Chords for The Dan Tyminski Band Interview (Hey Brother Single Release)
Tempo:
90.1 bpm
Chords used:
G
B
E
Bb
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G] I'm Harry Clark and [B] I play mandolin.
I'm Maddie Denton and I play fiddle.
Hey, Dave and Larson here, dobro and vocal.
I'm gonna pass.
[E] I'm Grace Davis and [N] I play bass.
I'm Jason Davis and I play banjo.
I started in, I want to say the fall of 2019, something like that.
You're just getting your band together, maybe.
You've definitely, you've been here the longest.
It was the end of 2019, right before I tore my shoulder up and took a year off.
No, right when I was coming back from having torn my shoulder up.
You were in the band when, did you come to Alaska with us?
No, I didn't get to go to Alaska.
Okay, that was right before Alaska.
Sorry, I threw us off track, but Jason's been here the longest.
And then, Maddie.
Oh no, Jason and Grace.
You're so small, it's tough to realize how long you've been here.
It's been [G] like two, two and a half years.
It's been a while, [N] and then Maddie.
And then Lee, the summer of 2020 for me.
And then Gavin, and then Harry.
Yeah, we all pretty much get along really well.
I kind of look forward to it.
I really just like everybody's pick and I don't care for any of these people.
Really, they're horrible to travel with.
As people, we have hurdles to get over until we can finally get to the stage
to do the only thing we should be doing together, which is music.
I'd love to answer this because I've been in not a lot of bands,
but I've been in situations where there's always someone in the band.
There seems to always be an issue somewhere, somehow.
I've been really blessed to have been in Union Station
where we had five people that loved each other, so we got along famously.
But in this band right here, someone asked us last night, I remember,
said, well, what happens if you guys were to like, because you have two couples,
the husband and wife, and then another couple, and I travel with my wife.
When someone fights, what happens?
How does that work when you get on stage?
We had to look around.
It's like, if that ever happens, we'll tell you.
So far, knock on wood.
It hasn't happened yet.
It hasn't happened yet.
No.
I could not imagine wanting to be with anyone else more than I do these guys right here
with or without the instruments in their hands.
Everyone gets along really, really well, which I hope [G] is how every band is.
I just don't believe that's the case.
I think it's funny when you speak of what reaction is when we play Hey Brother on the Road.
You can always tell the people who have no idea that you're the one that did it.
You can see them, and they immediately, they nudge someone next to them,
and then the cell phone comes out, and they immediately start recording.
It's the song, every night someone comes up and said,
we had no idea you did that, and we've listened to that song for such a long time.
It's really fun to see people react to stuff that's way outside of what they were expecting
when they came to the show.
With the new version of the Dan Tominsky Band, yeah, this band was the first that we really went in
and thoughtfully laid down a bunch of tracks to try to put together what we would call an album.
Anymore, [N] sometimes people just record one song, or they'll record a couple songs.
My last project was an EP.
But we did a full-length, what we'll call an album here with this band.
I forgot how much fun it was to go into a studio and play music.
My only complaint was that they are so quick with their takes that we could have done every song
three or four more times.
It would have made me happy to have another chance.
But every time we did one, all their parts were perfect every time.
So I had to go back and hope my stuff was good.
This is maybe the easiest band to record with that you will ever find anywhere.
I consider them all kind of in the best of category of what they do in the studio.
I felt like it was everything we could have hoped for and a little more.
As hopefully the world will see when this record does hit the streets,
they were meant to play together.
[G] And whether they were meant to play with me or not, I am so lucky to get to be playing with these guys.
Yeah, first record, it was a home run for me.
This would be our first official music video for any songs that we've recorded as a band.
So yeah, we're coming out of the gates with Hey Brother and we have some sneaky stuff to follow.
So the question is, you know, how has it been since the passing of Avicii?
And I'll say, you know, when I first was approached to do Hey Brother,
I didn't think it was a fit for me.
My assistant had called me and said, you know, there's a guy that does EDM,
would like you to maybe play on a project.
And I had to ask, and I'm going to out myself right now, I had to ask what EDM was.
