Chords for Sounds: Donnie interviewing The Pretenders (1982)
Tempo:
52.8 bpm
Chords used:
G
Ab
C
A
Gm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I couldn't ride.
[C] I couldn't write either but I could write better than [G] I could ride I think.
What took you from America to England to work for Newcastle? An airplane.
Other than the airplane.
He isn't well is he?
No I moved from England because I
No he isn't well.
He's got mental handicaps.
I couldn't
I didn't like living in America so I moved to England.
And then the journalist thing came along just as an accident.
I didn't go there to write.
In fact I wasn't good at writing.
It wasn't something I wanted to pursue.
Was that a plan by you though to get yourself into a musical area where you'd meet good bands and maybe end up in a band?
No, not really because I didn't try to get a band together for quite a few years after I left America.
I just was leaving because I wanted to move.
Pete, you were in a band here called the Bushwackers.
Now you went back to England and obviously the band gets together and the guys are leaving.
He's a lovely bloke.
Do come back when you're out sometime.
So when you left the Bushwackers was there any ill feeling there between you and the guys or it was just the fact you wanted to go back and join a group in England?
You mean [G] animosity as it were?
Yeah.
No, I think they wished me every success.
Now they hate my guts.
[A] Why?
Why would anyone hate you?
She says that to all the bass players.
Anyway that's enough of that.
I saw them actually.
I just caught the last 20 minutes of one of their gigs.
They'd just gone to Europe.
And I managed to catch them at the old [G] Manly Vale.
You managed to get up off the floor and actually watch them.
So how did you guys react when you got back there?
I just wanted to say how good they were.
Fantastic.
So how did you guys get on?
You all lived in the same area or something?
You knew each other?
What brought the pretenders together this time?
I met Chris and I knew the other two guys from, we all come from the same hometown, a place called Hereford.
150 miles out of London.
And yeah you can tell we're all sort [Gm] of [G] incestuous.
I don't know what you meant by that but I didn't like it.
None of us like you in fact.
You guys are going to make this hard.
I can just feel it coming on.
[Ab] What did you, now knowing Pete and Pete had worked in Australia, what was your idea of Australian bands?
Did you think that they were [Ab] very good before you came out this time?
Do you think they're very good now?
[G] I haven't seen any.
You haven't seen any Australian bands?
No.
I don't like to go out to clubs or anything.
I stay in my room and drink hot chocolate.
[Eb] I watch movies if there's any late movies on.
There was an excellent one on [G] last night.
You sort of came originally out of that, what was termed, new wave area.
And we won't hang that right on you now but to come out of that area, did you find that a lot of your followers
after having a lot of success with the first album would go, hey, all of a sudden they're successful,
we don't want to know them.
Was there any backlash there?
Not really because we didn't really [G] have a following before we started recording.
We recorded our first single, Stop Your Sobbing, before we'd actually even started doing gigs.
So we didn't have a following around town who resented us getting some success
because we weren't a little cult band anymore.
It didn't work like that.
We sort of had recorded some records before we started.
[N]
[C] I couldn't write either but I could write better than [G] I could ride I think.
What took you from America to England to work for Newcastle? An airplane.
Other than the airplane.
He isn't well is he?
No I moved from England because I
No he isn't well.
He's got mental handicaps.
I couldn't
I didn't like living in America so I moved to England.
And then the journalist thing came along just as an accident.
I didn't go there to write.
In fact I wasn't good at writing.
It wasn't something I wanted to pursue.
Was that a plan by you though to get yourself into a musical area where you'd meet good bands and maybe end up in a band?
No, not really because I didn't try to get a band together for quite a few years after I left America.
I just was leaving because I wanted to move.
Pete, you were in a band here called the Bushwackers.
Now you went back to England and obviously the band gets together and the guys are leaving.
He's a lovely bloke.
Do come back when you're out sometime.
So when you left the Bushwackers was there any ill feeling there between you and the guys or it was just the fact you wanted to go back and join a group in England?
