Chords for Ronnie Lane (Luke Lane talks) BBC One Show April 2015
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He was a musician and he was a founder of the Small Faces and the Faces, which were rock and roll bands back in the 60s and 70s.
[B] My dad was [D] just my dad.
I wasn't aware of the famous musician [F] that he was.
[F#] He co-wrote [E] a lot of the songs.
Rob Stewart [A] called him the backbone of the Faces.
My [E] dad loved the rock and roll lifestyle [Bm] and they used to go out [D] drinking and [Em] causing a kerfuffle wherever they went.
He eventually met my mother.
They ran away together to Ireland in 1972.
Then the following year in August I was born.
[A]
My dad [B] wasn't materialistic.
He just wanted music [F#] to be there for the people.
[Am] The audiences do [E] like to feel that you're one of them and I think [G#] it's nice when they [A] do.
[N]
In 1973 is when my dad decided to leave the Faces.
It was not just the commercialism of it.
My dad had a different direction he wanted to go in.
[C]
He decided that him and my [F] mother would come to the Welsh [C] Shropshire border, buy a farm,
and see if they could run the farm and the music side of it hand in [F] hand.
Wow.
This is the [F] first time I've been in here for 30 years.
It was a lot different back then.
We had a kitchen table there and everyone used to sit around it.
[A] And in here dad used to sit by the fire with his guitar coming up with all of his songs.
My dad built a studio in this barn [F#] so that he could produce all of his own [Em] music here.
And that is when he started the band Slim Chance.
I spent many an hour listening [G#] to them rehearse and record and have a [Em] laugh.
[G] All my dad's musician friends used to love coming to the Fishbowl.
Eric [D] Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight around the campfire here.
[C] And I will never forget listening to him play it [D] as the song was [Am] in its infancy.
[G] It was an absolutely wonderful place to grow [D] up.
It was the best years of my [C] life were at Fishbowl Farm.
The first time I realised there was something wrong with my dad was [B] when we were driving across a field with a tractor.
And he said to me, he said, son you're going to have to steer for me because I can't see.
[G] Life changed for all of us when he discovered he had MS.
[A] He was a depressive and every glass was half empty and that was his take on life.
The loss of being able to play the bass and to [D] write the songs he wanted to write [A] was pretty much the end of his happy persona.
[D] My dad came out of his depression and he decided to try and raise money for MS.
He talked to the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and they all got together and they done a concert at the Albert Hall.
And all the funds raised went towards MS.
You see MS doesn't kill you [G]
but it will [F#m] cripple you for the rest [Em] of your life.
[C]
That makes it easier for people to sort of look the other way.
[G]
When I was 14 my dad came [Em] back to stay with us for a couple of weeks.
[G] He was back to telling jokes.
He was like I remembered [Am] him at Fishbowl.
It was a really happy [Em] time for me.
[G] It was nice to have the old Ronnie back.
I didn't imagine for a second [Am] it would be the last time I saw him.
Ronnie Lane, the former bass guitarist with the pop groups The Small Faces and The Faces has died.
I heard the news [C] of my father's death on the radio as I was driving.
I had to [G] drive home then with the thought of losing my dad [Em] who incidentally was buried the [A] same day.
[G] So I didn't even have a chance to go to his funeral either.
I [Em] do miss the fact that [Am] I haven't got him to talk to.
If my [G] dad was alive now we would have a great relationship [Em] definitely.
[E] Thank you so much to Luke for sharing his story.
Incredibly sad [N] story isn't it?
Very sad, very sad.
You shared a memorable moment in New Year's Eve with The Small Faces.
You knew them quite well of course.
They were all titchy.
[Am] [F] They all looked pretty similar.
I remember travelling with them.
We were doing these [Em] pop shows and TV gigs in Europe.
One memorable moment in mid-air when I suddenly turned back and I saw they were having a pillow fight
with all these cabin seat cushions.
They were quite blotto if you know what I mean.
We get the picture.
Yeah, but they were great guys.
Ronnie was an icon and his group Slim Chance, my favourite guitarist and my companion for so many years.
Alan Davis has been in that group for many years actually playing his songs.
There's a real connection there.
As we heard, Ronnie suffered from MS and you had tuberculosis which gave you a different perspective on life.
But am I right in saying that there was one incident in particular that took your life in a whole new direction?
Yeah, I think sometimes we don't expect it and then something happens that gives you a whole new angle on your own life.