And of course she explained, you know, the kind of club music.
[N] And I thought, that is the weirdest request ever.
And my first response to that was actually, thanks, but no thanks.
Doesn't really make sense.
And my assistant said, thankfully said, would you like to hear the song before we give an official no thank you?
And I said, well, that makes sense.
So send me the song, you know, I'd love to listen to it.
Meanwhile, as she's sending me the song, I reached out to my daughter, you know,
I texted my daughter who was 19 years old at the time and listens to the full spectrum of music, all kinds.
Asked her if she knew who Avicii was.
She said, you know, instantly texted me back and said, well, Swedish DJ, he's a genius.
He's my favorite artist probably in the world.
Why?
And I said, he wants me to, I think he wants me to do a song on his next record.
And she texted back one word, you know, expletive.
She didn't believe me.
And then she immediately called me up.
She goes, dad, are you serious?
Is this, I mean, are you joking with me?
Are you punking me?
Or is this a real, a real thing?
Is this, I'm out.
I don't even know what that means.
She was 19 years old.
She already lived on her own.
She was already out.
She said, but if you, so she really peaked my, you know, she was so adamant about how great he was that I was all of a sudden now where I had hard passed on it a second ago, I was interested.
And I, and I, at that point got the song and I listened to it.
So I just listened to a very dressed down version of guitar and vocal.
And I loved the song.
I thought it was a song that it was absolutely the content I would sing about.
It was in the key that I would have sung it.
It had the energy, like it had everything.
How I heard it and interpreted it.
It could have been a bluegrass song for me.
I mean, there was only, the only thing I heard on the demo was the two strings.
Right.
And I, and I had to imagine what was going on from there.
So I liked the song.
I ended up singing the song, but not to a track, just to, just to a quick track with that one guitar note so I could sing it in the right key.
And I sent just a vocal, a dry vocal to, to Avicii in, in, in LA.
I was in Nashville.
He was in Los Angeles.
And then when the track came back and I heard what it was, it blew me.
Like I had no idea it was going to be so, so fantastically big and, you know, and horns and the percussion, everything.
Like it was so huge.
It made such an impact.
People were calling me saying, Hey, there's a guy that sounds just like you that's doing this, this EDM stuff.
He goes, you got to figure out who that is.
I think they're trying to rip you off.
You know, and I was telling my buddy, I said, no, I just did that.
That was me.
He goes, you're kidding.
And to watch that trickle down into everything from a Super Bowl commercial to, I mean, it was, it was crazy.
I think it was number one in 16 different countries at the [Bb] same time, Avicii's version.
And, and then all of a sudden, you know, I find myself looking into his music and realizing I know all, I knew all of his music.
I just didn't realize who it was.
And he is so popular and has covered so much territory.
I mean, he truly is, was one of the giants in the industry and his passing just simply left a void.
It left a void.
I really do believe that he was a musical genius.
I wish he could have made more music than he did.
And since, you know, since all of this has happened, I've gone back and come to realize just what a fantastic artist he really was.
The world definitely missed Tim Berkley.
[F] [Gm]
I'm Maddie Denton and I play fiddle.
Hey, Dave and Larson here, dobro and vocal.
I'm gonna pass.
[E] I'm Grace Davis and [N] I play bass.
I'm Jason Davis and I play banjo.
I started in, I want to say the fall of 2019, something like that.
You're just getting your band together, maybe.
You've definitely, you've been here the longest.
It was the end of 2019, right before I tore my shoulder up and took a year off.
No, right when I was coming back from having torn my shoulder up.
You were in the band when, did you come to Alaska with us?
No, I didn't get to go to Alaska.
Okay, that was right before Alaska.
Sorry, I threw us off track, but Jason's been here the longest.
And then, Maddie.
Oh no, Jason and Grace.
You're so small, it's tough to realize how long you've been here.
It's been [G] like two, two and a half years.
It's been a while, [N] and then Maddie.
And then Lee, the summer of 2020 for me.
And then Gavin, and then Harry.
Yeah, we all pretty much get along really well.
I kind of look forward to it.
I really just like everybody's pick and I don't care for any of these people.
Really, they're horrible to travel with.
As people, we have hurdles to get over until we can finally get to the stage
to do the only thing we should be doing together, which is music.
I'd love to answer this because I've been in not a lot of bands,
but I've been in situations where there's always someone in the band.
There seems to always be an issue somewhere, somehow.
I've been really blessed to have been in Union Station
where we had five people that loved each other, so we got along famously.
But in this band right here, someone asked us last night, I remember,
said, well, what happens if you guys were to like, because you have two couples,
the husband and wife, and then another couple, and I travel with my wife.
When someone fights, what happens?
How does that work when you get on stage?
We had to look around.
It's like, if that ever happens, we'll tell you.
So far, knock on wood.
It hasn't happened yet.
It hasn't happened yet.
No.
I could not imagine wanting to be with anyone else more than I do these guys right here
with or without the instruments in their hands.
Everyone gets along really, really well, which I hope [G] is how every band is.
I just don't believe that's the case.
I think it's funny when you speak of what reaction is when we play Hey Brother on the Road.
You can always tell the people who have no idea that you're the one that did it.
You can see them, and they immediately, they nudge someone next to them,
and then the cell phone comes out, and they immediately start recording.
It's the song, every night someone comes up and said,
we had no idea you did that, and we've listened to that song for such a long time.
It's really fun to see people react to stuff that's way outside of what they were expecting
when they came to the show.
With the new version of the Dan Tominsky Band, yeah, this band was the first that we really went in
and thoughtfully laid down a bunch of tracks to try to put together what we would call an album.
Anymore, [N] sometimes people just record one song, or they'll record a couple songs.
My last project was an EP.
But we did a full-length, what we'll call an album here with this band.
I forgot how much fun it was to go into a studio and play music.
My only complaint was that they are so quick with their takes that we could have done every song
three or four more times.
It would have made me happy to have another chance.
But every time we did one, all their parts were perfect every time.
So I had to go back and hope my stuff was good.
This is maybe the easiest band to record with that you will ever find anywhere.
I consider them all kind of in the best of category of what they do in the studio.
I felt like it was everything we could have hoped for and a little more.
As hopefully the world will see when this record does hit the streets,
they were meant to play together.
[G] And whether they were meant to play with me or not, I am so lucky to get to be playing with these guys.
Yeah, first record, it was a home run for me.
This would be our first official music video for any songs that we've recorded as a band.
So yeah, we're coming out of the gates with Hey Brother and we have some sneaky stuff to follow.
So the question is, you know, how has it been since the passing of Avicii?
And I'll say, you know, when I first was approached to do Hey Brother,
I didn't think it was a fit for me.
My assistant had called me and said, you know, there's a guy that does EDM,
would like you to maybe play on a project.
And I had to ask, and I'm going to out myself right now, I had to ask what EDM was.
And of course she explained, you know, the kind of club music.
[N] And I thought, that is the weirdest request ever.
And my first response to that was actually, thanks, but no thanks.
Doesn't really make sense.
And my assistant said, thankfully said, would you like to hear the song before we give an official no thank you?
And I said, well, that makes sense.
So send me the song, you know, I'd love to listen to it.
Meanwhile, as she's sending me the song, I reached out to my daughter, you know,
I texted my daughter who was 19 years old at the time and listens to the full spectrum of music, all kinds.
Asked her if she knew who Avicii was.
She said, you know, instantly texted me back and said, well, Swedish DJ, he's a genius.
He's my favorite artist probably in the world.
Why?
And I said, he wants me to, I think he wants me to do a song on his next record.
And she texted back one word, you know, expletive.
She didn't believe me.
And then she immediately called me up.
She goes, dad, are you serious?
Is this, I mean, are you joking with me?
Are you punking me?
Or is this a real, a real thing?
Is this, I'm out.
I don't even know what that means.
She was 19 years old.
She already lived on her own.
She was already out.
She said, but if you, so she really peaked my, you know, she was so adamant about how great he was that I was all of a sudden now where I had hard passed on it a second ago, I was interested.
And I, and I, at that point got the song and I listened to it.
So I just listened to a very dressed down version of guitar and vocal.
And I loved the song.
I thought it was a song that it was absolutely the content I would sing about.
It was in the key that I would have sung it.
It had the energy, like it had everything.
How I heard it and interpreted it.
It could have been a bluegrass song for me.
I mean, there was only, the only thing I heard on the demo was the two strings.
Right.
And I, and I had to imagine what was going on from there.
So I liked the song.
I ended up singing the song, but not to a track, just to, just to a quick track with that one guitar note so I could sing it in the right key.
And I sent just a vocal, a dry vocal to, to Avicii in, in, in LA.
I was in Nashville.
He was in Los Angeles.
And then when the track came back and I heard what it was, it blew me.
Like I had no idea it was going to be so, so fantastically big and, you know, and horns and the percussion, everything.
Like it was so huge.
It made such an impact.
People were calling me saying, Hey, there's a guy that sounds just like you that's doing this, this EDM stuff.
He goes, you got to figure out who that is.
I think they're trying to rip you off.
You know, and I was telling my buddy, I said, no, I just did that.
That was me.
He goes, you're kidding.
And to watch that trickle down into everything from a Super Bowl commercial to, I mean, it was, it was crazy.
I think it was number one in 16 different countries at the [Bb] same time, Avicii's version.
And, and then all of a sudden, you know, I find myself looking into his music and realizing I know all, I knew all of his music.
I just didn't realize who it was.
And he is so popular and has covered so much territory.
I mean, he truly is, was one of the giants in the industry and his passing just simply left a void.
It left a void.
I really do believe that he was a musical genius.
I wish he could have made more music than he did.
And since, you know, since all of this has happened, I've gone back and come to realize just what a fantastic artist he really was.
The world definitely missed Tim Berkley.
[F] [Gm]
Key:
G
B
E
Bb
F
G
B
E
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm Harry Clark and [B] I play mandolin.
I'm Maddie Denton and I play fiddle.
Hey, Dave and Larson here, dobro and vocal.
I'm gonna pass.
_ [E] I'm Grace Davis and [N] I play bass.
I'm Jason Davis and I play banjo.
I started in, I want to say the fall of 2019, something like that. _
_ You're just getting your band together, maybe.
You've definitely, you've been here the longest.
It was the end of 2019, right before I tore my shoulder up and took a year off.
No, right when I was coming back from having torn my shoulder up.
You were in the band when, did you come to Alaska with us?
No, I didn't get to go to Alaska.
Okay, that was right before Alaska.
Sorry, I threw us off track, but Jason's been here the longest.
And then, Maddie.
Oh no, Jason and Grace.
You're so small, it's tough to realize how long you've been here.
It's been [G] like two, two and a half years.
It's been a while, [N] and then Maddie.
And then Lee, the summer of 2020 for me.
And then Gavin, and then Harry.
Yeah, we all pretty much get along really well.
I kind of look forward to it.
I really just like everybody's pick and I don't care for any of these people.
Really, they're horrible to travel with.
As people, we have hurdles to get over until we can finally get to the stage
to do the only thing we should be doing together, which is music.
_ I'd love to answer this because I've been in not a lot of bands,
but I've been in situations where there's always someone in the band.
There seems to always be an issue somewhere, somehow.
I've been really blessed to have been in Union Station
where we had five people that loved each other, so we got along famously.
But in this band right here, someone asked us last night, I remember,
said, well, what happens if you guys were to like, because you have two couples,
the husband and wife, and then another couple, and I travel with my wife.
When someone fights, what happens?
How does that work when you get on stage?
We had to look around.
It's like, if that ever happens, we'll tell you.
So far, knock on wood.
_ It hasn't happened yet.
It hasn't happened yet.
No.
I could not imagine wanting to be with anyone else more than I do these guys right here
with or without the instruments in their hands.
_ Everyone gets along really, really well, which I hope [G] is how every band is.
