Chords for Me And My Guitar interview with Status Quo's Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt
Tempo:
93.7 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
Eb
G
Dm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Eb] Francis Rossi of Statue Cure.
This is a Fender Telecaster that [Dm] I acquired
sometimes in the late 60s [Cm] and I'd like to say that it was such a [Gm] wonderful
instrument that I wanted to keep it but I [Am] said to the person we had at the time,
which [F] one should I keep?
There was a blonde one and this was a [Gm] sunburst
so I kept this [F] one and a couple of years later [Dm] I went to sand it down
because I fancied it being [Cm] plain wood.
You can [D] see where the discs have hit it and I
didn't finish [G] it off.
Then I painted it black, took it to a gig when [A] you're
young, you like the idea of a black [D] guitar.
I'll just turn that off.
[F] I [A] didn't like that and I've painted some [Eb] furniture at home.
This paint had just
come out, there was red, blue [Dm] and this green and so I painted that and it was on the
table in the kitchen and I was [Eb] late for a gig so I put it back together and went to the gig.
I [Dm] didn't finish it yet.
I did think at one point, the hole in [Gm] there, people think it's for the [Eb] knob
or these things used to fly [Dm] out because they weren't very well secure.
So I tried putting it through there, thinking that would [Eb] stop it but it didn't.
You can see where I went, [Dm] oh there, oh there, so I must have had a joint or [D] something.
[A] Everyone seems to think it's a [Cm] wonderful guitar.
I've got a love-hate [Gm] relationship with the thing.
Sometimes I love it, sometimes [F] I don't.
It's a guitar.
[A] Another thing [Gm] I would like to say is that we did signature [G] series guitars
and various people do signature series guitars.
People [Eb] think you're going to get
a signature [Cm] series guitar and then say it's Eric or whoever [Gm] it is and sound like Eric.
Inevitably, [F] each one of us sounds like who we are, whatever reed, whatever guitar we play.
[D] So I would sound as shit as this whatever I play.
[Gb] I wish everyone played this thing.
Hello, [E] I'm Rick Parfitt from Stage [Db] Squaw
and this is my telly, [G] my stage telly which I've had for [B] most of my life.
Irreplaceable.
[C] [Eb] If I lost this or anything happened [C] to it, I mean obviously it's looked after with
kid gloves by my [G]
guitar tech and it's just the most [C] wonderful guitar.
I string it very [Db] heavily,
got a 56 bottom E on it because my main role in the band is to keep the energy moving,
[D] rocking.
So the bottom strings are really thick [A] and it's quite a brute to play.
But I had all the bridge [Eb] modified [Bbm] here, took all the springs and everything [D] off so nothing moves.
[E] Strings come straight down, straight through the body [D] and into there and you can drop [G] it,
you can do what you want with it and it [Db] never budges, it never goes out of tune
and I whacked fuck out of it.
[C] Am I allowed to swear?
Yes.
Oh good.
Well I whacked fuck out of it [G] and [Ab] it's just the most wonderful [C] guitar and I've,
[G] I think it's about [Ab] 1959, 1960 and I [A] bought it in Glasgow I think it was for 80 quid,
which was a lot of money back then.
But it has [Am] been the most wonderful guitar.
It's [A] probably paid for itself just a little, [D] probably paid for itself a little bit.
I bought it on HP [A] and I think I've repaid it now.
[D] The lease has run out
[A] and I've got the bloom payment to pay on it.
[D] But it's just a lovely guitar you know and
I mean over the years obviously I've [A] aged this with my arm, that wasn't age and I've [G] done that.
Because when you start off, if it's too sharp around here, it [Ab] sounds very spinal tap doesn't it?
But if it's [D] too sharp on the edge there, [Bb] it takes
chunks out, your [Ab] arm swells up here when you [D] hit it as hard as I do.
[Bb] And so that now is very, very [Cm] comfortable and it's just the [D] most wonderful guitar.
And [Eb] I got that off a Meccano set I think, is it a Meccano set or a Lego set?
[C] In this little wheel here because it, it [G] makes it easier.
I feel really spinal tap sick.
[Cm] Makes it easier to turn up and down you know.
[A] But there [D] again with what we do,
particularly with what I do, I don't very often [A] turn it down.