You realise you might have actually lost it at that moment.
What happened to me was I was swimming in Malibu and it was all very twee and there was lots of rich people around.
It was the house of my record chief, Jerry Moss.
[G#]
I went swimming.
Stupid.
So what I did when I went out there, I thought I didn't see anybody else out there.
No problem.
But then after a while I tried to come back to shore and I couldn't.
I'd lost all the power.
Suddenly I felt like a jelly and the only thing I could do was to call God.
I said, God if you save me I'll work for you.
And that was a deal.
And that's what happened.
[E] He saved me and I came back to land.
And you struck the deal and as a result you left music for the best part of 20 years.
So why did you make the decision and how did the decision come about then to come back to it?
Lots of reasons.
The way in which the world was almost facing this terrible abyss between cultures.
And music has an incredible way of linking us all together.
There are no colours, there are no nationalities in [E] music.
There's no borders.
And then I discovered so many things about Muslim civilisation and the fact that the guitar probably owes its origin
or at least the link to the guitar through Islamic Spain
[B] My dad was [D] just my dad.
I wasn't aware of the famous musician [F] that he was.
[F#] He co-wrote [E] a lot of the songs.
Rob Stewart [A] called him the backbone of the Faces.
My [E] dad loved the rock and roll lifestyle [Bm] and they used to go out [D] drinking and [Em] causing a kerfuffle wherever they went.
He eventually met my mother.
They ran away together to Ireland in 1972.
Then the following year in August I was born.
[A]
My dad [B] wasn't materialistic.
He just wanted music [F#] to be there for the people.
[Am] The audiences do [E] like to feel that you're one of them and I think [G#] it's nice when they [A] do.
[N]
In 1973 is when my dad decided to leave the Faces.
It was not just the commercialism of it.
My dad had a different direction he wanted to go in.
[C]
He decided that him and my [F] mother would come to the Welsh [C] Shropshire border, buy a farm,
and see if they could run the farm and the music side of it hand in [F] hand.
Wow.
This is the [F] first time I've been in here for 30 years.
It was a lot different back then.
We had a kitchen table there and everyone used to sit around it.
[A] And in here dad used to sit by the fire with his guitar coming up with all of his songs.
My dad built a studio in this barn [F#] so that he could produce all of his own [Em] music here.
And that is when he started the band Slim Chance.
I spent many an hour listening [G#] to them rehearse and record and have a [Em] laugh.
[G] All my dad's musician friends used to love coming to the Fishbowl.
Eric [D] Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight around the campfire here.
[C] And I will never forget listening to him play it [D] as the song was [Am] in its infancy.
[G] It was an absolutely wonderful place to grow [D] up.
It was the best years of my [C] life were at Fishbowl Farm.
The first time I realised there was something wrong with my dad was [B] when we were driving across a field with a tractor.
And he said to me, he said, son you're going to have to steer for me because I can't see.
[G] Life changed for all of us when he discovered he had MS.
[A] He was a depressive and every glass was half empty and that was his take on life.
The loss of being able to play the bass and to [D] write the songs he wanted to write [A] was pretty much the end of his happy persona.
[D] My dad came out of his depression and he decided to try and raise money for MS.
He talked to the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and they all got together and they done a concert at the Albert Hall.
And all the funds raised went towards MS.
You see MS doesn't kill you [G]
but it will [F#m] cripple you for the rest [Em] of your life.
[C]
That makes it easier for people to sort of look the other way.
[G]
When I was 14 my dad came [Em] back to stay with us for a couple of weeks.
[G] He was back to telling jokes.
He was like I remembered [Am] him at Fishbowl.
It was a really happy [Em] time for me.
[G] It was nice to have the old Ronnie back.
I didn't imagine for a second [Am] it would be the last time I saw him.
Ronnie Lane, the former bass guitarist with the pop groups The Small Faces and The Faces has died.
I heard the news [C] of my father's death on the radio as I was driving.
I had to [G] drive home then with the thought of losing my dad [Em] who incidentally was buried the [A] same day.
[G] So I didn't even have a chance to go to his funeral either.
I [Em] do miss the fact that [Am] I haven't got him to talk to.
If my [G] dad was alive now we would have a great relationship [Em] definitely.
[E] Thank you so much to Luke for sharing his story.
Incredibly sad [N] story isn't it?
Very sad, very sad.
