Chords for Rick Derringer and Edgar Winter Interview in Japan
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I started playing [N] music when I was nine, when I was nine [C] years old and the first
time I played was [N] about three weeks after I had a guitar I played
professionally.
We passed the hat, we call it passing the hat around.
People put
money in the hat then for the little kids, little [G] kids.
So when I was nine I
passed the hat, made $43.
[Em] I can remember I made $43 and I was so excited I thought
I was [E] rich and
[Gb] today if someone gave me $43 I'd probably go wow thanks for the
$43.
So I really was [G] rich in those days and then it wasn't long after that
probably when I [C] was about 13 or 14 my brother started playing with me and we
talked a [G] neighbor into playing bass and at that time we changed our name to the
McCoys because there was a Ventures record.
I think [A] the Ventures are very
popular here still.
The [G] Ventures had a record out called the McCoy and it was
so easy to learn that it was the first song we taught the bass player [C] how to
play.
So we had a bass player and a drummer and a guitarist and we played
our first song called the McCoy and we were so excited we said [Db] this is great if
we [G] call ourselves the McCoys then we will also have a theme song.
So [F] we became
the McCoys.
This was in [Gm] 1965 in the middle, right in the middle of Beatle
mania.
So we were four young guys with beetle haircuts and to have the number
one song all over the world [E] in the middle of Beatle mania [G] means everyone
was screaming [Fm] and pulling our clothes and trying to cut [D] our hair.
It was most
exciting, [G] most exciting.
Johnny and I started playing together as brothers.
I
played ukulele.
We sang Everly Brothers songs.
[N] I was about eight or nine at that
time and we started playing professionally in [E] public when I was
about 11.
[F] Clubs, after the football game, school dances, that [G] kind of thing.
We went
[F] on local TV.
We won some local talent contests, one of which the prize was to
record a [Gm] local record.
[N] I was probably about 12 at that time and [F] Johnny took up
the guitar.
I then switched over to keyboards.
[G] My mother plays classical
piano [F] and my father played banjo.
He had a barbershop quartet.
He played alto
[Gm] saxophone.
[F] When I was about 15 I took up the sax which became really probably my
main instrument [Gb] [Gm] and I became very interested in jazz.
People like [B] Cannonball
Adderley and John [G] Coltrane, Charlie Parker and I kind of got out of rock for
a time there.
I was about 15 to [G] 17.
Then Johnny and I started playing together
again with rock, rhythm and blues [F] oriented bands.
[Gm] We did Southern Circuit
club tours.
[G] By that time I had decided that music was going [Gm] to be my [G] profession.
So [F] immediately after getting out of high school we went on the [Gm] road.
Johnny then subsequently was discovered.
[Ab] He went to New York.
I [Gm] followed [Ab] to New
York, was introduced to his manager, got my own recording contract [F] and met Rick as
we [Gm] were talking about [D] before.
Check this out Edgar, this old record.
It [N] has Hang On Sloopy on one side and Fever on the other.
Red [F] vinyl record.
That's a nice old one too.
It's dark red.
[G] Oh yes, very nice.
[E] I was nine, [G] was 1956 [D] and that was the first year in the States that Elvis
really made his first, [G] he had made some records previously but his [E] big explosion
I guess of notoriety came in 1956.
[Ab] So even though I grew up listening to [Gm] all
kinds of music, a lot of country and Western music, [F] 1956 the year that I was
the [Gm] most open and influenceable I [G] guess was the year of Elvis' big hit the scene.
And so [C] then next was Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard and all these people [N] were
instant stars.
Well to me they were the most impressive people because I was the
most impressionable at that time.
[G] Ray Charles.
When I heard Ray [C] Charles play that beginning piano intro on [Gm] What I Said.
[G] [C] Talked to my mom [G] and dad I said I need one of those pianos, [F] I gotta have one of those pianos.
It's loud, you can hear it, you can put it through [Ab] an amplifier and you don't have to bang your hands and your fingers get all bloody [N] and bruised.
It was the greatest thing in the world, an electric piano.
I felt the same way about the electric [Gm] bass actually.
Because I had played the electric [D] guitar but I never really saw and all of a sudden, also the same year,
Bill Black was playing the bass with [Ab] Elvis and then the next thing you know Bill Black started [F] bringing out records of his own with a Bill Black combo.
Oh I remember that Bill Black bass.
Yeah they were the first to [E] feature the electric bass.
He was the first one given an electric bass by [F] Fender as a matter of fact.
So when I heard that I was [E] so impressed [Ab] with the electric bass.
I went like [Eb] this is the greatest instrument God has ever invented, the electric [G] bass guitar here.
Oh yeah it was really something.
