Chords for Marc Bolan Documentary - The T Rex Sound RARE

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The idea of rock stars wearing makeup and [Gm] cross-dressing seemed to appeal to the [F] British
with their tradition of [C] pantomime theatre. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ What perhaps was more surprising was how much it also
appealed to a teenage and largely [F] female audience.
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_ [Db] _ _ _ _ But there was one [Ab] British star who had already
started [Bbm] experimenting with much the same look.
Mark Bolan [Ab] had previously been a hippie [Db] of the
most traditional sort with [N] his band Tyrannosaurus Rex.
_ Now he [Fm] shortened the name to T-Rex and began
to develop a much tougher more guitar based sound that was perfect for a three minute single. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Now [E] a big part of the T-Rex sound [Am] was the repeat echo.
We didn't have many special effects but we
had repeat echo which is the voice being repeated about 100 milliseconds immediately after it's
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_ _ sung.
Now that sounds been around since Elvis's day. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay [G] Flo and Eddie.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] You remember that bit?
[G] _ _ And of course there were [A] drums on the record.
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_ [G] And Mark's rhythm guitar. _ _ _
Now [D] this guitar was live.
[Am] It wasn't a so [G]-called scratch guitar which nowadays
everybody records a scratch guitar and then it's wiped and they put on a nice slick guitar.
The
nice thing about T-Rex records was that they weren't slick. _ _
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_ _ _ _ The band began to get a large
[C] following from their television [B] appearances.
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_ [D] _ [G] _ They started dressing up in these outrageous
[D] clothes and started wearing eye makeup.
[C] [Em] I thought it was okay for the [G] stage but in the recording
studio [Gm] _ and I said our man Mark here is getting really going for it now this new look and it was
pretty courageous thing to do.
People were still wearing jeans and had very very long hair and Mark
didn't get the approval approval of everybody.
I'm sure it was being called perf left and right. _
But
_ he went ahead with this look and it caught on very rapidly.
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_ _ [F] _ _ But despite [Bb] the success he
has achieved [C] in Britain he was unable to break into the [F] American market and his [N] singles started
to become formulated [Bb] and repetitive. _ _
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British artist was to develop a far more extreme
image of the [G] rock star as a [Gb] glittery creature from another [Em] planet. _ _
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