Chords for Keith Richards - 'Talk is Cheap' in conversation with Steven Van Zandt - Part 1

_ _ _ So here we are _
celebrating
_ the 30th anniversary of
_ The last thing in the world you wanted to do am I right at the time?
Yeah _ _ _ _
_ The last tour had been
Thinking 81 ish 82.
_ Yeah, I
Think you're around the mark there.
Yeah, so a few years went by and then dirty work came that was it dirty work
Yeah, _ _ but for the first time I think maybe ever you you didn't tour with dirty work, right?
I thought that we should have the stone should have been [Eb] back on the road
but at the same time I understood, you know that everybody has to agree about these things and _
_ And there was disagreement _ _
_ _ _ At the same time I in retrospect I I realized that _ I mean we'd already been doing this
You know since
_ _ _ 1962 and this is now, you know
_ _ _ _ _ 1985-6, you know, even though you know, you're in the best band in the world and everything you want to spread your wings
I mean there was a certain antsy thing.
_ I
Didn't feel it so much probably as Mick
But I mean Mick obviously did I wanted to branch out and wanted to take some time off, you know
and and really
You use the time well because you did the Chuck Berry film, right Aretha Franklin _ _
_ In order to connect this I'd like to say, you know
_ _ That it was Charlie Watts that said to me.
It looks like we've got some time off _
_ If you're gonna work outside of this
_ Steve Jordan _ is the man.
Hmm, and I took sort of Charlie's message to heart
and
_ suddenly a wreath the Aretha Franklin jumping jack flash _
Title, you know, it's a whoopee whoopee gold movie, right?
Yeah, _ _ I love you go
_ _ _ So they came to you to do the theme so Steve and I sort of hooked on that gig
immediately after that in came this _
_ _ Thing
You don't believe is gonna be dangled in front of you _ Chuck Berry is gonna make a movie
Taylor Hackford is making it and
_ _ _ Would I be the musical director which is a big name
_ band together during that making of the the movie because I know the other half of Chuck's genius was Johnny Johnson
Yeah, the piano player.
Yeah, I
_ _ Also knew and it's weirdly enough from another
_ member of the stones and I will call him that Ian Stewart who was actually
Probably the catalyst of the stones in the first place.
It was a piano player
And _ weirdly enough he died in 86, but just before he died
This is kind of weird but it _
Keith never forget
_ That Johnny Johnson is alive and playing in st.
Louis
_ _ _ So bearing this in mind when I got together with Chuck, you know
_ And I know that Chuck and Johnny have been on the out
_ _ _ _ Nobody's on the With Chuck
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] He turned to me and said
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Chuck's around
_ _ Johnny _ _
_ _ So can give him a call and Chuck said yeah, give me cool _ _
next day _ rehearsals
There's Johnny Johnson
_ _ And
_ _ Suddenly I realized I had the original _ _
makings of all of Chuck Berry's great stuff together
I had the two of them because I know how important Johnny was in the making of Chuck Berry's records _
Sweet little 16 Maybelline from from the beginning to put them back together.
I was like a triumph _
_ _ And already good for you, yeah, but during that whole period
of making that movie _
Steve and I
Become tighter and tighter.
He said what's next? _ _ _
And I have to be dragged kind of screaming into like _ you've got a mega record
_ You know, well, it never occurred to me and it was also to me like a turncoat
Yeah, _ you're a band guy, yeah
Yeah, and I had one great band one of the greatest bands in the damn world and I saying
Yeah, you don't screw this up, man.
You know, it's like that all of my
_ Energy and whatever.
I've got it always been into like _ _
Stones, you know, I've never considered myself a front [A] man
Anything because as you know, I know _
The job of the guitar program is actually is a lot cooler _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You know, I can make my moves
_ We _ _ can talk to the audience all night _ _ _
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