Chords for Richard Butler Interview

_ [Bb] The punk rock never made it very big [N] commercially.
It had a brief run and died a relatively unlamented death.
At least as far as the big Bucks concerts and records [Ab] are concerned.
But punk has had an effect on [D] some of today's up and coming rock groups.
Groups like the Psychedelic [Bb] Furs.
Now we will meet the lead singer in a moment.
[Bb] But first, listen to a bit to the Psychedelic Furs.
[A] _ _ _
Psychedelic Furs
Come and [G] get your life _
_ _ _ [Db] Lonely in the crowd
When the radio [Db] plays out
[C] You'll be sad
_ _ Psychedelic _ [Db] Furs
Lonely in the crowd
When you feel better
Coming [Eb] back with what is [C] left Psychedelic Furs _
[A] _ Psychedelic _ _ [E] Furs
Come and get your [G] life
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_ [B] _ Early psychedelic music.
Like the Feeds and [A] the Doors and stuff like that.
And that's where the name came from.
[Ab] And we took some of the energy from [Gm] New Wave music.
You look a little sinister up [N] there.
But yet you must be lovable [Eb] because you're selling a lot of records.
[B] Oh yeah.
I'm cute.
You're cute?
Have you taken a lot of time with your hair [Eb] this morning?
Uh, no.
_ _ I didn't mean to be insulting.
I just thought I'd try to put a little laugh there.
_ This bit of music that we heard at the top here
seemed [N] to have a lot more melody to it than punk.
Do you [Bb] try to get a little bit more of a music line?
[Eb] Because a punk thing a lot of people just find loud.
That sounds like it had no melody to it.
I don't know.
We don't plan the way we [Abm] work it.
It's like six [F] individuals in the band
[Ab] and the music just comes out like that.
There's no songwriter that says let's get more melody in this one
or more energy in that song.
It just all got together in [Gm] the studio [F] right.
And it comes out sounding like the psychedelic [N] first.
Is there any truth to the rumor that you guys
had not learned how to play your instruments totally
before you got into the recording studio?
_ [Eb] Yeah.
No.
When the band started we couldn't play.
There's probably a little truth to the rumor that we still can't.
[E] What gave you the courage to think that you could get into music
without knowing how to play music?
[Gb] _ _
[Eb] _ I don't know.
I don't think it's that important to be able to play.
[Gb] Oh no?
[Gm] No.
Do you think [N] that other musicians might argue with you?
Well I'm not saying that.
We make beautiful [Gm] chaos, the psychedelic first.
[Eb] Make beautiful chaos.
I read somewhere also that you were quoted as saying [C] something basically.
You [D] couldn't_
Hey your music couldn't be too similar to the [Bb] 60s or 70s
because people [Bb] in the 60s at least were preaching peace and love.
And there's not a whole lot of that going on today.
Yeah it was a nice idea but [F] it's very naive to think it could work like that.
[Em] Being so passive about it all.
[Gb] I don't think anything can be done [D] that passively.
[N] Do you pay a lot of attention to your lyrics?
Is it important to you that your audience hears what you're singing lyrically [Eb] speaking?
Yeah.
_ [E] And what are you trying to say in most [G] of your music?
_ _ [N] Uh_
I mean some people say it's sneering, some people say it's mean.
Very little tenderness in it.
I don't think so.
I think it's a soundtrack [G] to what you're living.
I'd just say that about it.
[Ab] And I don't like talking too much about what individual lyrics mean
because I think it's good if it can be kept ambiguous and a bit open.
People can use their own imaginations on it.
You know, to [B] say this is what it means, think [N] that is your boy, well, you know.
Well, people can come to their own conclusions.
Right here in New York City, you guys are going to be appearing at TRAX Saturday night.
Right.
Okay, I wish you a good successful engagement.
I wish you that.
Thank you for coming.
_ [Cm] _ [N] _