Chords for Stratocaster Legend - Hank Marvin & Dick Dale

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[A] Over 50 years ago, Californian Leo [D] Fender [E] created [D] a [A] legendary electric guitar.
Its distinctive tone, [Dm] shape and [G] versatility enabled many famous [Dm] players to express their music.
[E] Today, the [A] Stratocaster is voted [D] the most popular [E] electric [A] guitar in the world.
Its many forms [F] are still on sale, coveted by musicians and collectors.
[Am] _ [A] It looks good.
Whether you're playing blues on it, it looks right.
If you're playing rock and roll, it looks right.
If you're playing jazz on it, you look a little bit more cool.
The beginning of the era when people just played [E] nice, _ _ [Em] they just played through little
old teeny old small amplifiers and Dick Dale is the guy who came along and _ became the father of loud.
_ You [E] can fight your way out of a bar fight with one of these things.
_ Maybe you need to retune it, [N] maybe. _
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_ _ _ discover the origins of this [Bm] famous guitar, [Em] you have to make a pilgrimage [E] to California,
to Orange [Em] County.
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_ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ It was in this building 50 years ago that the Stratocaster was born. _
Guitar maker [A] Leo Fender [B] was gathering a team together that would [G#] design and build the world's
_ [G] greatest electric [B] guitar.
He says to me, why don't we go get a cup of coffee and talk a little bit.
So we went down the street to this little restaurant and sat and talked for a while
and he said, I have an idea.
I would like to make solid body electric guitars.
He wanted to hear what the musicians wanted.
He wasn't a player himself, so he didn't have kind of his own opinion.
He wanted that player to tell him what he wanted.
I said, Mr.
Fender, my name is Dick Dale.
_ I'm a surfer, I've got no money.
I got a crappy guitar, could you help me?
So he gave me this right-handed Fender guitar.
I grabbed it and I turned it upside down, backwards.
He goes, my lord, why are you holding the guitar that way?
And I just said, the book never said turn it the other way, stupid, you're left-handed.
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_ [Dm] G&L [G] was Leo's last company [E] after the sale of Fender in 1964.
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_ [A] [D] To this [A] G&L is very much like taking [F#] a step back in [E] time.
This is very much how Leo produced instruments in the 1950s.
We still do everything by hand and it's kind of interesting in this day and age that there's
no automated machinery here [F] at all.
And I can sit here at Leo Fender's desk and I know when I walk outside and I see things
done by his people the way he trained them, the way he wanted them done, and I know he's
got to be looking down and smiling.
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_ _ _ [F] _ Cliff said, look, I'd like [G] to buy you a really decent guitar, what do you reckon?
I said, well, Buddy Holly uses a Fender.
[F] We love the sound of [G] James Burton's guitar and _ we're pretty sure he [A] uses a Fender.
So he said, right.
[F] And he got his management to get us _ a brochure.
[Am] We poured over the brochure and the most expensive [D] guitar in there was a Strat like this, a red
Strat with bird's eye maple, gold-plated hardware, and we thought, got to be the one.
It was a great thing to get that guitar because it was [F#] due to me getting that guitar that
I was able to develop the style of playing, holding the this and, [Bm] _ you know, getting things
[E] like this, _ bending [F#] the notes down, _ [G] _ _
all this stuff and helping, because the strings were
heavy, to bend a string.
Now these are light strings, but I had to [D#] push and I could [G] pull it up further with the
arm, you see.
So the mechanical help it gave me and to do weird things like, _ you know, it all adds to
the tension and excitement of, and if you couldn't think of anything to play, just _ waggle
it, you know.
_ I've taken out the whammy bar that I used to have, I broke it off, I thought, oh, hell with it.
So I stuck a piece of wood in there and that keeps it straight, you know.
And I mean, if Stevie Vai were to look at this, you know, and Eric Clapton was to look
at the way my strings are, they'd throw up, because they have all the tonations so perfect
in mind, isn't it? _ _ _
_ [A] [C#] I play the guitar, I do not play it [G] like, so eloquently, like Stevie [Em] Vai or Segovia
[B] or Clapton [D] _ [Em] with their fingers.
I [A] play it like I'm [G] chopping down a tree.
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_ [D] When I [Em] get to playing, I feel like I've been fighting in a karate tournament for [Am] ten hours
because I [G] play from my abdomen, from my [B] feet, the balls of my feet, every [C] note when I move,
I go, and I'm just [D] grinding that thing.
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_ _ _ [C] _ We're very unique.
I don't know of another museum or facility like us.
We feel almost an [G#] obligation to try and get other facilities to try and do the same things.
[G] We have a wide range of exhibits.
_ Obviously, because we're the Fender Museum of Music and the Arts, _ we're expected to have
a lot of guitars here. _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] In London, _ another [D] unique guitar collection was in the [Am] news.
[G] _ In June _ [D] 2004, Eric Clapton and friends [C] decided to put up for auction at [D] Christie's a number
[Em] of [Am] extremely valuable [G] guitars in aid of charity.
_ [D] Foremost among them was Blackie.
[C] The Strat played by Eric for over [D] 15 years.
These are [Am] Eric's tools.
[G] He's owned many, many old Stratocasters, but [Dm] obviously this one's the most famous.
[D#] Brownie, the one in the last auction, was very famous because it was on the Layla cover.
[F] But when we toured live, Brownie was always the spare for this guitar.
[G] They have completely different neck [F] profiles and they sound different.
This used to be [D] one of [Gm] his signature [G#] trademarks.
You know, _ unintentionally, he'd put his [C#] cigarette in the guitar and sometimes during the session
it would burn [N] down and many times after gigs I've had to remove the stubs of _ burnt cigarettes
and scrape the lacquer off a little bit.
The actual auction took place in New York and after what [G] Christie's described as a thundering
two-hour sale, [D] Blackie fetched a record _ _
[C] _ $959 _ [D],500.
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[D] _ [G] I suppose that Stratocaster [D] is one of the most desired instruments in the whole world by today.
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