Chords for Peter Frampton - How Did He Get The Talk Box that made Him FAMOUS? - YOU DECIDE

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_ _ _ Today's clip features the great Peter Frampton and the great Nashville Session producer and
steel guitarist Pete Drake.
You may have seen some of this clip in [Bb] past interviews, _ but
you know there's a little bit of question about how did the top box come about.
_ _ Pete
was not the inventor _ completely.
Pete was an innovator.
_ Pete was on All Things Must
Pass session with George Harrison and that's where he met Peter Frampton _ and that's where
Peter Frampton heard the top box.
_ _ Peter's going to give his version of it.
Pete Drake's
going to give his version of it and you can pick whichever one you like.
Hope you enjoy
it.
Pete Drake and Peter Frampton.
We've got a picture in the museum of _ you, _ _ _ George Harrison, _ Ringo, _ _ Billy Preston, and
Pete Drake.
I just want to hear your take.
[N] I've got Pete's on film.
I'll show it to you. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I just want to hear from the other side.
Let's see if it jives. _ _ _ _ _
_ I'd been doing the sessions at Abbey Road for George's album for a few days and then
he said, I'm going to bring in Pete Drake from Nashville to do _ the country ones.
There
were like four or five, if not for you, which he wrote with Bob. _
Sorry, Mr.
Dillon.
_ _ _ So _ _ _ all
of a sudden, right next to me, he's right there.
_ Sets up his pedal steel and lovely
man instantly.
He's so likable.
_ _ He was just all smiles and just great.
He started playing
some beautiful stuff. _ _
I wasn't aware at [Bb] that time what his history was.
I was then to find out.
I came up with a new pedal when Tammy Wynette was recording _ a song called Stand By Your
Man.
_ _ I _ call it my Tammy Wynette pedal.
_ It's just a_
[G] It's a little bit of a_
It's a
little bit of a_
It's one of those [C] kind of things.
It's like _ [Bb] _ a_ _
_ _ The old Bob Dillon. _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ [Bb] So _ [N] it was a pleasure just meeting him.
Then in some moment when nothing was going on,
he plugged up his little talk box.
It's a wooden box too.
I didn't know what he was
doing.
I said, take this out.
So he put the little tiny pipe in his mouth and all of a
sudden he started singing to me.
The pedal steel did.
_ I am the guitar or whatever he
was singing.
One of his hits, [Bb] I think he had.
It was called I'm Just a Guitar.
Everybody
picks on me. _
_ _ _ I'm [F] just [Bbm] a guitar.
Oh, [Eb] _ _ everybody [Gb] picks [Bb] on me.
_ _ _ [Ab] Oh, I'm just a guitar.
Oh, everybody picks
_ _ [Eb] _ on me.
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] These words they [Em] keep playing.
_ [G] Oh, it [Gb] takes me [E] from [Bb] misery.
_ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ This _ _ was a sound that [B] I'd heard.
I thought I'd heard something like this on the radio. _ _ _
In England we had a station called Radio Luxembourg that came from Luxembourg.
It was at night
time only.
_ [Ab] Their call letters were done with_
I've forgotten the name of it, but it's another
gadget _ that sounds like that thing you put to your throat.
A very sort of [E] computer-like
sound.
_ _ So I'd always heard a sound like that.
Then when he did that, it was like so many
bells went off in my head.
My jaw dropped to the floor.
I invented this thing in 1959. _ _
I made a _ _ station break for _ WSM. _ _
Then every radio station in
the world called me the next day, I think.
So I've done over 3,000 radio stations.
_ _ _ But
it _ was something like _ this. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
You _ [C] _ _ know, those kind of things.
_ _ _ _ We're updated now. _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[Dm] _ I _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ said, what is that [Eb] and can I get one?
[N] _ Peter Frampton, when he was 18 years old, I was in
England.
He says, how do you make the guitar talk?
_ I showed him and he said, boy, I wish
I could do that.
So I gave him one of my talk boxes.
He got rich off of it.
_ _ That was it.
He was _ _ _ absolutely_
Then I came back, I moved to the States.
_ It was just the
holy grail search of who makes these, where can I find one?
Then it was Bob Heil of Heil
Sound, who did Humble Pie Sound, _ who had started making them over here.
That was great.
From my understanding, the one that Pete gave you was the prototype _ that Luther Perkins
had built _ for him.
He told Luther how he wanted Johnny Cash's guitar player.
Right, right.
Luther was a mechanic. _
When you go to the museum, you'll see Luther also was a knitter.
He knitted _ sweaters and stuff like that.
He was very mechanical. _
Pete showed him what
he had.
Luther built it.
To my understanding, that's the one that you got originally.
No, I hate _ to_
No, I never got one from Pete.
Really?
No.
_ _ If you have Pete saying that he gave me one, _ he must have been mistaken.
I _ _ never got
one from him.
I don't know, unless it never got to me.
Okay, well, _ I'm pretty sure_
He gave me one?
Where is it?
_ I need it.
I can't believe that.
No, the first one I ever
had was, and the only one I ever had up until I started making them, Fram Tone. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Shameless,
_ _ shameless.
Was the [Am] Heil Sound one. _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _