Chords for YOB "Hometown" Pt 2: Mike Scheidt Traces Roots of Band's Unique Doom Sound:

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I started working at McKenzie River Music, which was [F] a huge [E] effect on my musical [F] life.
I worked here from, I want to say it was like 95 or [C] 96 to _
[F] _ 2002-ish maybe.
Bob taught me so much about business and guitars and the history of guitars, and Dick too, Dick knew a lot about that.
What [E] I learned from Dick, sitting across from [F] him day in and day out, was how to talk to people.
Because before then I was pretty awkward, _ and my mentorship with him had everything to do with how to find ease [C] in talking,
[F] how to _ be friendly with people in an environment that's a sales environment without [Dm] it being gross and weird, to learn how to listen.
_ And this is [E] also where I was introduced to [F] a large part of my guitar style, which is country swing.
When I started working here I was a bar chord _ guy, and I did a lot with [Em] it, had lots of fun, but my [F] style didn't really develop, really,
until I started putting on a thumb pick and banging my head against the wall, trying to learn how to use this sucker on an acoustic guitar,
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[F] and learn how to move chords around, learn how to grab notes in any position and make music with it.
It just gave me, between the country swing, punk and metal background, [G] learning from Bill, [F] aka Zoot,
it just gave me this sense of freedom where I could create this heavy music that had elements that reached from everywhere,
from Townes, [Am] Van Zandt, to all my [F] old roots, to you name it, it all came through this shop.
The swing [D] stuff, it's like, when you're in a position, they'd [N] be like, OK, what can you grab that's nearby?
And, you know, I mean, obviously that's the setup for any kind of finger picking,
but there's a percussive quality to creating the alternating bass lines and all the melody at the same time.
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[F#] _ [N] But all that, like, that percussiveness is where I started getting my ideas for Yob,
is being able to move all that stuff around and start to think [A] about, you know, _ _ what's [F] _ all nearby.
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Growing up, it was definitely just _ friction, you know, I think my [C#] parents didn't [B] know how they gave birth to me,
and I don't [G] know, didn't know [Am] how I came from them, because we were just so different.
And what [F] I was interested in was different [G] than what they were interested in.
I was soft, [A] I was kind of overweight, [A] was into music, and wanted to grow out my hair,
and when I pierced my ear, that was just [A#] like a big deal. _
In [G] 1982, that was [C] around here, that was a big deal.
And my [A] mother, _ her [Gm] support was to take me to shows and [F] pick me up.
She didn't understand it, but she [Dm] took me to pretty [G#] much any show I wanted to go to,
[Fm] and would pick me up when [F] the show was done.
And that's, you know, as a kid, you think that's pretty cool,
but as an adult, you look [D] back and go, that was [F] really cool.
It took a long [D] time for [F] my dad in particular to realize, not just that I was who I was, but that I was okay.
Because [B] he was just worried about [C] me, because he came from an old school upbringing,
and he just [F] saw [C] me get my ass handed to me all the time,
and [F] just kind of endless grief from every direction.
And my dad was just trying to prepare me for what he saw as the world.
He wanted to [Am] help me out in such a way to kind of maybe normalize me,
so that I wouldn't take so much crap.
But for me, [B] that was just not an option.
You know, it was [C]
hard times, but he meant well.
[F] He just didn't know [C] how to deal with me.
And [F] _ it took a while for us to get on the same page with that.
But once we did, it's been, you know, we had a great relationship,
[C] and [Am] we both [B] groaned a lot, [Am] but it was hard.
It was a hard situation for a [B] good while, and it was mirrored everywhere that I grew up.
[C] So in school, it was getting a lot of flack, and walking down [F] the street, it was getting a lot of [C] flack.
And I was going home and getting the [F] same flack, because that was the environment.
That was where I grew up, but I just didn't fit.
But, you know, and I was also really awkward, [C] [Am] and had a hard time relating to people
until I [F] started playing music.
And then it [B] just opened doors for me to [C] where I could be awkward and weird
and be in [F] these bands and play music.
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[F] that became like a glue for me to _ [B] step outside of _ Springfield, [D] Oregon,
_ and [C] start [A] living in a bigger world than what that mindset was at that time.
But my parents [B] are very supportive.
They're very [C] proud.
They support in every way that they can.
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Is that from the cops beating on the door?
Yeah, right here. _
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_ _ _ _ Yeah, you