I just don't believe that's the case. _ _ _ _
_ _ I think it's funny when you speak of what reaction is when we play Hey Brother on the Road.
You can always tell the people who have no idea that you're the one that did it.
You can see them, and they immediately, they nudge someone next to them,
and then the cell phone comes out, and they immediately start recording.
It's the song, every night someone comes up and said,
we had no idea you did that, and we've listened to that song for such a long time.
It's really fun to see people react to stuff that's way outside of what they were expecting
when they came to the show.
_ _ _ _ _ _ With the new version of the Dan Tominsky Band, yeah, this band was the first that we really went in
and _ thoughtfully laid down a bunch of tracks to try to put together what we would call an album.
Anymore, [N] sometimes people just record one song, or they'll record a couple songs.
My last project was an EP.
But we did a full-length, what we'll call an album here with this band. _
I forgot how much fun it was to go into a studio and play music. _
My only complaint was that they are so quick with their takes that we could have done every song
three or four more times.
It would have made me happy to have another chance.
But every time we did one, all their parts were perfect every time.
So I had to go back and hope my stuff was good.
This is maybe the easiest band to record with that you will ever find anywhere. _
I consider them all kind of in the best of category of what they do in the studio.
I felt like it was everything we could have hoped for and a little more.
As hopefully the world will see when this record does hit the streets,
they were meant to play together.
[G] And whether they were meant to play with me or not, I am so lucky to get to be playing with these guys.
Yeah, first record, it was a home run for me.
This would be our first official music video for any songs that we've recorded as a band.
So yeah, we're coming out of the gates with Hey Brother and we have some sneaky stuff to follow. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So the question is, you know, how has it been since the passing of Avicii?
And I'll say, you know, when I first was approached to do Hey Brother,
I didn't think it was a fit for me.
My assistant had called me and said, you know, there's a guy that does EDM,
would like you to maybe play on a project.
And I _ had to ask, and I'm going to out myself right now, I had to ask what EDM was.
And of course she explained, you know, the kind of club music. _ _
[N] And I thought, that is the weirdest request ever.
And my first response to that was actually, thanks, but no thanks.
Doesn't really make sense.
And my assistant said, thankfully said, would you like to hear the song before we give an official no thank you?
And I said, well, that makes sense.
So send me the song, you know, I'd love to listen to it.
Meanwhile, as she's sending me the song, I reached out to my daughter, you know,
I texted my daughter who was 19 years old at the time and listens to the full spectrum of music, all kinds.
Asked her if she knew who Avicii was.
She said, you know, instantly texted me back and said, well, Swedish DJ, he's a genius.
He's my favorite artist probably in the world.
Why?
And I said, he wants me to, I think he wants me to do a song _ _ on his next record.
And she texted back one word, you know, expletive.
She didn't believe me.
And then she immediately called me up.
She goes, dad, are you serious?
Is this, I mean, are you joking with me?
Are you punking me?
Or is this a real, a real thing?
_ _ _ _ Is this, I'm out.
_ I don't even know what that means.
She was 19 years old.
She already lived on her own.
She was already out.
She said, but if you, so she really peaked my, you know, she was so adamant about how great he was that I was all of a sudden now where I had hard passed on it a second ago, I was interested.
And I, and I, at that point got the song and I listened to it.
So I just listened to a very dressed down version of guitar and vocal.
And I loved the song.
I thought it was a song that it was absolutely the content I would sing about.
It was in the key that I would have sung it.
It had the energy, like it had everything.
How I heard it and interpreted it.
It could have been a bluegrass song for me.
I mean, there was only, the only thing I heard on the demo was the two strings. _
Right.
And I, _ and I had to imagine what was going on from there.
So I liked the song.
I ended up singing the song, but not to a track, just to, just to a quick track with that one guitar note so I could sing it in the right key.
And I sent just a vocal, a dry vocal to, to Avicii in, in, in LA.
I was in Nashville.
He was in Los Angeles.
And then when the track came back and I heard what it was, it blew me.
Like I had no idea it was going to be so, so fantastically big and, you know, and horns and the percussion, everything.
Like it was so huge.
It made such an impact.
People were calling me saying, Hey, there's a guy that sounds just like you that's doing this, this EDM stuff.
He goes, you got to figure out who that is.
I think they're trying to rip you off.
You know, and I was telling my buddy, I said, no, I just did that.
That was me.
He goes, you're kidding.
And to watch that trickle down into _ everything from a Super Bowl commercial to, I mean, it was, it was crazy.
I think it was number one in 16 different countries at the [Bb] same time, Avicii's version.
And, and then all of a sudden, you know, I find myself looking into his music and realizing I know all, I knew all of his music.
I just didn't realize who it was.
And he is so popular and has covered so much territory.
I mean, he truly is, was one of the giants in the industry and his passing just simply left a void.
It left a void.
I really do believe that he was a musical genius.
I wish he could have made more music than he did.
And since, you know, since all of this has happened, I've gone back and come to realize just what a fantastic artist he really was.
The world definitely missed Tim Berkley.
_ [F] _ [Gm] _
I'm Maddie Denton and I play fiddle.
Hey, Dave and Larson here, dobro and vocal.
I'm gonna pass.
_ [E] I'm Grace Davis and [N] I play bass.
I'm Jason Davis and I play banjo.
I started in, I want to say the fall of 2019, something like that. _
_ You're just getting your band together, maybe.
You've definitely, you've been here the longest.
It was the end of 2019, right before I tore my shoulder up and took a year off.
No, right when I was coming back from having torn my shoulder up.
You were in the band when, did you come to Alaska with us?
No, I didn't get to go to Alaska.
Okay, that was right before Alaska.
Sorry, I threw us off track, but Jason's been here the longest.
And then, Maddie.
Oh no, Jason and Grace.
You're so small, it's tough to realize how long you've been here.
It's been [G] like two, two and a half years.
It's been a while, [N] and then Maddie.
And then Lee, the summer of 2020 for me.
And then Gavin, and then Harry.
Yeah, we all pretty much get along really well.
I kind of look forward to it.
I really just like everybody's pick and I don't care for any of these people.
Really, they're horrible to travel with.
As people, we have hurdles to get over until we can finally get to the stage
to do the only thing we should be doing together, which is music.
_ I'd love to answer this because I've been in not a lot of bands,
but I've been in situations where there's always someone in the band.
There seems to always be an issue somewhere, somehow.
I've been really blessed to have been in Union Station
where we had five people that loved each other, so we got along famously.
But in this band right here, someone asked us last night, I remember,
said, well, what happens if you guys were to like, because you have two couples,
the husband and wife, and then another couple, and I travel with my wife.
When someone fights, what happens?
How does that work when you get on stage?
We had to look around.
It's like, if that ever happens, we'll tell you.
So far, knock on wood.
_ It hasn't happened yet.
It hasn't happened yet.
No.
I could not imagine wanting to be with anyone else more than I do these guys right here
with or without the instruments in their hands.
_ Everyone gets along really, really well, which I hope [G] is how every band is.
I just don't believe that's the case. _ _ _ _
_ _ I think it's funny when you speak of what reaction is when we play Hey Brother on the Road.
You can always tell the people who have no idea that you're the one that did it.
You can see them, and they immediately, they nudge someone next to them,
and then the cell phone comes out, and they immediately start recording.
It's the song, every night someone comes up and said,
we had no idea you did that, and we've listened to that song for such a long time.
It's really fun to see people react to stuff that's way outside of what they were expecting
when they came to the show.
_ _ _ _ _ _ With the new version of the Dan Tominsky Band, yeah, this band was the first that we really went in
and _ thoughtfully laid down a bunch of tracks to try to put together what we would call an album.
Anymore, [N] sometimes people just record one song, or they'll record a couple songs.
My last project was an EP.
But we did a full-length, what we'll call an album here with this band. _
I forgot how much fun it was to go into a studio and play music. _
My only complaint was that they are so quick with their takes that we could have done every song
three or four more times.
It would have made me happy to have another chance.
But every time we did one, all their parts were perfect every time.