I turn it up and I leave it turned up and that's where it stays.
This is a Fender Telecaster that [Dm] I acquired
sometimes in the late 60s [Cm] and I'd like to say that it was such a [Gm] wonderful
instrument that I wanted to keep it but I [Am] said to the person we had at the time,
which [F] one should I keep?
There was a blonde one and this was a [Gm] sunburst
so I kept this [F] one and a couple of years later [Dm] I went to sand it down
because I fancied it being [Cm] plain wood.
You can [D] see where the discs have hit it and I
didn't finish [G] it off.
Then I painted it black, took it to a gig when [A] you're
young, you like the idea of a black [D] guitar.
I'll just turn that off.
[F] I [A] didn't like that and I've painted some [Eb] furniture at home.
This paint had just
come out, there was red, blue [Dm] and this green and so I painted that and it was on the
table in the kitchen and I was [Eb] late for a gig so I put it back together and went to the gig.
I [Dm] didn't finish it yet.
I did think at one point, the hole in [Gm] there, people think it's for the [Eb] knob
or these things used to fly [Dm] out because they weren't very well secure.
So I tried putting it through there, thinking that would [Eb] stop it but it didn't.
You can see where I went, [Dm] oh there, oh there, so I must have had a joint or [D] something.
[A] Everyone seems to think it's a [Cm] wonderful guitar.
I've got a love-hate [Gm] relationship with the thing.
Sometimes I love it, sometimes [F] I don't.
It's a guitar.
[A] Another thing [Gm] I would like to say is that we did signature [G] series guitars
and various people do signature series guitars.
People [Eb] think you're going to get
a signature [Cm] series guitar and then say it's Eric or whoever [Gm] it is and sound like Eric.
Inevitably, [F] each one of us sounds like who we are, whatever reed, whatever guitar we play.
[D] So I would sound as shit as this whatever I play.
[Gb] I wish everyone played this thing.
Hello, [E] I'm Rick Parfitt from Stage [Db] Squaw
and this is my telly, [G] my stage telly which I've had for [B] most of my life.
Irreplaceable.
[C] [Eb] If I lost this or anything happened [C] to it, I mean obviously it's looked after with
kid gloves by my [G]
guitar tech and it's just the most [C] wonderful guitar.
I string it very [Db] heavily,
got a 56 bottom E on it because my main role in the band is to keep the energy moving,
[D] rocking.
So the bottom strings are really thick [A] and it's quite a brute to play.
But I had all the bridge [Eb] modified [Bbm] here, took all the springs and everything [D] off so nothing moves.
[E] Strings come straight down, straight through the body [D] and into there and you can drop [G] it,
you can do what you want with it and it [Db] never budges, it never goes out of tune
and I whacked fuck out of it.
[C] Am I allowed to swear?
Yes.
Oh good.
Well I whacked fuck out of it [G] and [Ab] it's just the most wonderful [C] guitar and I've,
[G] I think it's about [Ab] 1959, 1960 and I [A] bought it in Glasgow I think it was for 80 quid,
which was a lot of money back then.
But it has [Am] been the most wonderful guitar.
It's [A] probably paid for itself just a little, [D] probably paid for itself a little bit.
I bought it on HP [A] and I think I've repaid it now.
[D] The lease has run out
[A] and I've got the bloom payment to pay on it.
[D] But it's just a lovely guitar you know and
I mean over the years obviously I've [A] aged this with my arm, that wasn't age and I've [G] done that.
Because when you start off, if it's too sharp around here, it [Ab] sounds very spinal tap doesn't it?
But if it's [D] too sharp on the edge there, [Bb] it takes
chunks out, your [Ab] arm swells up here when you [D] hit it as hard as I do.
[Bb] And so that now is very, very [Cm] comfortable and it's just the [D] most wonderful guitar.
And [Eb] I got that off a Meccano set I think, is it a Meccano set or a Lego set?
[C] In this little wheel here because it, it [G] makes it easier.
I feel really spinal tap sick.
[Cm] Makes it easier to turn up and down you know.
[A] But there [D] again with what we do,
particularly with what I do, I don't very often [A] turn it down.
I turn it up and I leave it turned up and that's where it stays.
Key:
D
A
Eb
G
Dm
D
A
Eb
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Francis Rossi of Statue Cure.
