Chords for John Rzeznik signs 5 Guitars at Norman's Rare Guitars

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ Everybody, Norm here with Johnny Resnick.
How's it going?
This is a serious part of Google Doll history.
This was the first real guitar [N] that I owned. _
I bought it in 1990.
It was an ESP, which we later renamed Les Paul on the headstock.
And in 1990, this was the only guitar I owned.
And we had to hire a guitar tech to come on the road with us who owned another guitar,
so I had a backup when we were traveling.
So you don't really think lawyers suck, do you?
When they're on my side, they don't.
But it was an original, originally it was canary yellow.
It was this insane yellow color.
And then _ we wrapped it in electrical tape.
And _ _ I see you got a couple banjo tuners on here too.
That's unusual.
Because I use a lot of alternate tunings and I didn't have any other guitars, so we got
this brilliant idea to use two banjo tuners and there used to be a hip shot down on to
make the low E a D.
This would tune the B up to a C and this would tune the E up to
an F sharp.
So we could use all sorts of alternate tunings to play songs like Broadway and things like that.
_ So this guitar saw a lot of work.
This was with us until _ we opened for the Stones on the No Security Tour and I got that sticker
and put it on there when we started the tour with them.
And we got to do that tour with them.
Very nice.
Yeah.
Let's get [Bb] a _ pen and do a number on it.
Silver.
Silver [C] again.
Silver on this guy.
Okay.
I'll be the [N] easel. _ _ _ _ _
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[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ Very cool.
[Bb] _ Found his first real_
That was my first real guitar.
Yeah.
_ _ Cool.
He's got this guitar that he used on Name, right?
Yes.
[N] _
We used this _ _ on tours from I'd say 96 to about _ _ 2001 when I started using Taylor's on the road.
And this was the Name guitar. _
_ Name was actually the first song we got played on the radio.
And this was the guitar that I used _ live.
It's unusual without the F hole.
Yeah.
[Ab] There's nothing in it.
_ _ But we were still using wedges back then [E] so you couldn't have an open [C] hole guitar before
we went to the_
Feedback and all that.
Yeah, before we went to in-ears.
So this [G] was the guitar that sounded the [Ab] best and _ it still [Eb] holds that tune _ _ [Ab] _ almost 20 years [Db] later.
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[Eb] Yeah.
It's nice.
It still feels [Ab] good.
Thank you, my man.
Well, and that was with you [Gb] for quite a while too.
Well, obviously, yeah.
I mean, judging by_
It's a little_
It's got a little_
It's got some miles on it.
That's actual wear.
[Bb] That's what you want.
Yeah.
I mean, it worked for a living for a long time.
There you go.
_ _ So we'll use [Eb] a silver pen on this guy.
_ _ [N] _ I'll be the _ easel. _ _ _ _
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Very cool.
Awesome.
Thank you.
The Name guitar. _ _
We're getting some stuff.
This was all stage used.
Yes.
Really cool stuff.
Studio used too.
What was this one used on?
This is a Taylor 110 that I pulled two [G] strings off of [Am] because I use a lot of alternate tunings.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ Kind of, yeah.
It gets pretty strange at points.
And the other two strings [G] I felt were just getting in the way.
So this was used in the studio when we recorded the album Let Lovin' in _ _ 2006. _
Cool.
You used that tuning.
And I used this actual [Bb] guitar to play the acoustic part in Let Lovin' and when I went
into the warehouse to look for it, it was still tuned to that.
Same one.
A little [B] out of tune.
It was [Bm] closed.
_ _ [D] _
So if anybody knows that song, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ that is _ _ [Am] the tuning [N] for that.
Very nice, my man.
Thank you.
So can we get you to sign that?
Sure.
Absolutely. _ _ _
_ _ _ Right _ _ there?
That way, yeah. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Perfect.
Nice.
All right.
_ _ We got this guitar.
You call this one Greta, right?
I call it Greta, yeah.
It's a Gretsch guitar. _
_ _ _ And I used this, I bought this at the beginning of the Dizzy Up The Girl tour, which was,
_ oh gosh, 99, _ 99-2000.
And it's a Gretsch guitar.
And when we were traveling through Europe, I stopped at a truck stop and I got these
stickers and this was a Dizzy Up The Girl sticker that we made.
_ _ _ _ I taped over the little thing that said Gretsch and called it junk.
[Bb] I'm sure the people at Gretsch would love that.
Yeah, you know.
I guess that wasn't an [Em] endorsement.
No, [Ab] no, I paid for this guy.
But yeah, this was out on tour with us for about [Gm] five years.
What did you use [A] this one on, man?
[Ab] _
[Bb] Broadway _ _ was always a song that this went to.
It was also in a couple of guitar magazines as well.
Cool.
So, you know, _ once again, it was a working man's guitar for a long time.
_ Well, you're a working man and that's, you know.
You _ _ know, it _ [Ab] brought back a lot of memories.
I haven't seen it in years, you know, when I was going [D] through the warehouse.
I was like, oh my God.
Brought back memories.
[Ab] Oh, it really did.
It got kind of sentimental with it. _ _
_ _ For about ten minutes.
For about ten minutes. _
There you go.
Let's use [Bb] a black pen on this guy.
_ [Eb]
Okay.
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_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Cool.
There you have it. _ _ _
Greta.
Well, we're talking about this guitar right here, which is a cool PRS that Johnny just signed.
And there's some history with this guitar, right?
Yeah, this is a MIDI guitar and I was using it to try and experiment with keyboard parts
_ because I can't play keyboards.
So I was trying to do it with a guitar and it worked pretty well.
You know, it worked pretty well.
You can add a lot of effects that way too.
Yeah, you can do a lot of really interesting things, you know, like doubling guitar parts
with weird [Gm] keyboard things that you wouldn't, I mean, you know, the fingering for something,
you know, is [N] much different than _ a piano player would use.
[Bb] What did you use this on?
Well, we, this guitar actually, we only used it in the studio _ and we used it on, for the
first Transformers soundtrack.
Wow.
Yeah, we wrote a song for the film [Am] and _ [Em] we [C] _ _ _
put it in Nashville tuning and then made an
alternate tuning out of it, which it's still in.
Very cool.
Yeah.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Nice.
_ _ _ _ Got a nice ring to it.
Yeah, it was really, if you can check out the first Transformers movie, it's [G] in the
film, _ a song called Hold On.
[N] And yeah, there we are.
Well, listen, Johnny, I can't thank you enough.
He's one of the really good guys in rock and roll, the Goo Goo Dolls.
Great band.
_ Johnny is the man and Johnny is a good, generous guy who came in to try to do something to
help this guy, Mark Pollack, too.
So I'm very thankful.
I'm grateful to you too, man.
Thank you.
Thank you, my man.
Thanks. _ _ _