Chords for Robert Smith of The Cure Interview Part 1 2004
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It's kind of a bit, however often it happens, every time we come back I do kind of
[Bb] You seem a little bit subdued right now, I think you're going to be just taking it all in?
Um, yeah, it's the easiest way to kind of cope with it really.
He's crazy, I can't even imagine.
[F]
Where do you want to come real quick?
[E]
Okay, go ahead, go ahead, just relax.
Okay.
[Bb]
First of all, Robert, I want [G] to congratulate you and the rest of the team on your rock walk injection today.
Thank you very much.
How does it feel for you to be putting your hands [Bb] in cement?
It's an unusual experience.
It's good, I mean it's really nice to get the invitation to do it.
It's not often that we do things like this.
I suppose as we're getting a bit older, you know, [G] things may [Bb] start to happen more often.
Well, not only are you immortalised with [E] your music now, but now people can come ten years from now
and see your hands on Sunset Boulevard.
Alright, so you've been together for 28 years now?
[G] Yeah, well Simon on bass has been with us.
He's kind of left a couple of times and come back.
So I guess he knows a good thing.
Yeah, it's 25 years this year since the release of the first album.
But we first started playing [Bb] in
[Eb] You don't look really old enough to actually [Ab] hear it.
Oh, sweet.
I am.
I was [Bb] doing some reading on you and I was looking at your website
and your [N] website says that the Cure is known to be free, independent, willful and unconfined.
Are those adjectives strictly for you or the rest of the millenials?
No, I think it's just over the years I've often been frustrated that the media,
[C] not so much in this country but in other places around the world, particularly [Ab] in the UK,
the inability to accept that The Cure do different things.
Throughout the years we've done really out and out electro pop music and dance music.
We're most well known I suppose for doing heavy
Although I say that, I think the general public perceives the band in a very different way than the media would like.
And it's hard for people to come to terms with the fact that we play a three hour show
and we play 15 minute songs sometimes
and yet at the same time most people who aren't that interested in music [C] know The Cure for videos like [Gb] Lullaby.
[F] So it's a very weird kind of paradox that exists within the band.
But it's just something that I always wanted what I did within The Cure to reflect how I felt at the time.
I never wanted to feel like I had to do a certain kind of music because that's what people expected.
And it's worked.
[Bb]
I think.
Because we have a really, really loyal fan base and it's fantastic.
Even though some of them don't often, [Ab] they're made from time so I don't [G] really like what we're doing, what we're trying musically.
I think they all appreciate that we're doing it because we feel like we want to do it.
There's never been that sense of doing it for any other reason.
No one's trying to make us do [F] things.
I was out there talking to some of the people in the crowd today about The Cure and what they like about your music
and I was really surprised at how many young people there are that have gone back and collected all the albums that came before them.
Yeah, I mean [G] the audience does kind of regenerate.
We retain a small percentage of the fans.
There are some very old fans.
But no, it's one of the things, I'm just like that earlier on today.
I mean someone made a quip on the telly when we were playing about the older looking gentlemen in the audience
and saying that you're the right age for a Cure fan.
And it got kind of a half laugh because it's actually really wide of the mark.
The music that we make does tend to, I mean it attracts a certain type of person, it becomes a very ravey Cure fan.
But we do have a very, we always have had a young audience, which is great.
I would much prefer to play with people 20 years younger than they [F] are to play with people my own age.
If the audience was as static as I am it would be pretty tedious.
So I know that you have been, I know you like a lot of different genres of music.
Who are the main people that influence you going along?
[Ab] Well when I was really young, I've got an older brother who's [G] 13 years older than me, so I was listening to
Cream and Captain Bayfire and things like that when I was sort of about 6 or 7 years old.
And Nick Drake, someone that my brother used to listen to that I liked.
And then when I got to 13 I started buying my own music.
And then it was people like David Bowie in [F] particular.
Yes I read you [C] were able to perform with him on stage at his 50th anniversary.
[F] Yeah, I was the only English person invited to get on stage with him, which is kind of weird.
Yeah that's funny, we interviewed each other for a radio station in London the year before that.
