Chords for Monte Montgomery Interview - www.licklibrary.com

_ Hi, this is Monty Montgomery.
[G#] [F] Welcome to Lick [F#] Library.
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_ _ _ _ _ Guitar One magazine rates Monty Montgomery one of the best 50 guitarists of all [C#] time. _ _ _ _ _
_ Guitar Player magazine [C#m] placed him first on its list of the top 10 best undiscovered [C#] guitarists in America.
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They know about him in Austin, Texas though.
_ He won Best Acoustic Guitar Player seven [B] times in a row at the Austin Music [G#] Awards.
_ [B] But if you thought you [F#] knew about acoustic guitar playing, think again. _
This isn't your usual acoustic guitar [C#] playing.
Monty [G#] Montgomery has invented a whole new genre, _ the electric acoustic guitar.
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_ [G] I started playing when [F#] I was about 13.
Yeah.
_ My mother was a guitar player and _ _ _ she had an extra guitar. _
[Am] So I picked it up.
She showed me my first chords.
My first songs were music that she was doing, [B] songs that she was playing.
[A] And did you then have formal [G#] training?
_ [G#] No, [G] I just played by ear.
[G#] And my mother had a lot [Em] of guitarist friends.
And so I just watched and listened and asked questions and learned.
So I just kind of [E] had a lot of _ teachers by way of [F] just being in the middle of it, you know,
and watching my mom do these jam [E] sessions at her house.
[F#] Have all these players [B] around.
Some were quite good.
_ [C] I think my first [A] riff came off of like basically [F#] one string.
I heard, oh, I can do that.
That's only one string.
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[B] _ And when [A] did you decide that you wanted to make this [F#] your living life?
_ _ I don't think I ever really did decide.
I think it kind of just found me, you know.
It's just _ I've been, _ [Am] you know, I kind of skipped high [F#] school and played [F] music with my [F#] mother and
left her and did some other things musically.
It's just all I've ever really done.
So it wasn't really a conscious choice.
It's just the life that I was living and, you know, being with my mom.
That's what she [F#] did.
So that's what I did. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ I'm [D#m] sure.
I mean, you know, there were times when, _ you know, my mother is more of kind of a gypsy
type of [F] soul.
And we would [F#] _ [B] play around Austin, Texas and going [G] into a show and at night we would [F#] come
and sleep in the truck.
You [F] know, we had like this camper [Bm] with a mattress and blanket in the back.
And [F] we didn't have a fixed address.
We just, we lived out of the truck.
And [F#] _ so that's just kind of what it was like during the early [F#] years. _ _
_ [B] I _ _ [D#m] _ was [F#] a bit of a hired gun _ in the beginning.
I kind of played with other people, you know, as kind of a hired guitar player.
So it wasn't until about, you know, maybe _ _ [G] 1990, [F#] 91, somewhere around there when I started
putting together my own band.
When you started, you were playing some electric.
I kind of bounced back [N] and forth between electric and acoustic.
And I would _ get hired to play electric with this band.
And I would, after a while, I would start missing this.
So I kind of bounced back and forth for a number [F#] of years until I just decided, _ _ you
know, I really wanted to pick one over the other.
And this one just feels more natural to me.
_ Do you have any particular [G] problems in _ [B] playing with a band, acoustic, getting the volume without?
[Am] There are problems. _
_ Sure, there's problems. _ _ _
But, you know, the solution [F] came over _ [F#] _ just experimenting with how to keep my guitar from
blowing up at high volumes.
You know, my guitar and the amps that I use weren't really designed to do what I'm
doing with them.
So _ there's a lot of muting that goes on with both hands, you know, as _ well [F] as kind of
using my, [F#] I've kind of got this compression [F] pedal that I sometimes have to kick off _ just
to keep the guitar.
Because the guitar, if you [F#] let it go, it's going to [C] just, _ you know, it has this natural
desire to, _ you know, to explode.
So _ [F] you have to mute it [F#] at all times at [F] that volume, whether you're doing it with your
left or your right, [F#] with your palm or a combination of both.
For me, I'm just more comfortable with an acoustic. _
The electric, _ [Am] _ _ _ I can't really get the sound [C] that I _ [F#] want out of an electric [F#] for me.
And [A] _ plus, I have a tendency to [F#] overplay _ on electric [G] because it's much faster.
[Am] You know, it's easier, it's [D] faster, and the strings are lighter.
[A] And so I don't know, I just, I don't [F#] like myself as [F#] a player as much on electric.
_ The acoustic tends [F] to, _ you know, suppress a lot of [F#] my [F] desire to go nuts because [Am] it's,
you know, I mean, you know, playing guitar is [F#] fun for me, so obviously.
But _ I love playing acoustic because it's just _ [C#] a more [F#] natural fit for me personally.
And it kind of restrains [F] me from overplaying, if [A#] that's possible, if you can even believe that.
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_ _ _ [D#] _ [D#] Tell us a bit about your pedals.
Can we go through [A#] the pedals? [N] Sure, yeah. _ _
Well, I come out of my guitar and into _ _ _ _ this tuner, and it routes through this tremolo, _
through the compressor, _ tube screamer, distortion, and then it starts stereo from here.
The stereo chorus splits into a digital delay, stereo digital reverb, and that comes into
these two little tube _ preamps. _ _ _ _ _ _
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