them
So we dipped into their catalog with [B] things like [Eb] marionettes and driving sister and rock and roll Queen
[D] Which again did really well [Eb] for us at radio [Eb] from that little mini tour did of the UK in
2014 came the live album the further live adventures of the down-and-outs and then of course then he goes massively [Dbm] dormant because
developers
[B] Trajectory just [F] started going through [Eb] the roof and it just got really difficult to pin down any time
Start this record [Db] really I had the demos pretty much [B] wrapped up [Eb] at least seven of the nine songs that got written and then
Luckily I just started picking away at it and then the guys were free and they'd [Eb] come in and sure joined in
2014 [Fm] so she was now on [Db] board and she's a fantastic [B] bass player.
So I was really happy with this stable lineup
She's a third bass player.
We were like Roxy music going through bass players like you wouldn't believe
And I like this lineup.
It's a it's a [Abm] good bunch of people and they they understand my vision of where I wanted to go
With his project it had to be very [Eb] different to what Def Leppard is because as I've said [Db] many times
I can't see the point of being in two bands that sound [Ebm] identical
So it [Bbm] had to be very different and most [Eb] of the songs on this album were written on a piano [Bbm] that gives it its
[Ab] Absolute [Db] distinction from Def Leppard
[Eb] So, you know eventually we got the album finished just before this whole [Db] tour kicked off this [Ab] year
So I've been sitting on it for like six or seven months
[Db] We got the artwork completed and we delivered it and [Db] now it's like [Ab] it's like just waiting to give birth
You know, it's like come on already
[Eb] No, no, enough is enough
It ain't ever enough, [Db] now
[N]
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Well the obvious influence for the down-and-outs is Mott the Hoople because the only reason the band exists [Db] is because of Mott the Hoople
Let me [Db] explain.
I've been a fan [Ab] since I was about 10 years [Db] old of Mott and
They [Ab] split up in 74 [Eb] and you know they they splintered Ian Hunter the singer went solo
The rest of the band carried on under the name of Mott by dropping the Hoople [B] off the name [Db] with a different singer and guitar player
_ [Fm] And then that band splintered into a group called the British Lions
And then they [C] all just went their separate ways and some of them never worked again and the [Ebm] announcer never stopped working
But come 2009 I got [Db] a whisper [Eb] that they were gonna reform
For some shows in London [Db] and then I got [Bbm] a call from [B] Ian and Trudy Hunter
Say [Bbm] we'd like you involved because I'd been basically
[Db] Flying the flag for the band never since Def Leppard [Eb] became popular and I'd get asked who did you grow up listening to they were?
Top of my list which was a big surprise for a lot of people because they thought it [Db] was gonna
I would be saying like Zeppelin [Gb] or deep [Dbm] purple
It was always more Mott [Bbm] Bowie
T-rex [B] for me when you're in a band that's as big as Def Leppard are those stories get back to the band members
Have you look that guy in their [Ab] club has been said about [Eb] us, you know
And so they wanted to I guess just [B] say thanks for doing what you did.
I said, what do you want me to do?
[Db] And
Thinking they wanted me to just maybe introduce them on stage and they said [B] will you open for them on the last?
Night of the five shows that they were doing in London and I said, [F] well, yeah, I will but it couldn't be Def Leppard
It would take away [Eb] from their glory
If we were to do that and [Dbm] so now we've got an idea [B] the choir boys are available [Bbm] spikes
He's manfully since [Ab] you know stepped aside to [Db] let you front them and they will be your band [B] for the night
So I [Db] had six months to pull this [Eb] round and I saw I started talking with Paul Geary the guitar player and I said, okay
I'm gonna pick ten [Db] songs
I think it'd be
Perfect to open for Mott with they had to be songs that weren't Mott the Hoople songs
So I chose a bunch of songs that they're [Ab] all involved with after Mott split up
so there were Ian Hunter songs or British Lions [Eb] one British line song and a ton of songs by Mott and _
We picked ten [Eb] songs and when I finally got into [Db] London about the 1st of October 2009
we met and shook hands like Englishmen do and
Two hours later.
We were hugging and going to the pub [Gb] because everybody doing their homework and we had these songs down, you know
And the whole [Db] idea of it was to do one show
_ [Dbm] on October the 6th, [Db] I think he was and
_ We did the show and then we were gonna go our separate ways and that was gonna be the end of it
But as we kind of went [Gb] out to the to the bar [Db] in the foyer during the interval
[Dbm] We had all these kids coming up [Gb] going I can't believe what I just heard because I never thought I'd hear those songs ever again
[Dbm] especially on stage
Are you [B] thinking of maybe recording them and it never entered my head that we would but [Db] I asked the guys
You know, we went backstage afterwards.
