Chords for Journey Guitarist on "Don't Stop Believin'" Origins - Inside Track

There's something that special that comes out when you're playing with a special band that works together of sitting in a room and actually
Correlating and writing together while you're you know actually doing it not just talking about it and working with a computer _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ Well, don't stop believe it [F#] started with them Jonathan
Can it just come in the band and [C] I think it was a message that his dad it instilled in
His his head like you know he'd gone through a lot of hard times and [E] you know trying to the struggle of trying to
Make it in the industry his dad.
You know had told him don't stop believing son _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ Basically that stuck he came in and brought [C] in
[D] the chorus you know
[E]
somewhat [C] finished you know and
we just [A] sat [E] there and threw [Em] things around the room like we usually did and
[C] _ Between Steven [D] and John and [E] myself you know I think
We're [A] kind of like had a song together [B] within a couple hours most of the time the lyrics are there
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[Em] prior to any like leads being [Dm] put on or anything like that and
_ [E] Then you kind of cater to them
And they felt the train and then they wrote you know the lyric about took the midnight train going anywhere
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ That's the kind of chemistry [B] we had [E] when we sat in a room together and [C] actually wrote together
Which is [F#] the right way to do it _ [G] I?
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_ [G] Played [Em] probably a heavier rhythm guitar some classical chords that have nice bass [A] notes and you know the voicings on [A] top that are a little
Bit different than regular [Em] straight bar chords on a guitar
_ so the voicings of the guitar are
On the [A] accordions are interesting
But I really didn't bring much to the song the song was done
[D] You know and John and Steve wrote it and really at the time I didn't get it
[G] That was the one that was like the black sheep to me off the whole record and I [D] listened to it
I went I don't get this you guys
And I was scared to death of it to tell you the truth
[G] We were known as being like a power ballad band and even though that does have a power ballad section
[Em] It was a lot lighter and more AC
_ [A] You know adult contemporary [B] type
[A] Ballad for us, and I was scared [Em] of it because I was always concerned about like is the rock there
It was something different for me, and they both proved me wrong
_ Went on to be a huge hit and [C] so you know I'm glad that they wrote it
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_ [E] Anyway, you want it came when we were on tour within Lizzie
We had some [Dm] great touring experiences with them
You know the riff kind of came to me from being around those guys
Listening to you [A] know Dan
[Bm] Donna [E] you know tonight's gonna be a breakdown or [D] you know any of their songs were kind of choppy
[Bm] Rhythm wise like that, and [E]
you know all of a sudden.
I was that a sound [D] check, and I started playing down [B] Donna Donna You [C] know
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And it was like three [D] chords
Steve started singing on it, then he came up with a chorus [D] and much like [Gm] a lot of the songs are [E] on the radio today
[D] there's [A] not a verse and a
Separate course and a separate B section.
[G] It's three [D] chords and the vocal changes throughout the song and that's it
_ _ It's lights and to me it'll always be about San Francisco
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_ _ I
We [G] were at Greg Raleigh's house, and he had a music room downstairs, and he was coming a melody of the verse
_ In lights and so I just started wrapping some chords around it
And then I you know put an opening on it
And then you know put a bridge on it our best songs like really [F] came out of nowhere and [G] like we're
[B]
Finished very quickly, and we didn't do a whole lot of thinking _ _
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We [A#] were in one of our long drawn-out tours [D] in the beginning before we had
Graduated to like a Winnebago or [E] a bus we were like in [F#] a station wagon
And our old road manager Pat Mora was driving us
And so he was getting all fatigued driving.
He started beating up, and he was like I need a candy bar
So we pull over to gas station
He gets a candy bar and I decided to get out and stretch the legs and pull that a acoustic guitar
He sat on you know the the car
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started pounding out some [D] the chords Ross Valerie's
wife at [F#m] the time
Diane had written some lyrics that she had given me and
It was like wheels in motion or something like that it wasn't wheel in the sky
And then I turned it into wheel in the sky
I don't know why but it's just forever [Em] you know [F#m] in infinity type motion
It goes on and on the world then Robert Fleshman
you [E] know when we first were looking for vocalist Robert came in for a brief second and
We did some writing which he did he was a great songwriter.
[Dm] I thought a great
[E] Lyricist you know we did winds of March
He did wheel in the sky and so [D] he wrote those lyrics
[E] you know I gave him the chorus and he wrote the rest of the lyrics and
_ There it [D#m] was you know would you ever have the balls to not play that song in concert [A] today? _ _
I
Don't know if I did I'd be wanting to like to exit real quick [C] without getting stuff thrown at me.
Yeah