Chords for Midge Ure - Thin Lizzy : Bad Reputation
Tempo:
65.75 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
Db
F
B
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Halfway through a US tour to promote the album, Gary Moore packed his bags and left in Lizzy for the third and final [C] time.
[F] The right-hand side of the stage needed filling once [C] more.
This time Lizzy chose a guitarist no one could have anticipated.
[D]
Falling [F] and falling, I'm choking and crying.
Midyear [Bb] had left Visage and was just about to [F] join Ultravox when Phil the [A] Rocker came calling.
[D] I was in the studio and I got a phone call from Philip saying, you know, I'm in Arkansas on the middle of a tour, you know, with Lizzy and we're opening up for Journey and we're special guests and it's huge [Ab] stadiums and whatever.
And Gary Moore's not in the band anymore, can you come out and finish the tour?
Now why he asked me to come out and do it I'll never know because I'm not a twiddly diddly whiz kid guitarist like Lizzy has.
You know, I'm fairly standard.
In fact, I could probably, I think I hailed myself as the worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
But he invited me out because I think he saw there was an association with maybe I was cool or the band I was in was cool or the music that I was playing was cool.
And Phil wanted to integrate this into Lizzy.
His management company sent over a bunch of cassettes and said, learn these and we'll fly out tomorrow.
[G] I thought, well, I've never been to America, I've never been anywhere.
And I thought, great.
I got home from the studio that night packing my bags.
I thought, well, I've got the set list and I've got the cassettes and I'll take my big ghetto blaster because it was before Walkmans and I'll learn the songs on the plane.
And of course, they sent me out in Concord and halfway through the second song, learning [E] it on the plane, we kind of landed.
So I turned up completely unprepared.
I hadn't learned any of the set.
So the first night in New Orleans, when I finally got there, I spent the evening with Scott in a hotel room, the two of us, [F] two guitars, desperately [B] trying to learn all these harmony [Ab] parts.
And the next night I was on stage for 45 minutes.
I am [Eb] just a cowboy, [F] no [Db] tsunami trail.
[Ab] The [Cm] most complicated part was every song had [Db] a harmony guitar part in it.
[Ab] And trying to remember which harmony guitar part went in which song was, it's almost like, you know, those jigsaws you get of the sea [Eb] or the sky and you can put any [Db] bits in any bit of the jigsaw.
It was a bit like that.
You could put any harmony guitar [Ab] part in any Thin Lizzy song.
[G] And it kind of, in your head, [Db] sounded all right until you heard what Scott was playing and you realized you were playing the wrong one.
[Ab] [Db]
[Ab] It really was spinal tap.
It [Bbm] was hotel suites [Ab] and, you know, limos to and from the airport and hanging about the airport for hours and then getting on a flight that took 20 minutes to get to the next city.
And then you'd get picked up by another limo and then back into another hotel.
[G] But the time it took you to do all of that, you could have driven between the cities.
You know, I was kind of bored after a week of thinking, you've got to hang about an airport again because it was perceived that's what a big band did.
[B]
Oh, crap.
The worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
[Abm] Lizzy built a [Db] bridge from Ireland [Dbm] over to the UK and then on to the rest of the world.
And that bridge has been used by many, many, [B] many Irish bands.
I think there's no doubt [Ab] that you two owe a huge [Ab] debt of gratitude.
They paved the way.
[Dbm] When you go around Dublin, you don't see many [E] statues of rock stars.
[F] The right-hand side of the stage needed filling once [C] more.
This time Lizzy chose a guitarist no one could have anticipated.
[D]
Falling [F] and falling, I'm choking and crying.
Midyear [Bb] had left Visage and was just about to [F] join Ultravox when Phil the [A] Rocker came calling.
[D] I was in the studio and I got a phone call from Philip saying, you know, I'm in Arkansas on the middle of a tour, you know, with Lizzy and we're opening up for Journey and we're special guests and it's huge [Ab] stadiums and whatever.
And Gary Moore's not in the band anymore, can you come out and finish the tour?
Now why he asked me to come out and do it I'll never know because I'm not a twiddly diddly whiz kid guitarist like Lizzy has.
You know, I'm fairly standard.
In fact, I could probably, I think I hailed myself as the worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
But he invited me out because I think he saw there was an association with maybe I was cool or the band I was in was cool or the music that I was playing was cool.
And Phil wanted to integrate this into Lizzy.
