Chords for Reverb Soundcheck: Jimmie Vaughan

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[Fm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] What's up everybody, it's Jim with Reverb [D].com. We are at the [A] Fender showroom in Austin, Texas.
I'm [C] here with a living legend.
This is Jimmy Vaughn.
[Gb] Thanks for taking the [Fm] time, man.
_ _ Thanks for having me.
_ Was your first guitar a Stratocaster? _ _ _
No, actually _ [Ab] it was a Gibson, _
[Bb] _ _ one pickup three-quarter, [Ab] _
_ _ [Fm] and then, but my first Fender was a [Ab] Telecaster.
It [Cm] was probably _ a [C] 66, _ something [Fm] like that.
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_ I don't know, the guitar was like a 50s.
Yeah, for 170 bucks.
Do you _ still have that guitar?
Or [Bb] even the little Gibson that you had?
I have the little Gibson [Fm] _ _ _ and _ _ I don't have the Telecaster.
You know, the Telecaster,
[Gm] _ they [Bb] have it, this guy in LA [Fm] has it.
He's got it for sale for a million bucks.
_ _ I'm not kidding [F] you.
That's a pretty sizable markup for 150 bucks or whatever you spent [Fm] on it.
It's got my name on the back too.
Wow.
Jimbo.
I scratched it with a beer opener _ on the back.
[F] Yeah, I mean besides that first Gibson, I mean every time I've [A] seen you play [F] it's been on a
Fender.
What is [D] it about the Fender, _ [Fm] you know, whether it's the Strat or the Tele, that kind [Eb] of _ _
made you gravitate towards it?
You know, all my heroes had them.
Buddy Guy
had one, _ _ Buddy Holly, all the _ guys that I really liked played them.
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I always thought they just,
they look so good, _ you know.
_ And then when I [Fm] finally got one, they sound great too.
[C] And if
you know how to do it, you can make them [Fm] sound pretty [Bb] much like anything.
_ [C] _ They'll do a Telecaster,
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they'll do, _ _ you know, the [G] unique stuff to a [Abm] Stratocaster, [Fm] plus _ _ [Bb] _ [G] you can make them [F] sound like a
big _ _ box [C] guitar too.
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[C] _ [Dm] _ My dad [G] was an asbestos worker _ and _ _ that [D] was where in those days in Dallas, _
a lot of the [G] musicians, they'd go down there and they could pick up some quick money because it
was dirty. _
And my parents would play dominoes [Em] on the weekends.
[D] Some of my dad's friends from
[F] the union would come over and play [G] guitars _ in the living room when they weren't up, you know.
There was a guy named Leonard _ _ _ _ that [C] played guitar.
Well, he said to me,
what [Bb] do you like?
_ _ [Gb] And I said, well, I like blues.
And he went, you mean [E] like this? _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ And so [Gb] he started playing, you know, and then he did [A] Boogie Children.
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[Em] _ _ _ He did all [Bb] that. _
_ And then [A] he
said, yeah, you know, I actually [Ab] played with Chuck Berry.
_ _ [N] I was like, really?
_ So I mean, he knew
[Em] everything.
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] When I first started playing and [N] Stevie was, _ I'm four years older than Stevie,
so he watched me trying to figure out what, when I first started trying to [Bb] play blues and brought
home [E] records and everything, [G] he was sitting right next to me.
And _ whenever I would _ _ _ figure out
something, you know, a little trick or something, he would know.
I mean, I would tell him, you know,
[Em] here's what so-and-so did.
_ [G] And _
[Bb] _ [G] I _ would bring home [Eb] records.
I brought home California blues, _
[Ab] which Travel into [G] California, which is Albert King's [B] first album, I think.
_ _ [Eb] And, _ you know,
I would [Gb] learn the, try to learn the intros and the solo and the [F] ending.
_ Didn't care about the
words or what was going on.
It's [Gb] just all that guitar.
[Bb] What was that?
You know, what was that
wild sound, _ _ you know, and trying to get that, _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ the Albert [B] King thing, you know.
_ _ _ And _ so, you know,
if you want to get that Albert [A] King thing, _ _ _ [Gm] you know, you have to use the [A] meat, _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
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_ but nobody could
really do what he did, you know, [Eb] because he was upside down and he had his own [Bb] tuning.
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_ _ I remember one time [Bb] I _
_ _ _ [F] sort of had a vision or a dream [Gm] that _ _ [Bb] if I was in a room with all my
[Am] favorite guys, if I was in [Eb] the room with BB King and Buddy Guy and Albert King _ _ [F] and, _ _ you know,
named somebody else and we had a roundy round and it got to me, what was I going to [Bbm] do?
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You're pretty well screwed, right?
You can't do what they did because they're, [C] it's BB King, right?
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I started telling myself [Bb] that and [Bbm] trying to figure out what it is, what did I hear in my [Db] head, you
know.
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And so, [Bb] if you ask yourself [F] that question, [Bb] it'll start coming. _ _ _
You may not [G] like it at first,
but, you know, [Eb] you have to keep _ _ _ practicing with that in mind.
_ You know, what do [Bb] I hear?
_ _ You [Eb] can
have all these [Bb] influences [Bbm] and all these _ things that you can borrow their technique [Eb] and you can
borrow, _ _ _ you know, their licks and their songs, but eventually _ what happens is I think it all
comes down to where you [Bb] just _ can't [F] do anything else except what you do.
You finally get to a
place [Eb] where you just have to do what you do [Gb] _
and [Bb] _ _ _ [F] then you can't [G] help it anymore, so [Eb] you got your
own sound.
Well, there you have it.
[F] That's Jimmy Vaughn.
[Bbm] We'll have plenty more [Eb] to read and look
at at our [Bb] blog.
Have you guys got any guitar strings?
_ We sure do.
Isn't this the Fender building?
[F] _ _ _ _ _ We'll see you next time.
Thanks [D] so much, Jimmy.
Appreciate [F] it, man.
Thank you. _
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