Chords for Galaxie 500 interview | 2012 | The Drone

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] Anyone can learn to play really fast, _ _ but to play less notes sometimes is more
challenging [A] than to play a whole lot of them.
You play a whole lot of them when
you _ [D]
don't know what to do.
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_ _ _ [Am] _ In the United States, [Gb] in Boston, and all over [A] the country, it was the
beginnings of the grunge period.
And [Gb] it wasn't called grunge yet, maybe.
_ [E] I [Dm] always think people say that [Ab] grunge came out of Seattle, but I [Gb] think it was
everywhere.
In Boston you had maybe more _ thrash and hardcore punk, but
you also had these bands who were doing a mix of punk and metal.
They
liked punk, but they also liked Black Sabbath [G] or whatever.
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_ _ But it's not that we
were rebelling against that.
We were just listening _ _ to
records by _ _ _ the Feeleys or the 13th Floor Elevators [G] or Jonathan Richman. _ _
_ [Abm] _ We were
just trying to make ourselves [Ab] happy.
Everybody was, [Abm] if you started a band, you
were indie because there was no choice.
But it wasn't a political thing
really.
It was just like the major labels, they had Bon Jovi and Huey Lewis
and John [E] Mellencamp and lots of pretty [Db] awful music.
[G] And they wouldn't
touch any music like this, so _ [F] _ people did it themselves on small labels.
And
there weren't so many bands.
But _ now your indie band can be number
one on the charts.
Back then that was impossible.
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_ _ [Bb] I suppose our first
early shows in Boston, people would [G] insult us.
People would yell [F] out like _
college boy [Bb] or something like that.
But often it's the case with a band, you're
not [F] popular in your own town, _ _ but you're [Bb] popular, then you become popular
elsewhere.
_ [N] Or you're very popular in your own hometown, you have a huge
audience in your hometown, but nobody else cares.
So I think it's better to be
unpopular in your hometown.
My first musical memory, _ well, _ _ it's probably
either [C] the Seekers, this group [G] from [Em] Australia, who had _ [G] Georgie Girl [C] from
the movie Georgie Girl, [E] or the Beatles doing Hey Jude.
Those are my early
[Bb] memories.
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The Seekers were very big in Australia and [Eb] New Zealand.
They were
almost as big as the Beatles for a little while.
I was born in New [Db] Zealand.
_ [Eb] I moved from New Zealand to [N] Sydney, Australia when I was seven.
And then I
moved to New York City when I was 14 in 1977. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Maybe it's just because I was a
teenager _ then, but I [G] look at that as one of the great periods in rock and
roll history.
But I think maybe that's when you're a teenager is when
you are most excited [D] about music and you form all of your opinions [G] and you
use these bands [D] to _ define who you are against other kids.
Like, I like this.
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] When you're free, love, _ you're twenty [G] hours _ away. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] And the pain is so _ strong, it keeps you [G] so in your _ home.
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I'm coming home from Jacob, _ _ _ you're letting me [G] go _ home. _ _
The tough thing about a band _ is it's, you know, it's born of friendship, but it's
also a business.
[D] _
_ And I think when you're friends with someone, you tolerate [G] all
their idiocy.
Everyone has problems, everyone has things wrong with them.
_ _ [D] _ I went to a psychiatrist for a little while.
He said everyone has at least ten
things wrong with them.
_ But when you're just [A] friends with someone, you
laugh [G] about it.
You're like, oh, he's like obsessive.
He's cleaning all the
time or he's always late or [D] this _ _ or_
But when you're in a band together and you're
thrust into [G] like a, _ in this like box, in a van, say, and you're [Bm] traveling and you
spend so much time and you create together and you're in business together,
then all those little things, _ you know, can become annoying.
I had an offer from _ Penguin [Fm] Press.
This guy contacted [Ab] me and said,
did you ever think [N] about writing a book?
And I had been thinking about,
everybody thinks about writing a book.
And they're like, I have an idea for a book,
but I sent him a few chapters and then there was a book deal.
_ And I feel like I wanted to _ _ _ _ _ demystify the whole band experience.
It seems so many people I know have no idea what it's like to be in a band or
just what the_
Just financially how it works.
They think _ you're living like a
rock star when