You shared a memorable moment in New Year's Eve with The Small Faces.
You knew them quite well of course.
They were all titchy.
[Am] [F] They all looked pretty similar.
I remember travelling with them.
We were doing these [Em] pop shows and TV gigs in Europe.
One memorable moment in mid-air when I suddenly turned back and I saw they were having a pillow fight
with all these cabin seat cushions.
They were quite blotto if you know what I mean.
We get the picture.
Yeah, but they were great guys.
Ronnie was an icon and his group Slim Chance, my favourite guitarist and my companion for so many years.
Alan Davis has been in that group for many years actually playing his songs.
There's a real connection there.
As we heard, Ronnie suffered from MS and you had tuberculosis which gave you a different perspective on life.
But am I right in saying that there was one incident in particular that took your life in a whole new direction?
Yeah, I think sometimes we don't expect it and then something happens that gives you a whole new angle on your own life.
You realise you might have actually lost it at that moment.
What happened to me was I was swimming in Malibu and it was all very twee and there was lots of rich people around.
It was the house of my record chief, Jerry Moss.
[G#]
I went swimming.
Stupid.
So what I did when I went out there, I thought I didn't see anybody else out there.
No problem.
But then after a while I tried to come back to shore and I couldn't.
I'd lost all the power.
Suddenly I felt like a jelly and the only thing I could do was to call God.
I said, God if you save me I'll work for you.
And that was a deal.
And that's what happened.
[E] He saved me and I came back to land.
And you struck the deal and as a result you left music for the best part of 20 years.
So why did you make the decision and how did the decision come about then to come back to it?
Lots of reasons.
The way in which the world was almost facing this terrible abyss between cultures.
And music has an incredible way of linking us all together.
There are no colours, there are no nationalities in [E] music.
There's no borders.
And then I discovered so many things about Muslim civilisation and the fact that the guitar probably owes its origin
or at least the link to the guitar through Islamic Spain
Key:
Em
G
D
A
E
Em
G
D
_ _ _ He was a musician and he was a founder of the Small Faces and the Faces, which were rock and roll bands back in the 60s and 70s.
[B] _ _ My dad was [D] just my dad.
I wasn't aware of the famous musician [F] that he was.
[F#] He co-wrote [E] a lot of the songs.
Rob Stewart [A] called him the backbone of the Faces.
_ _ _ _ _ My [E] dad loved the rock and roll lifestyle [Bm] and they used to go out [D] drinking and [Em] causing a kerfuffle wherever they went.
He _ eventually met my mother.
They ran away together to Ireland in 1972.
Then the following year in August I was born.
[A] _ _
My dad [B] wasn't materialistic.
He just wanted music [F#] to be there for the people.
_ [Am] The audiences do [E] like to feel that you're one of them and I think [G#] it's nice when they [A] do.
_ _ [N] _
In 1973 is when my dad decided to leave the Faces.
It was not just the commercialism of it.
My dad had a different direction he wanted to go in.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
He decided that him and my [F] mother would come to the Welsh [C] Shropshire border, buy a farm,
and see if they could run the farm and the music side of it hand in [F] hand. _
_ Wow.
This is the [F] first time I've been in here for 30 years.
It was a lot different back then.
We had a kitchen table there and everyone used to sit around it.
_ [A] And in here dad used to sit by the fire with his guitar _ coming up with all of his songs.
My dad built a studio in this barn _ [F#] so that he could produce all of his own [Em] music here.
And that is when he started the band Slim Chance.
I spent many an hour listening [G#] to them rehearse and record and have a [Em] laugh. _
[G] All my dad's musician friends used to love coming to the Fishbowl.
Eric [D] Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight around the campfire here.
[C] And I will never forget listening to him play it [D] as the song was [Am] in its infancy.
[G] It was an absolutely wonderful place to grow [D] up.
It was the best years of my [C] life were at Fishbowl Farm. _
The first time I realised there was something wrong with my dad was [B] when we were driving across a field with a tractor.
And he said to me, he said, son you're going to have to steer for me because I can't see.
_ [G] Life changed for all of us when he discovered he had MS.
[A] He was a depressive and every glass was half empty and that was his take on life.
_ The loss of being able to play the bass and to [D] write the songs he wanted to write [A] was pretty much the end of his happy persona.
[D] My dad came out of his depression and he decided to try and raise money for MS.
He talked to the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and they all got together and they done a concert at the Albert Hall.
