Chords for Mick Taylor on his time with John Mayall

[C] _ _ _ I [Bb] was 15 and I was very much into rhythm and blues.
_ _ [E] Playing the sort of [Ab] music that John plays, [Abm] it gives you a lot of opportunity to develop your own ideas.
It gives you a lot of freedom, you know, within the blues sort of framework anyway.
So I did him, you know, it did do me a lot of good being with John.
_ _ [Ab] Do you respect him as a musician?
Oh yeah, he [Bb] knows what he's doing.
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[Eb] Went to this show at Welling Garden City Community Centre or something.
[Db] _ I said to John Mayer when [Eb] I got backstage, _ _
_ _ John, would you mind if I _ _ _ _ _ sat in with you and had a [A] play?
_ [Bbm] And much to my amazement, he [Ab] sort of looks up at me [Abm] and said, yeah, why [C] not? _ _ _
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He really loved it.
[Bbm] And _ we said that we would keep in touch with each other and we exchanged telephone numbers.
But I think we lost touch with each other somehow.
I put an advert in the Melody Maker.
_ _ I didn't mention who it was for, but just a blues guitarist wanted for, you know, well-known blues band, blah, blah, blah.
And Mick Taylor answered that advert.
I think maybe on the second day or something like that.
_ And I didn't really need to answer the phone after that.
I've never been as nervous in my life. _ _
_ I was because I was following in the footsteps of _ Eric Clapton and Peter Green. _ _
About 18 [Ab] months before I really found [Gb] my [Ab] feet and would [B] improvise more and more and play different things [Ab] every night _ and _ _ still do.
One of his great qualities was his sly [Ebm] guitar playing.
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_ _ [Gb] _ Mick also had [Ab] a more jazzy background than the other two.
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_ [Abm] used to do [Db] all kinds of stuff with John [Ebm] Mayall.
We [Ab] never used to know what he was going to do next.
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And I learned a lot about different [Ab] types of blues music and different styles of playing and [Ebm] different [Bbm] sounds. _ _
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_ [N] Some American jazz _ _ orchestra had put together something which was a suite, a jazz suite.
And I thought this would be a good idea to _ actually _ tell a story that [Ebm] was a complete story, like chapters, and have them all joined together.
In the Bear [Bbm] Wires suite, Mayall began to add [Ab] some jazz flavor [Ebm] into his blues,
while his increasingly personal diary-style songs explored the breakup of his first marriage.
_ Considering the musicianship I had at _ my disposal, it was an opportunity to do that and write a whole [Abm] story which filled one side of [Ebm] the LP.
Bear Wires stands up, and it was, I don't have any doubt, [Eb] it was the forerunner of the jazz [Bb] rock movement.
[Ab] I do think Bear Wires is a groundbreaker, I really do.
[Ebm] _ It just kind of focused a lot of [N] that stuff in a completely different way.
And I think [Eb] partly it had to do with the fact that John [Ab] hadn't had a lot [Eb] to do with jazz up to that point.
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thought, well, [Gb] I could get [Dm] into this.
And of course he could.
I learned that you could write a song about going down to the supermarket and meeting a girl.
I mean, he just used to write some songs just off the top of his head without even thinking.
_ And _ if you read them, if you just read them as lyrics, they'd sound ridiculous. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ But I went down to the supermarket to find myself a chick. _ _ _ _
John was the first person I knew that was trying to _ _ write in a blues format.
In the Arbords we would always do covers, and I don't think we had much _ success at writing things.
So it was interesting to me that John would try and write songs but remain in the blues format.
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_ _ _ _ This isn't my guitar, you see.
This is one of those that I get from the guitar shop.
Norm's Rare Guitars. _ _ _ _
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_ _ He lends them to me and I do some of my artwork on them.
_ _ And then he lets me have two in exchange, so it's a pretty good [Dbm] deal. _
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It [Gm] had been nearly four years, and he certainly felt like it was not only _ time for change for him musically,
but time for change of personnel, and also _ it was time for him to move to America.
I wanted to do something different, quite frankly.
I was kind of bored with the same _ line-up _ of guitar, bass, drums, _ _ and whatever else I played. _
So, conveniently Mick Jagger called me up around that time because he wanted a replacement for Brian Jones
so that they could go on the road.
And so I told him that I was going to be _ changing over _ my line-up
and Mick Taylor would be available.
John Mayer called me in and told me that the Stones were interested in _ _ _ _ trying me out as a guitar player. _
I thought for some session work, but apparently it turned out to be a bit more than that.
Everybody thought that he was forever going to have a band featuring the new Eric Clapton or the new Peter Green.
And then he reached the point where he got quite sick of that.
He then put together an album and a band called Turning Point,
where he turned his back on the expected format of guitar, bass, and drums and brought in more acoustic instruments.
I just wanted to do something different with a little less volume, you know, and experiment in that area.
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