Chords for Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview

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He was named [Bb] musician of the year at the recent National Blues Awards in Memphis, Tennessee.
He has played to sold-out houses on three continents, [G] including at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House.
He is a Grammy Award [E] winner.
He is the only musician ever to have played the national anthem [Bb] at the Houston [G] Astrodome.
And for his charity work, he's been made an honorary admiral in the Texas Navy.
And yet once, [D] Stevie Ray Vaughan was just another kid at home driving his [B] parents crazy, playing the guitar all the time.
And we're here today to talk to [Ab] Stevie Ray Vaughan about how you go from being a [B] kid at home driving your parents crazy
to being one of the most respected [D] musicians in the world.
[Eb] True or false?
Did your parents say, put down that [N] guitar and do your homework?
No, they said, uh, they said, baby, turn it down sometimes. _ _
When did you fall in love with the guitar?
Immediately.
When did you first hear it?
Did you hear the Beatles on the radio when you were a kid or something like that?
I listened to a lot of _ _ _ the radio broadcasts out of Chicago and Nashville that were record marks.
And they would have _ a lot of _ _ different types of music.
It would be gospel, blues.
Is it flying in your bed at night, Stevie, with the little transistor radio?
Yep, got it.
Every musician has that.
It's not true.
Hey, it's true, though.
It's true.
It's something to do.
When did you first lay your hands on the guitar?
And could you do anything with it right away?
_ Nobody can do something with it right away, I don't think, besides maybe my brother.
He didn't seem to [Bm] have learned.
He just seemed to start playing.
I was about seven, I [N] guess, when I first started picking up his guitars.
He was saying to leave it alone.
He was doing it on purpose.
It hurts your fingers the first time you pick it up, right?
Sometimes.
_ _ You know, a lot of people it does.
It's _ _ something that either bothers you or doesn't bother you if you keep going.
Do you remember the first tune you learned how to play?
And if so, I'm going to ask you to play.
Do you remember what you used to sing?
The first thing I tried to [Eb] learn was, you _
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Of course, it came out more _ [Dm] like_
A little [N] walk in blues, but you were trying.
You were trying.
Yeah, I was doing my best.
You are a blues musician, and you don't take that title lightly.
And yet I think that term is very misunderstood, isn't it?
Yes, it's _ really_
The blues are a music that soothes.
And they've been responsible for a lot of other types of music to be _ _ here in the first place.
Rock and roll is just a baby of the blues.
So is jazz.
_ Is it possible _ _ _ that a pop tune can become a blues tune just through _ coloring it?
Sure, the way you play. _ _
It's [G] like you said earlier. _ _ _ _ _
Blues, you don't write them down on [Bm] paper.
You write the notes down to a song.
_ _ [N] The tones and the way you feel them is the music itself.
Can you show me_
Can you take a pop tune, maybe anything that's running around in your head.
Show me how to play it straight, and then show me how you put feel into it.
Well, _ to be honest, [G] I like to play with feeling every time I play.
Okay, show me how you put feeling into a note.
Well, it depends on how you want to do it.
You can [Gb] like_
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[C] _ [A] _ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ [G] Or you can sting it, you know.
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[Gb] _ _ _ Be _ _ _ _ [D] a little more gentle, a little more wistful.
Really, so much human emotion.
Do you feel that emotion when you're playing, the emotion that those notes suggest [Bm] to me?
If I didn't, I shouldn't be there.
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When did you start to feel it, though?
Because when you're a kid, it's just_
You don't have grown-up emotions.
Well, you feel it first, and then you learn how to do it.
_ _ It [N] takes a whole lifetime to do these things.
How much did you practice?
You hear about _ _ Eric Clapton, for example, locking himself up for a whole year and not going out and just practicing.
Well, I didn't time it, you know.
I just _ did it every day.
I played.
_ I just played.
Because it's a beautiful instrument.
It's a beautiful woman. _ _
You're not kidding, are you?
I mean, someone told me that _ your wife is third in line in your life, right?
Tell me about that.
No, _ she's right up there.
It's just that, you know, my first wife is right there.