And all the funds raised went towards MS.
You see MS doesn't kill you [G]
but it will [F#m] cripple you for the rest [Em] of your life.
_ [C] _
That makes it easier for people to sort of look the other way.
[G] _
_ When I was 14 my dad came [Em] back to stay with us for a couple of weeks.
[G] He was back to telling jokes.
He was like I remembered [Am] him at Fishbowl.
It was a really happy [Em] time for me.
[G] It was nice to have the old Ronnie back.
I didn't imagine for a second [Am] it would be the last time I saw him.
Ronnie Lane, the former bass guitarist with the pop groups The Small Faces and The Faces has died.
I heard the news [C] of my father's death on the radio as I was driving.
_ I had to [G] drive home then with the thought of losing my dad [Em] who incidentally was buried the [A] same day.
_ [G] _ So I didn't even have a chance to go to his funeral either.
_ _ _ I [Em] do miss the fact that [Am] I haven't got him to talk to.
If my [G] dad was alive now we would have a great relationship [Em] definitely. _ _ _
[E] Thank you so much to Luke for sharing his story.
Incredibly sad [N] story isn't it?
Very sad, very sad.
_ You shared a memorable moment in New Year's Eve with The Small Faces.
You knew them quite well of course.
_ _ _ _ _ They were all titchy.
[Am] _ _ _ [F] _ They all looked pretty similar.
_ I remember travelling with them.
We were doing these [Em] pop shows and TV gigs in Europe.
_ One memorable moment in mid-air when I suddenly turned back and I saw they were having a pillow fight
with all these cabin seat cushions.
They _ _ were quite blotto if you know what I mean.
We get the picture.
Yeah, _ but they were great guys.
_ _ _ Ronnie was _ an icon and his group Slim Chance, my _ favourite guitarist and my companion for so many years.
Alan Davis has been in that group for many years actually playing his songs.
There's a real connection there.
As we heard, Ronnie suffered from MS and you had tuberculosis which gave you a different perspective on life.
But am I right in saying that there was one incident in particular that took your life in a whole new direction?
Yeah, I think sometimes we don't expect it and then something happens that gives you a whole new angle on your own life.
You realise you might have actually lost it at that moment.
What happened to me was I was _ swimming in Malibu and it was all very twee and there was lots of rich people around.
It was the house of my record chief, Jerry Moss.
_ _ [G#] _
I went swimming.
Stupid.
So what I did when I went out there, I thought I didn't see anybody else out there.
No problem.
But then after a while I tried to come back to shore and I couldn't.
I'd lost all the power.
Suddenly I felt like a jelly _ and the only thing I could do was to call God.
I said, God if you save me I'll work for you.
_ And that was a deal.
And that's what happened.
[E] He saved me and I came back to land.
And you struck the deal and as a result you left music for the best part of 20 years.
So why did you make the decision and how did the decision come about then to come back to it?
Lots of reasons.
The _ way in which the world was almost facing this terrible _ abyss _ between _ _ cultures.
And music has an incredible way of linking us all together.
_ There are no colours, there are no nationalities in [E] music.
There's no borders.
_ And then I discovered so many things about Muslim civilisation and the fact that the guitar probably owes its origin
or at least the link to the guitar through Islamic Spain
[B] _ _ My dad was [D] just my dad.
I wasn't aware of the famous musician [F] that he was.
[F#] He co-wrote [E] a lot of the songs.
Rob Stewart [A] called him the backbone of the Faces.
_ _ _ _ _ My [E] dad loved the rock and roll lifestyle [Bm] and they used to go out [D] drinking and [Em] causing a kerfuffle wherever they went.
He _ eventually met my mother.
They ran away together to Ireland in 1972.
Then the following year in August I was born.
[A] _ _
My dad [B] wasn't materialistic.
He just wanted music [F#] to be there for the people.
_ [Am] The audiences do [E] like to feel that you're one of them and I think [G#] it's nice when they [A] do.
_ _ [N] _
In 1973 is when my dad decided to leave the Faces.
It was not just the commercialism of it.
My dad had a different direction he wanted to go in.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
He decided that him and my [F] mother would come to the Welsh [C] Shropshire border, buy a farm,
and see if they could run the farm and the music side of it hand in [F] hand. _
_ Wow.
This is the [F] first time I've been in here for 30 years.
It was a lot different back then.
We had a kitchen table there and everyone used to sit around it.