So I had to go back and hope my stuff was good.
This is maybe the easiest band to record with that you will ever find anywhere. _
I consider them all kind of in the best of category of what they do in the studio.
I felt like it was everything we could have hoped for and a little more.
As hopefully the world will see when this record does hit the streets,
they were meant to play together.
[G] And whether they were meant to play with me or not, I am so lucky to get to be playing with these guys.
Yeah, first record, it was a home run for me.
This would be our first official music video for any songs that we've recorded as a band.
So yeah, we're coming out of the gates with Hey Brother and we have some sneaky stuff to follow. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So the question is, you know, how has it been since the passing of Avicii?
And I'll say, you know, when I first was approached to do Hey Brother,
I didn't think it was a fit for me.
My assistant had called me and said, you know, there's a guy that does EDM,
would like you to maybe play on a project.
And I _ had to ask, and I'm going to out myself right now, I had to ask what EDM was.
And of course she explained, you know, the kind of club music. _ _
[N] And I thought, that is the weirdest request ever.
And my first response to that was actually, thanks, but no thanks.
Doesn't really make sense.
And my assistant said, thankfully said, would you like to hear the song before we give an official no thank you?
And I said, well, that makes sense.
So send me the song, you know, I'd love to listen to it.
Meanwhile, as she's sending me the song, I reached out to my daughter, you know,
I texted my daughter who was 19 years old at the time and listens to the full spectrum of music, all kinds.
Asked her if she knew who Avicii was.
She said, you know, instantly texted me back and said, well, Swedish DJ, he's a genius.
He's my favorite artist probably in the world.
Why?
And I said, he wants me to, I think he wants me to do a song _ _ on his next record.
And she texted back one word, you know, expletive.
She didn't believe me.
And then she immediately called me up.
She goes, dad, are you serious?
Is this, I mean, are you joking with me?
Are you punking me?
Or is this a real, a real thing?
_ _ _ _ Is this, I'm out.
_ I don't even know what that means.
She was 19 years old.
She already lived on her own.
She was already out.
She said, but if you, so she really peaked my, you know, she was so adamant about how great he was that I was all of a sudden now where I had hard passed on it a second ago, I was interested.
And I, and I, at that point got the song and I listened to it.
So I just listened to a very dressed down version of guitar and vocal.
And I loved the song.
I thought it was a song that it was absolutely the content I would sing about.
It was in the key that I would have sung it.
It had the energy, like it had everything.
How I heard it and interpreted it.
It could have been a bluegrass song for me.
I mean, there was only, the only thing I heard on the demo was the two strings. _
Right.
And I, _ and I had to imagine what was going on from there.
So I liked the song.
I ended up singing the song, but not to a track, just to, just to a quick track with that one guitar note so I could sing it in the right key.
And I sent just a vocal, a dry vocal to, to Avicii in, in, in LA.
I was in Nashville.
He was in Los Angeles.
And then when the track came back and I heard what it was, it blew me.
Like I had no idea it was going to be so, so fantastically big and, you know, and horns and the percussion, everything.
Like it was so huge.
It made such an impact.
People were calling me saying, Hey, there's a guy that sounds just like you that's doing this, this EDM stuff.
He goes, you got to figure out who that is.
I think they're trying to rip you off.
You know, and I was telling my buddy, I said, no, I just did that.
That was me.
He goes, you're kidding.
And to watch that trickle down into _ everything from a Super Bowl commercial to, I mean, it was, it was crazy.
I think it was number one in 16 different countries at the [Bb] same time, Avicii's version.
And, and then all of a sudden, you know, I find myself looking into his music and realizing I know all, I knew all of his music.
I just didn't realize who it was.
And he is so popular and has covered so much territory.
I mean, he truly is, was one of the giants in the industry and his passing just simply left a void.
It left a void.
I really do believe that he was a musical genius.
I wish he could have made more music than he did.
And since, you know, since all of this has happened, I've gone back and come to realize just what a fantastic artist he really was.
The world definitely missed Tim Berkley.
_ [F] _ [Gm] _