[N]
time I played was [N] about three weeks after I had a guitar I played
professionally.
We passed the hat, we call it passing the hat around.
People put
money in the hat then for the little kids, little [G] kids.
So when I was nine I
passed the hat, made $43.
[Em] I can remember I made $43 and I was so excited I thought
I was [E] rich and
[Gb] today if someone gave me $43 I'd probably go wow thanks for the
$43.
So I really was [G] rich in those days and then it wasn't long after that
probably when I [C] was about 13 or 14 my brother started playing with me and we
talked a [G] neighbor into playing bass and at that time we changed our name to the
McCoys because there was a Ventures record.
I think [A] the Ventures are very
popular here still.
The [G] Ventures had a record out called the McCoy and it was
so easy to learn that it was the first song we taught the bass player [C] how to
play.
So we had a bass player and a drummer and a guitarist and we played
our first song called the McCoy and we were so excited we said [Db] this is great if
we [G] call ourselves the McCoys then we will also have a theme song.
So [F] we became
the McCoys.
This was in [Gm] 1965 in the middle, right in the middle of Beatle
mania.
So we were four young guys with beetle haircuts and to have the number
one song all over the world [E] in the middle of Beatle mania [G] means everyone
was screaming [Fm] and pulling our clothes and trying to cut [D] our hair.
It was most
exciting, [G] most exciting.
Johnny and I started playing together as brothers.
I
played ukulele.
We sang Everly Brothers songs.
[N] I was about eight or nine at that
time and we started playing professionally in [E] public when I was
about 11.
[F] Clubs, after the football game, school dances, that [G] kind of thing.
We went
[F] on local TV.
We won some local talent contests, one of which the prize was to
record a [Gm] local record.
[N] I was probably about 12 at that time and [F] Johnny took up
the guitar.
I then switched over to keyboards.
[G] My mother plays classical
piano [F] and my father played banjo.
He had a barbershop quartet.
He played alto
[Gm] saxophone.
[F] When I was about 15 I took up the sax which became really probably my
main instrument [Gb] [Gm] and I became very interested in jazz.
People like [B] Cannonball
Adderley and John [G] Coltrane, Charlie Parker and I kind of got out of rock for
a time there.
I was about 15 to [G] 17.
Then Johnny and I started playing together
again with rock, rhythm and blues [F] oriented bands.
[Gm] We did Southern Circuit
club tours.
[G] By that time I had decided that music was going [Gm] to be my [G] profession.
So [F] immediately after getting out of high school we went on the [Gm] road.
Johnny then subsequently was discovered.
[Ab] He went to New York.
I [Gm] followed [Ab] to New
York, was introduced to his manager, got my own recording contract [F] and met Rick as
we [Gm] were talking about [D] before.
Check this out Edgar, this old record.
It [N] has Hang On Sloopy on one side and Fever on the other.
Red [F] vinyl record.
That's a nice old one too.
It's dark red.
[G] Oh yes, very nice.
[E] I was nine, [G] was 1956 [D] and that was the first year in the States that Elvis
really made his first, [G] he had made some records previously but his [E] big explosion
I guess of notoriety came in 1956.
[Ab] So even though I grew up listening to [Gm] all
kinds of music, a lot of country and Western music, [F] 1956 the year that I was
the [Gm] most open and influenceable I [G] guess was the year of Elvis' big hit the scene.
And so [C] then next was Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard and all these people [N] were
instant stars.
Well to me they were the most impressive people because I was the
most impressionable at that time.
[G] Ray Charles.
When I heard Ray [C] Charles play that beginning piano intro on [Gm] What I Said.
[G] [C] Talked to my mom [G] and dad I said I need one of those pianos, [F] I gotta have one of those pianos.
It's loud, you can hear it, you can put it through [Ab] an amplifier and you don't have to bang your hands and your fingers get all bloody [N] and bruised.
It was the greatest thing in the world, an electric piano.
I felt the same way about the electric [Gm] bass actually.
Because I had played the electric [D] guitar but I never really saw and all of a sudden, also the same year,
Bill Black was playing the bass with [Ab] Elvis and then the next thing you know Bill Black started [F] bringing out records of his own with a Bill Black combo.
Oh I remember that Bill Black bass.
Yeah they were the first to [E] feature the electric bass.
He was the first one given an electric bass by [F] Fender as a matter of fact.
So when I heard that I was [E] so impressed [Ab] with the electric bass.
I went like [Eb] this is the greatest instrument God has ever invented, the electric [G] bass guitar here.
Oh yeah it was really something.
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Key:
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_ I started playing [N] music when I was nine, when I was nine [C] years old and the first
time I played was [N] _ about three weeks after I had a guitar I played
professionally.
We passed the hat, we call it passing the hat around.