And I got really drunk and I thought I'd really upset him because we argued the whole time.
I just berated him for everything I could think of.
He was responsible for all the ills of the world.
So it was quite a shock actually to get an invitation.
I think that perhaps he was kind of excited by the debate.
We debated [G] art because I had completely opposite views to him.
But I still think he's one of the very few people that's still alive that I think is a genuinely great artist.
Which he probably doesn't think he is.
He's got a fantastic catalogue of songs.
He inspired me.
The Beatles actually as well.
My older sister used to play the Beatles in the Rolling Stones in the mid-60s.
And that influenced me.
So that melodic kind of thing I think always exists in the cure.
I aspired to be like the Beatles when we very first started.
Even though we were kind of in the punk era.
My favourite punk band was the Buzzcocks because I thought they had one of the best tunes.
I think it's kind of [Ab] saved us from being too [C] doom and gloom over the years.
Because there's always something you can sing.
[N]
[Bb] You seem a little bit subdued right now, I think you're going to be just taking it all in?
Um, yeah, it's the easiest way to kind of cope with it really.
He's crazy, I can't even imagine.
[F]
Where do you want to come real quick?
[E]
Okay, go ahead, go ahead, just relax.
Okay.
[Bb]
First of all, Robert, I want [G] to congratulate you and the rest of the team on your rock walk injection today.
Thank you very much.
How does it feel for you to be putting your hands [Bb] in cement?
It's an unusual experience.
It's good, I mean it's really nice to get the invitation to do it.
It's not often that we do things like this.
I suppose as we're getting a bit older, you know, [G] things may [Bb] start to happen more often.
Well, not only are you immortalised with [E] your music now, but now people can come ten years from now
and see your hands on Sunset Boulevard.
Alright, so you've been together for 28 years now?
[G] Yeah, well Simon on bass has been with us.
He's kind of left a couple of times and come back.
So I guess he knows a good thing.
Yeah, it's 25 years this year since the release of the first album.
But we first started playing [Bb] in
[Eb] You don't look really old enough to actually [Ab] hear it.
Oh, sweet.
I am.
I was [Bb] doing some reading on you and I was looking at your website
and your [N] website says that the Cure is known to be free, independent, willful and unconfined.
Are those adjectives strictly for you or the rest of the millenials?
No, I think it's just over the years I've often been frustrated that the media,
[C] not so much in this country but in other places around the world, particularly [Ab] in the UK,
the inability to accept that The Cure do different things.
Throughout the years we've done really out and out electro pop music and dance music.
We're most well known I suppose for doing heavy
Although I say that, I think the general public perceives the band in a very different way than the media would like.
And it's hard for people to come to terms with the fact that we play a three hour show
and we play 15 minute songs sometimes
and yet at the same time most people who aren't that interested in music [C] know The Cure for videos like [Gb] Lullaby.
[F] So it's a very weird kind of paradox that exists within the band.
But it's just something that I always wanted what I did within The Cure to reflect how I felt at the time.
I never wanted to feel like I had to do a certain kind of music because that's what people expected.
And it's worked.
[Bb]
I think.
Because we have a really, really loyal fan base and it's fantastic.
Even though some of them don't often, [Ab] they're made from time so I don't [G] really like what we're doing, what we're trying musically.
I think they all appreciate that we're doing it because we feel like we want to do it.
There's never been that sense of doing it for any other reason.
No one's trying to make us do [F] things.
I was out there talking to some of the people in the crowd today about The Cure and what they like about your music
and I was really surprised at how many young people there are that have gone back and collected all the albums that came before them.
Yeah, I mean [G] the audience does kind of regenerate.
We retain a small percentage of the fans.
There are some very old fans.
But no, it's one of the things, I'm just like that earlier on today.
I mean someone made a quip on the telly when we were playing about the older looking gentlemen in the audience
and saying that you're the right age for a Cure fan.
And it got kind of a half laugh because it's actually really wide of the mark.
The music that we make does tend to, I mean it attracts a certain type of person, it becomes a very ravey Cure fan.
