Chords for Pepe Romero plays and discusses rare 1970 Miguel Rodriguez

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[F#] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] Here we are at GSI [E] with both of the Pepe and Romero's and we're here to talk [A] about this
very [N] interesting and to me at least very unique Rodríguez, Miguel Rodríguez, made in 1970.
It's so unique that when we first discovered it here and I called you about it, you didn't
even believe it was true.
What we discovered about this guitar.
Yeah, I got the phone call from you.
I was pulling into a gas station in San Diego and you said, Pepe, I got this Rodríguez
and the fans are inverted.
It has seven fans and they're inverted.
What do you mean?
You said, well, they cluster up towards.
Yeah, they fan out like this instead of like that.
And my reaction to you was it's a fake.
No way.
Rodríguez wouldn't do that.
That's crazy.
But then you were very quickly able to verify.
Yeah.
So I go home like, hey, dad, I just talked to David and he said he had a Rodríguez with
the fans fanning out backwards.
And I said, isn't that crazy?
Yeah, of course.
I've seen that guitar in Rodríguez.
He showed it to me.
I've played that guitar.
That's a fantastic guitar.
And then I don't know, how did you get it?
I immediately came up to see it.
Then I had to know.
And so I came up here to GSI with David.
I think Tim was there.
And somehow through all the machinations, you ended up taking it home.
I took it and I looked at it and I was like, OK, yeah, this looks like Rodríguez.
And I played it and I couldn't believe what I heard.
I grew up with Rodríguez's.
I mean, by the time I was four.
You've been hearing Rodríguez since you were in the womb.
Well, that's what I was playing as a five year old, six year old.
I know.
_ Rodríguez is all over the place.
So I, but I had never heard this.
You probably heard the Rodríguez just before he was consumed.
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ This guitar really rocked my world as a guitar maker.
[B] And I started, I had to make, the first one [D] I did very similar to this as far as
thicknessing and bracing and it's sort of like, OK, let's figure [N] out how this would work.
And that guitar, my first reverse fan, Rodríguez had those elements to it.
And I was super excited when I played this guitar.
It had it, it had different elements.
It still sounded like Rodríguez.
It wasn't the loudest Rodríguez I'd played, but it had a response.
It had overtones and character to the sound where I felt like you got the note
that you were playing, but then it offered you this other kind of shimmer behind
the, behind the music.
And I was really intrigued to, like hearing a, hearing a beautiful voice with an
accent that you can't pin down.
What is that?
You know, what is that intangible thing that's going on?
And knowing that it was the reverse bracing pattern, I had to have the guitar
and I had to figure out what it was.
And I had to figure out if you can have that mysterious element and get the power
that the other Rodríguezes had.
This is a powerful guitar.
It's not powerful.
It's not the loudest one.
Like what he was saying, well, wonderful.
Well, you know, it's a bomb exploding.
It doesn't mean that you have to have a bomb explode all the time.
You get, this is a lot of power, but can you get that and this?
And then it was a quest to get more, more of that element, more of the power, more
depth, more robust sound.
And I've been building, I'm almost a hundred guitars in now building with a
reverse fan brace system.
I've since moved to a five fan system [D#] as Rodríguez did a regular seven fan system.
And then it evolved into five.
I took that same thing with this, with this system, but [E] this guitar has touched me as
a maker more than, than any guitar.
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