Chords for The Jesus and Mary Chain - Interview + Live London 1985

Most people in the UK agree that punk is dead.
Many of them are nevertheless constantly on the lookout for the next Sex Pistols.
And the latest [Cm] band to earn that title is the Jesus [Gb] and Mary Chain.
They've been barred from the [E] premises of their own record company
because [Gm] they picked the president's pocket on their first visit.
They've [N] been featured in every major music magazine in the country.
A number of their shows have ended in violence.
All the essential ingredients for success.
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_ _ _ _ _ What do you know about the Jesus and Mary Chain?
Well, the next big thing, the flavor of the month.
Flavor of the month?
[Bb] They're damn noisy.
All the press say so.
What's so good about them?
They're noisy!
Good old feedback.
[E] Well, they're all like, they're back to basics.
[Bb] Never mind Frankie and Duran, they're back [F] to basics.
Why are people so excited about you?
Because we're so good.
Is that so?
Because we're so much better than everybody else.
Because so many other people are complete rubbish
that people have got to pay attention to us.
It's pretty obvious, really.
Seems like a good reason.
But how can you keep up to the reputation
that's being spread for you by the British press
who, you know, pump everything up to the point?
That was the same question as before.
It's because we're so good.
You know, we released a single and right away people took notice.
People bought it.
It become a bit of a top seller.
That proves my point, do you know what I mean?
And we brought out another single.
People bought that as well.
That proves my point as well.
I'm not just some little crime from Scotland
saying we are so good.
I'm talking the truth. _ _
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_ _ _ You're missing a couple [Ab] of strings on this bass guitar.
Is that how you learned it?
And you never bothered to buy two new ones?
Or is there a [Bbm] plan?
After two [F] years, I mean, what's the point in spending money on another two?
It's like two is enough.
It's adequate.
Anybody can play this bass.
It's like, actually, just another couple of strings
and you [Bb] confuse the guy.
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_ did [Gb] not help but notice with my delicate ear
that the guitar is not tuned in a conventional way right now.
No, no, no, you're wrong, actually.
My guitar is totally out of tune
because my guitar is for cooking.
But William's guitar is completely in [Bbm] tune.
Not that you would notice any [F] difference
because it doesn't need to be tuned.
But William's pretty fussy about things like that.
So what it was is like six months ago,
six months ago my dad taught William to tune a guitar.
And since then that's been his new trick.
And he tunes his [Gb] guitar every night.
It's a party piece.
He goes to [Bb] parties, he goes, watch this.
He tunes his guitar.
[N] I read in the papers that you've been described variously
as the best new band in the Western Hemisphere
and also the worst.
How do you react to that?
[Bbm] Don't look for it, William.
He's already asked you these questions.
He's trying to get you.
[Bb] He's trying to get you.
My _ favourite [F] colour is gold.
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_ [D] _ _ _ Fuck this!
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[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ They seem to be getting a reputation of the following.
[N] Of people that are just out for violence.
Out in the provinces of England and also abroad.
There's nothing like this at all.
It's real stupidity on the crowd's part.
I mean, they realise, they must know
that the band only ever play three or four songs at a gig.
But they come along and whenever they sort of,
only they stop at three or four songs, that's it.
They go mad.
We want people to come and listen to music, not fight.
They should divert their [Bb] energies elsewhere if they want to fight.
Not at us.
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