People put
money in the hat then for the little kids, little [G] kids.
_ _ So when I was nine I
passed the hat, made $43.
_ [Em] I can remember I made $43 _ and I was so excited I thought
I was [E] rich and _
[Gb] today if someone gave me $43 I'd probably go wow thanks for the
$43.
So I really was [G] rich in those days and then it wasn't long after that
probably when I [C] was about 13 or 14 my brother started playing with me and we
talked a [G] neighbor into playing bass and at that time we changed our name to the
McCoys because there was a Ventures record.
I think [A] the Ventures are very
popular here still.
The [G] Ventures had a record out called the McCoy and it was
so easy to learn that it was the first song we taught the bass player [C] how to
play.
So we had a bass player and a drummer and a guitarist and we played
our first song called the McCoy and we were so excited we said [Db] this is great if
we [G] call ourselves the McCoys then we will also have a theme song.
So _ _ [F] we became
the McCoys.
This was in [Gm] 1965 in the middle, right in the middle of Beatle
mania.
So we were four young guys with beetle haircuts and to have the number
one song all over the world [E] in the middle of Beatle mania [G] means everyone
was screaming [Fm] and pulling our clothes and trying to cut [D] our hair.
It was most
exciting, [G] most exciting. _
_ _ _ _ _ Johnny and I started playing together as brothers.
I
played ukulele.
We sang Everly Brothers songs.
[N] I was about eight or nine at that
time and we started playing _ _ professionally in [E] public when I was
about 11.
_ [F] _ Clubs, after the football game, school dances, that [G] kind of thing.
_ We went
[F] on local TV.
We won some local talent contests, one of which the prize was to
record a [Gm] local record.
_ _ [N] I was probably about 12 at that time _ and [F] Johnny took up
the guitar.
I then switched over to keyboards.
[G] My mother plays classical
piano [F] and my father played _ _ banjo.
He had a barbershop quartet.
He played alto
[Gm] saxophone.
[F] When I was about 15 I took up the sax which became really probably my
main instrument [Gb] _ [Gm] and I became very interested in jazz. _ _
People like [B] Cannonball
Adderley and John [G] Coltrane, Charlie Parker _ _ and I kind of got out of rock for
a time there.
I was about 15 to [G] 17.
Then Johnny and I started playing together
again with rock, rhythm and blues [F] _ oriented bands.
[Gm] We did Southern Circuit
club tours.
_ _ [G] By that time I had decided that music was going [Gm] to be my [G] profession.
So _ [F] immediately after getting out of high school we went on the [Gm] road.
Johnny then subsequently _ was discovered.
[Ab] He went to New York.
I [Gm] followed [Ab] to New
York, _ was introduced to his manager, got my own recording contract [F] and met Rick as
we [Gm] were talking about [D] before.
Check this out Edgar, this old record.
It [N] has Hang On Sloopy on one side and Fever on the other.
Red [F] vinyl record.
That's a nice old one too.
It's dark red.
[G] Oh yes, very nice. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] I was nine, [G] was 1956 [D] and that was the first year in the States that Elvis
really made his first, [G] he had made some records previously but his [E] big _ explosion
I guess of notoriety came in 1956.
_ [Ab] So even though I grew up listening to [Gm] all
kinds of music, a lot of country and Western music, _ [F] 1956 the year that I was
the [Gm] most open and influenceable I [G] guess was the year of Elvis' big _ hit the scene.
And so [C] then next was Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard and all these people [N] were
instant stars.
Well to me they were the most _ _ impressive people because I was the
most impressionable at that time.
[G] _ _ _ Ray Charles.
_ When I heard Ray [C] Charles play that beginning piano intro on [Gm] What I Said. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] Talked to my mom [G] and dad I said I need one of those pianos, [F] I gotta have one of those pianos.
_ It's loud, you can hear it, you can put it through [Ab] an amplifier and you don't have to bang your hands and your fingers get all bloody [N] and bruised.
It was the greatest thing in the world, an electric piano.
I felt the same way about the electric [Gm] bass actually.
Because I had played the electric [D] guitar but I never really saw and all of a sudden, also the same year,
Bill Black was playing the bass with [Ab] Elvis and then the next thing you know Bill Black started [F] bringing out records of his own with a Bill Black combo.
Oh I remember that Bill Black bass.
Yeah they were the first to [E] feature the electric bass.
He was the first one given an electric bass by [F] Fender as a matter of fact.
So when I heard that I was [E] so impressed [Ab] with the electric bass.
I went like [Eb] this is the greatest instrument God has ever invented, the electric [G] bass guitar here.
Oh yeah it was really something.
_ [N] _ _
time I played was [N] _ about three weeks after I had a guitar I played
professionally.
