Chords for Johnny Marr - "The Headmaster Ritual" - Fender Amps Interview 2009

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_ [E] I used to use one of these quite a lot in the there. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [N] So you record that and you listen to it in the control room and it may as well be that
big you know.
If someone doesn't want to have a [Am] whole load of pedals and [G#m] they want to sort [Gm] of get a little
kind of riff [A]-tastic.
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[D] [G] riff like yeah.
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Which I absolutely, you know, [N] really really wish that I wrote.
Every day I wish that I wrote that riff. Who doesn't?
It sounds just right on _ that.
So _ the generation [D#] slightly above me, they were all about Marshalls.
You know because I think they were still kind of like Hendrix and that era of musicians.
[E] Or maybe High Watts.
Marshalls and High Watts.
You know Pete Townshend. _
_ But it's funny you know, you have guitar culture is a very, _ you can map it out.
Guitar culture to me I can map out you know.
And I find that really interesting like the fashions.
Now I don't know whether you're going to be able to pick it up on a [A] video.
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[G] _ _ _ _ when I talk about this sort of thing to people, [N] they kind of go oh yeah I kind
of get it.
I say, like again in that last video, I say big and clean but with attitude and driving
and stuff like that.
I can see that sometimes you know, when you talk about sound it's kind of a strange thing
to find the right language.
It's like talking about color you know.
Nuances of things.
But _ _ [G#] _ [E] I sometimes think that if I'm talking about that it can be mistaken for hi-fi.
Because people have this idea of my sound being _ clean you know.
But what I like about the Deluxe is that it does have that [F] kind of attitude.
_ It's [G] not distorted but _ it's kind of got this pumping thing you know.
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_ I wouldn't want to play just hi-fi.
[E] I wouldn't want to play distorted because you can't come back from it.
So I mean I'll just demonstrate what I usually say.
[D] _ _ [G] So _ _ _ I kind of have that as my [Bm] _ _
main sort of picture [Em] if you like.
_ Various degrees you know.
This to me is perfect but if I'm playing live I need a bigger situation which I'll talk
about in a while.
And then within that [A] then, _ _ _ [E] if I want some [A] drive you [D]
know.
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So [B] _ [C] _ [F] that's [D] not hi-fi in my [C] book you know.
I personally prefer this because I can sort of do some stuff [G#] inside [A] of it you know.
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_ And [B] _ I used it on the record, the Cribs record to do some [Am] _ [A] aggressive kind of rhythm thing.
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ And that actually does something that _ my beloved Deluxe doesn't do.
_ It has kind of, you know, it's got teeth about it.
It's got some sort of grit but it's still like a little like, I have a kind of like
a little bit of lateral thinking.
But I always, I like _ rock and roll to not get too far away from kind of like mods really.
I don't like it to just be too testosterone kind of.
For me you know, I like stuff to have attitude and obviously the Healers stuff has got a
lot of attitude and everything but it never gets too kind of, never gets too Harley Davidson.
I can appreciate that vibe _ but for me it's always got to be like, you know, I'd always
take a scooter over that any day really.
And _ _ yeah, I don't like that kind of like _ metal culture.
It's just _ not for me, you know.
_ But I like aggression and I like attitude [Bm] and _ kind of rhythm stuff that I do.
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As I said before, it's not quite as clean as what people think.
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so it works for that, that kind of thing.
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_ And the Deluxe, as much as I love it, it would be almost too clear.
It needs that [B] _ _
_ _ aggression which is rock, rock music.
But [Cm] keep it on the side of the, keep it on the