You mean [G] animosity as it were?
Yeah.
No, I think they wished me every success.
Now they hate my guts.
[A] Why?
Why would anyone hate you?
She says that to all the bass players.
Anyway that's enough of that.
I saw them actually.
I just caught the last 20 minutes of one of their gigs.
They'd just gone to Europe.
And I managed to catch them at the old [G] Manly Vale.
You managed to get up off the floor and actually watch them.
So how did you guys react when you got back there?
I just wanted to say how good they were.
Fantastic.
So how did you guys get on?
You all lived in the same area or something?
You knew each other?
What brought the pretenders together this time?
I met Chris and I knew the other two guys from, we all come from the same hometown, a place called Hereford.
150 miles out of London.
And yeah you can tell we're all sort [Gm] of [G] incestuous.
I don't know what you meant by that but I didn't like it.
None of us like you in fact.
You guys are going to make this hard.
I can just feel it coming on.
[Ab] What did you, now knowing Pete and Pete had worked in Australia, what was your idea of Australian bands?
Did you think that they were [Ab] very good before you came out this time?
Do you think they're very good now?
[G] I haven't seen any.
You haven't seen any Australian bands?
No.
I don't like to go out to clubs or anything.
I stay in my room and drink hot chocolate.
[Eb] I watch movies if there's any late movies on.
There was an excellent one on [G] last night.
You sort of came originally out of that, what was termed, new wave area.
And we won't hang that right on you now but to come out of that area, did you find that a lot of your followers
after having a lot of success with the first album would go, hey, all of a sudden they're successful,
we don't want to know them.
Was there any backlash there?
Not really because we didn't really [G] have a following before we started recording.
We recorded our first single, Stop Your Sobbing, before we'd actually even started doing gigs.
So we didn't have a following around town who resented us getting some success
because we weren't a little cult band anymore.
It didn't work like that.
We sort of had recorded some records before we started.
[N]
Key:
G
Ab
C
A
Gm
G
Ab
C
_ _ I couldn't ride.
[C] I couldn't write either but I could write better than [G] I could ride I think.
What took you from America to England to work for Newcastle? An airplane.
Other than the airplane.
He isn't well is he?
No I moved from England because I_
No he isn't well.
He's got mental handicaps. _
I couldn't_
I didn't like living in America so I moved to England.
And then the journalist thing came along just as an accident.
I didn't go there to write.
In fact I wasn't good at writing.
It wasn't something I wanted to pursue.
Was that a plan by you though to get yourself into a musical area where you'd meet good bands and maybe end up in a band?
No, not really because I didn't try to get a band together for quite a few years after I left America.
I just was leaving because I wanted to move.
Pete, you were in a band here called the Bushwackers.
Now you went back to England and obviously the band gets together and the guys are leaving.
_ He's a lovely bloke.
Do come back when you're out sometime.
So when you left the Bushwackers was there any ill feeling there between you and the guys or it was just the fact you wanted to go back and join a group in England?
You mean [G] animosity as it were?
Yeah.
No, I think they wished me every success.
Now they hate my guts.
[A] Why?
Why would anyone hate you?
She says that to all the bass players.
Anyway that's enough of that.
I saw them actually.
I just caught the last 20 minutes of one of their gigs.
They'd just gone to Europe.
And I managed to catch them at the old [G] Manly Vale.
You managed to get up off the floor and actually watch them.
So how did you guys react when you got back there?
I just wanted to say how good they were.
Fantastic.
So how did you guys get on?
You all lived in the same area or something?
You knew each other?
What brought the pretenders together this time?
I met Chris and I knew the other two guys from, we all come from the same hometown, a place called Hereford.
150 miles out of London.
And yeah you can tell we're all sort [Gm] of [G] incestuous.
I don't know what you meant by that but I didn't like it.
None of us like you in fact.
You guys are going to make this hard.