_ [A] And in here dad used to sit by the fire with his guitar _ coming up with all of his songs.
My dad built a studio in this barn _ [F#] so that he could produce all of his own [Em] music here.
And that is when he started the band Slim Chance.
I spent many an hour listening [G#] to them rehearse and record and have a [Em] laugh. _
[G] All my dad's musician friends used to love coming to the Fishbowl.
Eric [D] Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight around the campfire here.
[C] And I will never forget listening to him play it [D] as the song was [Am] in its infancy.
[G] It was an absolutely wonderful place to grow [D] up.
It was the best years of my [C] life were at Fishbowl Farm. _
The first time I realised there was something wrong with my dad was [B] when we were driving across a field with a tractor.
And he said to me, he said, son you're going to have to steer for me because I can't see.
_ [G] Life changed for all of us when he discovered he had MS.
[A] He was a depressive and every glass was half empty and that was his take on life.
_ The loss of being able to play the bass and to [D] write the songs he wanted to write [A] was pretty much the end of his happy persona.
[D] My dad came out of his depression and he decided to try and raise money for MS.
He talked to the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and they all got together and they done a concert at the Albert Hall.
And all the funds raised went towards MS.
You see MS doesn't kill you [G]
but it will [F#m] cripple you for the rest [Em] of your life.
_ [C] _
That makes it easier for people to sort of look the other way.
[G] _
_ When I was 14 my dad came [Em] back to stay with us for a couple of weeks.
[G] He was back to telling jokes.
He was like I remembered [Am] him at Fishbowl.
It was a really happy [Em] time for me.
[G] It was nice to have the old Ronnie back.
I didn't imagine for a second [Am] it would be the last time I saw him.
Ronnie Lane, the former bass guitarist with the pop groups The Small Faces and The Faces has died.
I heard the news [C] of my father's death on the radio as I was driving.
_ I had to [G] drive home then with the thought of losing my dad [Em] who incidentally was buried the [A] same day.
_ [G] _ So I didn't even have a chance to go to his funeral either.
_ _ _ I [Em] do miss the fact that [Am] I haven't got him to talk to.
If my [G] dad was alive now we would have a great relationship [Em] definitely. _ _ _
[E] Thank you so much to Luke for sharing his story.
Incredibly sad [N] story isn't it?
Very sad, very sad.
_ You shared a memorable moment in New Year's Eve with The Small Faces.
You knew them quite well of course.
_ _ _ _ _ They were all titchy.
[Am] _ _ _ [F] _ They all looked pretty similar.
_ I remember travelling with them.
We were doing these [Em] pop shows and TV gigs in Europe.
_ One memorable moment in mid-air when I suddenly turned back and I saw they were having a pillow fight
with all these cabin seat cushions.
They _ _ were quite blotto if you know what I mean.
We get the picture.
Yeah, _ but they were great guys.
_ _ _ Ronnie was _ an icon and his group Slim Chance, my _ favourite guitarist and my companion for so many years.
Alan Davis has been in that group for many years actually playing his songs.
There's a real connection there.
As we heard, Ronnie suffered from MS and you had tuberculosis which gave you a different perspective on life.
But am I right in saying that there was one incident in particular that took your life in a whole new direction?
Yeah, I think sometimes we don't expect it and then something happens that gives you a whole new angle on your own life.
You realise you might have actually lost it at that moment.
What happened to me was I was _ swimming in Malibu and it was all very twee and there was lots of rich people around.
It was the house of my record chief, Jerry Moss.
_ _ [G#] _
I went swimming.
Stupid.
So what I did when I went out there, I thought I didn't see anybody else out there.
No problem.
But then after a while I tried to come back to shore and I couldn't.
I'd lost all the power.
Suddenly I felt like a jelly _ and the only thing I could do was to call God.
I said, God if you save me I'll work for you.
_ And that was a deal.
And that's what happened.
[E] He saved me and I came back to land.
And you struck the deal and as a result you left music for the best part of 20 years.
So why did you make the decision and how did the decision come about then to come back to it?
Lots of reasons.
The _ way in which the world was almost facing this terrible _ abyss _ between _ _ cultures.
And music has an incredible way of linking us all together.
_ There are no colours, there are no nationalities in [E] music.
There's no borders.
_ And then I discovered so many things about Muslim civilisation and the fact that the guitar probably owes its origin
or at least the link to the guitar through Islamic Spain