Chords for An Interview with Martin Chambers - Episode 1

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Little pig!
Little pig!
_ There's no orcas.
Welcome to Arrowfuture.
Oh, good to see you again.
You're in!
Yes, this is the true Wild West.
The Wild West it is.
Welcome to England, the world's greatest rock drummer. _
And Mark, are you enjoying your birthday?
Are you having [Eb] a good time?
Yes, since I've been in this hotel I've had a fantastic time.
[C] I've [Eb] been living here for 30 years.
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_ [Bb] _ [Ab] So [Bb] you've _ _
[Ab] _ [Bb] _ got a little bit of work to do here, mate.
What is [N] that?
I don't know.
Is it like the hills have eyes?
Oh, they're pheasants fighting, that's what it is.
A couple of [Bb] cocks at it.
See, right behind that little bit of _ [Abm] a_
There you go, look at them.
Well at it.
It's like sexist chainsaw massacre, yeah?
It's coming down here.
No, it's just a beautiful spot.
Right, I'm going to turn this into a_
Yeah, this reminds me of Birmingham.
Yeah, it's very close, isn't it?
[F] I'm trying to industrialise it by putting a pond in.
Now, this is all self-contained.
[Gm] _ [Ab] It's my peace [Gm] and quiet.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ Next _ _ _ _ _ contestant, right in here, [Eb] please. _
_ _ [N] Right, can we go now?
Yeah, we can.
You've got to have humour in it because I'm a very serious man.
I've noticed that.
Very good to see you, man.
Long time no see.
It is indeed.
Absolute pleasure to see you.
I've just pulled my mic off.
Shall we start that again?
No, that's good.
Leave it in.
Technology.
_ I started back in 67 and we put a band together rather quickly
because I'd never played drums before.
Bloke in the market house, James Williams,
said, I'm putting a band together.
Can you play drums?
I said, yeah.
Never touched them.
Two weeks later,
Buffin from Malte Hoople lent me his drum kit
to play St Mary's Village Hall.
This was 1967. _
I became very pally with Buffin
from that part of the world.
But that was my first gig, 67. _
Yeah, that was a band
called The Blues Reunion
which was a blues band.
_ We did all that
sort of early stuff
but we would get someone like Hendrix's
first record and play
a couple of Hendrix songs
the day we got the album.
We'd play them the day we got the album.
Manic Depression was always my favourite
because it's all a bit of left hand stuff.
And then following that
was Cody Farm Blues Band
68.
I've got some pictures, you can have a look at them.
69 was the start of Caracorum.
Will you have this?
This is the band Caracorum
in 73.
There you go.
I think there's a bit of history on the back.
Caracorum.
That was Edgar Street Football Ground
around the time
of Ronnie Radford's great goal.
It was a brilliant day
because we did it for the benefit
of Hereford United.
Look at where they are now.
Where's Hereford United now?
_ [C] Black and white?
_ [D] Unfortunately, yeah.
It's the way things go [E] in football.
There we are.
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_ _ [E] How [Eb] did [N] the band get together?
Because you were like Hereford boys
suddenly you're up in London.
It surely wasn't from Caracorum.
No, no.
It came about
because there was a character called
Gaz Wild who Chrissie had met in London.
Pete had been working with
the Bushwhackers, an Australian band
so he'd been to Australia, he'd travelled a bit
and was getting on okay.
That had come full circle.
Jimmy had finished working
with bands and he was a gardener in Hereford.
But because of Gaz Wild
Chrissie met Pete.
So you three was in the same town?
We grew up here.
We grew up in Hereford.
So I'd work with Jimmy
I'd never work with Pete.
But you knew him?
Oh yeah.
These were my friends from teenagers.
So _ _ they wanted
Jimmy in the band and they tried to
tempt him to come up to London.
This is before any name pretenders existed.
This was in early 1978.
So they got Nick Lowe to produce
a Ray Davis song Stop Me Sobbin' and The Way
with Gerry McElduff on drums
God bless him.
_ They said we've got Nick Lowe
producing and Jimmy loved Nick Lowe
so he up sticks and came up to London
to do the session.
He loved it and
then they needed a drummer
because Gerry wasn't in it for the full push.
So they were looking for me.
Fortunately, because I'd gone to
the labour exchange and I'd had enough
of music for the moment, I wanted wheels
I wanted to get around and find out what was going on
and that's the reason I became a driving instructor
because it came with a car.
So I got a job with a car
and because I travel back to Hereford regularly
I heard from a guy called Andy Watt, a cameraman
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being together with someone
loud mouth American
and so I found [Gb] them.
Key point.
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