This is a Fender Telecaster that [Dm] I acquired
sometimes in the late 60s [Cm] and I'd like to say that it was such a [Gm] wonderful
instrument that I wanted to keep it but I [Am] said to the person we had at the time,
which [F] one should I keep?
There was a blonde one and this was a [Gm] sunburst
so I kept this [F] one and a couple of years later [Dm] I went to sand it down
because I fancied it being [Cm] plain wood.
You can [D] see where the discs have hit it and I
didn't finish [G] it off.
Then I painted it black, took it to a gig when [A] you're
young, you like the idea of a black [D] guitar.
I'll just turn that off.
[F] _ _ I [A] didn't like that and I've painted some [Eb] furniture at home.
This paint had just
come out, there was red, blue [Dm] and this green and so I painted that and it was on the
table in the kitchen and I was [Eb] late for a gig so I put it back together and went to the gig.
I [Dm] didn't finish it yet.
I did think at one point, the hole in [Gm] there, people think it's for the [Eb] knob
or these things used to fly [Dm] out because they weren't very well secure.
So I tried putting it through there, thinking that would [Eb] stop it but it didn't.
You can see where I went, [Dm] oh there, oh there, so I must have had a joint or [D] something.
_ [A] Everyone seems to think it's a [Cm] wonderful guitar.
I've got a love-hate [Gm] relationship with the thing.
Sometimes I love it, sometimes [F] I don't.
It's a guitar.
_ [A] _ Another thing [Gm] I would like to say is that we did signature [G] series guitars
and various people do signature series guitars.
People [Eb] think you're going to get
a signature [Cm] series guitar and then say it's Eric or whoever [Gm] it is and sound like Eric.
Inevitably, [F] each one of us sounds like who we are, whatever reed, whatever guitar we play.
[D] So I would sound as shit as this whatever I play.
_ [Gb] I wish everyone played this thing.
Hello, [E] I'm Rick Parfitt from Stage [Db] Squaw
and this is my telly, [G] _ my stage telly which I've had for [B] most of my life.
_ _ Irreplaceable.
[C] _ [Eb] If I lost this or anything happened [C] to it, I mean obviously it's looked after with
kid gloves by my [G]
guitar tech and it's just the most [C] wonderful guitar.
I string it very [Db] heavily,
got a 56 bottom E on it because my main role in the band is to keep the energy moving,
[D] rocking.
So the bottom strings are really thick [A] and _ it's quite a brute to play.
But I had all the bridge [Eb] modified [Bbm] here, took all the springs and everything [D] off so nothing moves.
[E] Strings come straight down, straight through the body [D] and into there and you can drop [G] it,
you can do what you want with it and it [Db] never budges, it never goes out of tune
and I whacked fuck out of it.
[C] Am I allowed to swear?
Yes.
Oh good.
Well I whacked fuck out of it [G] and [Ab] it's just the most wonderful [C] guitar and I've,
[G] I think it's about _ [Ab] 1959, 1960 and I [A] bought it in Glasgow I think it was for _ 80 quid,
which was a lot of money back then.
But it has [Am] been the most wonderful guitar.
It's [A] probably paid for itself just a little, [D] probably paid for itself a little bit.
I bought it on HP [A] and I think I've repaid it now.
[D] The lease has run out
[A] and I've got the bloom payment to pay on it.
[D] But it's just a lovely guitar you know and
I mean over the years obviously I've [A] aged this with my arm, that wasn't age and I've [G] done that.
Because when you start off, if it's too sharp around here, it [Ab] sounds very spinal tap doesn't it?
But if it's [D] too sharp on the edge there, [Bb] it takes
chunks out, your [Ab] arm swells up here when you [D] hit it as hard as I do.
[Bb] And so that now is very, very [Cm] comfortable and it's just the [D] most wonderful guitar.
And [Eb] I got that off a Meccano set I think, is it a Meccano set or a Lego set?
[C] In this little wheel here because it, it [G] makes it easier.
I feel really spinal tap sick.
[Cm] Makes it easier to turn up and down you know.
[A] But there [D] again with what we do,
particularly with what I do, I don't very often [A] turn it down.