We [B] watched Mott and then we all had a bit of a shindig with him later
[Ab] _ and I said, what do you think [Db] about recording while they're still fresh in our DNA and
_ [B] So they said sure [Ab] so they luckily have a friend that live close by the studio
So they went in the studio [Dbm] and long story short
they recorded all ten tracks [B] in two days and then sent me the files to [Ab] Dublin and
I went in the studio and [Db] I went between gigs
I picked at it until we finally had an album together and that [Ab] was the first down-and-outs album called my regeneration
_ Which came out in 2010 we gave it away in classic rock magazine in the UK
But we also put it on sale a few months later
And it was on sale in the States and lo and [Db] behold out of nowhere.
I had a number [Ab] five _
Single at American radio with England rocks and overnight [Eb] angels went to number one on American rock media based radios
So it was like wow, this is this this is a whole new band.
It's [Db] actually got legs, you know, which is insane and _
We did a few shows with Paul Rogers around the UK a year later
Did a huge festival in the UK [Ab] and then it went dormant because sky boys were busy
I was busy and then we got back together
[Eb] Sometime in 2013 and we managed to pull together
The second album which [Abm] was called the further
[Db] _ adventures of the [B] down-and-outs
[Db] Which by then we were [Abm] in a position to go to cover
Not the hoopla songs because we were now no longer opening for [Db] them
So we dipped into their catalog with [B] things like [Eb] marionettes and driving sister and rock and roll Queen
[D] Which again did really well [Eb] for us at radio [Eb] from that little mini tour did of the UK in
2014 came the live album the further live adventures of the down-and-outs and then of course then he goes massively [Dbm] dormant because
developers
[B] _ _ Trajectory just [F] started going through [Eb] the roof and it just got really difficult to pin down any time
_ _ Start this record [Db] really I had the demos pretty much [B] wrapped up [Eb] at least seven of the nine songs that got written and then
Luckily I just started picking away at it and then the guys were free and they'd [Eb] come in and sure joined in
2014 [Fm] so she was now on [Db] board and she's a fantastic [B] bass player.
So I was really happy with this stable lineup
She's a third bass player.
We were like Roxy music going through bass players like you wouldn't believe
_ And I like this lineup.
It's a it's a [Abm] good bunch of people and they they understand my vision of where I wanted to go
With his project it had to be very [Eb] different to what Def Leppard is because as I've said [Db] many times
I can't see the point of being in two bands that sound [Ebm] identical
So it [Bbm] had to be very different and most [Eb] of the songs on this album were written on a piano [Bbm] that gives it its
[Ab] _ Absolute [Db] distinction from Def Leppard
[Eb] So, you know eventually we got the album finished just before this whole [Db] tour kicked off this [Ab] year
So I've been sitting on it for like six or seven months
[Db] We got the artwork completed and we delivered it and [Db] now it's like [Ab] it's like just waiting to give birth
You know, it's like come on already _
_ _ [Eb] No, _ _ no, _ _ enough is enough
It ain't ever enough, [Db] now
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _
Let me [Db] explain.
I've been a fan [Ab] since I was about 10 years [Db] old of Mott and
They [Ab] split up in 74 [Eb] and you know they they splintered Ian Hunter the singer went solo
The rest of the band carried on under the name of Mott by dropping the Hoople [B] off the name [Db] with a different singer and guitar player
_ [Fm] And then that band splintered into a group called the British Lions
And then they [C] all just went their separate ways and some of them never worked again and the [Ebm] announcer never stopped working
But come 2009 I got [Db] a whisper [Eb] that they were gonna reform
For some shows in London [Db] and then I got [Bbm] a call from [B] Ian and Trudy Hunter
Say [Bbm] we'd like you involved because I'd been basically
[Db] Flying the flag for the band never since Def Leppard [Eb] became popular and I'd get asked who did you grow up listening to they were?
Top of my list which was a big surprise for a lot of people because they thought it [Db] was gonna
I would be saying like Zeppelin [Gb] or deep [Dbm] purple
It was always more Mott [Bbm] Bowie
T-rex [B] for me when you're in a band that's as big as Def Leppard are those stories get back to the band members
Have you look that guy in their [Ab] club has been said about [Eb] us, you know
And so they wanted to I guess just [B] say thanks for doing what you did.
I said, what do you want me to do?
[Db] And
Thinking they wanted me to just maybe introduce them on stage and they said [B] will you open for them on the last?
