Chords for Pete Haycock Climax Blues Band - Interview 1989

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[Db] _ [E] _ _ [C] They told me that the blues were a feeling.
[N] The blues is certainly the root of all rock and roll.
Next we have Pete Haycock from the Climax Blues Band.
And as that name would seem to indicate,
I believe he'll be playing us a bit of blues music on the slide guitar.
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There's definitely a sort of physical or maybe even a sexual relationship
[Eb] between myself and a guitar.
I'm not the world's most confident person, really,
but I do feel better [Abm] sitting here talking to you on film, holding this thing.
I don't think I could do it quite so confidently without it. _
[Ab] But I'm not infatuated with guitars anymore.
I've already learnt a long time ago, maybe in my teens and early 20s,
that there's no good in kind of worshipping guitars
[Bm] and trying to [G] live your life for guitars only.
I mean, they're only bits of wood with strings [Ab] on.
And they're no good unless you've got a good tune to play
or a good song to sing with, you know.
They're no good without the soul in there.
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_ _ [F] When [Ab] I was 11, 12, 13, I used to idolise the British group called The Shadows,
who were a bit like the American Ventures, I suppose.
All instrumental stuff, nice red Stratocasters, you know, and a fancy walk.
[E] So that was really my first influence.
That's what made me want to pick up a guitar.
[Abm] And then a little bit later, a guy knocked on my door from just down the street
and [Gb] said, have you heard this before?
And he [E] played me some blues, played me [Abm] some Muddy Waters and various other [Ab] things.
And I was completely hooked at the age of 14. _
[G] And then proceeded to play blues and rhythm and blues right on through the [Ab] 70s. _
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_ _ I played Fender [E] Stratocaster with Climax Blues Band.
And then we started to have a couple of hits
and I went through the old sort of spinal tap syndrome of owning a million guitars,
you know, all of them went to 11.
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My main instrument is, [Em] believe it or not, a Hofner guitar, which is a German make.
It looks a little bit like a German horn,
a little bit like a Gibson 335, but it's all handmade.
And I think they're trying to get a kind of flagship [A] range together
because they've had a bad name for a few years now.
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