Chords for REO Speedwagon - Bruce Hall Interview
Tempo:
136.75 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
Gm
C
Bb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C] [D] [C]
[D] [Gm]
[G]
[Gm]
[G]
This [Cm] is Bruce Hall, he is the bass player for the band REO Speedwagon.
And tell us about your stuff.
My stuff?
Well this is my speaker setup.
As you can see it's made by a company called Trace Elliot.
I use two 410 [Bb] cabinets, that's these, and two 15 cabinets.
The 410s are a smaller speaker and they produce a tighter sound but they don't get as much
low definition as a bigger speaker.
This is kind of like if you had a car stereo and you hear the woofer, like, that comes
out of big speakers like 15s, like that.
I mean you could produce it out of 10s but it's not as efficient as the 15s.
And also I have a tweeter, there's what's called a little tweeter, a tweeter horn, which
is for the really supersonic highs but you usually don't need to turn that up much with
bass guitar because not a lot of supersonic highs happen.
This is our wireless units, what we use for, instead of cords in between our guitars and
our amplifiers, is we use these.
These are little receiving antennas.
Select your switches for different guitars, like here's, I have like four different basses
that I can choose from and this buttons choose, depending which one I have on, you just push
the button and the receiver, turn the receiver and it picks it up.
I could go down the block if I wanted to.
This is my main amplifier, these are Trace Elliot GP12s and I use this one most of the
time, this is a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.
Just in case like on the road if one of them breaks then I have this one, I have another
one to backup that, the one that's broken and just in case I don't get this one back
from repairs in time to get it back in and something goes wrong with this one, then I
got another one to backup the one that, so there's always two.
Where are your basses?
Where are they?
My basses?
Let's go this way.
This is my main bass.
This is my old bass that I grew up with, this bass. Really?
Yeah, I played this bass before I was even in REO Speedwagon and she was retired for
a while and then I drug her out of the mothballs and
Do you know how much Dave pays to get his guitars and look at his phone?
I know, I took this down to the Fender shop where they customize this look, it's called
Relic, but this isn't Relic, this is real.
This is real.
And this is a Fender?
It's a Fender Jazz Bass, I call it Butter, this is Butter, Butter Baby.
She's a beauty.
I put on a new bridge and some active pickups, some [Gm] active electronics [G] and that's about it.
She's about the same as she was when she first came around.
[Bb]
[A] [Bb] And that's your favorite one [G] to play?
That's my favorite.
[C]
[D] [A] [G] [A]
[D] [F]
[Gm]
[D]
[C] [G] [Gm] This bass, my precision bass.
It's pretty.
Yeah, isn't that pretty?
I use this in one song.
And the reason I use this in one song is because it's tuned down a full step, it's tuned to
the low string is a D.
Time for me to fly.
[A] When you make the set list, are you [Gm] con?
[D] Oh sure.
You're like, oh [G] no, I have to change back.
[Am] Well, time for me to fly [G] and it's usually always in the set, so this bass [D] always has
to be around for that one song.
[G] Then I just give it back.
This is one of my favorites because it was like, it's from the Fender custom shop, it's
got a little custom shop emblem up here and it's a replica of a 1952 precision bass.
It's a beauty.
Blondie, that's Blondie.
He's named all his basses.
And last but not least, this is my five string and this is [Bb] kind of like my most recent one
because it is, I only play this on one song too.
On building the bridge, one song.
And what differentiates the sound?
It has a low B.
This is like, on most basses, on the four string bass, the lowest string
is an E and I have the E here too.
There's the E string.
But then on a five string, you have a low B and it just rumbles.
In fact, if you look at it, you see how, look how.
So it really puts out a really, really low tone.
But it's a beauty too.
And how old were you when you first started to play?
I was 13.
And I'm over [E] 13 now.
During the early days of like when we were growing up, [Am]
it seems like everyone I know,
Neil, [G] Dave, Brian, Kevin, and a [Gm] lot of other musicians, we all [Em] were just [C] mesmerized by
The Beatles [Db] and being on the Ed Sullivan Show and we all got to see this when we were like [N] very impressionable.
