Chords for Country Legend Vince Gill On Fender Guitars

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_ _ [F] Hey everybody, I'm Vince Gill and you're watching Fender Vision.
Check it out, it's good stuff.
_ _ _ Music spoke to me from the day I was born it seemed like.
I always wanted to have a guitar around or beating [F] on one or carrying it around or [Bb] playing
records that never stopped.
There's never been a period when I wasn't [Fm] just [C] completely eaten up with music.
My [C] dad played a little bit, my mom played a little bit and they were [G] always [C] encouraging
of me to push [F] on.
They weren't, when are you going to be an idiot and get a real job.
First time I saw [Bb] Fender Telecaster was Buck Owen playing one and Don Rich probably playing
[F] one and I was a young kid and loving country music [Am] and what they did.
[C] I saw Waylon [F] as a real young man open a show for Chad Atkins and he always played the Telecaster.
The Ricky Nelson [C] stuff was, I think he played a red Telecaster or something on those shows
and then you [F] saw him with Elvis and it was a Paisley Telecaster.
It was a pretty predominant instrument in country music, [C] you know, because it was twanging.
It had that good bite to it and [F] Albert Lee, James Burton, those guys were the ones that
as I moved out here to the west coast and started to meet some of these [Dm] people and spend
time with [Bb] them and then I was drawn to that instrument [Eb] and I bought a 53 [F] Telecaster in [A] 1980.
I was lucky to get it.
There was a buddy of mine named Bob Woods who had an old [F] timey music store in Dell City, Oklahoma.
I was back visiting my folks and him and a [Bb] fella named Larry Briggs did a big guitar trade.
I think there were about 20, 25 guitars.
I'll [F] trade you these 10 for these 15, you know, or something like that [C] and I watched
this trade go down and then I saw that one go [F] by and before he could kind of get a grasp
on what he got, you know, in this big trade, I go, hey, what do you want for that old Telecaster?
He goes, oh, $450.
I said, I'll take it.
[Bb] You know, and every time I saw him until the day he died, he'd look at [F] me and he goes,
you got to me on that Telecaster.
You [F] got such a good deal.
I said, well, I made it worth it, haven't I?
[Ab] You can take 10, 53, 52, whatever year you want and [G] go plug them in side by [F] side with
that one that I've played forever and there's just, there's something [Bb] about my hands and
that instrument that only sound like that one.
I'm [F] building a studio in the house and I like to design.
I like [C] to monkey with stuff and take walls out and [F] pick this out and I [G] didn't like the
[C] material on the walls of the studio and I just was thinking it didn't look [F] good and
I was carrying this [C] old Tweed amp into the room [Am] and I looked at it and I looked at the
[C] coloring in the room and I said, what would be cool is if you could do the walls [F] with
this old Fender Tweed.
You know, so I called my buddy and I said, hey, is there any chance we can get any of
that Tweed and he said, yeah, man, get you all that you want, [Bb] you know, and we learned
how to, you know, shellac it and amber it so it'd take on that old kind of [F] leathery
golden tone that it has, [Am] you know.
So the [C] whole studio [B] is all the walls are [F] Tweed and then the ceiling is the grill cloth so
it looks like you're in a giant amplifier. _ _
_ _ [Bb] I'm going to start in a few weeks on a new record and my studio will be done at the house
[F] and it'll be just, it'll be real interesting to be able to experiment, [C] take my time and
just do what I want and [F] not feel the pressure of the daily rate of a studio and add some
neat songs and I'm curious to see what they turn into.
Hey [C] everybody, it's Vince.
Enjoyed being [F] with you here on Fender Vision.
We'll see you down the road somewhere soon.
Bye bye.
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