Chords for Status Quo - Aquostic (Stripped Bare)

[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ I [B] don't think anybody's gonna quite [E] expect what they're gonna hear on this
album. _
This has got a certain freshness about it [A] that I think is very special.
We had to rethink [B] everything.
It's just a completely different place.
You kind of
let [E] yourself bare if you will.
It was such a great thing to do.
Well once upon a time not so very [A] long ago, there wasn't such a thing as a rock and [B] roll show.
You had to sit at home and listen to [Dbm] the radio.
I got the [B] idea basically when we did one of our series of ads for Kohl's,
the supermarket in Australia.
It was a skit on an old Elvis Presley [E] comeback concert.
In the round, upright bass and everything and I suddenly thought,
God this would be fantastic if we could do this with Quo.
I thought it was a horrendous idea but it seems to be good now.
When it's better [A] now, been a [E] long long time.
In many [A] respects it's almost going [E] back to Quo's early roots.
A lot of [A] the songs that are on there were basically written on [E] acoustic or on piano.
[A] You realize the melodies of the songs are [E] really quite nice.
God I [A] had something [E] to sing about, [A] everyone [E] was never sold.
_ [A] Now I got [E] something to sing about, _ everyone's singing my song.
We've got a good combination of tracks.
Some of the lovely ballads that I've always wanted to do
but you know I've never fitted the criteria of a status quo rock show.
_ [A]
[E] Everyone's singing my song.
We sat in here and sort of, yeah no not that one.
That might work, let's try that.
Some [A] were surprisingly that worked that we thought wouldn't and vice versa.
It was really good to sort of do a bit of ducking and diving, bobbing and weaving. _
_ _ _ _ _ Paper plane I thought was going to be a real mistake to do and not much you could do with it.
But at the end of the day stood there and listened to it, it just had something.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ The whole different dynamic of [E] playing an acoustic in Anger, the different muscles [A] is taken.
I mean my right arm by the end of pretty much every take on this album is like give me a break.
You know let's do another one, [E] hang on give me five minutes.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ When you hit the strings on an acoustic a lot [F] more tension in them and stuff.
And so I've got serious [C] tennis elbows in [Eb] playing those.
[Bb] You cannot thrash an acoustic guitar, [F] you have to love it more.
[C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F]
[C] There wasn't one track really that [Eb] was easy.
[Bb] The rhythm had to be [F] so [C] constant.
_ [Cm] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
[C] It's not just like going [Eb] ging-ging, ging-ging.
The [Bb] concentration that you have [F] to have is [C] incredible.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ [F] We _
[C] _ _ [Eb] had to get [Bb] the sound bed for the [F] acoustics and then whilst doing [E] that thinking about the colours. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] I think the accordion is wonderful.
[B] Before it went on I [E] wasn't sure about it but it's playing such a major part. _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [Abm] _ _
[E] It's the kind of Cajun thing we've tried to get into a bit. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ Do what you can.
The accent was on being creative.
With a track like Don't Drive My Car for instance.
I mean it's so vastly different from the [Cm] original. _ _ _ _
I _ [C] _ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] keep imagining like Chris [Ab] Evans playing it on a breakfast [G] show.
Right okay you can win [Fm] whatever you can win if anybody tells me [Ab] who this is.
[G] _ _ _ [Cm] _
It sounds like Stephen Coppelli [Fm] and Django Reinhardt and I doubt that anybody would get [G] it right.
_ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [Bb] I've always enjoyed playing Drive My [C] Car.
We stood out there one evening ready to leave and suddenly [Fm] got this [Gm] vibe for car [F] and I think that [G] is tremendous.
_ _ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ I was talking to our usual designer Jackie on what we would do for this album.
She suddenly said look at this and she had this mock-up [C] of Francis and Rick.
[G] Heads on strange bodies, naked and then the lines [D] stripped bare.
It sums the album up perfectly.
It had to [G] be the [A] polar opposite of everything Status Quo normally is.
The atmosphere it gives is just beautiful and I think it's going to surprise a lot of people.
It stirred the creative juices if you like.
It _ _ _ _ does have a certain dignity about it.
Everyone is of a certain age. _ _ _ _
_ Staying fat till I'm satisfied and letting my head niggas off the ride.
I ain't gonna work, I ain't gonna work no more.
It's really kicking.
It's rocking but it's rocking in a different way.
Let's not headbang. _
_ I've been talking to Radio 2 about doing some kind of special concert at the Roundhouse.
They're going to be the accordion player, the backing vocalist, the string section.
If there's ever one Quo show to actually see, it's that.
[D] _ _ _
_ I _ _ [A] think the fans will love it.
Down, down, fantastic.
And what we've done to [E] Caroline, the three different tempo changes.
It's all great stuff, [Ab] very exciting.
[Am] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _ I _ don't think I've enjoyed a project this much since, well I haven't.
Most enjoyment.
I ain't gonna work, I ain't gonna work no more.
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