Chords for My name isn't interesting - Kevin parker, Tame Impala @The Drone interview

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[G] The best way to [D] explain it is that it's not really a band at all.
[Bb] I mean, when we're on tour [C] and we play live, [D] then we convert the songs into band songs. _
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[C] _ _ _ [Ab] four guys in a room [D] jamming out and seeing what happens. _
[Gm] The four of us, the [Gb] band, Tame Impala, with four people, _ _ we've never _ all stood in a studio at the same time.
And I never had the need to collaborate with anyone.
I never really felt _ _ _ [Ab] _ like_
_ Yeah, I just got used to making all the decisions myself.
And so when I started playing in bands, the idea of collaborating was always [G] a bit of a compromise.
_ If you have these ideas and this and that, _ _ to _ you in your head and _ personally, it seems perfect and there's nothing wrong with it.
And so as soon as anyone else's idea [B] comes into it, it kind of _ changes it a bit.
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[C] So, yeah, I don't know, I just got used to it and got a [F] bit [F] green. _
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[C] Everything you ever told me could have been the way it never [F] had been.
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So I keep thinking that there is always something to lose or a hit from [C] above. _ _ _ _ _
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A lot of it was listening to [Ab] my dad's music or watching my dad play guitar.
[F] It was definitely a big part of my [G] musical upbringing.
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I learned [E] guitar by _ _ playing the rhythm [C] guitar to his Shadows lead [B] solo.
He [C] wanted to play Shadows lead riffs because he loves Hank B.
Marvin.
_ And [Fm] he would play the lead riffs and he'd [C] get me to just play the chords in the background.
[Db] My dad _ _ always warned me not to choose music as a career.
I _ played [G] music for my whole high school.
_ I was always telling _ him_
Well, I was just doing music all the time.
I never did any homework.
I just _ spent [Ab] every night in the garage recording some music.
He _ _ got quite worried and said that _ [D] _
if you do [B] music as _
[Ab] _ your _ profession, your career,
and the thing that [A] _
puts food on the table, then it will instantly _ [Db] _ ruin its magic.
It won't be mysterious and fun anymore.
It will just be like a work.
Anyway, I believed him and I went to university for a while.
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_ I was studying mining engineering or something. _ _ _
And then I hated it.
And one day I decided to change to astronomy.
Because the whole time I thought someday [Abm] _ I'd be a rock star.
So I didn't need to worry about a career.
And I changed to astronomy when I thought that I [Db] didn't really give a shit anymore.
I knew I'd be poor [C] and I just wanted to _ [D] _ _
do whatever was fun.
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_ _ _ My name is an interesting one.
_ It's Kevin Parker.
_ _ _ There are people around in the world called [N] names like Leonardo DiCaprio and Julian Casablancas. _ _
_ _ Sergio Pizzorno. _
_ _ People have such more interesting names than me.
And because I can't deal _ with_ _ _
_ _ I get too self-conscious with my name being on it.
So I just called it that.
And I also thought that there would be no point _ _ in_
In Perth, the music scene in Perth is quite band _ orientated.
Unless you're a band with these _ four guys, then no one's going to pay attention to you.
So I thought that I had to _ make a band to