Chords for Rival Sons - An Introduction

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_ _ _ I _ _ _
_ [Dbm] love the Rival Sons.
I've [Db] always wanted some modern day [Gbm] rock and roll.
[E] The Rival Sons
came into my life and I took [Db] that as a blessing from the Lord of Music.
I've seen these dudes
support ACDC, _ _ [A] owned the show, stole the show, seen them in [D] small clubs, they win everyone,
and my favorite LA band, Hands Down.
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_ _ [Eb] Scott called [Gb] me through a friend and [Ab] Scott and [Gbm] I
[B] talked, we met, [Gbm] we [Cm] totally [Gbm] vibed out on musical [Db] influences and stuff.
[F] I brought in Robin,
I played a [Gb] jazz gig with Robin, and [G] brought Robin in.
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Scott found Jay [C] on My Face.
[Gbm] When
I clicked over to Jay's site, [Gb] I had heard of him but not really heard him.
[Gbm] _ _ He had a
song [Db] on there that was an [Gb] acoustic track.
He's doing [E] this like folky blues and he needs
to [A] get behind some big electric rock [Ab] and roll.
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_ _ Turns out I've known Jay for like 10 years.
And so I brought Jay in, we all jammed.
And it was pretty inevitable, really quickly,
[Db] that _ there [Ab] was some kinesis and some energy and some common ground in what we wanted to
present as far as rock and roll goes.
We became the Rival Sons.
Basically that's how [Db] we formed
the band and in that show.
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_ Influences.
Okay, here we go.
_ Motown, The Temptations, The Four Tops,
Smokey Robinson, _ later _ _ [Bb]
[Ab] Marvin Gaye, all of which had James Jamerson on bass.
_ _ That's kind of how I came [Bbm] to things.
Soul music [Abm] definitely a big [D] influence on [Bb] me.
Earth, Wind,
and Fire, [Fm] _ my man Verdeen White, [Ab] Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Paul Jones.
_ Jazz is probably my
[N] first love.
I love Tony Williams, [Ab] Roy Haynes, Owen Jones.
John [Abm] Patatucci, John Antwhistle,
_ Sting, Flea.
I'm a big fan of the British [Abm] Invasion, a lot of fuzz rock.
I like a lot
of early garage rock.
[Ab] Bootsy Collins, Jackie McLean, Art Tatum, all of the old Stats recordings.
Dyke and the Blazers, _
[Bb] Arlister [Abm] Christian, _ _ Wilson Pickett, _ Art Taylor, _ _ Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa,
Tribe Called Quest, _ [Bb] _ [Ab] Farside, D'Angelo, Jeff Beck, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and VJ [B] Hi-Tech.
[F] I'll be really all the way back [C] to like [Ab] the Lomax Field recordings and stuff.
Paul Chambers,
Paul McCartney, Paul Jackson Jr.
I love all those [Bbm] jazz guys.
Ray Charles, [Ab]
James Brown, Prince.
[Fm] The Who's one of my favorite bands.
_ Depeche Mode, Dave [A] Gilmore, Jimmy [C] Page, _ Bernard Purdy,
Aretha Franklin, _ _ [Fm] Stone, Beatles, Eric and Badu, _ Harlem and [Bb]
[Ab] Funkadelic.
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] I [Ab] call our music maximum R&B.
[Eb] I think we're a soul band, [Db] it turned out.
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ Who's rock and roll?
Well, there's definitely a rock [Eb] and roll band,
Rock.
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Blues infused, [Eb] _ loud, high [Db]
voltage rock.
[Eb] I'm cool with R&B.
[Db] It's rhythm and blues,
_ [Ab] _ you know, turned up, plays with _ [Eb] like danger [Ab] and _ _ _ [Eb] reckless abandon.
Final [Ab] answer, rock and roll.
Thank you, [Eb] Regis.
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[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] making of [A] Pressure and Time is basically [Cm] a big answer to our whole aesthetic.
The whole way
[Fm] we wanted to make [B] music.
[E] We would get the music together during the [C] day and then
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_ _ _ sometimes, [D] you know, I would have to go home and [Gb] throw off my headphones instead of my front porch _
and write lyrics.
_ And it's a lot of [G] pressure and [B] not a lot of time.
[E] The writing process for
Pressure and Time [A] was very pressure filled and in little time.
We made it [Am] without really writing
[Ab] together.
Somehow _ we thought we could do [A] it just off the cuff.
Like your first instinct _ was what
went to tape on that day.
We made it while we were in the studio live.
I had written a handful of
_ riffs and ideas [Cm] and never really shared them with [Fm] the band.
And then we got in there,
[Bb] we just kind of [Eb] off the cuff, threw them [A] at each other.
I throw the riffs at the band,
they had it.
I threw them with the producer.
[Gb] We were all in the room [C] together.
If we liked it,
we kept it.
If we [E] didn't, we moved on.
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