Chords for CISSY STRUT - The Bass Line That Changed FUNK!

Hey guys, how's it going?
I'm here with the legendary George Porter jr.
Dude.
Thank you so much for coming today
_ He's here for you guys because I did a video a few weeks ago a few months ago a few months ago a few months ago
About sissy stroke which obviously you know you the bass player on the original sissy stroke
Which was done by the meters check it out guys.
If you haven't already is one of the funkiest tunes ever
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_ _ [F] _ [C] _ Actually to tell the story I was like geeking out on [Db] Facebook one day and [Ab] opening my stream
Was a came a video of you talking you I think he was on a radio interview or something like that
And you were being the guy was [N] asking you about sissy strut, and you said oh the the riff that everybody plays wrong
First half of that lick is [Eb] also played wrong
[C] _ [G] everybody [C] wants to
And [N] _
and they do play wrong and as I did I played it for years completely wrong as well
George how is it played?
For the guys that you smiling faces out there for the guys.
How do you actually play sissy stroke put it like that?
It's almost like I have to think about how to play it wrong but
[C] First Nick would be _
_ Yeah, I _ need that first bit isn't it?
_ _ _ Yeah, yeah, and so everybody wants to do
_ Yeah
Yeah, that's the wrong way
Yeah, _ that's the right way everything else is correct
But then the second lick _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _
_ that's the right way everybody [Bb] wants to play
_ _ [C] Yeah
That's _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ [E] the correctly yeah
Like how did you actually come up with the riff like who came up with that riff?
And well, I'll post a story behind it Leo no sit [Ab] telly _ guitarists
Came up with those two lips.
Yeah.
Yeah, [Bbm] it's like a really classic tune isn't it and the drum groove is just beautiful
And well, you know Zig Zigaboo Joseph Madness
_ Um was absolutely the guardian of that.
[Cm] Yeah
[G] And _ [C] _ [Eb] _ [C] _ _ it was always like we had learned by them from doing the sessions that we have been [Gb] recording lead or C sessions without a
Two cent.
Yeah, which was almost about probably close to a year
Before [N] we started recording our own stuff and we would have had to do that
So sister struck before we actually had done those sessions with Alan.
We probably would have played _ _ _
_ _ Yeah
Playing the sessions [Bb] with Alan [Abm] and then doing the lead desk things
It was like he used to always [Bb] say it's not what you play is what you don't play
Yeah, you know and and so, you know, so playing with space was essential
It's such a killer groove and when the guitar player when he turned up with this riff
What was the did you guys kind of jam it out?
Is he like I've got this great riff guys.
Let's jam it out
You know somebody would come up with a riff and we just play it and take two maybe take three we go to next song
Yeah, you know it wasn't like someone [Gm] we gave a lot of thought about especially that first album more than a second
But the first album, you know
It was like songs
There was great pockets, you know looking for a melody or waiting.
Yeah.
Yeah
Yeah, you know the melody was was [Abm] inside it inside that take, [Eb] you know
Yeah, I mean that's reason that a great deal about [N] our songs got to be you know
Got sampled because you know because it was a great pocket.
Yeah, it's a melody can go on top of you know
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, and did you always play the P was it always a I was always played a P from
_ 1970 this base is just four years old.
This is four years old
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] And
Dan Lakeland built this base the neck was
Custom built at that time at that time a P bass was 43 years old
Wow, so he [N] built he built it he built this neck.
So this neck is actually older than my P bass _
_ Yeah, _ _ yeah, yeah, yeah, it sounds killer and in terms of your settings do you ever have the tone can _ _
Open everything
So, I mean I use it to set the tone on an amp [Em] rarely ever go back [N] to the amp doing again
Yeah, and if you got flats or rounds on it the medium gauge rounds
Yeah, and did you always play rounds or do you ever play flat?
I played flats for a long time
Oh for a long time on the P and on my old Telecaster
So I have one of those or one of those original 100 telecast And _
And that bass I never put round while strings on it, but they always was flat round strings
You know, can you back and you know back in the early 70s late 60s, especially in the late 60s the idea of your frets getting ate up You know _ _
When did the round one strings strings even happen like it was late 60s, wasn't it that they came I think before that it was
Just flat.
Yeah
I don't know when they were half wounds.
You remember?
Yeah, yeah, probably in the early 70s, you know
The round while [Ab] sound was something [Bb] more
[Ab] That you know players wanted session put the session
Yeah, but but the round round wounds was still, you [Abm] know, I don't know
You know _ _ _ [N]
because the idea that we can refret the bass which has never happened
My PB says the original fret holes and everything
And I had a guy that wanted to want to redo my face and man you need a [Abm] fret job really bad
I say if you touch that you hurt _ _ _ [Gb] So
It came to the time that bass was just so heavy.
Yeah
[Bb] Yeah, that was like a tree stump around, you know, yeah, I know [Ab] so, you know when I by the time, you know somewhere
When I you know, what's up past 65?
I just decided _ _ _
And I got I got a hold of Dan Lake when I was on a government new tour and
And Dan Lakeley came out and all and [Gm] bought a couple of bases for kid named Greg or zap
Yeah
You know hooked me up with Dan
Yeah, and so [Abm] cuz I was carrying a base around on the tour.
That was a no-name base
It had no name up there
It was a I can't even think of the name of the people that made those made the bodies, you know
They made bodies and next you know, and I put a neck together and the body together and some guys, you know
They shaped it all [C] up and everything and I was carrying that base and whenever I broke a string cuz [G] I'll break a strings on
That P base [Abm] like crazy because yeah, because if you know because it was just ate up, you know, yeah Yeah, yeah
So I would I would go to that so that that no damn base, you know
And Greg was just he would lose it.
He said man.
You can't be you can't be playing on no name base _ _
So he hooked Dan Lakeley came out and bought me I bought me one of those P bases that he had _
And I liked it.
I like the [Gb] weight more than [Em] anything.
Yeah
Yeah, [Abm] [Ebm] but the [Ab] little wide I didn't like the neck the little wide not complain to Dan
You know about the neck and he said just let me build your base, you know
He said send me the P base.
I said I like I'm not doing that
[Eb] The [Abm] P base is not leaving my possession
But I took I had a guy at home take all the measurements and stuff
We sent it to Danny to about two years later.
He sent me this one amazing
Man well, thanks for sharing that story guys.
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