Chords for The Edge Inducts the Yardbirds into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

On behalf the Hall of Fame I want to thank MTV again once again for doing the great videos and to induct the Yarbrough's
From from the heavy, you know another heavy OCD of guitar and from the edge of great new guitar playing the edge himself _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ There's _ something I find personally very [G#m] humbling about this whole evening _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ It's sort of odd in a way for me to be doing this
I'll tell you why some of you already know, but I play a bit of guitar myself
mostly chords as it happens, so when I started out _ and
Really for the next decade I spent a lot of my time
Trying to figure out how not to [A] sound like not just one of the guitarists in this band
But three of [G] the guitarists in this band
_ And I wasn't alone in a million garages from Culver City to Cork
Young men in torn t-shirts were to be found hunched over Les Paul copies [N] trying to find any stray
semitone that Beck Clapton or page hadn't used
_ They cast a very long shadow and between them and used a lot of those little black dots
_ It wasn't easy and in the end most of us gave up the struggle and took to playing open D very loud
That _ _ _ was a trick we learned from Pete Townsend, by the way _ _ _
Twelve years on twelve years of
Conscious reaction of working out a different style
I think it's possible to get a kind of overview to look again at the music to re-evaluate the legacy of the Yardbirds
So I can tell you now if the next you to album is going to be full of extended blues solos violin bowing
Jazz fusion breaks and some very slow and Robert Johnson weeks
_ _ anyway, [G#] seriously
_ _ [F] the Yardbirds Keith Ralph
Chris Drazier Jim McCarthy Paul Samuel Smith Eric Clapton
Jeff Beck Jimmy Page
Old Uncle Tom Coveley and all they really were a very pivotal group
_ And I know at this point _ in
Events like this it is standard practice to say that kind of thing.
But in this case, it really is true
_ What I mean is that it could be said that they invented the thing that we know today as the rock [N] band
Before them groups were basically EMI recording artists or whatever
but after them
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After them bands were bands and an endless stream of young men touring the world and deafening audiences
The Yardbirds were loud and they were exciting and most importantly they were great live
_ _ Technically accomplished.
I mean they even had Jimmy Page being playing bass for a while.
So [F] I believe _
They played a music that fused white pop ideas with soul and blues styles
And they were [G] well capable of stretching out on stage and playing up an extended storm
Even the singles [F] that they weren't too sure about shapes of things for your love.
They sounded different.
They they were darker area
They felt like they were a foretaste of the music that was on its way in the later 60s the music of bands like cream
Zeppelin and the Jeff Beck group.
You see what I mean?
They were a seminal crucial and pivotal
_ Anyway, there you have it for over a dozen years of rocks roughly 40 year existence
The influence of the Yardbirds through their famous frontman was all pervasive
For another decade rock music was driven by a conscious reaction to their style
Either way rock and roll the people who play and people who listen
Have [N] cause to be grateful and it gives me great pleasure to induct the Yardbirds into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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It's a great honor indeed, thank you very much indeed
_ _ _ _ _ _ Very hard to live up to what you said there and it's also hard to live up to [Bm] some of the acts here tonight
_ _ [C#] We'd like to say thanks to you the American audience for appreciating our version of your own music
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_ I'm just new doing the dick Clark tour and spending [E]
lonely evenings in Cedar Rapids on Christmas evening and
Traveling endless miles in buses that got stuck in [N] snow all over America was gonna pay off.
I just knew it
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_ It's just really about the music and I just want to thank all these guys and their energy and their humor because
They made it for me _ _ _
Actually _ _ _ _ _ before I came up here I thought well, I'll keep it short
So I'm gonna keep it short, but before we go any further
There's one person can't be with us tonight and that's Keith Ralph
I'd like to introduce you to his wife April and his son Jason _ _
Many thanks to all of you.
Thank you _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I have done other music after the office
Anyway, somebody told me I should be proud tonight _
But I'm not
Because they keep me out They did _ Fuck them _ _ _ _
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