Chords for Steve Lukather shows his Music Man guitars ( Interview from Falling In Between 2007 )

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_ [Bm] _ Welcome [E] to my world, man. _
All I can tell you is that I'm [G#] very honored here [F] to _ _ be able [Em] to do this for a living in
the first place, which is a pretty cool job, even after all these years.
I'd like to show you [F#] some of my instruments that I'm very, very proud of.
Some new ones and some old favorites that you may have seen before in various [B] tours
and whatnot, but I got a lot of new stuff this time.
The Music Man _ Dargie Delight, which is a rare guitar.
You can see it here, [D] _ _ _ _ [F] and it was made especially for me _ in this, I would say, olive green.
Very interesting here, but you must really notice what's on the headstock here. _
They're martini _ glasses.
_ All those inlays, all the martini.
_ Love this guitar.
_ _ _ And thank you [N] to _ _ Scotty Ball for making this happen.
_ _ _ And of course I have my new Flash _ _ Ernie Ball straps.
_ _ _ _ Thank you, Brian Ball.
_ _ _ What we got here, [D] here's a _ beautiful quilt top right here.
_ It's the Ball Family Reserve, which is only going to be for this particular year, I believe.
They only make a certain amount of colors, a certain number of them, so people get into
this stuff and like anything else that people like to [F#] collect, they want to get the whole
lot, _ if you're [D] crazy enough to do that sort of thing.
Oh, this one is really cool.
_ I don't even know how many of these were made.
Not only is it the beautiful flame top that you see right here, _ but it's also got this
maple _ block in here, which gives it a little bit more of a _ _ crunchy Les Paul sort of a sound
as opposed to _ my normal _ EMG [F#] stuff, but [N] still retaining the classic Music Man _ vibe and sound and feel. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ What do we see here?
Here's the Bahama Blue, _ getting a lot of action on this one.
This is another of the Ball Family Reserve, _ _ which you can see right here. _
_ And they're all so beautiful, and I wish I could play them all at the same time, but
as one does _ _ go through _ different things, I have some different tunings here, really nothing
too much deeper than a [F#] drop D on _ the first couple of tracks [E] just to give it that _ _ _ _ _ crunchier [N] sound.
_ This has to be my old fave right here.
_ This old _ boy and I have _ gone through a few nicks and dents along the way.
Mine are covered up, but these are still here.
_ _ _ This has a little sustainer unit on it, which I rarely use, but occasionally it's a little
bit of fun.
_ This one has, you can see, it's _ had a lot of sweat on it. _
They're all great guitars, but some of them are really just, _ you just fall in love with
one or two, and you just go, oh, I gotta go [A] back to this one for _ _ _ [Gm] the full shred or [G#] whatever,
you know what I mean?
_ _ [F] And this little Candy Apple Red guy, _ this is sort of like the spare to that, which is
also one of my [F#] favorites. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ I [F#] know Biff will be pissed [F] off, but sometimes I put a smoke up here and it's got [D#] a little
burn mark on it, [D] so it [F#] has a little [N] personality.
_ This is basically the same sort of setup, but I love the tremolos that they have, the
non-lock tremolo, [A#] _ _ [B] _ [G] to do all this other stuff.
[D#] I used to have the Floyd [E] Rose stuff on [C#] the first model, _ but you know, Bison, come over
here and say hello.
This is my guitar tech, Bison.
_ Guitar tech to the stars.
And you.
And me, right?
Which is not really in the same breath.
This man's a legend.
I work with Angus Young.
Oh my god, the Genesis boys, I mean, you know, go on and on.
Yeah, let's get a look at that.
_ Him.
That guy sucks.
[C#m] That guy. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ I can kind of run you through this here.
If you come in, you can see some of the, what's some of the stuff.
_ _ _ _ This is like a regular [A] sound, right?
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That has a little delay on it on these PCM _ -70. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That's a little octaver [G] unit.
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_ _ _ _ [A] Now this one just winds it all up here a little bit. _ _
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_ [E] _ _ Very subtle in the way it just spreads [D] it a little bit.
But it's almost like doubling your instrument like you would in the recording studio. _ _ _ _ _
Right here is that custom made Boss unit that Bob Bradshaw [A] made for it. _ _ _
You [Am] can kind of hear _ it's beautiful _ [G#] for like, you know, chord [D] changes. _ _
I wouldn't necessarily use it with a crunch sound, but I'd use it [A] for the cleaner.
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_ _ _ Right?
And here's like the fast Leslie version of the same sort of [G] thing.
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_ Using this stuff sparingly is really the key.
You can overdo anything.
Kind of like chocolate cake, but not at every meal, you know what I mean? _
[A] This is a customized Univibe, which gives you that _ Hendrix-y sort of a sound.
Or Robin Trower made famous as well, which I use on only a couple of tunes.
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_ _ _ _ _ you can kind of dig where [C] that's at.
_ And this is the full shred.
[Fm] This here I'm using in conjunction with this really cool pedal _ that the Radial people made for me.
_ Radial Tone Bone.
[N] You didn't see the back of the rack, but it's in there.
It's very apparent.
It really gives you the sustain from hell, you know?
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_ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ That full like solo _ burn sound, you [Dm] know?
That's a nice one.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ And this is a volume pedal, and I have this wah-wah pedal thing.
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That was rather Big Jim [D#] Sullivan-like what I just did there.
_ _ _ _ Obscure reference, but you old hipsters don't know who that is.
Anyway, I've got a chromatic tuner.
Bang Zoom, that's pretty much it.
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