Chords for Ty Tabor interview part 1 - King's X in the early years

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_ If it's making you shout, then go tell somebody.
If you don't all around, then go tell somebody.
If it's locking your house, then go tell somebody.
[F] It's _ judgment time.
It's _ judgment time.
[C] If you like what you hear, then go tell somebody.
If you [F] like what you hear, [C] then go tell somebody.
If you like what you hear, then go tell somebody.
_ Oh, _ _ go tell _ somebody.
Yeah, go tell [Eb] somebody.
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_ _ We've always [F] had 100% freedom to do [C] anything we want,
and been encouraged to do so.
We are so lucky _ because of, I mean, how many albums have we done?
I don't even know at this point.
And including the side and solo stuff, what a gift that is.
I mean, that's the situation you _ hope you'll be lucky enough to ever get in
at some point in your life as an artist.
_ That's the philosophy of [F] King's X.
Be free.
Do what you feel.
One of the [G] reasons we went with that name is that it didn't make us think of any one [Cm] type of [C] music. _ _
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_ [Eb] My earliest memory of music in my life is my [Ab] dad playing music to [Gm] me.
_ [F] _ _ And hearing the Beatles.
_ _ Those two _ things are _ _ _ mostly responsible, I think, for [Gm] why I play music.
But at the [F] same exact time that I was _ _ just totally enthralled with the Beatles,
_ I was playing music with my [Gm] family.
_ And we were doing [Ab] bluegrass festivals and playing [F] at local parks
and anywhere that would have us, actually.
So I was experiencing two [Gm] different cultures at once, [F]
really opposed to each other.
And I loved both [Ab] of them.
_ _ It [F] was just [Gm] really fun to go do festivals [F] and be in that atmosphere
and experience that kind of _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] thing in the early days of it that it used to be.
It was [F] amazing.
My dad would be playing the acoustic to me, and he taught me my first harmony and things like that.
And I was already [Eb] in love with [Ab] harmony because of the Beatles.
So it just all went [F] together. _ _ _
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[D] We did all meet each other separately and in different ways before we became a band.
We sort of came across each other for different reasons.
And as it ended up, Jerry ended up playing with Doug,
and I ended up playing with Jerry in a separate band.
Even Doug had been over to my dorm, hanging out, jamming.
There was like a little community of all of us that knew each other
and were doing little projects and shows together.
So [G] our paths crossed.
_ _ But at one point, [D] _ I just got a call from Doug, and he said,
you know, hey, why don't we play together?
And it was just sort of like, duh, yeah, [G] why don't we?
Because we all wanted [D] to play together, we just hadn't actually brought it up, I guess.
When we first started out, we actually had these big aspirations,
and so we were [G] doing all original music.
[D] And it was some freaky all original music.
I mean, it was like nothing I have ever heard before.
And half [G] of it, I wasn't sure if it was good or what,
but [D] I just knew we were reaching for [G] something and doing something very different.
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_ [Gm] And [Em] we started packing [A] out [E] clubs in Springfield, Missouri.
I say clubs, they weren't even really [G] clubs.
We [E] couldn't get a gig in a real club because nobody knew who we were,
and we were playing this freaky music.
We had [D] to sell ourselves.
We went to this local pinball [Eb] shop.
You know, there used to be pinball shops in Springfield and everywhere in those [G] days.
It was kind of a different vibe, kind of like a [A] comic book shop.
And we said, hey, [G] we promise you we'll draw you a crowd in this place.
[D] Let us do a show here.
And, you know, he had never had a band in there before,
and that's how we started doing our first gigs,
[E] selling out a [D] pinball place that we convinced to let us play.
[Em] That's how we got started [G] in Springfield.
And the word spread, and before we knew it,
all these bands that were the top [C] bands in the area, you know, filling [Bm] the big clubs,
were coming to see us in this little hole.
_ [C] And they were freaking out [G] because we were _ [A] crazy enough to be doing our [D] own thing.
[C] So they all started asking us to open [E] for them at all their shows.
And that's how [D] it got started for us.
[C] And it was based on all this [Gm] original music.
You know, as [E] far as the musician [D] community and the [C] bands,
we've [Em] always been supported and given [Gm] props like that, just like now.
Also just like now, [D] it was difficult for us [G] to get into [Dm] the places we wanted to to play
because these club [G] owners _
[Dm] didn't know anything about us and weren't musicians
and didn't care if the [G] other musicians liked [D] us.
They just cared if we could _ fill the place up.
So [G] it was tough [D] for us to get going even though we had all that help from everybody.
And we've [Em] been knocking on [D] that door [C] forever.
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_ [E] _ [D] We [F] _ [E] _ [D] decided to spend some time demoing some [G] songs.
When we finally did that demo, [F] that was [D] _ like seven years [F]
into the [E] band.
[Dm] Seven [G] years into touring [D] all over the country,
_ _ almost every state at [Dm] this point, you know, we used to drive ourselves.
We literally one time had a gig in [G] North Carolina and the [D] next gig was in Colorado.
[G] _ _ And it's us with a couple of crew people [D] and that's how we lived and did it.
We [G] paid _ hard core [C] [D] dues in this band for many years.
[F] When [Em] we finally got to [D] the point where we made that demo [G] _ that [Dm] we were happy with,
_ [Em] it was a breakthrough [D] for us because we really felt like, OK, this captured something.
And so we were very excited about that and sent it to every single label that we had ever heard of.
And we received rejection from 100% of every label.
You talk about [G] demoralizing, you [D] know, feeling like you're going nowhere doing nothing.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] The [Em] night [D] we got signed, we did [Cm] the show.
It was [B] a very [Dm] surreal night.
_ I remember [E] that [D] _ Joey Ramone [G] was [E] standing about [F] [G] ten feet from me [Eb] _ [Em] like this.
_ _ [Eb] _ I [Em] mean, not smiling, not moving, [Eb] not whatever, but he [Em] stayed there for every note.
[G] And all of a sudden a bunch of [Em] other people started kind of doing the same [G] thing,
coming up and really watching.
And we were having troubles with monitors and [C] stuff
and we felt like we were really blowing [E] this one chance [D] we had to make an impression.
[G] It was a bad show for us, but some emotion came out from it, [Db] I think. _
[D] At one point Doug, I think, _ [Abm] threw his mic over [F] and stormed off [G] stage.
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[D] All these people were [C] standing [E] around _
_ [Fm] _ [D] mesmerized.
[G] And we literally stayed [Dm] for a couple days and worked it out and signed a [F] deal right then and there.
And that's how it went down.
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