Chords for The Marshall Tucker Band -Part 1/3 Interview with Doug Gray
Tempo:
113.15 bpm
Chords used:
G
B
Bm
C
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[A]
[Am] [G] [A]
[G] You've played with the Eagles, you've played with Charlie Daniels' band, [B] you've also played
with the Allman Brothers.
[G] Are there ghosts involved anymore when you get on stage?
Of colleagues?
People that you've played with, even of Thoy and Tommy?
Well, Thoy and Tommy is a natural.
Because I get on stage and the guys that were here now, see the original band was only together
for ten years.
So for the last twenty years, [B] I've been getting up there and feeling different things that
go through [C] your heart and your [B] mind.
[D] I just [G]
remixed, which is out right [B] now, live, [G]
August 1980, at the [G] Madison Hall Coliseum.
It was [Em] Tommy's very last show.
It was recorded on [C] 24-track, went back and remixed it all.
It's got fifteen songs on it and it is great.
It is solid great.
But I'd walk out of the studio like I had played every show.
Like I had [G] played every song on the show.
And it took us like four weeks to remix it, to make it all audio sound wise.
And we got Tommy on the cover.
And [Bm] I mean it was his very last show.
That next morning he was on his way to do a workout [C] after we took the bus home that night.
And I [Bm] mean I feel those emotions.
I know that they would be proud because of the way we play now and the way that I've
continued to do it.
[G]
[D]
[Am]
[G] [C] [G]
[Bm] We knew, we said, alright, I got out of service, Toy got out of the service, Tommy got out
of the service, and me and Toy went to bed.
We got back and everybody said, well [E] why don't we give it one [Bm] shot, we'll keep our day jobs.
Okay, I worked in a bank.
And Toy was, he sold plumbing fixtures and his dad was a plumber by trade.
And I don't recall what Tommy did, he worked all the time.
And so we said we'd practice every night.
So we'd learn, teach the scene, take the highway, heard a little song, songs like that, and
Losing You, and then [G] we recorded it.
You didn't seem to have a struggling period playing the night clubs and honky tonks.
It was like when you first came out with your first album, you were an overnight [C] sensation.
We were out playing for the first two years opening for the All-Nighters.
[Bm] So we were hitting big halls.
But also the first time [E] I went to Manhattan a month before that, we played for 40 [Bm] people
at a place called Abbey's in New York in Manhattan.
And so we [F#] were out, there was struggling because Toy and I, [G] even before we went to service,
had a [E] band called, [Bm] my first band was in 1955.
So you said, think about that.
[A] My mom and daddy had me in my first [Bm] band, it was a band called The Big Generation.
And [G] we had our little suits and stuff on and went [Bm] to the internet and talent shows.
Never, well, lost the first one and then started winning after that because I finally learned
and got [F#] the experience to do it.
But then there was Toy Factory where Toy and Tommy and myself played together before we went into service.
So when we got out, we knew that we had to do something [N] to make a living.
That musicianship, the real job had to be done.
So we knew that something had to be done.
And then Phil called us down there, Phil [B] Walton, Capricorn Records called us down and said,
why don't you come over to the office tomorrow?
Well, we come to the office [G] and there we were.
We had a contract offer and we [Em] knew that we'd get to open for the Allman Brothers [B] for a couple of years.
[B] And we got playing, going from 40 people and maybe 100 people to 17 to 22,000.
That made a big difference because people got to see us.
When people [Em] see you and you're doing as good, as impressive [B] as you can get out there and do it,
and you still sound good and you're the same person, you can't deny the fact [F#] that you're being yourself.
[Em] And you were so [B] unique when you first came out and you did something along the way.
There's a lot of bands that you're [Bm] associated with like the Allman Brothers and the Scattergons.
Especially Charlie because we're out with Charlie a [B] lot.
But you're not, [Bm] your sound isn't anything like any of them.
And there's only one band that I can think of, and it's a band from [E] back home,
probably the most people haven't even heard of them.
This is a question I was talking about earlier that I just had nagged at [B] me.
Have you ever heard of the Mission Mountain Wood Band?
[Em] Actually, I've been, and somebody compared it years ago,
it's like 10 years ago that somebody mentioned to me about them.
And I said, well, I'd like to hear them.
But you know I've never been to them.
Well, they've been gone for quite a while.
They turned into the Montana Band, I think. Right.
[E] But they were the one band that I can think of that really sounds a lot like you.
[D] [N]
[Am] [G] [A]
[G] You've played with the Eagles, you've played with Charlie Daniels' band, [B] you've also played
with the Allman Brothers.
[G] Are there ghosts involved anymore when you get on stage?
Of colleagues?
People that you've played with, even of Thoy and Tommy?
Well, Thoy and Tommy is a natural.
Because I get on stage and the guys that were here now, see the original band was only together
for ten years.
So for the last twenty years, [B] I've been getting up there and feeling different things that
go through [C] your heart and your [B] mind.
[D] I just [G]
remixed, which is out right [B] now, live, [G]
August 1980, at the [G] Madison Hall Coliseum.
It was [Em] Tommy's very last show.
It was recorded on [C] 24-track, went back and remixed it all.
It's got fifteen songs on it and it is great.
It is solid great.
But I'd walk out of the studio like I had played every show.
Like I had [G] played every song on the show.
And it took us like four weeks to remix it, to make it all audio sound wise.
And we got Tommy on the cover.
And [Bm] I mean it was his very last show.
That next morning he was on his way to do a workout [C] after we took the bus home that night.
And I [Bm] mean I feel those emotions.
I know that they would be proud because of the way we play now and the way that I've
continued to do it.
[G]
[D]
[Am]
[G] [C] [G]
[Bm] We knew, we said, alright, I got out of service, Toy got out of the service, Tommy got out
of the service, and me and Toy went to bed.
We got back and everybody said, well [E] why don't we give it one [Bm] shot, we'll keep our day jobs.
Okay, I worked in a bank.
And Toy was, he sold plumbing fixtures and his dad was a plumber by trade.
And I don't recall what Tommy did, he worked all the time.
And so we said we'd practice every night.
So we'd learn, teach the scene, take the highway, heard a little song, songs like that, and
Losing You, and then [G] we recorded it.
You didn't seem to have a struggling period playing the night clubs and honky tonks.
It was like when you first came out with your first album, you were an overnight [C] sensation.
We were out playing for the first two years opening for the All-Nighters.
[Bm] So we were hitting big halls.
But also the first time [E] I went to Manhattan a month before that, we played for 40 [Bm] people
at a place called Abbey's in New York in Manhattan.
And so we [F#] were out, there was struggling because Toy and I, [G] even before we went to service,
had a [E] band called, [Bm] my first band was in 1955.
So you said, think about that.
[A] My mom and daddy had me in my first [Bm] band, it was a band called The Big Generation.
And [G] we had our little suits and stuff on and went [Bm] to the internet and talent shows.
Never, well, lost the first one and then started winning after that because I finally learned
and got [F#] the experience to do it.
But then there was Toy Factory where Toy and Tommy and myself played together before we went into service.
So when we got out, we knew that we had to do something [N] to make a living.
That musicianship, the real job had to be done.
So we knew that something had to be done.
And then Phil called us down there, Phil [B] Walton, Capricorn Records called us down and said,
why don't you come over to the office tomorrow?
Well, we come to the office [G] and there we were.
We had a contract offer and we [Em] knew that we'd get to open for the Allman Brothers [B] for a couple of years.
[B] And we got playing, going from 40 people and maybe 100 people to 17 to 22,000.
That made a big difference because people got to see us.
When people [Em] see you and you're doing as good, as impressive [B] as you can get out there and do it,
and you still sound good and you're the same person, you can't deny the fact [F#] that you're being yourself.
[Em] And you were so [B] unique when you first came out and you did something along the way.
There's a lot of bands that you're [Bm] associated with like the Allman Brothers and the Scattergons.
Especially Charlie because we're out with Charlie a [B] lot.
But you're not, [Bm] your sound isn't anything like any of them.
And there's only one band that I can think of, and it's a band from [E] back home,
probably the most people haven't even heard of them.
This is a question I was talking about earlier that I just had nagged at [B] me.
Have you ever heard of the Mission Mountain Wood Band?
[Em] Actually, I've been, and somebody compared it years ago,
it's like 10 years ago that somebody mentioned to me about them.
And I said, well, I'd like to hear them.
But you know I've never been to them.
Well, they've been gone for quite a while.
They turned into the Montana Band, I think. Right.
