Chords for Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) guitar lesson & interview

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_ _ _ Yeah, White Wedding is, you know, Billy pulled an all-nighter in the studio, came back to
the hotel and [G#] _ had a little demo of it and [B] was basically that opening [G]
Spaghetti Western
thing which is that Ennio Morricone.
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It's _ _ [N] _ just an arrangement idea, you know, as a verse, _ you know, passes by, a chorus passes
by, keep adding these elements so that the song builds. _ _ _
Right.
So, _ and that's that, you know, that's a style that, you know, once I hit upon that, I think
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chord structure for Eyes came from, I was _ _ living in _ my [N] parents' basement and the
only radio station I could get on was CBS FM in New York which is [B] an oldie [E] station and
they had all those, you _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
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just kind of made those into major _ _ 7th, _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _
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_ let's get right on to, we'll do Rebel Yell which is just really awesome, there's so many
great guitar parts in there.
I hear that you actually do that live, both parts _ at the same time or do you have another
guy playing that?
No, no, I mean it's always been one guitar part.
Yeah, I mean that came from, _ _ I mean I started playing guitar when I was 7 and a half and
I didn't get an electric until I was 13, so the early stuff that I listened to was _ all,
_ you know, _ James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, you know, folk stuff and _ then I _ discovered Leo
Kotke, so he had this _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
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kind of idea [G#] of independent bass and treble.
_ _ _ It's played [N] entirely with the fingers, there's no pick _ and it just [Bm] _
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_ _ _ _ Okay, so Rebel Yell intro. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ You know, when you're at 110 dB that's pretty full. _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ For the verses, when Billy comes in, it's [E] kind of narrow it down, _ [D#m] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ a bit smaller.
Oh, so [G] you're just using the one open string?
Yeah, so it opens up room for the vocal a little bit _
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you _ [G#] _ _ don't always want the guitar
so [E] _ full, you want the differences in shade.
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_ _ _ Are we hitting all three strings?
First is the third string.
_ Yeah.
And then the _ _ first two. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I always liked the _ incarnation of King Crimson when [B] Adrian Blue joined, those kind of _ _ interplayed
guitar parts _ and _ _ Rat _ Race was kind of [E] _ a_
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_ The surface was [D] kind of simple. _ _
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I wanted something that almost _ had [N] the effect of looking at an _ _ old watch.
We had these _ _ _ [D] big [Gm] gears and little gears and they all kind of_
Some move at their own speed and _ [B] some move faster, some move slower.
So _ _ _ that's originally played on an acoustic but _ _ it's_ _ _ _
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