His management company sent over a bunch of cassettes and said, learn these and we'll fly out tomorrow.
[G] I thought, well, I've never been to America, I've never been anywhere.
And I thought, great.
I got home from the studio that night packing my bags.
I thought, well, I've got the set list and I've got the cassettes and I'll take my big ghetto blaster because it was before Walkmans and I'll learn the songs on the plane.
And of course, they sent me out in Concord and halfway through the second song, learning [E] it on the plane, we kind of landed.
So I turned up completely unprepared.
I hadn't learned any of the set.
So the first night in New Orleans, when I finally got there, I spent the evening with Scott in a hotel room, the two of us, [F] two guitars, desperately [B] trying to learn all these harmony [Ab] parts.
And the next night I was on stage for 45 minutes.
I am [Eb] just a cowboy, [F] no [Db] tsunami trail.
[Ab] The [Cm] most complicated part was every song had [Db] a harmony guitar part in it.
[Ab] And trying to remember which harmony guitar part went in which song was, it's almost like, you know, those jigsaws you get of the sea [Eb] or the sky and you can put any [Db] bits in any bit of the jigsaw.
It was a bit like that.
You could put any harmony guitar [Ab] part in any Thin Lizzy song.
[G] And it kind of, in your head, [Db] sounded all right until you heard what Scott was playing and you realized you were playing the wrong one.
[Ab] [Db]
[Ab] It really was spinal tap.
It [Bbm] was hotel suites [Ab] and, you know, limos to and from the airport and hanging about the airport for hours and then getting on a flight that took 20 minutes to get to the next city.
And then you'd get picked up by another limo and then back into another hotel.
[G] But the time it took you to do all of that, you could have driven between the cities.
You know, I was kind of bored after a week of thinking, you've got to hang about an airport again because it was perceived that's what a big band did.
[B]
Oh, crap.
The worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
[Abm] Lizzy built a [Db] bridge from Ireland [Dbm] over to the UK and then on to the rest of the world.
And that bridge has been used by many, many, [B] many Irish bands.
I think there's no doubt [Ab] that you two owe a huge [Ab] debt of gratitude.
They paved the way.
[Dbm] When you go around Dublin, you don't see many [E] statues of rock stars.
Key:
Ab
Db
F
B
G
Ab
Db
F
_ Halfway through a US tour to promote the album, Gary Moore packed his bags and left in Lizzy for the third and final [C] time.
[F] The right-hand side of the stage needed filling once [C] more.
This time Lizzy chose a guitarist no one could have anticipated.
[D] _ _ _
Falling [F] and falling, I'm choking and crying.
Midyear [Bb] had left Visage and was just about to [F] join Ultravox when Phil the [A] Rocker came calling.
[D] I was in the studio and I got a phone call from Philip saying, you know, I'm in Arkansas on the middle of a tour, you know, with Lizzy and we're opening up for Journey and we're special guests and it's huge [Ab] stadiums and whatever.
And Gary Moore's not in the band anymore, can you come out and finish the tour?
Now why he asked me to come out and do it I'll never know because I'm not a twiddly diddly whiz kid guitarist like Lizzy has.
You know, I'm fairly standard.
In fact, I could probably, I think I hailed myself as the worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
But he invited me out because I think he saw there was an association with maybe I was cool or the band I was in was cool or the music that I was playing was cool.
And Phil wanted to integrate this into Lizzy.
His management company sent over a bunch of cassettes and said, learn these and we'll fly out tomorrow.
[G] I thought, well, I've never been to America, I've never been anywhere.
And I thought, great.
I got home from the studio that night packing my bags.
I thought, well, I've got the set list and I've got the cassettes and I'll take my big ghetto blaster because it was before Walkmans and I'll learn the songs on the plane.
And of course, they sent me out in Concord and halfway through the second song, learning [E] it on the plane, we kind of landed.
So I turned up completely unprepared.
I hadn't learned any of the set.
So the first night in New Orleans, when I finally got there, I spent the evening with Scott in a hotel room, the two of us, [F] two guitars, desperately [B] trying to learn all these harmony [Ab] parts.
And the next night I was on stage for 45 minutes.
I am [Eb] just a cowboy, [F] no [Db] tsunami trail.
_ [Ab] The [Cm] most complicated part was every song had [Db] a harmony guitar part in it.