[D] [Gm]
[G]
[Gm]
[G]
This [Cm] is Bruce Hall, he is the bass player for the band REO Speedwagon.
And tell us about your stuff.
My stuff?
Well this is my speaker setup.
As you can see it's made by a company called Trace Elliot.
I use two 410 [Bb] cabinets, that's these, and two 15 cabinets.
The 410s are a smaller speaker and they produce a tighter sound but they don't get as much
low definition as a bigger speaker.
This is kind of like if you had a car stereo and you hear the woofer, like, that comes
out of big speakers like 15s, like that.
I mean you could produce it out of 10s but it's not as efficient as the 15s.
And also I have a tweeter, there's what's called a little tweeter, a tweeter horn, which
is for the really supersonic highs but you usually don't need to turn that up much with
bass guitar because not a lot of supersonic highs happen.
This is our wireless units, what we use for, instead of cords in between our guitars and
our amplifiers, is we use these.
These are little receiving antennas.
Select your switches for different guitars, like here's, I have like four different basses
that I can choose from and this buttons choose, depending which one I have on, you just push
the button and the receiver, turn the receiver and it picks it up.
I could go down the block if I wanted to.
This is my main amplifier, these are Trace Elliot GP12s and I use this one most of the
time, this is a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.
Just in case like on the road if one of them breaks then I have this one, I have another
one to backup that, the one that's broken and just in case I don't get this one back
from repairs in time to get it back in and something goes wrong with this one, then I
got another one to backup the one that, so there's always two.
Where are your basses?
Where are they?
My basses?
Let's go this way.
This is my main bass.
This is my old bass that I grew up with, this bass. Really?
Yeah, I played this bass before I was even in REO Speedwagon and she was retired for
a while and then I drug her out of the mothballs and
Do you know how much Dave pays to get his guitars and look at his phone?
I know, I took this down to the Fender shop where they customize this look, it's called
Relic, but this isn't Relic, this is real.
This is real.
And this is a Fender?
It's a Fender Jazz Bass, I call it Butter, this is Butter, Butter Baby.
She's a beauty.
I put on a new bridge and some active pickups, some [Gm] active electronics [G] and that's about it.
She's about the same as she was when she first came around.
[Bb]
[A] [Bb] And that's your favorite one [G] to play?
That's my favorite.
[C]
[D] [A] [G] [A]
[D] [F]
[Gm]
[D]
[C] [G] [Gm] This bass, my precision bass.
It's pretty.
Yeah, isn't that pretty?
I use this in one song.
And the reason I use this in one song is because it's tuned down a full step, it's tuned to
the low string is a D.
Time for me to fly.
[A] When you make the set list, are you [Gm] con?
[D] Oh sure.
You're like, oh [G] no, I have to change back.
[Am] Well, time for me to fly [G] and it's usually always in the set, so this bass [D] always has
to be around for that one song.
[G] Then I just give it back.
This is one of my favorites because it was like, it's from the Fender custom shop, it's
got a little custom shop emblem up here and it's a replica of a 1952 precision bass.
It's a beauty.
Blondie, that's Blondie.
He's named all his basses.
And last but not least, this is my five string and this is [Bb] kind of like my most recent one
because it is, I only play this on one song too.
On building the bridge, one song.
And what differentiates the sound?
It has a low B.
This is like, on most basses, on the four string bass, the lowest string
is an E and I have the E here too.
There's the E string.
But then on a five string, you have a low B and it just rumbles.
In fact, if you look at it, you see how, look how.
So it really puts out a really, really low tone.
But it's a beauty too.
And how old were you when you first started to play?
I was 13.
And I'm over [E] 13 now.
During the early days of like when we were growing up, [Am]
it seems like everyone I know,
Neil, [G] Dave, Brian, Kevin, and a [Gm] lot of other musicians, we all [Em] were just [C] mesmerized by
The Beatles [Db] and being on the Ed Sullivan Show and we all got to see this when we were like [N] very impressionable.