But we do have a very, we always have had a young audience, which is great.
I would much prefer to play with people 20 years younger than they [F] are to play with people my own age.
If the audience was as static as I am it would be pretty tedious.
So I know that you have been, I know you like a lot of different genres of music.
Who are the main people that influence you going along?
[Ab] Well when I was really young, I've got an older brother who's [G] 13 years older than me, so I was listening to
Cream and Captain Bayfire and things like that when I was sort of about 6 or 7 years old.
And Nick Drake, someone that my brother used to listen to that I liked.
And then when I got to 13 I started buying my own music.
And then it was people like David Bowie in [F] particular.
Yes I read you [C] were able to perform with him on stage at his 50th anniversary.
[F] Yeah, I was the only English person invited to get on stage with him, which is kind of weird.
Yeah that's funny, we interviewed each other for a radio station in London the year before that.
And I got really drunk and I thought I'd really upset him because we argued the whole time.
I just berated him for everything I could think of.
He was responsible for all the ills of the world.
So it was quite a shock actually to get an invitation.
I think that perhaps he was kind of excited by the debate.
We debated [G] art because I had completely opposite views to him.
But I still think he's one of the very few people that's still alive that I think is a genuinely great artist.
Which he probably doesn't think he is.
He's got a fantastic catalogue of songs.
He inspired me.
The Beatles actually as well.
My older sister used to play the Beatles in the Rolling Stones in the mid-60s.
And that influenced me.
So that melodic kind of thing I think always exists in the cure.
I aspired to be like the Beatles when we very first started.
Even though we were kind of in the punk era.
My favourite punk band was the Buzzcocks because I thought they had one of the best tunes.
I think it's kind of [Ab] saved us from being too [C] doom and gloom over the years.
Because there's always something you can sing.
[N]
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It's kind of a bit, _ however often it happens, every time we come back I do kind of_
_ _ _ [Bb] You seem a little bit subdued right now, I think you're going to be just taking it all in?
Um, yeah, it's the easiest _ _ _ way to kind of cope with it really.
_ _ He's crazy, I can't even imagine.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ Where do you want to come real quick?
_ [E] _
Okay, go ahead, go ahead, just relax. _ _ _
Okay.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _
First of all, Robert, I want [G] to congratulate you and the rest of the team on your rock walk injection today.
Thank you very much.
How does it feel for you to be putting your hands [Bb] in cement?
_ _ It's an unusual experience.
It's good, I mean it's really nice to get the invitation to do it.
It's _ not often that we do things like this.
I suppose as we're getting a bit older, you know, _ [G] things may [Bb] start to happen more often.
_ Well, not only are you immortalised with [E] your music now, but now people can come ten years from now
and see your hands on Sunset Boulevard.
Alright, _ _ _ so you've been together for 28 years now? _ _
[G] Yeah, well Simon _ on bass has been with us.
_ _ _ He's kind of left a couple of times and come back.
So I guess he knows a good thing.
Yeah, it's 25 years this year since the release of the first album.
But we first started playing [Bb] in_ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] You don't look really old enough to actually [Ab] hear it.
Oh, sweet.
_ _ I am.
I was [Bb] doing some reading on you and I was looking at your website
and your [N] website says that the Cure is known to be free, independent, willful and unconfined.
Are those adjectives strictly for you or the rest of the millenials?
No, I think it's just _ over the years I've often been frustrated that the media,
[C] not so much in this country but in other places around the world, particularly [Ab] in the UK,
the inability to accept that The Cure do different things.
Throughout the years we've done really out and out electro pop music and _ dance music.
_ We're most well known I suppose for doing heavy_
_ Although I say that, I think the general public perceives the band in a very different way than the media would like.
And it's hard for people to come to terms with the fact that we play a three hour show
and we play 15 minute songs sometimes
and yet at the same time _ most people who aren't that interested in music [C] know The Cure for videos like [Gb] Lullaby.
_ [F] _ So it's a very weird kind of paradox that exists within the band.
But it's just something that I always wanted _ what I did within The Cure to reflect how I felt at the time.
