Chords for Jas Minhas interviews T Rextasy (T. Rex tribute) at Glastonbudget, 27/05/18

[A] I have with me a man who likes to boogie on a Saturday night and can you introduce yourself please?
Yeah on a Sunday night as well.
[E] My name is Daniels and I'm the lead singer and lead guitarist [G] from T [D]-Rex to see.
You put on a great performance, how was it for you?
Great, [G] it's great.
I mean we played Glastonbudget quite a few times over the years.
We were one of the first bands [Ab] to actually play the [Eb] very first Glastonbudget [N] whenever that was.
We were here right from the start.
So how long ago was that?
A good few years, a good few years.
We miss, you know, other than sort of missing the odd year.
[Ab] It's lovely to get [Eb] back here and give it [Am] to them all again.
[N] You certainly got the look.
I mean the T-Rex thing, did that just kind of drop in your lap or did it take you a while to find?
Have you done all the tributes?
Oh no, I would never do it.
If I [Ebm] didn't do a T-Rex thing I wouldn't [Bm] do anyone else.
I mean, you know, [Gb] Mark Bowman's been kind of an idol [B] of mine since like 1972.
So I was being like, a [E] lot of musicians really that do tributes, you know,
they go through [G] writing their own material, can't get the deal.
[D] I know what I'll [G] do, I'll form a tribute.
When I [Am] formed T-Rex, [C] it was in 1992, [Am] there were no tribute bands.
There was the Count of Whitstones, [G] Bootleg Beatles, Bjorn [C] again, Australian Doors, most of them from Australia.
[Ab] So when [Gb] I formed T-Rex, I just wanted to show people, you know,
Mark Bowman wasn't this fake guy on top of the pops that used to mime his guitar.
You know, he was a rock and roller and I wanted to portray that side of Mark Bowman,
really give it some rock and roll, you know.
So how long have you been performing then?
Well, yeah, I was in an original band in the 80s [Ab] called Tara Zara, a rock band.
And [G] then again, I didn't get the deal I wanted.
[N] A few years passed, I thought, you know, I'm just going to go out there,
play a few pubs two or three [G] times a month, see what happens.
[A] All of a sudden, [D] oh, [Am] it must have been about six [E] months later,
[Eb]
we started getting [G] gigs with, you remember Slade and Swee's and Gary Glitter?
We were playing all these big gigs [Cm] with these people and I thought, this is okay.
And then we went out on our own and we started filling theatres on our [G] own.
[E] And 25 years down the line, I'm [B] still doing it [D] because it still feels great.
[E] And I've got to say, you're doing it very well.
Daniel, [Ebm] you clearly used a lot of confidence on stage.
Do you still get the butterflies before you go on?
[Ab] Absolutely, yeah.
I think if the day comes that I'm not nervous at all, I [D] think that's the day to stop.
[Bm] You've got to have that [Dbm] anxiety [E] and think, oh my God, is it going to be okay?
Is my guitar okay?
[G] Is my voice going to be all [Bm] right?
Are the crowd going to like it?
[E] I still feel that 25 years down the line.
But as soon as you go on and hit that first chord, it's always amazing.
And [G] I love every single gig because every single gig to me
kind of feels like the first time because I just love doing it.
Did you ever meet Mark?
Never met Mark, but I did have original [Ab] people in the band.
Mark's keyboard player, Dino Dines, [Bm] a real seasoned keyboard player.
He was in T-Rex to see for the last few years of his life.
He sadly died of a heart [Ab] attack.
Otherwise, he'd still be [Em] with me now.
But it was [D] crazy having an original member in my tribute band.
But we've had Mickey Finn on stage with us.
He's no longer around again.
And we've had people like I played with Miller Anderson, who was Mark's second guitarist.
Jack Green, who was Mark's second guitarist.
They've been [G] guests.
[Eb] Bill Legend, Mark's original drummer.
[D] I've played with him a few [C] times.
So it's nice to have [Eb] original T-Rex people [E] giving us [G] their endorsement, if you like.
What's nice is great people that own Mark Boland's catalogue, Edsel and Spirit,
they've endorsed [Em] us as the actual official tribute, which is [D] nice.
[G] Also, Daniels, I mean, _ [Db] June Boland, Mark's wife,
after seeing [B] you guys perform at Wembley Arena, commented,
if there was [Am] anyone to [B] follow in Mark's shoes, I'd like it to be you.
That must have been fantastic.
That was nice.
I mean, that was in [G] the early [Dm] 90s.
We did all the big [C] arenas.
We played like Wembley Arena [E] and the Birmingham A&E,
and all those sort of big places with Gary Glitter.
June Boland knew [Cm] Gary Glitter's manager, so she [Em] didn't come to see me.
She came to see Gary Glitter.
[Ab] Right.
And then we were supporting.
We went on stage, [Em] and that's when she saw, and literally she said,
my God, when I saw [B] Daniels on stage, I nearly had a heart [Ab] attack.
And we used to use that as a tagline.
But the reason we took that out is because, sadly, a few years later,
she [Abm] was on holiday in Turkey.
She actually died of a heart attack.
So we thought it was in bad taste to use [Gbm] that quote.
[E] But that's what she said.
[G] We spent [Em] a long time backstage at Wembley Arena chatting about Mark
and her marriage to Mark and what great times they had.
And she still wore Mark's wedding ring,
[D] even though they were kind of split up at that time.
But she [E] actually still wore his wedding ring, which was quite nice.
Well, which track do you like performing most?
_ [Em] Probably, I would say, album tracks, which you don't get a chance.
Because our [G] regular show in theatres, it's two hours long.
We go [E] out and do an hour.
We do a few acoustic songs with the band as well.
Then we go off, we come back, and then we [G] do an hour of hits.
So my favourite tracks, really, [D] to play live,
is kind [E] of showing people, new fans, [B] listen to this track.
You've never heard this before, [D] probably.
And then emailing later and saying, [F] what's that track, third song, [Gm] first set?
And it could be like a song called Jitterbug [G] Love or something.
And it's a B-side.
And they say, that song was fantastic.
[D] So getting new people into the fold, if you like,
[A] kind of brings me a lot of pleasure, really, to think [N] that,
yeah, if we hadn't played that song, they would never have heard that song before.
So the catalogue you select for the festivals,
obviously, festival performance differs from a_ Greatly.
It's got to be, [D] because at festivals, most people are, you know,
kind of casual [E] people who [Ab] want to hear the singles.
They want to hear the hits.
If you don't play [Em] the hits, then they go away disappointed.
Our theatre shows are different because we gain hundreds of [E] diehard fans,
people that were there at the time.
They want to hear acoustic songs.
They want to hear B-sides.
They want to hear the odd album track, that kind of thing.
So it's a lot of scope.
So we can play lots of different songs.
But, you know, doing festivals is great fun.
Sure.
Because [G] every song's a hit.
And tonight it was [D] great because we thought,
let's do [G] Teenage Kicks by The Undertones,
because it's got that, you know, [Abm] kind of that_
[E] He had that vibrato in his voice.
And we thought The Undertones, great song.
John Peel, who loved T-Rex, also loved The Undertones.
That was his favourite song of all time, Teenage Kicks.
We thought, it's a nice thing to do.
[G] Same as Summertime Blues, you know.
Daniel, I mean, we could talk on that.
Just one final question.
Has there been a sort of a standout funny [Ab] moment or disaster,
you know, in all those years?
_ Yeah, there's been a few.
Some [G] embarrassing ones.
I think the most embarrassing one was_
Actually, the one that springs to mind is in Japan.
It's our second tour in Japan.
And I used [D] to wear a pack on my back instead of a [A] guitar lead.
They didn't [Bb] have bugs [B] those days.
It had to be a pack, guitar pack.
And I actually [A]
[Ab] slipped because I wear these shoes that I'm wearing.
[B] They're called Enelo and David shoes.
This is what Mark [Em] wore.
He never used to wear [Bm] stack heels.
He used to wear these women's tap [D] shoes.
And [Dbm] there's no sole on them.
So the stage was really slippy.
And you know, I do a lot [E] of kicks and stuff.
And I kicked and I fell right on my back.
Right on my back.
The worst thing, it smashed into [F] my guitar.
Right.
_ [D] _ Yeah, and [Em] everything.
For that few couple of minutes, it seemed like hours.
[D] Couple of minutes, the show had to stop because I had to sort out [E] my guitar.
So that wasn't too_
Looking back [D] now, it's funny.
But at the time, especially [E] when the people watching you were like a few [D] hundred Japanese [Db] people,
you [D] couldn't explain what happened because [C] they're Japanese.
[A] So it made it kind of [E] worse.
If it was [Db] in this country, I [F] could have said, oh, laugh it off.
This is what happened.
But it's very difficult for hundreds of Japanese people who never [E] spoke English.
So it all [Ab] made it snowball into [E] this catastrophe.
But thankfully, [D] I use a guitar [G] bug now and that doesn't happen [N] anymore.
Fantastic, Daniels.
I mean, you clearly enjoy what you [D] do and you were awesome tonight.
So thanks for entertaining us.
Thank you very much.
It's been a pleasure.
Fantastic.
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