Chords for Rain Parade No Easy Way Down

Back across town at one of LA's most fashionable clubs are the rain parade,
key representatives of this strange movement called the Paisley Underground.
It's sort of just a term which became used to describe the new era of bands in Los Angeles
in the early 80s and some of them had like you know psychedelic sounds and you know a vast array
of sounds were brought into one place and somebody coined the term Paisley Underground and it stuck.
It certainly gives the impression of being a load of hippies you know sort of latter-day
hippies emerging again or something.
Well well it's a false impression actually.
Is it all revivalism?
Is there a basis of revivalism in it?
Well what's important about it is that it's a new synthesis [N] of influences you know as every era
goes on in the great cycle of rock and roll there's a new sort of you know a new synthesis
of music that is unique in its own right you know.
At what stage did the songs start coming for you?
I mean your own songs as opposed to maybe starting out as bands do covering other things?
That's why we started we wanted to write our own stuff and I think that's the one thing that ties
all these people together is is a desire for serious melodic songwriting um if anything
does tie them together besides their proximity.
I mean I'm sure all the accountants in
in Fontana know each other too.
More musicians in Los Angeles.
But it's not just Los Angeles either it's uh it's really all of America right now it's really
brewing something bubbling under you know we've been around a few times and you see in like every
small town you go to there's a music scene and like a lot of great bands lots of them yeah you
walk into like a dive in Kent, Ohio and you know there's like a million kids hanging out and there's
great bands you know take a tape recorder around the country and become a millionaire.
What's the name of that band?
Your lyrics the lyrics have been described as soft psychedelic visions.
[Eb] It's a wonderful phrase
it begs the question.
Sounds good huh?
It does doesn't it but it begs the question psychedelia
whatever it is I mean is tied in or has been tied in with drugs and do you feel that that's anything
to do?
Do you take the odd LSD trip or something along the way?
Well well music music is music is
really the only drug you know I mean [E] everybody can do what they want you know you can explore
[Bm] you know but you got to be able to feel to listen to music to make music and so I think sometimes
drugs can in the long run take away from that.
[Gb] Acids like Cleveland you know once you've been
there 20 times you really don't want to [B] go back. _
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