Chords for Evan Dando

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I'm Evan Dando.
I was born in Boston in 1967,
and I'm a musician.
[Db] I've been a professional musician
for 18 years.
I waited [Cm] tables for 2 years. _
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ The idea of perfect happiness
is I think
a real ridiculous concept
because this world is just
really mainly like misery
and suffering, and people that
can eke out a living
in something they really love
are just really, really lucky,
and it's not without
its hardships and all,
but I think
it's an impossible _ _ concept.
Of course, we're dealing
in fantasies here,
aren't [Db] we though?
_ _ _ My greatest fear in life,
the U.S. government I'd say,
they scare me the most.
It looks off a lot like the
Nazis in the early days,
doesn't it, except at least
Hitler told the truth.
He wasn't talking about
freedom and stuff,
he was talking about
we gotta kill the Jews.
George Bush scares me a lot,
and all those older guys too,
Dick Cheney and all those [D] people.
_ _ I'm going to say right now,
because there's so many people
that I'm going to say Haruki Murakami,
because I've been reading
tons of his books,
and he's just given me
hours and hours and hours
of great entertainment.
That's all I do
is provide entertainment.
Haruki Murakami I admire
a great deal, and he's alive.
Laziness is the [G] one for me.
I'm a little bit lazy sometimes.
It brings to mind
the old Ronnie Lane song,
I wish I knew what I know now.
_ That sort of thing
applies to me,
because yeah, I've been lazy,
especially when you make
a bunch of money.
All I wanted to do was hang
around and get high,
and I had to go through the money
to get into playing music again.
I mean, I was playing it,
I was just playing it
at home [Am] by myself.
[G] I hate, I don't like false humility,
and of course dishonesty.
I'm excessive about listening
to my LPs at home,
which I have a bunch,
and I don't even have
my high school collection,
which is still in my dad's garage.
Maybe I'll smoke a little weed,
and I'll just sit for 6 hours
and listen to music.
I don't think it's a bad thing,
but I'm definitely,
I get over the top about it,
and I make mixed tapes
all the time still.
Yeah, I get over the top about that. _
Say money is the thing
that's overdone these days.
I hear that it wasn't like that
back in the old days,
and unfortunately I've only
been able to live
through these times.
Paris Hilton, you know,
she's just interesting
because she has so much money.
[Eb] I don't get it. _ _ _ _
Hank Williams and Robert Johnson,
so like call it
a two-headed Hydra,
but like those for me
are the basis of most everything
comes from them.
And of course they had influences too,
and there's been lots of good
stuff since, but it all,
it goes back to Hank
and Robert [E] Johnson for me. _ _
_ The lowest point for me,
I haven't been that low.
I mean, I guess
they've been pretty high actually.
One of my low points was
going to the airport in Sydney
without a ticket or anything
on acid and I forgot
to pay the cab fare
and I got arrested.
It was a low point,
but it was funny.
Then I started bleeding
on the handcuffs,
and two of the girlfriends
of the cops were Lemonhead's fans
so they just let me go.
So that was a low point,
but I was high.
[F] _ _ _ I've got a 1930 Tanner Gibson four-string,
I've got a [B] [Gb] 1932 Martin Tanner guitar,
which is four strings.
Things that I own,
my favorite, my most treasured
are my guitars. _
_ _ One of the happiest times
in my life was this time
in Biarritz when I was [D] 9, 11,
and 13, 3 summers.
Every other summer for a while
we were spending the summer in Biarritz,
and I learned to surf
for 9-year-old, 11-year-old
topless girls on the beach.
Getting up, having beautiful
bread from this chateau
we were staying at,
dipping the bread
in amazing coffee
and going with my skateboard
down to the beach every day
and surfing and looking
at the topless girls.
That was probably
one of the best times
in my life.
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_ _ _ _ I get a lot of satisfaction
out of reading.
I just went through a tour
of French and Russian literature.
I read like Bellamy
and Madame Bovary,
and that led me into re-reading
Crime and Punishment.
I like to read a bunch of books,
and I feel like that's
an accomplishment for me.
I love the word [C] tablet.
It sounds great,
it's something about the sound,
and [Gm] synapse,
that's a great word.
I like words that sound good.
How [G] about _ behemoth,
that's a nice word as well.
I just love words in general,
so I can't give my love
just to one word.
[Cm] The talent I'd like to have,
[G] which I don't have,
is organizational skills
and not misplacing things
all the time,
losing my passport,
losing things.
I would love to have
a bit of that.
My greatest challenge
is keeping myself happy
and well-adjusted.
I go through depressive stages,
and so my biggest challenge
is to be tough
and to make the best of things.
Obviously I like to hold a guitar
when I'm doing interviews.
That makes me feel
safe and secure,
but my wife makes me feel
very, very secure as well. _
_ _ [E] I would never want to be
a businessman, a banker,
a lawyer, or anything,
an Indian chief either.
I wouldn't like to sit
behind a desk,
I don't want to sit
behind a desk,
I don't want to do
what I want to do,
I want to be my own boss.
So I got a tall order there,
but luckily so far,
I'm hanging on [Ab] to it. _ _ _
I started playing when I was 10,
[Dm] guitar, you know,
like all the [C] Beatles songs,
learning all [G] the chords,
I had the book,
learning all the Beatles songs,
and then I was like,
I [N] love playing.
So I was about 15, 16,
and started listening to jazz
and classical, and I was like,
I can't, I couldn't play that
stuff on guitar,
and I gave up for a while,
I gave up for a year,
and then it was
hardcore punk rock, Black Flag,
The Angry Samoans,
Minor Threat, I could do that.
So then I picked the guitar
back up again,
and then it was straight on to,
we played our first show
in 86, August 18th.
So the fork in the road for me,
getting back into guitar and
music was hearing these new
music, like this hardcore
punk rock music, Black Flag,
Minor [A] Threat.
_ _ _ _ It's funny, because everyone
thinks I'm real unintelligent,
real bimbo, like a himbo,
whatever, you know,
I don't know, because I [Bb] did
the whole 50 most beautiful
people in the world thing,
I actually did it.
They called me up,
and they voted me in 93,
one of the 50 most beautiful
people in the world,
and that'll mess up
the rest of your music career,
and it did with me,
because I don't think anyone
took me seriously after that.
And they thought I was a ditz or something,
because I was allegedly
handsome or something. _ _
I'm feeling a little [C] better now
because I think my voice
is coming back.
I was anxious about the show
tonight because of my voice,
but my state of mind
is _ like full rockets,
blasting forward,
and I'm about to go on vacation
for a month, so I'm very happy.
I have four more shows,
and I'm going to Costa Rica
for a month with my wife. _
_ _ My motto is always tell the truth.
It's [D] easier to remember.
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