I never wanted to feel like I had to do a certain kind of music because that's what people expected.
And it's worked.
_ _ [Bb] _
I think.
Because we have a really, really loyal fan base and it's fantastic.
_ _ _ Even though some of them don't often, [Ab] they're made from time so I don't [G] really like what we're doing, what we're trying musically.
I think they all appreciate that we're doing it because we feel like we want to do it.
There's never been that sense of doing it for any other reason.
No one's trying to make us do [F] things.
I was out there talking to some of the people in the crowd today about The Cure and what they like about your music
and I was really surprised at how many young people there are that have gone back and collected all the albums that came before them.
Yeah, I mean [G] the audience does kind of regenerate.
We retain a small percentage of the fans.
There are some very old fans.
But no, it's one of the things, I'm just like that earlier on today.
I mean someone made a quip on the telly when we were playing about the _ _ _ older looking gentlemen in the audience
and _ saying that you're the right age for a Cure fan.
And it got kind of a half laugh because it's actually really wide of the mark.
_ _ The music that we make does tend to, I mean it attracts a certain type of person, it becomes a very ravey Cure fan.
But we do have a very, we always have had a young audience, which is great.
I would much prefer to play with people 20 years younger than they [F] are to play with people my own age.
If the audience was as static as I am it would be pretty tedious.
So I know that you have been, I know you like a lot of different genres of music.
_ Who are the main people that influence you going along?
_ [Ab] _ _ _ Well when I was really young, I've got an older brother who's [G] 13 years older than me, so I was listening to
_ _ _ _ Cream and Captain Bayfire and things like that when I was sort of about 6 or 7 years old.
_ And Nick Drake, someone that my brother used to listen to that I liked.
And then when I got to 13 I started buying my own music.
And then it was people like David Bowie in [F] particular. _
_ Yes I read you [C] were able to perform with him on stage at his 50th anniversary.
[F] Yeah, _ I was the only English person invited to get on stage with him, which is kind of weird. _
Yeah that's funny, we interviewed each other for a radio station in London the year before that.
And I got really drunk and I thought I'd really upset him because we argued the whole time.
I just berated him for everything I could think of.
He was responsible for all the ills of the world.
So it was quite a shock actually to get an invitation.
I think that perhaps he was kind of excited by the debate.
We debated [G] art because I had completely opposite views to him.
But I still think he's one of the very few people that's still alive that I think is a genuinely great artist.
Which he probably doesn't think he is.
He's got a fantastic catalogue of songs.
He inspired me.
The Beatles actually as well.
My older sister used to play the Beatles in the Rolling Stones in the mid-60s.
And that influenced me.
So that melodic kind of thing I think always exists in the cure.
I aspired to be like the Beatles when we very first started.
Even though we were kind of in the punk era.
_ _ _ My favourite punk band was the Buzzcocks because I thought they had one of the best tunes.
_ _ I think it's kind of [Ab] saved us from being too [C] doom and gloom over the years.
Because there's always something you can sing. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] You seem a little bit subdued right now, I think you're going to be just taking it all in?
Um, yeah, it's the easiest _ _ _ way to kind of cope with it really.
_ _ He's crazy, I can't even imagine.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ Where do you want to come real quick?
_ [E] _
Okay, go ahead, go ahead, just relax. _ _ _
Okay.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _
First of all, Robert, I want [G] to congratulate you and the rest of the team on your rock walk injection today.
Thank you very much.
How does it feel for you to be putting your hands [Bb] in cement?
_ _ It's an unusual experience.
It's good, I mean it's really nice to get the invitation to do it.
It's _ not often that we do things like this.
I suppose as we're getting a bit older, you know, _ [G] things may [Bb] start to happen more often.
_ Well, not only are you immortalised with [E] your music now, but now people can come ten years from now
and see your hands on Sunset Boulevard.
Alright, _ _ _ so you've been together for 28 years now? _ _
[G] Yeah, well Simon _ on bass has been with us.
_ _ _ He's kind of left a couple of times and come back.
So I guess he knows a good thing.
Yeah, it's 25 years this year since the release of the first album.