Key:
G
D
Gm
C
Bb
G
D
Gm
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ This [Cm] is Bruce Hall, he is the bass player for the band REO Speedwagon.
And tell us about your stuff.
My stuff?
Well this is my _ speaker setup.
_ _ As you can see it's made by a company called Trace Elliot.
_ I use two 410 [Bb] cabinets, that's these, and two 15 cabinets.
The 410s are a smaller speaker and they produce a tighter sound but they don't get as much
low definition as a bigger speaker.
This is kind of like if you had a car stereo and you hear the woofer, like, that comes
out of big speakers like 15s, like that.
I mean you could produce it out of 10s but it's not as efficient as the _ 15s.
And also I have a tweeter, there's what's called a little tweeter, a tweeter horn, which
is for the really supersonic highs but you usually don't need to turn that up much with
bass guitar because not a lot of supersonic highs happen.
This is our wireless units, what we use for, instead of cords in between our guitars and
our amplifiers, is we use these.
These are little receiving antennas.
_ Select your switches for different guitars, like here's, I have like four different basses
that I can choose from and this buttons choose, depending which one I have on, you just push
the button and the receiver, turn the receiver and it picks it up.
I could go down the block if I wanted to.
_ This is my main amplifier, these are Trace Elliot _ _ _ GP12s _ _ and I use this one most of the
time, this is a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.
_ _ _ Just in case like on the road if one of them breaks then I have this one, I have another
one to backup that, the one that's broken and just in case I don't get this one back
from repairs in time to get it back in and something goes wrong with this one, then I
got another one to backup the one that, so there's always two.
Where are your basses?
Where are they?
My basses?
Let's go this way.
_ This is my main bass.
This is my old bass that I grew up with, this bass. Really?
Yeah, I played this bass before I was even in REO Speedwagon _ _ and she was retired for
a while and then I drug her out of the mothballs and_
Do you know how much Dave pays to get his guitars and look at his phone?
I know, I took this down to the Fender shop where they customize this look, it's called
Relic, but this isn't Relic, this is real.
This is real.
And this is a Fender?
It's a Fender Jazz Bass, _ I call it Butter, this is Butter, Butter Baby.
_ She's a beauty.
I put on a new bridge and some active pickups, some [Gm] active electronics _ [G] and that's about it.
She's about the same as she was when she first came around.
[Bb] _ _
[A] _ [Bb] And that's your favorite one [G] to play?
That's my favorite. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] This bass, my precision bass.
It's pretty.
Yeah, isn't that pretty?
I use this in one song. _ _ _
And the reason I use this in one song is because it's tuned down a full step, it's tuned to
the low string is a D.
_ Time for me to fly.
[A] When you make the set list, are you [Gm] con?
[D] Oh sure.
You're like, oh [G] no, I have to change back.
[Am] Well, time for me to fly [G] and it's usually always in the set, so this bass [D] always has
to be around for that one song.
[G] Then I just give it back.
_ _ This is one of my favorites because it was like, _ it's from the Fender custom shop, it's
got a little custom shop emblem up here and it's a replica of a _ _ 1952 precision bass.
It's a beauty.
_ _ Blondie, that's Blondie.
He's named all his basses.
_ _ And last but not least, this is my five string _ and this is [Bb] kind of like my most recent one
because it is, I only play this on one song too.
On building the bridge, one song.
And what _ differentiates the sound?
It has a low B.
This is like, on most basses, on the four string bass, the lowest string
is an E and I have the E here too.
There's the E string.
But then on a five string, you have a low B and it just rumbles.
In fact, if you look at it, you see how, look how.
_ _ So it really puts out a really, really low tone.
But it's a beauty too.
And how old were you when you first started to play?
_ _ I was 13.
_ _ And I'm over [E] 13 now. _
During the early days of like when we were growing up, [Am]
it seems like everyone I know,
Neil, [G] Dave, Brian, Kevin, and a [Gm] lot of other musicians, we all [Em] were _ just _ [C] _ mesmerized by
The Beatles [Db] and being on the Ed Sullivan Show and we all got to see this when we were like [N] very impressionable.
_ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ This [Cm] is Bruce Hall, he is the bass player for the band REO Speedwagon.
And tell us about your stuff.
My stuff?
Well this is my _ speaker setup.
_ _ As you can see it's made by a company called Trace Elliot.
_ I use two 410 [Bb] cabinets, that's these, and two 15 cabinets.
The 410s are a smaller speaker and they produce a tighter sound but they don't get as much
low definition as a bigger speaker.
This is kind of like if you had a car stereo and you hear the woofer, like, that comes
out of big speakers like 15s, like that.
I mean you could produce it out of 10s but it's not as efficient as the _ 15s.
And also I have a tweeter, there's what's called a little tweeter, a tweeter horn, which
is for the really supersonic highs but you usually don't need to turn that up much with
bass guitar because not a lot of supersonic highs happen.
This is our wireless units, what we use for, instead of cords in between our guitars and
our amplifiers, is we use these.
These are little receiving antennas.
_ Select your switches for different guitars, like here's, I have like four different basses
that I can choose from and this buttons choose, depending which one I have on, you just push
the button and the receiver, turn the receiver and it picks it up.
I could go down the block if I wanted to.
_ This is my main amplifier, these are Trace Elliot _ _ _ GP12s _ _ and I use this one most of the
time, this is a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.
_ _ _ Just in case like on the road if one of them breaks then I have this one, I have another
one to backup that, the one that's broken and just in case I don't get this one back
from repairs in time to get it back in and something goes wrong with this one, then I
got another one to backup the one that, so there's always two.
Where are your basses?
Where are they?
My basses?
Let's go this way.
_ This is my main bass.
This is my old bass that I grew up with, this bass. Really?
Yeah, I played this bass before I was even in REO Speedwagon _ _ and she was retired for
a while and then I drug her out of the mothballs and_
Do you know how much Dave pays to get his guitars and look at his phone?
I know, I took this down to the Fender shop where they customize this look, it's called
Relic, but this isn't Relic, this is real.
This is real.
And this is a Fender?
It's a Fender Jazz Bass, _ I call it Butter, this is Butter, Butter Baby.
_ She's a beauty.
I put on a new bridge and some active pickups, some [Gm] active electronics _ [G] and that's about it.
She's about the same as she was when she first came around.
[Bb] _ _
[A] _ [Bb] And that's your favorite one [G] to play?
That's my favorite. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] This bass, my precision bass.
It's pretty.
Yeah, isn't that pretty?
I use this in one song. _ _ _
And the reason I use this in one song is because it's tuned down a full step, it's tuned to
the low string is a D.
_ Time for me to fly.
[A] When you make the set list, are you [Gm] con?
[D] Oh sure.
You're like, oh [G] no, I have to change back.
[Am] Well, time for me to fly [G] and it's usually always in the set, so this bass [D] always has
to be around for that one song.
[G] Then I just give it back.
_ _ This is one of my favorites because it was like, _ it's from the Fender custom shop, it's
got a little custom shop emblem up here and it's a replica of a _ _ 1952 precision bass.
It's a beauty.
_ _ Blondie, that's Blondie.
He's named all his basses.
_ _ And last but not least, this is my five string _ and this is [Bb] kind of like my most recent one
because it is, I only play this on one song too.
On building the bridge, one song.
And what _ differentiates the sound?
It has a low B.
This is like, on most basses, on the four string bass, the lowest string
is an E and I have the E here too.
There's the E string.
But then on a five string, you have a low B and it just rumbles.
In fact, if you look at it, you see how, look how.
_ _ So it really puts out a really, really low tone.
But it's a beauty too.
And how old were you when you first started to play?
_ _ I was 13.
_ _ And I'm over [E] 13 now. _
During the early days of like when we were growing up, [Am]
it seems like everyone I know,
Neil, [G] Dave, Brian, Kevin, and a [Gm] lot of other musicians, we all [Em] were _ just _ [C] _ mesmerized by
The Beatles [Db] and being on the Ed Sullivan Show and we all got to see this when we were like [N] very impressionable.