Chords for History behind Joe Elliott's Side Band Down 'n' Outz

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
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