But we first started playing [Bb] in_ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] You don't look really old enough to actually [Ab] hear it.
Oh, sweet.
_ _ I am.
I was [Bb] doing some reading on you and I was looking at your website
and your [N] website says that the Cure is known to be free, independent, willful and unconfined.
Are those adjectives strictly for you or the rest of the millenials?
No, I think it's just _ over the years I've often been frustrated that the media,
[C] not so much in this country but in other places around the world, particularly [Ab] in the UK,
the inability to accept that The Cure do different things.
Throughout the years we've done really out and out electro pop music and _ dance music.
_ We're most well known I suppose for doing heavy_
_ Although I say that, I think the general public perceives the band in a very different way than the media would like.
And it's hard for people to come to terms with the fact that we play a three hour show
and we play 15 minute songs sometimes
and yet at the same time _ most people who aren't that interested in music [C] know The Cure for videos like [Gb] Lullaby.
_ [F] _ So it's a very weird kind of paradox that exists within the band.
But it's just something that I always wanted _ what I did within The Cure to reflect how I felt at the time.
I never wanted to feel like I had to do a certain kind of music because that's what people expected.
And it's worked.
_ _ [Bb] _
I think.
Because we have a really, really loyal fan base and it's fantastic.
_ _ _ Even though some of them don't often, [Ab] they're made from time so I don't [G] really like what we're doing, what we're trying musically.
I think they all appreciate that we're doing it because we feel like we want to do it.
There's never been that sense of doing it for any other reason.
No one's trying to make us do [F] things.
I was out there talking to some of the people in the crowd today about The Cure and what they like about your music
and I was really surprised at how many young people there are that have gone back and collected all the albums that came before them.
Yeah, I mean [G] the audience does kind of regenerate.
We retain a small percentage of the fans.
There are some very old fans.
But no, it's one of the things, I'm just like that earlier on today.
I mean someone made a quip on the telly when we were playing about the _ _ _ older looking gentlemen in the audience
and _ saying that you're the right age for a Cure fan.
And it got kind of a half laugh because it's actually really wide of the mark.
_ _ The music that we make does tend to, I mean it attracts a certain type of person, it becomes a very ravey Cure fan.
But we do have a very, we always have had a young audience, which is great.
I would much prefer to play with people 20 years younger than they [F] are to play with people my own age.
If the audience was as static as I am it would be pretty tedious.
So I know that you have been, I know you like a lot of different genres of music.
_ Who are the main people that influence you going along?
_ [Ab] _ _ _ Well when I was really young, I've got an older brother who's [G] 13 years older than me, so I was listening to
_ _ _ _ Cream and Captain Bayfire and things like that when I was sort of about 6 or 7 years old.
_ And Nick Drake, someone that my brother used to listen to that I liked.
And then when I got to 13 I started buying my own music.
And then it was people like David Bowie in [F] particular. _
_ Yes I read you [C] were able to perform with him on stage at his 50th anniversary.
[F] Yeah, _ I was the only English person invited to get on stage with him, which is kind of weird. _
Yeah that's funny, we interviewed each other for a radio station in London the year before that.
And I got really drunk and I thought I'd really upset him because we argued the whole time.
I just berated him for everything I could think of.
He was responsible for all the ills of the world.
So it was quite a shock actually to get an invitation.
I think that perhaps he was kind of excited by the debate.
We debated [G] art because I had completely opposite views to him.
But I still think he's one of the very few people that's still alive that I think is a genuinely great artist.
Which he probably doesn't think he is.
He's got a fantastic catalogue of songs.
He inspired me.
The Beatles actually as well.
My older sister used to play the Beatles in the Rolling Stones in the mid-60s.
And that influenced me.
So that melodic kind of thing I think always exists in the cure.
I aspired to be like the Beatles when we very first started.
Even though we were kind of in the punk era.
_ _ _ My favourite punk band was the Buzzcocks because I thought they had one of the best tunes.
_ _ I think it's kind of [Ab] saved us from being too [C] doom and gloom over the years.
Because there's always something you can sing. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _