Chords for Triumph's Rik Emmett breaks down the Double Necked Guitar

[N] Hi, I'm [C#m] Rick Emmett from Triumph and I'm here today at the CBC [C#] to talk to you about the double neck guitar
And this is my Gibson double neck guitar, and I've had [D] maybe six or [C] seven of these things in my lifetime
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_ Yeah, you're [E] probably wondering where did they come from?
Why are there double necks?
And we know why would you need a [B] double neck and of course you don't [F] need one
You just want one [D#] and part of it [E] is I think _
[D#] Why I wanted one
I mean I saw guys like John McLaughlin [C] and Steve how of yes
And and [B] of course Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and I wanted to be like those guys.
I wanted one of those for my very own
So that's how it started
[D] _ _ [D#] But I think I'm gonna step back just a little bit and and we'll [E] talk about the history of the guitar just [C] for a second
So that you can understand why [B] a guitar player would want to next
_ I think the [A#] first _ [Dm] big
_ _ divide of
Guitar [D#]
playing happened [D] when sort of [Em] from the [F] late 30s into the 40s [D#] and then the beginning of the 50s
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Acoustic guitars be started becoming electric [F#] so that became one big thing
Acoustic [C#] and electric and of course that was because they wanted to get louder
They needed to be able to compete and once they [D] could once they had amplifiers and electric guitars
And then by the time we [C#] sort of got to the [D] 50s
Fender and Gibson started making [B] solid body guitars, and now they could get [E] really loud _ _
Then the next thing that started to happen and this was sort of early _ 60s there were guitar players like
_ James [C#] Burton who [C] played with Ricky Nelson on TV and and [D] these guys started coming with the idea of being able to take a
Banjo string and put it on the guitar so that you could move all the [C#] gauges of strings over one and you'd have skinny
[E] Kind of easy to [G] bend strings and then as amps [F] got bigger and there was more distortion
[D] This became I think the next big [C#] leap in guitar playing
So to go back to the original [D] question [F] of why would you want to next?
[F#] essentially, [G] it's because [F#] you're probably gonna want the 12 string neck to do [Em] acoustic [D#] guitar ish kinds of things live and
Then at the flick of a switch [D] you can go to all that [C#] really crazy great electric guitar playing [D#] loud
[D] bending of strings kind of [C] thing and
[D] That's the essential [C#] reason why there's two necks and I'll illustrate some of that for you [D#m] now
So for me, [F] I would be in [D] a tune and I might be [E] playing something that was like
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[A] _ This is a tune called [D] blinding [A] light show.
[Em] I saw it kind of like
[C] _ _ _ _ Still [Em] very acoustic [C] II and tinkly and then I would hit the switch and hit a [G] switch on the floor [E] and be able to go
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_ _ [A] so it changes [D#] things right away from [F#] kind of
[D#] floating like a butterfly to stinging like [A#] a bee or or
[Dm] Tinkling like a 12 string and pounding [B] like a Les Paul
_ _ [A] But [E] they're heavy [D#] and you know
[E] The longer you wear them in life the [C#] more your discs in your back will complain
So [F] guys, _ they don't usually use them for a whole [C#] show.
They just use them as a novelty item for one [D] song
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The first one I had like when I would play a chord if I [Em] leaned back
Then it would go a little [E] bit sharp
And if I lean forward it would go a little bit flat because of the way weight of [C#] the things
They don't do that anymore there.
They're made a [A] little more solid than that and and better woods and just [A#] better everything _
I consider this to [E] be you know, maybe one of the [G] best that exists
the [C] Gibson and and
Part of the reason [E] is because [F] you can't beat this kind of sound
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_ _ _ _ _ That's a riff from never surrender
_ [E] And you know that that song [Em] in particular it started with all of this [C] kind of tinkly
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_ Sarah Sarah [D#m] and then I would get to a point where I would hit the [A] switch and be able to _ _ _ _ _
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[F#] _ _ so that illustrates the the thing [D] about a Gibson humbucker [C] guitar it has power and
_ [D] That power allows you to have [D#] that [C#] rich
sustain and that singing quality and the [A] notes that you play and I think probably double necks [D#] have fallen out of fashion and
[D] Probably will continue to do so and that's because _
_ in a digital universe
[C#] you can get almost [C] anything you want at the [A#] poke of a [A] button or [C#] the flick of a switch or the
dragging of a mouse [A#] and
_ _ [F] You know, [C#m] there are guitar players nowadays [D] and a band that would come to mind is Muse
_ Where the guitar player is doing all kinds of crazy [F#] things and he's got like a little _ touchpad
Screen on his on his [B] guitar face and you know, his guitar can do anything
It can sound like a jet engine taking off or [A#] _ you know, any guitar sound he wants because of [C#] samples
so [F] this is kind of old-school, but I do think that there's a kind of a
[F#] there's always [F] a
faction that exists in in pop culture where [C#] somebody's doing retro somebody's going back and you know
[C] Resurrecting something from [B] 25 years ago [A#] or the stuff that they heard other parents records when they were growing [D#m] up
So, [F#] you know, I think there's plenty of guitar players out there that [B] want to be like Jimmy [A#] Page, you know, so
[C] _ _ [D#m] They see they see him doing stairway to heaven [A#] and they think oh I got to do that, too
So, you know in [C#] that sense, it'll it'll [B] never go away
But you know
It makes it it makes it too easy to [Am] be you can get these kinds of sounds [B] out of a little [C] pedal board with a foot switch
[E] _ You don't really necessarily need the 12 strings to be able to get it _ _ _ _ _