We passed the hat, we call it passing the hat around.
People put
money in the hat then for the little kids, little [G] kids.
_ _ So when I was nine I
passed the hat, made $43.
_ [Em] I can remember I made $43 _ and I was so excited I thought
I was [E] rich and _
[Gb] today if someone gave me $43 I'd probably go wow thanks for the
$43.
So I really was [G] rich in those days and then it wasn't long after that
probably when I [C] was about 13 or 14 my brother started playing with me and we
talked a [G] neighbor into playing bass and at that time we changed our name to the
McCoys because there was a Ventures record.
I think [A] the Ventures are very
popular here still.
The [G] Ventures had a record out called the McCoy and it was
so easy to learn that it was the first song we taught the bass player [C] how to
play.
So we had a bass player and a drummer and a guitarist and we played
our first song called the McCoy and we were so excited we said [Db] this is great if
we [G] call ourselves the McCoys then we will also have a theme song.
So _ _ [F] we became
the McCoys.
This was in [Gm] 1965 in the middle, right in the middle of Beatle
mania.
So we were four young guys with beetle haircuts and to have the number
one song all over the world [E] in the middle of Beatle mania [G] means everyone
was screaming [Fm] and pulling our clothes and trying to cut [D] our hair.
It was most
exciting, [G] most exciting. _
_ _ _ _ _ Johnny and I started playing together as brothers.
I
played ukulele.
We sang Everly Brothers songs.
[N] I was about eight or nine at that
time and we started playing _ _ professionally in [E] public when I was
about 11.
_ [F] _ Clubs, after the football game, school dances, that [G] kind of thing.
_ We went
[F] on local TV.
We won some local talent contests, one of which the prize was to
record a [Gm] local record.
_ _ [N] I was probably about 12 at that time _ and [F] Johnny took up
the guitar.
I then switched over to keyboards.
[G] My mother plays classical
piano [F] and my father played _ _ banjo.
He had a barbershop quartet.
He played alto
[Gm] saxophone.
[F] When I was about 15 I took up the sax which became really probably my
main instrument [Gb] _ [Gm] and I became very interested in jazz. _ _
People like [B] Cannonball
Adderley and John [G] Coltrane, Charlie Parker _ _ and I kind of got out of rock for
a time there.
I was about 15 to [G] 17.
Then Johnny and I started playing together
again with rock, rhythm and blues [F] _ oriented bands.
[Gm] We did Southern Circuit
club tours.
_ _ [G] By that time I had decided that music was going [Gm] to be my [G] profession.
So _ [F] immediately after getting out of high school we went on the [Gm] road.
Johnny then subsequently _ was discovered.
[Ab] He went to New York.
I [Gm] followed [Ab] to New
York, _ was introduced to his manager, got my own recording contract [F] and met Rick as
we [Gm] were talking about [D] before.
Check this out Edgar, this old record.
It [N] has Hang On Sloopy on one side and Fever on the other.
Red [F] vinyl record.
That's a nice old one too.
It's dark red.
[G] Oh yes, very nice. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] I was nine, [G] was 1956 [D] and that was the first year in the States that Elvis
really made his first, [G] he had made some records previously but his [E] big _ explosion
I guess of notoriety came in 1956.
_ [Ab] So even though I grew up listening to [Gm] all
kinds of music, a lot of country and Western music, _ [F] 1956 the year that I was
the [Gm] most open and influenceable I [G] guess was the year of Elvis' big _ hit the scene.
And so [C] then next was Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard and all these people [N] were
instant stars.
Well to me they were the most _ _ impressive people because I was the
most impressionable at that time.
[G] _ _ _ Ray Charles.
_ When I heard Ray [C] Charles play that beginning piano intro on [Gm] What I Said. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] Talked to my mom [G] and dad I said I need one of those pianos, [F] I gotta have one of those pianos.
_ It's loud, you can hear it, you can put it through [Ab] an amplifier and you don't have to bang your hands and your fingers get all bloody [N] and bruised.
It was the greatest thing in the world, an electric piano.
I felt the same way about the electric [Gm] bass actually.
Because I had played the electric [D] guitar but I never really saw and all of a sudden, also the same year,
Bill Black was playing the bass with [Ab] Elvis and then the next thing you know Bill Black started [F] bringing out records of his own with a Bill Black combo.
Oh I remember that Bill Black bass.
Yeah they were the first to [E] feature the electric bass.
He was the first one given an electric bass by [F] Fender as a matter of fact.
So when I heard that I was [E] so impressed [Ab] with the electric bass.
I went like [Eb] this is the greatest instrument God has ever invented, the electric [G] bass guitar here.
Oh yeah it was really something.
_ [N] _ _