Chords for LFDH Episode 54 - Daryl Hall with Butch Walker - Dinner

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Thank you, sir.
You're welcome.
_ _ I like the glasses.
We keep everything branded here.
I like it.
I gotta say, [C] _ _ thank you.
Hey, thank you for coming, [D] man.
Thank you for coming.
And it was a great show.
Check this off my bucket list.
[E] _ _ [Em] Absolutely killer things to do in my life.
Great songs.
[G] Thanks for having me.
_ It's a [N] real pleasure and an honor.
It's interesting, like you tell the story about picking up the album at your first guitar lesson.
Yeah.
Live time.
It was live time.
His first guitar [C] lesson, he picked up a Hall & Oates record.
He's looking at you, staring at you, and he's like, these guys look like they know [F#m] what they're doing.
_ [G] Everything [Bm] you've done since then has led [C] you here.
That's funny.
You know, [G#] bookending, you know, you could [C] die now.
Exactly.
[E] Well, I_ I won't.
[Fm] _ [C] But just, you know, all that happening and everything that's happened [G] in between, which I will spare you all those details, but it's just, you know, [C] it's cool.
I read, I know your details.
I read your book.
Man, [Dm] that's a, well, I'm sorry.
[Em] Don't be sorry.
_ [G] That's the best bio I ever had, man.
Usually they send me one page.
I got the whole book.
I'm glad you [Am] read it.
It was a little [E] background.
I know all about you, brother.
Yeah.
[D]
The veteran [G] of course.
_ When did you write this book?
I wrote it a couple years ago.
A couple years ago.
Yeah.
_ And if I would have, like, still been writing it, this would have been at the end of the book, which would have been awesome.
I was going to say, this would have been [Dm] a perfect way to end.
It would have been an awesome book.
[Em] Because then [D] I, you know, I could_
Well, it's interesting because a lot of the people_ Exactly.
[Em] The next printing.
Yeah, he talks about a lot of the people who have been on [G] this show.
I mean, Travis and Pat and Rob, [C] and I worked with Billy Mann.
He's an old friend of mine.
I love Billy.
Billy's the [D] greatest.
Even Desmond.
I know Desmond forever, you know.
Yeah, I did a fresh [A] record with him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In L [G].A. when I was 19, 20 years old.
[Cm] So there's a lot of people that we [C] have in common.
Yeah, I love that.
That's great.
How did you get [G] _ started in this role that you're on as a [C] producer?
I produced all the records that I've [F] done for my bands.
[Em] Yeah, I mean, who was the first one that [C] made real noise?
[Cm] In the late 90s, I had a [G] band called The Marvelous Three.
Yeah, yeah.
We had [Cm] one top five hit that came out [C] of nowhere.
And it was basically, [Em] I did it all on 16-track in my garage.
Okay.
[G] And recorded it, mixed it all myself.
And that [Cm] was the same version that ended up getting [D] on the radio [C] and doing well.
So not only did it kind of [G] prove to me more than anything, because I didn't believe in myself.
_ [F] But other people were coming to me at that point saying, who produced that?
[G] And I said, well, I did in my garage.
And they were like, well, can you [C] produce us?
Because [F] we like the way that sounds. _
And so it just [Em] opened up a couple of doors.
But who was the person?
[D] What was the breakthrough?
I did a song for [C] this kid in [F#] this band called SR71.
There was a song called Right Now.
And [C] at that time, they wanted a [G] song that sounded very similar to the [Cm] song that I did.
And I was like, well, I've never done that.
I've never written for somebody else.
I don't [C] know.
[D] Why do you want me [G] to write a song for you that sounds like mine?
That sounds, that's ridiculous.
[C] I didn't realize that's how [G] it worked.
_ [C] I was very green to [G] be.
The whole thing is based on that idea.
It is based on that idea, right?
Unfortunately.
[C] I didn't know that.
And so when I kind of, [G] we did a song together that was similar, but not the same.
Because I didn't [C] want it to be exactly the same.
Yeah, of course.
It was bigger than my song.
See, [Em] normally they would hire somebody else to copy you.
That's right.
Right.
[C] They hired a guy.
So they. _
[G] Yeah, unusual.
Yeah, yeah.
But, hey.
But they did.
And, you know, to [C] their credit, I'm glad that they wanted me to do it.
Because I was reluctant.
My manager at the time.
It [Em] established you as a producer.
And [G] then I got signed to another label as a solo artist.
And I did a record as a solo artist.
[Em] And I did that all myself, too.
I played everything on it pretty much.
And [G#] recorded [G] it all myself.
And when I was getting ready to put that out, my label mate was this kid named Avril Lavigne.
And she was literally 17, 18 years old.
Okay, so Avril, that's the answer I was looking [C] for.
I realize I go the long way around the block to [D] tell the story.
I'm sorry.