Chords for Lenny Kravitz At Guitar Center

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I was seven years [A] old, Jackson [G] 5, at Madison [A] Square Garden.
I saw that show.
I remember going, my father didn't tell me
who we were going to see.
[N] And I remember going into the arena.
Aretha Franklin came and sat by us.
All these cameras were going on.
It was just this crazy scene.
That's how I remember it, being very small,
lots of flash bulbs going off,
and the lights went out and they came on. _
It was electrifying.
People tend to forget how amazing the musicianship was,
and of course, how dynamic Michael was as a child.
It was _ so funky, so funky and so soulful.
When I saw that performance, it blew my head off.
And I knew after that, that was it.
I wanted to make [Bb] music.
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[E] _ The first instrument that I fell in love with
was a [N] Fender Stratocaster. _ _ _ _ _
I had the Fender catalog.
And this is when catalogs were beautiful, man.
They were like these beautiful books, you know?
And somehow I had a Fender catalog.
And I remember sitting in Brooklyn
at my grandmother's house,
and I would just sit in the bed
and just look at this thing for hours.
Every one.
I wanted one so badly.
The first _ guitar that I was given by my parents
was a Yamaha acoustic guitar that had a pickup in it.
It had two knobs on the body.
I wanted an electric,
but we lived in this little apartment.
So my parents got me the acoustic with the pickup.
I'm not sure how happy I was about that.
I was appreciative to get the guitar,
but I was like, man, come on now.
This is _ not out of the Fender catalog, you know?
But that was the first guitar that got a lot of use.
Then my very first electric guitar
_ was actually bought at Guitar Center in Los Angeles
on Vista, the original Guitar Center, the small one.
_ And that was a Fender Jazzmaster.
So I was getting closer.
I was getting closer.
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[G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [N] That feeling you get on stage
when you make that connection with the audience
is why you do it.
Just as much as they come to see me, I'm there to see them.
I'm there to have an experience.
It's all about this energy that gets passed back and forth.
You give, they receive, they give you more back.
You get that, you get nourished off of that, you give more.
It becomes this cycle and it snowballs.
There's no better high than _ having that feeling on stage
and feeling that _ spirit, that electricity in the room.
That's the ultimate high for me.
_ And that's why I go out and play live
and continue to do that.
Playing and creating music makes me feel alive.
It's my most fluid _ _ _ _ way _ _ _ of communicating.
I know how to communicate through music _
probably better than I do through speaking.
And it's so natural.
You don't have to think about it.
It's something that just comes from your spirit.
It's life for me.
It's life, life and communication, man.
It feeds me and enables me to get things out
in _ a healthy way.
When you're in a moment
and you allow the creative spirit to _ move you,
_ things happen that you didn't anticipate,
that you didn't think about,
that you weren't necessarily trying to do.
A lot of the best moments on my records
are _ _ so-called mistakes,
_ things that just slipped out.
They're like, well, what's that?
You can't explain it.
It's a need.
I need to play.
Creating this new album was really refreshing for me
because it came out of nowhere.
I had no idea that I was going to be making a record.
In this case, I was shooting a movie.
I was doing Catching Fire,
the second of the Hunger Games movies.
_ I'm waking up at five, six in the morning,
_ these ungodly, ridiculous hours
that these actors like to work,
working all day into the evening.
And then at night, I started hearing this [Gb] music
and I needed to sleep.
[E] I was tired, but this music was just being _ _ _ downloaded.
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And so you have two choices,
either ignore it or you go for it.
So _ I went for it.
I ended up staying awake for two weeks
with maybe an hour of sleep a night, which was useless.
And _ this record just poured out of me.
And it was a really great feeling
because it really took no effort.
_ It was just about being present
and collecting what it is that you were hearing.
And then of course the work is in producing it
to be what it is [N] that you're hearing in your head.
I'm hearing things in this record
that _ I haven't heard in previous records,
which is always a wonderful thing
because all of my records
are quite different from each other. _
And so, yeah, I'm really _ _ inspired by it
and I'm really looking forward to going out
and playing it live.
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[G] I had no idea this was going to [D] happen.
I [Eb] just knew I wanted to be a musician
[E] and whatever that meant, I was willing to do.
I think that I sort of envisioned myself [B] playing in clubs
or being a drummer or a guitar player,
a bass player, a keyboard player.
I don't know, playing behind somebody.
I [E] never thought of really _ being the lead cat.
I was playing in a band.
I had to take over the lead vocals.
That's kind of how it started.
And then I ended [Ebm] up writing my own material,
which turned into Let Love Roll,
which is where that whole thing started.
I think all I ever wanted to do was just be myself,
just be myself, _ have my own expression.
_ I feel that I'm doing that and I'm [Ab] still on the path.
We're not there yet.
_ I'm very blessed to have started young
and I'm 25 years in and I feel like I'm just warming up.
Like that first 25 was _ an amazing education
and _ _ beginning for me.
And now, _ _ the next 25 are gonna [E] be something else. _ _
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