[Ab] And trying to remember which harmony guitar part went in which song was, it's almost like, you know, those jigsaws you get of the sea [Eb] or the sky and you can put any [Db] bits in any bit of the jigsaw.
It was a bit like that.
You could put any harmony guitar [Ab] part in any Thin Lizzy song.
[G] And it kind of, in your head, [Db] sounded all right until you heard what Scott was playing and you realized you were playing the wrong one. _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _
[Ab] It really was spinal tap.
It [Bbm] was hotel suites [Ab] and, you know, limos to and from the airport and hanging about the airport for hours and then getting on a flight that took 20 minutes to get to the next city.
And then you'd get picked up by another limo and then back into another hotel.
[G] But the time it took you to do all of that, you could have driven between the cities.
You know, I was kind of bored after a week of thinking, you've got to hang about an airport again because it was perceived that's what a big band did. _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
Oh, crap.
_ _ The worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ Lizzy built a [Db] bridge from Ireland [Dbm] over to the UK and then on to the rest of the world.
And that bridge has been used by many, many, [B] many Irish bands.
I think there's no doubt [Ab] that you two owe a huge [Ab] debt of gratitude.
They paved the way.
[Dbm] When you go around Dublin, you don't see many [E] statues of rock stars. _ _
[F] The right-hand side of the stage needed filling once [C] more.
This time Lizzy chose a guitarist no one could have anticipated.
[D] _ _ _
Falling [F] and falling, I'm choking and crying.
Midyear [Bb] had left Visage and was just about to [F] join Ultravox when Phil the [A] Rocker came calling.
[D] I was in the studio and I got a phone call from Philip saying, you know, I'm in Arkansas on the middle of a tour, you know, with Lizzy and we're opening up for Journey and we're special guests and it's huge [Ab] stadiums and whatever.
And Gary Moore's not in the band anymore, can you come out and finish the tour?
Now why he asked me to come out and do it I'll never know because I'm not a twiddly diddly whiz kid guitarist like Lizzy has.
You know, I'm fairly standard.
In fact, I could probably, I think I hailed myself as the worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
But he invited me out because I think he saw there was an association with maybe I was cool or the band I was in was cool or the music that I was playing was cool.
And Phil wanted to integrate this into Lizzy.
His management company sent over a bunch of cassettes and said, learn these and we'll fly out tomorrow.
[G] I thought, well, I've never been to America, I've never been anywhere.
And I thought, great.
I got home from the studio that night packing my bags.
I thought, well, I've got the set list and I've got the cassettes and I'll take my big ghetto blaster because it was before Walkmans and I'll learn the songs on the plane.
And of course, they sent me out in Concord and halfway through the second song, learning [E] it on the plane, we kind of landed.
So I turned up completely unprepared.
I hadn't learned any of the set.
So the first night in New Orleans, when I finally got there, I spent the evening with Scott in a hotel room, the two of us, [F] two guitars, desperately [B] trying to learn all these harmony [Ab] parts.
And the next night I was on stage for 45 minutes.
I am [Eb] just a cowboy, [F] no [Db] tsunami trail.
_ [Ab] The [Cm] most complicated part was every song had [Db] a harmony guitar part in it.
[Ab] And trying to remember which harmony guitar part went in which song was, it's almost like, you know, those jigsaws you get of the sea [Eb] or the sky and you can put any [Db] bits in any bit of the jigsaw.
It was a bit like that.
You could put any harmony guitar [Ab] part in any Thin Lizzy song.
[G] And it kind of, in your head, [Db] sounded all right until you heard what Scott was playing and you realized you were playing the wrong one. _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _
[Ab] It really was spinal tap.
It [Bbm] was hotel suites [Ab] and, you know, limos to and from the airport and hanging about the airport for hours and then getting on a flight that took 20 minutes to get to the next city.
And then you'd get picked up by another limo and then back into another hotel.
[G] But the time it took you to do all of that, you could have driven between the cities.
You know, I was kind of bored after a week of thinking, you've got to hang about an airport again because it was perceived that's what a big band did. _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
Oh, crap.
_ _ The worst guitarist Lizzy ever had.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ Lizzy built a [Db] bridge from Ireland [Dbm] over to the UK and then on to the rest of the world.
And that bridge has been used by many, many, [B] many Irish bands.
I think there's no doubt [Ab] that you two owe a huge [Ab] debt of gratitude.
They paved the way.
[Dbm] When you go around Dublin, you don't see many [E] statues of rock stars. _ _