Chords for Jonathan Richman/John Cale Interviewed - Vincent Van Gogh Live

Six hours a year [C] I'll sit like that.
So I start tumbling around.
And [D] that's the only reason you do it.
You're fairly muscley.
I thought you might be into a physical fitness.
Well not weightlift.
But I like to move around a lot.
Do you prefer to work live [Eb] solo or live with the [C] band?
Oh, if I could have had the whole Modern Lovers here, they'd be here.
But the funny thing is, solo works pretty good for TV.
Like if there was a big dance hall situation, then I'd definitely miss the band.
But this works pretty good.
When you [N] were on a television show in Sydney the other morning, you wrote a song while you were there.
How prolific are you?
Do you write [Em] all day, every day, wherever you are?
No, if he hadn't challenged me to make [Ab] up a song before the show was over, [A] I wouldn't have made up a song that day.
So you're not sort of like Rod McKeown who goes around with a [Em] pen and paper and jots down things [E] for verse and songs all the time.
Sometimes I do.
I've [Ab] got a notebook.
I make up ideas.
But sometimes I'll make up one song a month [Em] or something.
What did you think of [Gb] the Aussie audiences the other night when you worked in Sydney?
I think they were confused a little.
Do you think so?
I've [G] heard good reports.
Yeah, well, I just think they were confused.
Sometimes they were almost so [E] quiet that I wondered whether anyone was [Ab] there.
[E] How would you describe the blend between yourself [C] and John?
Kind of like Bozo the Clown [N] opening for John Paul Sartre.
We'll find out how you met John in [G] just a moment.
Will you do that song for us now?
Sure.
What's this one called?
Let [Gb] me see.
Why don't we do Vincent Van [D] Gogh?
Yeah, well, why not, John?
Okay.
Are you ready?
Okay.
Okay, then I'm [G] ready too.
Well, have you heard about the painter [D] Vincent Van Gogh
[C] Who loved color and he [G] let it show
And in a [D] museum, what have we here
[G] The baddest painter since ancient Jan Vermeer
See, he loved, [A] he loved, he loved life so bad
[G] His paintings had full twice the color that other paintings had
So bad, so bad that the world had to know
The man loved color and he let it show _ _ _ _ _ _
So, what can we say [A] about this Vincent Van Gogh
[G] He loved color and he let it show
And [Bm] in a museum, what have we [B] here
The baddest [C] painter since Jan [G] Vermeer
See, he loved, [D] he loved, he loved life so [G] bad
His paintings had full [G] twice the color that other paintings had
So bad, so bad that the world had to know
The man loved color and he let [Em] it show
Vincent [C] Van Gogh, Vincent [G] Van Gogh
Jonathan [D] Richman, thank you very, very much.
And you're on tonight at the Trade Union Club [E] in Sydney.
Yeah.
Let's give that a mention.
Try [A] and catch him.
He did kill them the other night with John Cale.
[C] So don't get, but you can still come.
Right.
But John Cale and yourself are now sort of breaking [G] up
and you're going your way and John, you're off to Brisbane, Melbourne, Melbourne tonight.
How did you first meet?
[D] It was a long time ago in California under strange circumstances.
Please tell.
Well, he [Cm] was a fan of Albert Underground for a long time
and I [D] was really embarrassed by that
because [N] when I heard his music, I mean, it's embarrassing to hear
that somebody likes [Gb] another kind of music [Eb] when they're talented themselves.
Yeah.
_ _ [D] And the kind of music he was doing was exactly that fragile, weak sister kind of.
Right.
We might go into that a bit further tonight, I don't think. Oh, no.
Let's move in.
[C] You met him as an A&R man, not_
No, I knew him before.
Oh, you knew him before that, but then as an artist.
It's very difficult to relate [Ab] to him as an A&R man because it was a business situation
and [C] I felt more as a friend than as someone who should be adjudicating his career.
Right.
So when it got to that [C] stage, how were you then into that area,
working with record companies, etc.,
after having been with Velvet Underground?
It was something I wanted to do.
I mean, from being a [F] side man in the Velvet Underground to being a [Gb] performing artist
to being an A&R person, you [G] learn a lot about the record industry from that position.
And I did learn a lot.
Well, you've gone on [D] to produce a heck of a lot of people.
Can you run through them?
Well, Patti Smith and Dickie and Chunky No and Ernie.
Most of those people, _ [B] what I'm proud [G] of about those people and my involvement with Jonathan
is that [Ab] there aren't any other [Fm] musicians like those around.
There aren't musicians like Patti around.
There [F] aren't musicians like Jonathan around.
There aren't any like [C] Iggy and Stooges.
Do you think that there will [E] ever _ [D] be a reformation of Velvet Underground to do a one-off