Chords for Richie Sambora Goes Solo with "Aftermath of the Lowdown"

[Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Bb] _ [G] _ Richie Sambora, [E] Richard, Richard, does anyone ever call you Richard?
As long as they don't call me Dick, I'm happy.
Is there anyone out there who might call you that?
I [Gb] don't think so.
_ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ You've been in Bon Jovi [Ab] for how many years? _
Almost 30 [N] now, Kat.
Jeez, Louise, and you were gigging on your own before that, you did the whole CBGB circuit, that whole thing.
Absolutely.
You've been a rock star for your whole life, pretty much.
Okay.
Okay, so_
I'll go with that.
Off the top of your head, the highest point of being a rock star and the lowest point?
_ Oh, God, the highest point?
Well, you know, I mean, there's so many high points.
I think the first time you have a number one record, [Eb] _ _ _
the first time you sell out a stadium full of people, like 70,000 people.
_ _ How _ [Abm] does it physically feel?
[Eb] Are you able to describe the sensation to me of you walk [Ab] out on stage and everyone's screaming your name in thousands and [Eb] thousands?
How does it feel?
Yeah, you can't take it for granted, man.
It's really amazing.
I mean, especially [Db] when they're [Ab] singing a song back to you that you've written in your bedroom [Db] and all of a sudden [Ab] it becomes a traveling song.
So it's a_ That's a_
That's a true rush, a true mission.
Well, you're sharing your bedroom with [N] 55,000 people, so_
Yeah, like having sex. _
What's not to like about that?
With your clothes on.
That's [Ebm] a trick.
That sounds tiring to me, actually.
What, having sex with 55,000 [N] people?
That would be very tiring. _
[Ab] How long would it take?
I'll take one, maybe two [Gb] at this point.
[Dbm] Thousand people.
[Abm] So the upside [Bb] is having sex with 55,000 people.
Right.
[Abm] The downside?
Leaving [Db] your family.
_ That's it.
I mean, you know, you get [A] used to the [Db] travel and the way we travel [N] is very, very good.
We've learned how to do it throughout the years and also how to pace the touring a little bit.
How to do it properly so you do get home and see your family.
Things don't go wrong.
_ _ _ _ How different is the experience [Eb] when you tour with Bon Jovi as when you tour just yourself?
Well, there's more responsibility, [B] obviously.
When [Eb] you're the front man and you're the leader of the band, there's a lot more responsibility to that.
Do you like that?
I do.
I love it.
I was a lead singer and a front man in every band I was in almost before I got to [E] Bon Jovi.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
You _ [Am] _ [Fm] _ [Ab] ever want to just whack him, just get [D] rid of him and be like_
[Bm] No, no, it's a great [E] energy, man.
I mean, [G] you know, the difference [C] is obviously [N] even from a songwriting perspective, the minute I get together,
it's like it's an amalgamation of our two energies.
So it becomes more of a_
I like to call it a healthy debate.
_ _ Who wins?
You or Bon Jovi?
No, you know what?
He's got to sing it.
In that band, he's the mouthpiece.
So [E] I'm very sensitive to that because I'm a lead singer too.
[B] And I know I can't get up behind a mic and _ [Gb] sing anything that my heart's not into.
You know what I [E] mean?
So that's [B] why this album, Aftermath of Lowdown, was such an important record for me.
[Gb] I got your picture on my phone, _ [Abm] _ [B] your voice in my head.
[Gb] _ _ [B] Aftermath is just war words.
I mean, like as [Ab] if you've been through a battle.
[B] You are talking about the [Ab] _ challenges of being a father, a husband, a boyfriend, _ [B] of addiction, of [E] rock stardom.
Why, why, why would you decide [B] to share that with everybody?
Well, you know, for God's sakes, it's been in the papers.
Why not?
I set out to make an [Gb] extremely authentic record.
[E] And the break is burning [Abm] and I'm losing my faith.
[B] I'm trying to find my way through the fear. _
When I mean authentic, I mean like, _ let's get down and see where I'm at, really, at this stage in my life.
And what I've found, digging through my own stuff [E] and excavating [Gb] that all out, is that it's everybody's stuff.
It's very [Em] universal.
And as a [E] songwriter, I think, you know, [B] throughout the years, I've been very, very good at that. _
_ [Gb] So you got me to [E] believe. _
[Abm] And when you say it's universal, [Bm] what's universal?
_ Births and deaths, you know, my dad dying of cancer, my divorce was a big blow to me.
And, you know, you got to embrace single parenthood at that time when you're 50,000 miles away.
Not an easy chore.
And then obviously, you know, some substance [B] abuse and addiction that I had to deal with.
I was running pretty fast as it was all going on, you know.
And actually when it did happen, I was like, yeah, man, I need to look at this and tend to it.
And I did.
And I'm on [F] the other side of it now.
And essentially, that's what the [Dbm] aftermath of the lowdown is [E] about, too. _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ [B] So _ _ _ _ _ you're going on [E] the road.
You've got this album.
[Abm] Your message that you want people to walk [B] away from your shows with is?
_ Let's see.
_ Well, the authenticity of what _ this music is.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's [E] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ not a sad sack record or a rehab [C] record by any means.
[N] Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Everybody needs to listen to something at rehab.
Well, there's parts of it that are.
There's parts of it that are there.
But, you know, I [Gb] wanted to bring back some real honest _
[B] musicianship to this record.
[C] That's a very hard word to say.
[N] _ _ _
_ _ Musicianship.
_ I wanted to bring back some sincere, _ honest musicianship to this record.
I think I pulled it off.
I left a lot of long solos, a lot of like _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] today's music.
[B] I kind of left it.
Thanks for bringing it back, man.
I'm trying.
Keeping it real. _
[Abm] Come see me, baby.
I will.
_ _ [B] _ Really