[E] But they were the one band that I can think of that really sounds a lot like you.
[D] [N]
Key:
G
B
Bm
C
Em
G
B
Bm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] You've played with the Eagles, you've played with _ Charlie Daniels' band, _ _ _ [B] you've also played
with the Allman Brothers.
[G] _ Are there ghosts involved anymore when you get on stage?
Of colleagues?
People that you've played with, even of Thoy and Tommy?
Well, Thoy and Tommy is a natural. _
Because I get on stage and the guys that were here now, see the original band was only together
for ten years.
So for the last twenty years, [B] I've been getting up there and feeling different things that
go through [C] your heart and your [B] mind.
[D] I just [G]
remixed, which is out right [B] now, _ live, [G] _
August 1980, at the [G] Madison Hall Coliseum.
It was [Em] Tommy's very last show.
It was recorded on [C] 24-track, went back and remixed it all.
It's got fifteen songs on it and it is great.
It is solid great.
But I'd walk out of the studio like I had played every show.
Like I had [G] played every song on the show.
And it took us like four weeks to remix it, to make it all audio sound wise.
And we got Tommy on the cover.
And [Bm] I mean it was his very last show.
That next morning he was on his way to do a workout [C] _ after we took the bus home that night.
And I [Bm] mean I feel those emotions.
I know that they would be proud because of the way we play now and the way that I've
continued to do it.
_ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ We knew, we said, alright, I got out of service, Toy got out of the service, Tommy got out
of the service, and me and Toy went to bed.
We got back and everybody said, well [E] why don't we give it one [Bm] shot, we'll keep our day jobs.
Okay, I worked in a bank.
And Toy was, he sold plumbing fixtures and his dad was a plumber by trade.
And I don't recall what Tommy did, he worked all the time.
And so we said we'd practice every night.
So we'd learn, teach the scene, take the highway, heard a little song, songs like that, and
Losing You, and then _ [G] we recorded it.
You didn't seem to have a struggling period playing the night clubs and honky tonks.
It was like when you first came out with your first album, you were an overnight [C] sensation.
We were out playing for the first two years opening for the All-Nighters.
[Bm] So we were hitting big halls.
But also the first time [E] I went to Manhattan a month before that, we played for 40 [Bm] people
at a place called Abbey's in New York in Manhattan.
And so we [F#] were out, there was struggling because Toy and I, [G] even before we went to service,
had a [E] band called, [Bm] my first band was in 1955.
_ So you said, think about that.
[A] My mom and daddy had me in my first [Bm] band, it was a band called The Big Generation.
And [G] we had our little suits and stuff on and went [Bm] to the internet and talent shows.
Never, well, lost the first one and then started winning after that because I finally learned
and got [F#] the experience to do it.
But then there was Toy Factory where Toy and Tommy and myself played together before we went into service.
So when we got out, we knew that we had to do something [N] to make a living.
That musicianship, the real job _ had to be done.
So we knew that something had to be done.
And then Phil called us down there, Phil [B] Walton, Capricorn Records called us down and said,
why don't you _ come over to the office tomorrow?
Well, we come to the office [G] and there we were.
We had a contract offer and we [Em] knew that we'd get to open for the Allman Brothers [B] for a couple of years.
[B] And we got playing, _ going from 40 people and maybe 100 people to 17 to 22,000.
That made a big difference because people got to see us.
When people [Em] see you and you're doing as good, as impressive [B] as you can get out there and do it,
and you still sound good and you're the same person, _ you can't deny the fact [F#] that you're being yourself.
[Em] And you were so [B] unique when you first came out and you did something along the way.
There's a lot of bands that you're [Bm] associated with like the Allman Brothers and the Scattergons.
Especially Charlie because we're out with Charlie a [B] lot.
But you're not, [Bm] your sound isn't anything like any of them.
And there's only one band that I can think of, and it's a band from [E] back home,
probably the most people haven't even heard of them.
This is a question I was talking about earlier that I just had nagged at [B] me.
Have you ever heard of the Mission Mountain Wood Band?
[Em] Actually, I've been, and somebody compared it years ago,
it's like 10 years ago that somebody mentioned to me about them.
And I said, well, I'd like to hear them.
But you know I've never been to them.
Well, they've been gone for quite a while.
They turned into the Montana Band, I think. Right.