_ _ It's off camera.
It's a guitar.
Can we get that so I can show them what I mean?
Yeah.
_ Gerald, you bring that up to us. _
This looks like it has seen the war, Stevie.
It has, but that's part of life, you know, sometimes.
How old is this guitar?
It's a 59.
_ _ She's _ been played.
_ _ _ _ _ You've worn the varnish off every bit of that guitar.
Well, there's wood worn off, too. _
You know, she's got some scars.
So this is your, you call it sort of half-jokingly, first wife.
Yes.
And this is, well, it's not joking at all.
But this is, and see, even Mickey Maddow endorsed it, you know.
_ Well, he's a fellow Texan now, right?
Oh, yeah.
_ Yeah.
This was the guitar that I played when they did the Star Spangled Banner.
_ This is the one.
And this guitar is a little newer, but it's _ a_
Yes, because it's _ a_
She's beautiful.
She's made in part by Rene Martinez and Charlie Works.
_ _ Yeah, _ _ _ Charlie's your mechanic.
He works on_
Rene. Rene.
Rene is Rene Martinez.
Charlie was the other half.
_ _ He's still around.
He just had to move on.
_ Your career has been pretty exciting the last three years.
Yes, it has.
Before that, you might have_
Were you ambitious?
_ Whatever that means.
I was trying.
_ Did you think that Stevie Ray Vaughan would be headlining at the Montreux Jazz Festival, that you'd be headlining at the Sydney Opera House or at Carnegie Hall?
No, but I sure was hoping. _ _
_ You were discovered.
By my parents. _
_ I popped out and my parents went, there he is.
Somebody said it was Mick Jagger.
Am I wrong?
Well, I was a little older then, you know.
So you were already made.
You know, I _ mean_
Why don't you show me a little bit more about what you can do with this?
We could talk all day, but I'd love to hear you play.
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[F] _ _ _ [Dm] _ Oh, [Ab] baby
_ _ _ _ Tell _ me _ [Gm] how [F] hurt you feel _
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_ [Eb] _ Don't have [Ab] it too _
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[G] _ _ _ [F] Waving
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Abm] _ [F] _ [G] Stay as [Ab] _ necessary _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Living down [C]
the _ _ roof _ _ _
_ _ But [Eb] don't we move [Db] _ on
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[Db] Living _ [Bb] life back _ again
_ _ _ _ _ Down, _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] down _ _
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Everybody
_ _ _ What's that called? _
What's that called?
A [N] Life Without You is a thing to Charlie Wirtz.
Who, someone who meant a lot to you?
Yes, he _ was one of the best people I've ever met in my life.
He [D] helped you with your guitars?
Yes, and with your heart too, you know.
_ He was a big man.
You have a lot of people who care about you, I can [G] tell that with the kind of people that travel around.
I feel I've met [N] a lot of people.
It comes and goes.
How many albums out now?
Three.
And a fourth coming out?
Well, actually there's two out [Bm] now.
A third to be out this week.
[G] _ And everywhere in Canada you go, it seems that you're playing.
You're up here a lot.
You like it here.
_ _ And we like watching you play.
One final question, and I hope it won't offend you.
You're from Texas.
Right.
Years ago, they used to be the fastest guns in the West.
Now, is it the fastest guitar in the West?
Are you the toughest guitar slinger around?
Oh, I just, if somebody wants to battle, I do it.
Mostly [N] _ you just love to play.
Yeah.
Well, listen, we love to listen to you.
All right.
We're about to go to a commercial here, but why don't you play us out?
Just whatever you feel about being in this studio and being on Lifetime.
Thanks for joining us.
All right.
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
It's a thing called, say what soul to soul.
[Bm] All right.
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For you rock and roll fans who have never heard Stevie Ray Vaughan play with such restraint, be advised that in the studio, yes, he was loud.
Everyone here will attest to that.
Also, a bit of trivia.
The wah-wah pedal that Stevie used, that's the pedal that makes the wah-wah sound that's attached to his guitar, actually belonged to the great Jimi Hendrix, arguably the greatest electric guitarist who [N] ever lived. _ _