Chords for interview w/ Carlos Santana on the life and death of Jerry Garcia from 8-9-95 Grateful Dead
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Action has always been to get people to celebrate.
It produces the heroic background music for your own life.
Tonight, people are celebrating the life and mourning the death of Jerry Garcia.
Sylvia Chase, who hails from San Francisco, reports on a well-loved man
who got a band together in that city and took it on the road.
[F#]
[A] One long strange trip [E] it's been.
Had the news of Jerry Garcia's death reached them, mourners of all sorts paid respects.
In San Francisco, there was a kind of citywide spontaneous wake.
[A] It was as if a member of the family was dead.
[D]
That older brother who'd always inspired you.
[F] Or maybe even a [G] dad.
[F#] Which may seem [A] peculiar, considering Jerry Garcia will be [Bm] remembered as a kind of Pied Piper of disaffected youth.
[D] There's [G] always breakout music that [C] belongs just to kids.
You know, [G] and it should always be as offensive as possible to adults.
Garcia said that in an interview with ABC's Jeff Greenfield,
[A] explaining the appeal of his band, The Grateful Dead,
which grew [A] alongside the Flower [Em] Children, the hippies [A] of Hate Ashbury,
that once infamous San Francisco intersection which became the symbol for sex, [F#] drugs, and rock and roll.
[Em] In short, every parent's worst [D] nightmare.
[C] Driving that train, high on cocaine.
San [F] Francisco's Carlos Santana, another great guitar player, [C] was there at the beginning.
At that time, I didn't get it.
It [G] just went right over my [E] head.
My consciousness was not there yet.
It was kind [C#] of dorky to me at that [B] time, to tell you the truth.
[A#m] Jerry Garcia looked like [G#] some sort of stone hippie to you.
[B] They just looked [A] like [G] psychedelic cowboys or something.
The colors on the by, [A] all in the river, I [G] ain't left.
But what musicians like Santana grew to admire about Garcia
[G] was that his music drew on diverse sources, from folk to [E] jazz.
Grateful Dead concerts were spontaneous, [G] different each night.
[D] Improvisations might go on and on,
the sort of [A] theme and variation you heard from greats like Miles Davis [G] or John Coltrane.
His humor and [F#] his ideas and his whole behavior was,
it was like a [B] consciousness revolution in general.
Changing [G] the consciousness [E] of this planet.
[G#] Someone said that the Grateful [E] Dead learned in the 60s [F#] how to give a party,
and they've been doing it ever since.
They kind of played with you because they wanted you to be [G] part of it.
David Frick, senior editor of Rolling Stone magazine,
[D#] says that's why [E] the band developed that following known as the Deadheads,
a [A#] fiercely loyal coterie from all walks of [D] life,
which follows the band wherever it [Em] goes.
And anyone who's been [C] to a Grateful Dead concert,
[Em] even in the [D#] 90s, that [Dm] feeling has always been there.
They [E] carried it with them all [N] through the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s
because they just believed that that kind of vibe doesn't have a sell-by date.
It's not something that [G] goes in and out of fashion.
And that was evident today even on that upscale bulletin board known as the Internet,
where chat rooms were clogged with messages for Jerry Garcia.
Carlos Santana speaks of his close friend Jerry Garcia [B] in the language of their generation.
What [N] does he stand for to you?
For the highest good of all people.
Peace, love, joy, racial consciousness.
You stay high.
Not necessarily drugged, but high.
You can only get high by serving people.
That is the truth.
I can't imagine rock and roll without the Dead or Dead without Garcia,
but I know for a [F#] fact that that music's always going to be there.
[B] The music doesn't go away, and the meaning and [D#m] the impact isn't going to go away.
[F#] [E] [G#]
It produces the heroic background music for your own life.
Tonight, people are celebrating the life and mourning the death of Jerry Garcia.
Sylvia Chase, who hails from San Francisco, reports on a well-loved man
who got a band together in that city and took it on the road.
[F#]
[A] One long strange trip [E] it's been.
Had the news of Jerry Garcia's death reached them, mourners of all sorts paid respects.
In San Francisco, there was a kind of citywide spontaneous wake.
[A] It was as if a member of the family was dead.
[D]
That older brother who'd always inspired you.
[F] Or maybe even a [G] dad.
[F#] Which may seem [A] peculiar, considering Jerry Garcia will be [Bm] remembered as a kind of Pied Piper of disaffected youth.
[D] There's [G] always breakout music that [C] belongs just to kids.
You know, [G] and it should always be as offensive as possible to adults.
Garcia said that in an interview with ABC's Jeff Greenfield,
[A] explaining the appeal of his band, The Grateful Dead,
which grew [A] alongside the Flower [Em] Children, the hippies [A] of Hate Ashbury,
that once infamous San Francisco intersection which became the symbol for sex, [F#] drugs, and rock and roll.