[E] But they were the one band that I can think of that really sounds a lot like you. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] You've played with the Eagles, you've played with _ Charlie Daniels' band, _ _ _ [B] you've also played
with the Allman Brothers.
[G] _ Are there ghosts involved anymore when you get on stage?
Of colleagues?
People that you've played with, even of Thoy and Tommy?
Well, Thoy and Tommy is a natural. _
Because I get on stage and the guys that were here now, see the original band was only together
for ten years.
So for the last twenty years, [B] I've been getting up there and feeling different things that
go through [C] your heart and your [B] mind.
[D] I just [G]
remixed, which is out right [B] now, _ live, [G] _
August 1980, at the [G] Madison Hall Coliseum.
It was [Em] Tommy's very last show.
It was recorded on [C] 24-track, went back and remixed it all.
It's got fifteen songs on it and it is great.
It is solid great.
But I'd walk out of the studio like I had played every show.
Like I had [G] played every song on the show.
And it took us like four weeks to remix it, to make it all audio sound wise.
And we got Tommy on the cover.
And [Bm] I mean it was his very last show.
That next morning he was on his way to do a workout [C] _ after we took the bus home that night.
And I [Bm] mean I feel those emotions.
I know that they would be proud because of the way we play now and the way that I've
continued to do it.
_ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ We knew, we said, alright, I got out of service, Toy got out of the service, Tommy got out
of the service, and me and Toy went to bed.
We got back and everybody said, well [E] why don't we give it one [Bm] shot, we'll keep our day jobs.
Okay, I worked in a bank.
And Toy was, he sold plumbing fixtures and his dad was a plumber by trade.
And I don't recall what Tommy did, he worked all the time.
And so we said we'd practice every night.
So we'd learn, teach the scene, take the highway, heard a little song, songs like that, and
Losing You, and then _ [G] we recorded it.
You didn't seem to have a struggling period playing the night clubs and honky tonks.
It was like when you first came out with your first album, you were an overnight [C] sensation.
We were out playing for the first two years opening for the All-Nighters.
[Bm] So we were hitting big halls.
But also the first time [E] I went to Manhattan a month before that, we played for 40 [Bm] people
at a place called Abbey's in New York in Manhattan.
And so we [F#] were out, there was struggling because Toy and I, [G] even before we went to service,
had a [E] band called, [Bm] my first band was in 1955.
_ So you said, think about that.
[A] My mom and daddy had me in my first [Bm] band, it was a band called The Big Generation.
And [G] we had our little suits and stuff on and went [Bm] to the internet and talent shows.
Never, well, lost the first one and then started winning after that because I finally learned
and got [F#] the experience to do it.
But then there was Toy Factory where Toy and Tommy and myself played together before we went into service.
So when we got out, we knew that we had to do something [N] to make a living.
That musicianship, the real job _ had to be done.
So we knew that something had to be done.
And then Phil called us down there, Phil [B] Walton, Capricorn Records called us down and said,
why don't you _ come over to the office tomorrow?
Well, we come to the office [G] and there we were.
We had a contract offer and we [Em] knew that we'd get to open for the Allman Brothers [B] for a couple of years.
[B] And we got playing, _ going from 40 people and maybe 100 people to 17 to 22,000.
That made a big difference because people got to see us.
When people [Em] see you and you're doing as good, as impressive [B] as you can get out there and do it,
and you still sound good and you're the same person, _ you can't deny the fact [F#] that you're being yourself.
[Em] And you were so [B] unique when you first came out and you did something along the way.
There's a lot of bands that you're [Bm] associated with like the Allman Brothers and the Scattergons.
Especially Charlie because we're out with Charlie a [B] lot.
But you're not, [Bm] your sound isn't anything like any of them.
And there's only one band that I can think of, and it's a band from [E] back home,
probably the most people haven't even heard of them.
This is a question I was talking about earlier that I just had nagged at [B] me.
Have you ever heard of the Mission Mountain Wood Band?
[Em] Actually, I've been, and somebody compared it years ago,
it's like 10 years ago that somebody mentioned to me about them.
And I said, well, I'd like to hear them.
But you know I've never been to them.
Well, they've been gone for quite a while.
They turned into the Montana Band, I think. Right.
[E] But they were the one band that I can think of that really sounds a lot like you. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _