Chords for Stevie Wright

How lucky are you now that they've worked out what it is?
Oh yes.
When you know what it is, then you can work with it then, can't you?
You can work with it, but you have to live it.
I have to change my lifestyle a little bit.
I don't have a really wild lifestyle.
Not anymore?
My wireless is kept for on-state.
I leave it for that.
My energy is really based, I focus on that.
So I can quiet most of the time, the rest of the time, and have quiet pastimes. _
_ _ _ Those amazing leaps that you used to do on stage and the backflips, but that's no more because you broke your ankle, didn't you?
Broke my ankle trying to get into the building at two o'clock in the morning without any keys.
I left them inside the gear that I was being photographed in and nobody was at home.
I tried to locate them again and so I decided to climb up the train pipe.
I could see the bathroom window was open and two and a half floors up.
I shimmied up this thing, I had Cuban heels on and it started to rain, which made it slippier.
I grabbed onto the window sill like this and the train pipe collapsed underneath me and I went.
It was dark, two in the morning, I didn't know what I was going to hit.
I knew it was going to be concrete.
I decided to take it on one leg and be strong enough to leave my right leg.
_ The Cuban heels smashed my ankle through the rings and I ended up with one foot facing backwards.
So anyway, I stood and luckily enough put it together so I could walk on things and I can walk about.
I can't walk very far.
But that was it.
Sorry to bring that up.
Stay [G] with us as I continue my chat with legendary lead singer of the Easy Beat, Stevie Wright,
who will be one of the leading artists performing at the Adelaide Guitar Festival at the end of November into early December.
I'll be there.
Stevie, what can fans expect from you at the Adelaide [N] Guitar Festival?
Well, for me, I'll be performing with the best musicians in the country, the cream of our guitarists.
We've got Kevin Borich over there.
There'll be Phil Emmanuel.
_ Oh, that kind of great guitarist.
John Swammer, Andrew Anderson will be there.
Tell what kind of a show it'll be like.
It'll be most exciting and there'll be a lot of Mike Guitars and Lee Weebs.
So it'll be a beautiful festival to do and to be excited by.
So what are you like performing yourself?
Well, I like performing the blues. _
_ Ray Charles, he played blues.
I do that best and I connect to my soul and I feel really at home.
And the audience never seem to mind them.
They throw things and look very large. _ _ _
And you've given it all away.
You've given up the booze, you've given up the drugs.
I haven't drunk for 15 years.
You haven't had alcohol for 15 years.
And I remember reading somewhere where you said that smoking cigarettes were harder to give up than heroin.
Is that right?
Well, they weren't in hospital.
They gave me a patch and they came to visit me and I went outside.
I had to go outside.
I had to walk outside.
It was an ordeal in the house as to where you could smoke.
And I had a cigarette and she asked me about the patches and I said,
I've still got mine on.
No worries, I'll smoke.
She said, you're supposed to take it off.
So anyway, I didn't bother about taking it off.
I had a few smokes and I started to spin.
And so I got back in and I said, Jesus, it's _ pretty strong with the patches on.
So I took the patch off anyway.
And I never had the desire.
They busted me smoking in the toilet the first day in there.
I had to try.
You're pretty strong.
[G] Stevie, thank you so much for joining us.
All the best.
I look forward to hearing you performing down at the Adelaide Guitar Festival.
I think it'll be sensational.
It's great to see you there, Stevie.
Yes, thank you.
Now, there's a direct link and details of the Adelaide Guitar Festival
and where you can get not only Stevie's autobiography, Hard Road,
but where you can get this CD as well, now on our website,