I turn it up and I leave it turned up and that's where it stays.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Francis Rossi of Statue Cure.
This is a Fender Telecaster that [Dm] I acquired
sometimes in the late 60s [Cm] and I'd like to say that it was such a [Gm] wonderful
instrument that I wanted to keep it but I [Am] said to the person we had at the time,
which [F] one should I keep?
There was a blonde one and this was a [Gm] sunburst
so I kept this [F] one and a couple of years later [Dm] I went to sand it down
because I fancied it being [Cm] plain wood.
You can [D] see where the discs have hit it and I
didn't finish [G] it off.
Then I painted it black, took it to a gig when [A] you're
young, you like the idea of a black [D] guitar.
I'll just turn that off.
[F] _ _ I [A] didn't like that and I've painted some [Eb] furniture at home.
This paint had just
come out, there was red, blue [Dm] and this green and so I painted that and it was on the
table in the kitchen and I was [Eb] late for a gig so I put it back together and went to the gig.
I [Dm] didn't finish it yet.
I did think at one point, the hole in [Gm] there, people think it's for the [Eb] knob
or these things used to fly [Dm] out because they weren't very well secure.
So I tried putting it through there, thinking that would [Eb] stop it but it didn't.
You can see where I went, [Dm] oh there, oh there, so I must have had a joint or [D] something.
_ [A] Everyone seems to think it's a [Cm] wonderful guitar.
I've got a love-hate [Gm] relationship with the thing.
Sometimes I love it, sometimes [F] I don't.
It's a guitar.
_ [A] _ Another thing [Gm] I would like to say is that we did signature [G] series guitars
and various people do signature series guitars.
People [Eb] think you're going to get
a signature [Cm] series guitar and then say it's Eric or whoever [Gm] it is and sound like Eric.
Inevitably, [F] each one of us sounds like who we are, whatever reed, whatever guitar we play.
[D] So I would sound as shit as this whatever I play.
_ [Gb] I wish everyone played this thing.
Hello, [E] I'm Rick Parfitt from Stage [Db] Squaw
and this is my telly, [G] _ my stage telly which I've had for [B] most of my life.
_ _ Irreplaceable.
[C] _ [Eb] If I lost this or anything happened [C] to it, I mean obviously it's looked after with
kid gloves by my [G]
guitar tech and it's just the most [C] wonderful guitar.
I string it very [Db] heavily,
got a 56 bottom E on it because my main role in the band is to keep the energy moving,
[D] rocking.
So the bottom strings are really thick [A] and _ it's quite a brute to play.
But I had all the bridge [Eb] modified [Bbm] here, took all the springs and everything [D] off so nothing moves.
[E] Strings come straight down, straight through the body [D] and into there and you can drop [G] it,
you can do what you want with it and it [Db] never budges, it never goes out of tune
and I whacked fuck out of it.
[C] Am I allowed to swear?
Yes.
Oh good.
Well I whacked fuck out of it [G] and [Ab] it's just the most wonderful [C] guitar and I've,
[G] I think it's about _ [Ab] 1959, 1960 and I [A] bought it in Glasgow I think it was for _ 80 quid,
which was a lot of money back then.
But it has [Am] been the most wonderful guitar.
It's [A] probably paid for itself just a little, [D] probably paid for itself a little bit.
I bought it on HP [A] and I think I've repaid it now.
[D] The lease has run out
[A] and I've got the bloom payment to pay on it.
[D] But it's just a lovely guitar you know and
I mean over the years obviously I've [A] aged this with my arm, that wasn't age and I've [G] done that.
Because when you start off, if it's too sharp around here, it [Ab] sounds very spinal tap doesn't it?
But if it's [D] too sharp on the edge there, [Bb] it takes
chunks out, your [Ab] arm swells up here when you [D] hit it as hard as I do.
[Bb] And so that now is very, very [Cm] comfortable and it's just the [D] most wonderful guitar.
And [Eb] I got that off a Meccano set I think, is it a Meccano set or a Lego set?
[C] In this little wheel here because it, it [G] makes it easier.
I feel really spinal tap sick.
[Cm] Makes it easier to turn up and down you know.
[A] But there [D] again with what we do,
particularly with what I do, I don't very often [A] turn it down.
I turn it up and I leave it turned up and that's where it stays.