I can just feel it coming on.
[Ab] What did you, now knowing Pete and Pete had worked in Australia, what was your idea of Australian bands?
Did you think that they were [Ab] very good before you came out this time?
Do you think they're very good now?
[G] I haven't seen any.
You haven't seen any Australian bands?
No.
I don't like to go out to clubs or anything.
I stay in my room and drink hot chocolate.
[Eb] I watch movies if there's any late movies on.
There was an excellent one on [G] last night.
You sort of came originally out of that, what was termed, new wave area.
And we won't hang that right on you now but to come out of that area, did you find that a lot of your followers
after having a lot of success with the first album would go, hey, all of a sudden they're successful,
we don't want to know them.
Was there any backlash there?
Not really because we didn't really [G] have a following before we started recording.
We recorded our first single, Stop Your Sobbing, before we'd actually even started doing gigs.
So we didn't have a following around town who resented us getting some success
because we weren't a little cult band anymore.
It didn't work like that.
We sort of had recorded some records before we started.
_ _ _ _ [N] _
[C] I couldn't write either but I could write better than [G] I could ride I think.
What took you from America to England to work for Newcastle? An airplane.
Other than the airplane.
He isn't well is he?
No I moved from England because I_
No he isn't well.
He's got mental handicaps. _
I couldn't_
I didn't like living in America so I moved to England.
And then the journalist thing came along just as an accident.
I didn't go there to write.
In fact I wasn't good at writing.
It wasn't something I wanted to pursue.
Was that a plan by you though to get yourself into a musical area where you'd meet good bands and maybe end up in a band?
No, not really because I didn't try to get a band together for quite a few years after I left America.
I just was leaving because I wanted to move.
Pete, you were in a band here called the Bushwackers.
Now you went back to England and obviously the band gets together and the guys are leaving.
_ He's a lovely bloke.
Do come back when you're out sometime.
So when you left the Bushwackers was there any ill feeling there between you and the guys or it was just the fact you wanted to go back and join a group in England?
You mean [G] animosity as it were?
Yeah.
No, I think they wished me every success.
Now they hate my guts.
[A] Why?
Why would anyone hate you?
She says that to all the bass players.
Anyway that's enough of that.
I saw them actually.
I just caught the last 20 minutes of one of their gigs.
They'd just gone to Europe.
And I managed to catch them at the old [G] Manly Vale.
You managed to get up off the floor and actually watch them.
So how did you guys react when you got back there?
I just wanted to say how good they were.
Fantastic.
So how did you guys get on?
You all lived in the same area or something?
You knew each other?
What brought the pretenders together this time?
I met Chris and I knew the other two guys from, we all come from the same hometown, a place called Hereford.
150 miles out of London.
And yeah you can tell we're all sort [Gm] of [G] incestuous.
I don't know what you meant by that but I didn't like it.
None of us like you in fact.
You guys are going to make this hard.
I can just feel it coming on.
[Ab] What did you, now knowing Pete and Pete had worked in Australia, what was your idea of Australian bands?
Did you think that they were [Ab] very good before you came out this time?
Do you think they're very good now?
[G] I haven't seen any.
You haven't seen any Australian bands?
No.
I don't like to go out to clubs or anything.
I stay in my room and drink hot chocolate.
[Eb] I watch movies if there's any late movies on.
There was an excellent one on [G] last night.
You sort of came originally out of that, what was termed, new wave area.
And we won't hang that right on you now but to come out of that area, did you find that a lot of your followers
after having a lot of success with the first album would go, hey, all of a sudden they're successful,
we don't want to know them.
Was there any backlash there?
Not really because we didn't really [G] have a following before we started recording.
We recorded our first single, Stop Your Sobbing, before we'd actually even started doing gigs.
So we didn't have a following around town who resented us getting some success
because we weren't a little cult band anymore.
It didn't work like that.
We sort of had recorded some records before we started.
_ _ _ _ [N] _