Chords for Inside DEVO's Studio with Mark Mothersbaugh (2010)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] Hi, this is Steve Fortner from Keyword [G] Magazine.
I'm here with Marek Mothersba [Eb] of
Devo who is releasing their first new studio album in
20 [G] years.
We just saw your amazing [N] performances at Coachella and on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
_ Marek has been gracious enough to invite us into
_ Mutato Musica, _ [Ab] Devo's headquarters [G] and recording facility [D] on Sunset [C] Boulevard where there is quite an impressive collection of
vintage gear [G] which Marek is going to tell us a little bit about some of his [Ab] favorite pieces.
Right, you know
the one caveat I'm going to give you is that we did empty [F] out the basement and put it all in storage [E] so that Devo
could rehearse, but there are some things here.
[G] Here's a nice carillon that [N] is like half
_ tubes and [Cm] half
[Fm] _ _
_ _ _ real [Gm] chimes in there.
[A] _
_ [Fm] _ You
can always [Cm] feel like it's Christmas or there's somebody at the door when you're in Mutato.
_ _ _ [E] You know these.
Oh wow, this is the [Ab] AKS with the touch plate.
Yeah, that's like an old brain, you know, since
[A] this [N] is to me is known as the
Life Aquatic since because I use this for almost every all the cues in
[B] _ _ that Wes Anderson movie.
But it also got used on the new Devo record.
We did a couple songs where we used this little sequencer up here.
Oh, yeah, this has got the mini sequencer in it.
This is a memory moog.
My memory of it is I was calling
Bob every week when he first [A] announced he was going to put out a
theremin and so [D] I every week I said I'm buying the first one so I sent him the money right away.
He said okay
you can have the first [C] one and
[Em] _ _ every week I'd say do you have it done yet and he'd go no and after about a year he just sent this to [G] me.
He said I'll call you when it when it when it's finished.
[E] An old probably 70s mini
_ _ that gets used on stage with [B] Devo.
I had to get them
people at Moog to do a mod for me because [N] it doesn't have reverse sawtooth and
I use the sawtooth both forward and reverse for Smart Patrol.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] So that I didn't have to have a
[E] engineer full-time [N] I went back to an old SSL that was kind of like
from the
salad days of Devo, the good days of Devo.
_ So I usually just sit over here and Logic is my
weapon of choice these days.
There's probably about
70 some guitars in this building.
_ Piano of course is like minified. _ _ _ _ _
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_ These were designed for teaching right?
Yeah, yeah _
That's a gorgeous synth there.
Oh wow.
Have you gotten to record with that at all?
Oh, yeah.
_ I've recorded with everything here [B] in the building.
It's a really nice action too.
[Em] I love this one
it's got a little [Ab] speaker and you [C] can like _
take it to a hotel room with you when you're on tour. _
This is a dulcetone, an English [G] thing that was super cheap.
[Bb] _
[F] But it's sometimes it's just the right sound for a movie because like
_ We heard these in Rugrats too.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah
Well, probably Pee Wee I started.
[E] This is not really a circuit bent instrument.
What it is is
This is great.
I use this on the Devo record [Em] and what's great about it
It's just an oscillator in here that this row you tune here this [E] row here.
So they're like note pickers
So it's like an alternative keyboard.
This is just a [Db] little Yamaha drum pad.
This one's got this one's really good.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] That's the other thing about circuit bent stuff.
It's wonderfully unpredictable.
Yeah, I think the battery's dying but it's still a pretty good instrument.
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Know [C] it's very likeable.
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ [B] If you want ugly you can get ugly with that stuff.
[Bb] _ This is one where they like they
_ [Dm] different places on the
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ Then there's [Ab] a photocell down here and a strobe light. _
But
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So if you [Bb] only need it five notes, it's a great trigger.
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There's not much going on with the party.
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_ _ _ _ I think this one I think this one will work.
This one I used on the [Db] album.
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So that's all you need a calculator and you got a [B] whole song.
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