Chords for Nile Rodgers - Interview & Acoustic Performances - Bestival 2010 - Off Guard Gigs

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_ [E] _ _ Alright.
Right, here we are down, right guard, camper van, and we've got an absolute legend
[Gb] with us now.
It's not everyday things like this happen.
Mr.
Niall Rogers, how are you
doing, sir?
Hey man, I'm great, what's up?
All good, sir, all good.
I believe we've got
you playing a couple of tracks for us, is that right?
I'll do my best to butcher it
only gently.
What's the first one we're going to be, we're going to hear? _ _
It's the biggest
song I've ever written.
It's called Le Freak, or you may know it as Awe.
Freak Out.
Yep.
One, two, [Am] Awe.
Freak Out.
_ _ _ Freak _ Out.
_ _ [D] _ _ [Am] Awe.
Freak Out.
_ _ _ Freak Out.
Freak Out.
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[Gb] Oh wait,
that's in the girls' range. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Awe.
Freak Out.
_ _ _ Freak [A] Out. _
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[Gb] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Freak [A] Out.
Alright.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [E] How amazing to see that up close and personal,
that was [Dm] incredible.
And wrong, but it's cool. _
Wrong but so right.
It's best of all, so it's
alright.
Hell yeah.
I get a pass.
Thank you so much for coming into our little camper
van and performing for us.
[E] Cool, man.
So up close and personal.
_ Starting off with that
track.
_ Something I don't know at all, what was the inspiration for writing a tune so huge?
Believe it or not, that was a complete accident.
We were going to see Grace Jones one night at
Studio 54 way back in the day, and she had invited us, and I guess maybe she thought that we were
famous and that [A] we could get into Studio 54, but, [B] and we also thought she had our names at the [A] door.
Anyway, they didn't let us in, and we didn't actually write Awe Freak Out, we wrote Awe.
_ _ _ Awe Freak Out. _ _ _ _ _ _
Studio 54.
That's the [Dm] actual original composition.
Alright.
And we were
laughing and joking, and we actually dug the groove so much, we turned it into a pop song.
So it started out as a protest song, which is not what Sheek does very well, we do
songs to make you feel good. _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ Amazing.
Right.
Now that is something people won't know,
readily available [C] information, now I'm sure.
Talk about a zen [A] moment.
No, wow.
What's been your main [Ab] influences when you're writing things like that?
Because I mean,
you've written [Dm] some of like, literally the most sample [Gb] tunes ever written.
_ You know, my concept when I [A] write, I don't think I write like a guitar player, I sort of write
more like a, I think I write like a keyboard player, [Dm] because I like to have smooth [G] voice
leading, like the very first song I ever wrote for Sheek was a song called Everybody Dance,
and we would do
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_ _ _ [A] not normal guitar [Bb] stuff.
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[F] _ I said, hey, [G] so we do, _ [Bb] everybody dance, you really [A] clap your hands, clap [Ab] your hands.
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
So we do this [Am] heavy _ passing tone thing.
[Ab] _ You know, most guitar players write songs [C] like _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ yeah, [Gb] not me.
That's not you.
I know.
How has it [E] been involved in the industry for so long?
Like, you know, and what's it been like?
How are the transitions?
Well, after we started
after the 70s, and I started working with a lot of other bands, because
things weren't going so well for Sheek.
I [Gb] started with I think in excess, and in excess went right
from in excess to [Bb] then to Duran [E] Duran to Madonna, Paul Simon, Hall and Oates, blah, [Abm] blah, blah,
Mick Jagger.
Just a couple of small notes then, you know?
Yeah, and [Dm] then, and then when the music
started to spiral down, _ or so did I, [E] you know, typical rock and roll drugs and stuff,
[D] then I cleaned up, [B] and I went into video games.
And I've been in the video game business for
the last 10 years.
[Ab] And my biggest soundtrack that I distributed, I have a [Gb] record label that
specializes in that is Halo.
And we have Halo Reach coming out in a few days.
A [A] few days,
we have Halo Reach, we have, _ and I've been involved with Halo ever since the beginning.
Really?
Yeah, every [Gb] Halo [B] soundtrack of every incarnation, [G] Halo Wars, Halo_
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_ _ Well, I think that's probably gonna hit for the interview, but I think you
maybe might play one more treat [Ab] for us.
Is that right?
Oh, what [A] else do you want to hear?
Do you mind?
Oh, how about this?
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_ [E] _ _ Slightly out [A] of tune. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Very out of tune. _
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And my friend, John and Oogie, _ we are CTHIC.
We'd like to say hello to the black, the white,
the red, and the brown, the purple, and yellow.
But first, [Em] I gotta bang bang the boogie to the
[E] boogie, so up, down, the boogie to the bang bang, [A] go to the left, right.
We don't stop, right? _ _ _ _ _
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[Dm] Sorry.
All right.
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No, it was a pleasure, sir.
Thank you very, very much.
All right, man.
I gotta go work.
My real job.
Cheers. _ _ _
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