Chords for Ty Tabor interview part 3

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[Bb] think in those days, and actually it's still true now, really, _ [D] _
_ we've never been worried _
about having songs _ because [G] _
_ me [C] and Doug both, and Jerry, are in a constant state [Eb] of always
[A] writing [F] and we always have so much stuff that will [G] never be heard [Bb] and never be on records
that _ [D] that's not anything [A] we ever think about.
When it came to the third album, [Bb] that was the beginning of finding ourselves settling
[C] into something that we thought we were.
_ And so we found ourselves in a [A] catch-22 that started [C] beginning with that record.
Certain musical decisions were made that, no, we [Bb] shouldn't do that because [D] that's not King's Ex.
[C] I should never have ever thought that, ever.
We slowly but surely, _ not knowing [Bb] it, _ [C] _ through the world we were suddenly finding ourselves
in, and we're [Eb] going on stage [Dm] around that time playing [F] in domes with ACDC for [G] 35,000 [Bb] people,
you know, _ nightly, and [Dm] all over.
Europe sold out, all over [C]
America sold out, [A] every show, everywhere.
_ And everything we did had that [F] kind of insane mania around it at that time.
We were all over [G] the charts and the [Bb] radio. _ _
And the world [Am] _ changed all of a sudden.
The way people, _ friends treated us, people showing [A] up at our houses, [C] _ everything changed.
Even though that was our time [F] of great [C] success, it's not a [Eb] time I look back on as [Bb] fondly as
the time before that, actually.
But it's what it was, and I'm [Eb] glad that we had [Bb] some success. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ From very early on, [Dm] there really wasn't anything else I wanted to [F] do, _ [D] _ _
seriously, _ _ until motorcycles [B] came along.
[D] _ [C] And _ [E] that's my dad's fault too, [D] actually, because [G] he was [D] _ the co-owner of [F] a [Dm] motocross track in
Macomb, Mississippi, [G] _ [D] that had the biggest eight [Dm] jumps of any track in the South, was
its [D] claim to [G] fame.
_ [D] _ I used to go out there on that [F] track when nobody [Bb] was around, and I could just _ _ [G] _ [Dm] do some
crazy stuff out there all by [F] myself, not worrying [G] about other people. _
And _ [Bm] _ _ once that happened, I had [G] competition in my life of what I really wanted to [C] do.
_ [G] _ _ [D] I have to say that I love _ [F] motorcycles [G] a lot.
I raced _ [D] supercross and motocross well into [G] my _ [D] mid-30s. _ _
While King's X [A] was touring and doing stuff, I was [F] actually [Bm] racing in the [D] local circuit
around here and keeping it quiet because I'd get in trouble for it, you know, [Dm] because of the [G] danger.
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I actually recorded [D] the Faith, Hope, Love album _ [F] _ [G] with electrodes hooked up to my back
[Dm] and laying in a lawn chair, [F] padded lawn [G] chair, with extra pads.
I'm sitting here doing the It's Love album, literally laying like [F] that because [A] of motorcycle injury.
_ I [G] recorded the whole [E] Ear Candy album with [F] four [A] broken bones in my left [Dm] lower [G] foot from
[D] a motorcycle injury that had just happened right before [Dm] we went in the [A] studio.
So I couldn't walk [D] _ _ [Bm] and had an eight-month [D] recovery and [G] had to go to physical therapy
and all that stuff.
This was happening while _ King's X was out doing [F] stuff.
I [G] tell people all the time, _ if [D] I could have been better at it, nobody would have ever
heard me play guitar [G] _ _
because it [D] truly became my passion at one point.
But I also had the realization that [Am] I wasn't ever going to be at the top of the game in motocross.
It was just a passion [D] that I loved, just like thousands [G] of other people like me that do it.
[D] And I finally realized that one day and let it [A] go. _ _
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Our fourth album did do well for us.
If I remember correctly, it actually was our biggest selling album of all time.
Just barely over the third album.
And if I have _ that wrong, it's the flip-flop, [C] but both of them are almost identical in sales.
Both of them were our two biggest albums. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Dog Man did well, _ but not as well.
_ It got a [Eb] lot more radio [C] play _ on FM rock radio and _ things were still ramping up for us and
going well for us.
We were doing some big shows at that time.
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] Actually, after Dog Man [G] is when we lost control of our direction.
_ I can only tell from [G] my side of things.
I'm sure Doug and Jerry [Dm] have a [C] different _ story from [Dm] their view and what they were going through
at the time and [Gm] all.
But for me, _ [F] _ [Bb] that's when the pressure [C] hit from Atlantic.
_ Because we had all these [F] albums that [Gm] were [F]
successful, [Bb] but not successful [Dm] enough as far
as they were concerned.
_ They wanted platinum.
[G] _ _ They wanted [Bb] multi-platinum.
_ [C] At least we thought [Dm] our day was coming because [C] we weren't selling millions.
We had a really solid following and we were selling out places where we [C] went and things
were good, _ _ _ but we weren't [G] on that level that they wanted [A] to see things on.
[C] So when Ear Candy came along, _ it's the [G] first time that I ever felt the pressure _ [A] of _ having
to write singles.
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Having to make something that would get on the radio.
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_ [Bb] _ _ [C] That had always been [Dm] so _ _ [G] philosophically not where I'm at or want to be or care [Bb] to be.
I [C] just didn't want to be a sellout.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ It felt like we [D] either had to be or we were going to lose our deal. _
[Bb] That [C] was the one and only [Dm] time in our career that I felt [Gm] outside influence to not do whatever
we want to do.
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You can hold me down, but you can't [G] hold me _ _ [A] down.
_ [C] So _ _ long my old _ [G] superstition. _ _ _
_ _ [C] You can [A] meet me at the [Am] door, cause I don't [C]
need you to protect me.
After that we ended up going to Metal Blade Records.
Both head guys at Metal Blade basically said, we don't want you to do anything other than
exactly what you want to do. _ _
Thank God, _ we can relax again.
_ [Cm] It's been like that ever since. _
[F] There's only been one brief time we ever had to [Bb] deal with that.
_ _ [Cm] _ The people [Bb] that we see on TV all the time are the people who are working the [Dm] hardest.
That's [Cm] the only thing I can tell you.
[C] It's not like some lottery winning gift that some people get.
You get [Bb] lucky with a song here or there in people's [F] career and get started that way.
[C] But _ I [D] can promise you those people are doing everything it takes for that to happen when
you get that shot.
Which [C] means they are working their selves to death over it.
It _ is a _ _ who gets there first business if there ever was one.
_ _ _ _ You can't ever let up.
You have to keep working, keep _ recording, keep putting things out, keep [C] contacts.
Which is all good, it's wonderful.
It's just like any business, but it's a business that is _ [G] driven _ ultimately at first by [C] art.
So it has a few other considerations, but it still is _ business. _
It's survival. _ _ _ _ _
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