[Em] In short, every parent's worst [D] nightmare.
[C] Driving that train, high on cocaine.
San [F] Francisco's Carlos Santana, another great guitar player, [C] was there at the beginning.
At that time, I didn't get it.
It [G] just went right over my [E] head.
My consciousness was not there yet.
It was kind [C#] of dorky to me at that [B] time, to tell you the truth.
[A#m] Jerry Garcia looked like [G#] some sort of stone hippie to you.
[B] They just looked [A] like [G] psychedelic cowboys or something.
The colors on the by, [A] all in the river, I [G] ain't left.
But what musicians like Santana grew to admire about Garcia
[G] was that his music drew on diverse sources, from folk to [E] jazz.
Grateful Dead concerts were spontaneous, [G] different each night.
[D] Improvisations might go on and on,
the sort of [A] theme and variation you heard from greats like Miles Davis [G] or John Coltrane.
His humor and [F#] his ideas and his whole behavior was,
it was like a [B] consciousness revolution in general.
Changing [G] the consciousness [E] of this planet.
[G#] Someone said that the Grateful [E] Dead learned in the 60s [F#] how to give a party,
and they've been doing it ever since.
They kind of played with you because they wanted you to be [G] part of it.
David Frick, senior editor of Rolling Stone magazine,
[D#] says that's why [E] the band developed that following known as the Deadheads,
a [A#] fiercely loyal coterie from all walks of [D] life,
which follows the band wherever it [Em] goes.
And anyone who's been [C] to a Grateful Dead concert,
[Em] even in the [D#] 90s, that [Dm] feeling has always been there.
They [E] carried it with them all [N] through the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s
because they just believed that that kind of vibe doesn't have a sell-by date.
It's not something that [G] goes in and out of fashion.
And that was evident today even on that upscale bulletin board known as the Internet,
where chat rooms were clogged with messages for Jerry Garcia.
Carlos Santana speaks of his close friend Jerry Garcia [B] in the language of their generation.
What [N] does he stand for to you?
For the highest good of all people.
Peace, love, joy, racial consciousness.
You stay high.
Not necessarily drugged, but high.
You can only get high by serving people.
That is the truth.
I can't imagine rock and roll without the Dead or Dead without Garcia,
but I know for a [F#] fact that that music's always going to be there.
[B] The music doesn't go away, and the meaning and [D#m] the impact isn't going to go away.
[F#] [E] [G#]
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Action has always been to get people to celebrate.
It produces the heroic background music for your own life.
Tonight, people are celebrating the life and mourning the death of Jerry Garcia.
Sylvia Chase, who hails from San Francisco, reports on a well-loved man
who got a band together in that city and took it on the road.
_ [F#] _
[A] One long strange trip [E] it's been.
_ Had the news of Jerry Garcia's death reached them, mourners of all sorts paid respects.
In San Francisco, there was a kind of citywide spontaneous wake.
[A] It was as if a member of the family was dead.
[D]
That older brother who'd always inspired you.
[F] Or maybe even a [G] dad.
[F#] Which may seem [A] peculiar, considering Jerry Garcia will be [Bm] remembered as a kind of Pied Piper of disaffected youth.
[D] There's [G] always breakout music that [C] belongs just to kids.
You know, [G] and it should always be as offensive as possible to adults.
Garcia said that in an interview with ABC's Jeff Greenfield,
[A] explaining the appeal of his band, The Grateful Dead,
which grew [A] alongside the Flower [Em] Children, the hippies [A] of Hate Ashbury,
that once infamous San Francisco intersection which became the symbol for sex, [F#] drugs, and rock and roll.
[Em] In short, every parent's worst [D] nightmare.
_ [C] _ _ Driving that train, high on cocaine.
San [F] Francisco's Carlos Santana, another great guitar player, [C] was there at the beginning.
At that time, I didn't get it.
It [G] just went right over my [E] head.
My consciousness was not there yet.
It _ was kind [C#] of dorky to me at that [B] time, to tell you the truth.
[A#m] Jerry Garcia looked like [G#] some sort of stone hippie to you.
[B] They just looked [A] like _ [G] psychedelic cowboys or something.
The colors on the by, [A] all in the river, I [G] ain't left.
But what musicians like Santana grew to admire about Garcia
[G] was that his music drew on diverse sources, from folk to [E] jazz.
Grateful Dead concerts were spontaneous, [G] different each night.
[D] Improvisations might go on and on,
the sort of [A] theme and variation you heard from greats like Miles Davis [G] or John Coltrane.
His humor and [F#] his ideas and his whole behavior was,
it was like a [B] consciousness revolution in general.
_ _ Changing [G] the consciousness [E] of this planet.
_ _ _ _ [G#] Someone said that the Grateful [E] Dead learned in the 60s [F#] how to give a party,
and they've been doing it ever since.
They kind of played with you because they wanted you to be [G] part of it.
David Frick, senior editor of Rolling Stone magazine,
[D#] says that's why [E] the band developed that following known as the Deadheads,
a [A#] fiercely loyal coterie from all walks of [D] life,
which follows the band wherever it [Em] goes.
And anyone who's been [C] to a Grateful Dead concert,
_ [Em] even in the [D#] 90s, that [Dm] feeling has always been there.
They [E] carried it with them all [N] through the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s
because they just believed that that kind of _ vibe doesn't have a sell-by date.
It's not something that [G] goes in and out of fashion.
And that was evident today even on that upscale bulletin board known as the Internet,
where chat rooms were clogged with messages for Jerry Garcia.
Carlos Santana speaks of his close friend Jerry Garcia [B] in the language of their generation.
What [N] does he stand for to you?
_ For the highest good of all people. _
_ Peace, love, joy, racial consciousness.
_ _ You stay high.
Not necessarily drugged, but high.
You can only get high by serving people.
That is the truth.
I can't imagine rock and roll without the Dead or Dead without Garcia,
but I know for a [F#] fact that that music's always going to be there.
[B] The music doesn't go away, and the meaning and [D#m] the impact isn't going to go away.
[F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [G#]
It produces the heroic background music for your own life.
Tonight, people are celebrating the life and mourning the death of Jerry Garcia.
Sylvia Chase, who hails from San Francisco, reports on a well-loved man
who got a band together in that city and took it on the road.
_ [F#] _
[A] One long strange trip [E] it's been.
_ Had the news of Jerry Garcia's death reached them, mourners of all sorts paid respects.
In San Francisco, there was a kind of citywide spontaneous wake.
[A] It was as if a member of the family was dead.
[D]
That older brother who'd always inspired you.
[F] Or maybe even a [G] dad.
[F#] Which may seem [A] peculiar, considering Jerry Garcia will be [Bm] remembered as a kind of Pied Piper of disaffected youth.
[D] There's [G] always breakout music that [C] belongs just to kids.
You know, [G] and it should always be as offensive as possible to adults.
Garcia said that in an interview with ABC's Jeff Greenfield,
[A] explaining the appeal of his band, The Grateful Dead,
which grew [A] alongside the Flower [Em] Children, the hippies [A] of Hate Ashbury,
that once infamous San Francisco intersection which became the symbol for sex, [F#] drugs, and rock and roll.
[Em] In short, every parent's worst [D] nightmare.
_ [C] _ _ Driving that train, high on cocaine.
San [F] Francisco's Carlos Santana, another great guitar player, [C] was there at the beginning.
At that time, I didn't get it.
It [G] just went right over my [E] head.
My consciousness was not there yet.
It _ was kind [C#] of dorky to me at that [B] time, to tell you the truth.
[A#m] Jerry Garcia looked like [G#] some sort of stone hippie to you.
[B] They just looked [A] like _ [G] psychedelic cowboys or something.
The colors on the by, [A] all in the river, I [G] ain't left.
But what musicians like Santana grew to admire about Garcia
[G] was that his music drew on diverse sources, from folk to [E] jazz.
Grateful Dead concerts were spontaneous, [G] different each night.
[D] Improvisations might go on and on,
the sort of [A] theme and variation you heard from greats like Miles Davis [G] or John Coltrane.
His humor and [F#] his ideas and his whole behavior was,
it was like a [B] consciousness revolution in general.
_ _ Changing [G] the consciousness [E] of this planet.
_ _ _ _ [G#] Someone said that the Grateful [E] Dead learned in the 60s [F#] how to give a party,
and they've been doing it ever since.
They kind of played with you because they wanted you to be [G] part of it.
David Frick, senior editor of Rolling Stone magazine,
[D#] says that's why [E] the band developed that following known as the Deadheads,
a [A#] fiercely loyal coterie from all walks of [D] life,
which follows the band wherever it [Em] goes.
And anyone who's been [C] to a Grateful Dead concert,
_ [Em] even in the [D#] 90s, that [Dm] feeling has always been there.
They [E] carried it with them all [N] through the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s
because they just believed that that kind of _ vibe doesn't have a sell-by date.
It's not something that [G] goes in and out of fashion.
And that was evident today even on that upscale bulletin board known as the Internet,
where chat rooms were clogged with messages for Jerry Garcia.
Carlos Santana speaks of his close friend Jerry Garcia [B] in the language of their generation.
What [N] does he stand for to you?
_ For the highest good of all people. _
_ Peace, love, joy, racial consciousness.
_ _ You stay high.
Not necessarily drugged, but high.
You can only get high by serving people.
That is the truth.
I can't imagine rock and roll without the Dead or Dead without Garcia,
but I know for a [F#] fact that that music's always going to be there.
[B] The music doesn't go away, and the meaning and [D#m] the impact isn't going to go away.
[F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [G#]