Night of the five shows that they were doing in London and I said, [F] well, yeah, I will but it couldn't be Def Leppard
It would take away [Eb] from their glory
If we were to do that and [Dbm] so now we've got an idea [B] the choir boys are available [Bbm] spikes
He's manfully since [Ab] you know stepped aside to [Db] let you front them and they will be your band [B] for the night
So I [Db] had six months to pull this [Eb] round and I saw I started talking with Paul Geary the guitar player and I said, okay
I'm gonna pick ten [Db] songs
I think it'd be
Perfect to open for Mott with they had to be songs that weren't Mott the Hoople songs
So I chose a bunch of songs that they're [Ab] all involved with after Mott split up
so there were Ian Hunter songs or British Lions [Eb] one British line song and a ton of songs by Mott and _
We picked ten [Eb] songs and when I finally got into [Db] London about the 1st of October 2009
we met and shook hands like Englishmen do and
Two hours later.
We were hugging and going to the pub [Gb] because everybody doing their homework and we had these songs down, you know
And the whole [Db] idea of it was to do one show
_ [Dbm] on October the 6th, [Db] I think he was and
_ We did the show and then we were gonna go our separate ways and that was gonna be the end of it
But as we kind of went [Gb] out to the to the bar [Db] in the foyer during the interval
[Dbm] We had all these kids coming up [Gb] going I can't believe what I just heard because I never thought I'd hear those songs ever again
[Dbm] especially on stage
Are you [B] thinking of maybe recording them and it never entered my head that we would but [Db] I asked the guys
You know, we went backstage afterwards.
We [B] watched Mott and then we all had a bit of a shindig with him later
[Ab] _ and I said, what do you think [Db] about recording while they're still fresh in our DNA and
_ [B] So they said sure [Ab] so they luckily have a friend that live close by the studio
So they went in the studio [Dbm] and long story short
they recorded all ten tracks [B] in two days and then sent me the files to [Ab] Dublin and
I went in the studio and [Db] I went between gigs
I picked at it until we finally had an album together and that [Ab] was the first down-and-outs album called my regeneration
_ Which came out in 2010 we gave it away in classic rock magazine in the UK
But we also put it on sale a few months later
And it was on sale in the States and lo and [Db] behold out of nowhere.
I had a number [Ab] five _
Single at American radio with England rocks and overnight [Eb] angels went to number one on American rock media based radios
So it was like wow, this is this this is a whole new band.
It's [Db] actually got legs, you know, which is insane and _
We did a few shows with Paul Rogers around the UK a year later
Did a huge festival in the UK [Ab] and then it went dormant because sky boys were busy
I was busy and then we got back together
[Eb] Sometime in 2013 and we managed to pull together
The second album which [Abm] was called the further
[Db] _ adventures of the [B] down-and-outs
[Db] Which by then we were [Abm] in a position to go to cover
Not the hoopla songs because we were now no longer opening for [Db] them
So we dipped into their catalog with [B] things like [Eb] marionettes and driving sister and rock and roll Queen
[D] Which again did really well [Eb] for us at radio [Eb] from that little mini tour did of the UK in
2014 came the live album the further live adventures of the down-and-outs and then of course then he goes massively [Dbm] dormant because
developers
[B] _ _ Trajectory just [F] started going through [Eb] the roof and it just got really difficult to pin down any time
_ _ Start this record [Db] really I had the demos pretty much [B] wrapped up [Eb] at least seven of the nine songs that got written and then
Luckily I just started picking away at it and then the guys were free and they'd [Eb] come in and sure joined in
2014 [Fm] so she was now on [Db] board and she's a fantastic [B] bass player.
So I was really happy with this stable lineup
She's a third bass player.
We were like Roxy music going through bass players like you wouldn't believe
_ And I like this lineup.
It's a it's a [Abm] good bunch of people and they they understand my vision of where I wanted to go
With his project it had to be very [Eb] different to what Def Leppard is because as I've said [Db] many times
I can't see the point of being in two bands that sound [Ebm] identical
So it [Bbm] had to be very different and most [Eb] of the songs on this album were written on a piano [Bbm] that gives it its
[Ab] _ Absolute [Db] distinction from Def Leppard
[Eb] So, you know eventually we got the album finished just before this whole [Db] tour kicked off this [Ab] year
So I've been sitting on it for like six or seven months
[Db] We got the artwork completed and we delivered it and [Db] now it's like [Ab] it's like just waiting to give birth
You know, it's like come on already _
_ _ [Eb] No, _ _ no, _ _ enough is enough
It ain't ever enough, [Db] now
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _