Chords for Interpol on The Specials, Nirvana & their first ever live show | Firsts

[Eb] The first couple shows were pretty train [B] wreckish.
I mean, also we kept [Ab] changing our name for the first eight shows, [Eb] so it wasn't the most helpful thing.
But maybe it was actually helpful in [B] some ways.
Because we're so bad.
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_ [Abm] Hi, we're Interpol and these are our [Ab] firsts for Enemy.
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_ _ The first artist I fell in love with was Michael Jackson. _
I got, I guess it was [N] Thriller on a cassette _ when I was probably five or six.
The first artist that I fell in love with, and I have to say that it was probably more like first memories of being kind of enamored.
I think it was actually just seeing the specials somewhere when I was a really little kid.
I think it was less to do about understanding or even remembering hearing their music.
And more just seeing them and thinking, that's [Eb] the coolest band I've ever seen.
And it had a big [Ab] impact on me.
I just remember having my own, like, I [N] really like this.
And it felt like a very individual sort of reaction to it.
Somehow it's a really fresh memory. _
_ _ I don't know if it's really a band t-shirt.
But it was, I was living in Washington, D.C.
And my mother was coming back to England.
And I asked her, I was crazy about the Sex Pistols at that moment.
I asked her if she could get me a Sex Pistols shirt.
And she brought me back a Sid Vicious shirt that said, [G] Drugs Kill.
Still wore that like every day that I could.
But yeah, that was the first band t-shirt I had.
Yeah, I guess the first rock t-shirt that I had might have been pretty late.
But it's noteworthy because it was the _ original Nirvana superfan.
And so around Bleach there was the black shirt with the yellow smiley face.
That is still like ubiquitous.
Which I think kind of speaks to the quality of that particular design.
And just the enduring legacy of Nirvana.
But yeah, I had the original version of the yellow ex-smiley face Nirvana [Cm] t-shirt.
[D] _ _ [Eb] _
I mean it was, I guess Google was around.
But maybe I didn't know that you could like put quotation [C] marks and like search quotes on Google at that point.
So I wanted this Henry Miller quote which was,
Not wholly lost but deeply airing.
And it's either from Sexist Nexus or Plexus.
And it was supposed to be like a reflection on like you know,
Taking accountability of like past mistakes and like the lifestyle choices I had made, etc.
But what's kind of funny is I misremembered it as like,
Not wholly wrong but deeply airing.
And so I got the wrong version of that quote tattooed on me.
So it's not wholly wrong version of the correct quote.
But yeah, so it should be not wholly lost but deeply airing.
And I have not wholly wrong but deeply airing.
I would just rewrite that.
Like you customize it.
You made it your own.
Or just like do the line through it.
And then like fix it. _ _ _
Her first job that I had was making frozen pizzas in the freezer section of a supermarket in New Jersey.
Where there was like this little like hut in the middle of the freezer section.
[G] And I didn't have a pizza oven.
Or maybe I did.
But it was really just like taking the raw dough and like making,
You know, pizzas.
Like putting the toppings on these pizzas and then packaging them and selling them.
And I remember kind of like, I don't know if you remember this movie Mannequin.
Where it's like, I feel like the guy is sort of overly passionate about his job.
And I was sort of similarly like, you know, as far as like pepperoni allocation and like cheese ratios and shit.
Like really took it very seriously.
But I was probably like, yeah, 15 or 16.
I mean I did like odd jobs like, you know, mowing lawns and things like that.
And you know, and painting.
You know, whatever odd jobs is, you know, to say.
But the first proper job was working in a bakery.
_ Which was cool.
It was actually a good bakery.
And at the end of the night you get to take home whatever bread was left over.
So it all just like bring home a ton of bread.
But [Gm] yeah, it was cool.
_ _ [Fm] _ [Gm] _ As a band, I feel like the first song we wrote that actually became a song,
Sort of I think might [F] have been PDA.
[C] Yeah, I mean you guys were working on that when I joined the band.
I had known Carlos from around campus.
[Cm] And he was someone that I sort of like eyeballed and liked [G] his vibe.
[F] And yeah, obviously I was [Cm] very impressed.
I mean PDA was [F] pretty much, [B] I guess, you know, [Cm] your part and the bass line was probably [Dm] written already.
[Cm] And then I think Carlos wrote my guitar [F] part in that song.
Except for the [Cm] outro.
So I was, yeah, I was [Gm] pretty impressed.
_ _ [N] _ That first show we played was Baby Jupiter in 1998.
Pretty disastrous I think.
At least I broke a string and then had to real time change it on stage.
It [B] was someone I knew gave us that show.
And it wasn't a bad place, but it was sort of like a restaurant slash lounge.
So it was just sort of a mixture and you're kind of melting on stage.
But I feel like every first show has to be sort of train wreck-ish.
The first couple shows were pretty train wreck-ish.
Also we kept changing our name for [Gm] the first eight shows.
So it wasn't the most helpful thing.
But maybe it was actually helpful in some ways.
Because we're so bad. _
[F] _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ [Dm] I think the first time we heard a song on the [Gb] radio was when we had done [Em] the Peel session.
[Dm] And then it was going to [Am] be, you know, that was the Peel, John Peel show that night.
And I remember that we actually did like clamber around to listen to it.
I guess it was like streaming back then.
I don't know how we did, but I thought we kind of timed to listen in real time.
So that feels like the first memory for me.
[C] _ _ _
Yeah, I think the first festival we performed at was_
Oh, Île de Mont-Rompa.
Good job, man.
Thank you very much.
Those two, Chemical Underground, they were friends with this French festival in Brittany
that was in a really small town called Morant.
And Île de Mont-Rompa is like a sort of pun on, they won't have me.
And the guy who ran that festival was, you know, he liked our demo, Chemical Underground,
and passed on our first demo to him.
And he invited us to play, gave us like a small budget,
but enough for us to fly over and just sort of like scramble and play this show.
[N] But it was a pretty great experience. _ _ _ _
Take a minute.
First thing I do when I get off stage.
_ Berate my bandmates for mistakes they made.
You hit 242 of.
Have a tantrum. _
Just throw shit around the dressing room.
_ No, I mean, I probably have a drink.
_ _ Made out of coffee.
[Dm] _
_ _ _ [F] It's just exciting.
It's just nice to finally have this thing out there.
And to, you know, to the people who are interested in hearing it, and our fans and so forth,
just to see their reaction, gauge it.
And I would imagine we'll probably be playing some shows or doing [Gm] something.
So it'll be fun to be playing those songs live.
[Dm]
Or being on the beach somewhere.
I'm not sure.
Yeah, one of the two.
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