Chords for G.E. Smith Jams on the Guitar That Killed Folk!

[D] _ _ [Em] _ [D] _ [E] _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ Whoa, [N] there it is. _
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_ Mike _ _ _ _ _ _ Bloomfield's Telecaster.
_ What a neck. _
We know from Dan Erlenwein's forensic work on it that it's April of 63, I believe he
said, and that the pickups, _ and it looks to me like maybe this whole plate here, and the
controls, yeah, it's a later toggle switch, later knobs.
I think this plate looks later.
It looks like that late 60s chrome.
Everything comes from 68 or something.
The bridge pieces are changed, too.
Sure looks like an April of 63 headstock to me. _
The neck is fabulous.
Really good. _ _
_ It's a little thinner here than I thought it would be.
I don't even know if it's a full _ one and 11 sixteenths.
It feels like one and five eighths to me.
It really drops off at about the fourth fret here.
It really starts getting thinner.
I don't think it's been cut down.
That looks original.
That finish looks original.
It doesn't look like it's been messed with.
Let's plug it in. _ _
_ _ _ Let's see.
[Bb] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Am] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[C] That sounds like him.
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] Woo! _ _
It has that_
Not every Telecaster does that thing.
Only the really good ones where you can really dig into it and it [Bb] snaps right back [Abm] up.
[G] [G] I _ [F] _ [C] _ [G] _ [Dm] _
probably listen to this guitar more than I listen to any recorded guitar that you can think of.
I've listened to [N] _ _
this record probably a couple thousand times. _
I lucked out and got this when it first came out.
It just changed my life.
Bloomfield's playing, the way these guys look on the cover, everything about it.
There's a picture of Mike on the back playing this guitar before it had this unfortunate
cutaway of course.
First song, Born in Chicago.
Second song, Shake Your Money Maker.
Give me a break.
Nobody can do a record like that now.
[E] _ _
_ He _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Ebm] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ does this great thing.
He slides down on the low E string.
Song's in E.
He slides down on the low E string and goes_
_ _ _ _ _ Then when the band [A] goes to A, _ [E] again he goes_
[A] While they're playing the A chord, [E] he stays in [Fm] E.
Forget about it.
[E] Back to E. _
Then when the [B] band goes to B, he [Db] [D] goes_
[Em] _ _
[E] _ [Am] _ [Bm] _ [D] _ [E] _ Whoa, go on baby.
Go on back to school.
Come on.
[Db] _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ I [E] think I learned that chord, that sixth thing.
_ It [Dbm] _ can sound sweet or it can sound nasty like Bloomfield did it [A] there. _ _ _
_ Bloomfield would switch in the middle of his solo.
[Am] _ [Bm] Go _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Bb] _ to that rhythm [E] pickup. _ _
[B] That's that sound.
[Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _
[N] And then of course later, I listened to this a lot.
We all heard this.
There's probably very few people that were alive in the United States in the late 60s
that haven't heard this guitar.
Because it was on all these_
It was on like a Rolling Stone. _ _
_ _ Powerful stuff.
Because I remember in the summer of 65, riding on my bicycle down to the playground in Stroudsburg,
Pennsylvania where I grew up.
We're listening to like a Rolling Stone playing out of the speaker by the swimming pool.
And we're going, I don't know what that is, but it's the greatest thing I've ever heard.
That this guitar is on there.
Listen to the songs on this record.
Tombstone Blues from a Buick 6.
One of my favorite Dylan songs.
Falling a Bit Thin Man.
This guitar.
Highway 61.
This guitar. _ _ _
Crazy.
_ Michael Bloomfield guitar.
His name comes right after Bob Dylan, guitar, harmonica, piano, and police car.
Michael Bloomfield guitar.
Thank you very much.
This guitar is the guitar that he was playing with Bob Dylan at Newport.
The famous Bob Goes Electric moment.
It's this guitar.
You see those pictures?
There he is up there.
This guitar _ at Newport on these records, a very, very important guitar in American _ 60s musical history.
I can't think, to me, of a more important instrument for what got played on it.
This instrument in Bloomfield's hands played music and changed things.
This was incendiary.
This was explosive.
It was angry.
It was frightened.
It was everything. _
It was everything that the late 60s was.
I mean, you could say, okay, it's a shame that this stuff's been done to it, and it
is, but _ _ I see no reason to doubt, knowing what we know about where it's come from, I
see no reason to doubt that this is Mike [Am] Bloomfield's guitar.
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [A] _
[Em] _ _ [A] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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_ [Dm] _ [Am] _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [Eb] _ [A] _ [E] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [A] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _
_ [C] I'm telling you what, it does sound like [Abm] his guitar. _ _