Chords for THE POWER TRIO

[G] The Power Trio is a rock [Db] band typically defined as having a guitar, bass, [D] and drums,
with one of the instrumentalists also doubling as the lead [Dm] vocalist.
The rise of the [D] Power Trio
was made possible in the 1960s because [E] of developments [D] in amplification technology.
This meant that the bass could be louder [Gb] and take up the [Dm] space of having a second rhythm guitar. _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ Not all of the bands were fronted by guitarists.
[Ab] Bands like Rush and The Police had a bass player
lead vocalist.
[F] Each decade beginning in the [Dm] 1960s brought us a new batch [Eb] of big power trios.
Here are some of the bands from [F] the 60s.
[G] The Jimi Hendrix Experience. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ One of the [F] fascinating things [Gbm] about Cream is that they had two [Db] different lead singers.
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had Jack Bruce who played bass and you had Eric [Dm] Clapton who played guitar,
both of which sang lead and many times traded [D] off during the same [Db] song. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Dbm] _ _ [B] _ _ _ Blue [D] Cheer, a [G] psychedelic blues [Dm] band from San Francisco, was [B] a huge influence on many
[D] different genres of rock to come.
[B] Punk rock, metal, [Eb] stoner rock, doom [D] metal, and grunge.
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[F] _ _ _ [Eb] The 70s brought us even [Db] more power trios [Em] like Grand [D] Funk Railroad. _ _
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_ _ _ [A] The Jam. _
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Progressive [E] rock [G] Canadian icons [D] Rush, one of the greatest power trios of all [E] time.
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_ _ _ [Gm] The Great ZZ Top playing their 1975 hit, Touch.
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[Dm] Another one [E] of Canada's huge power trios, Triumph.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] Power [F] trios are not [Eb] always guitar,
bass, and drums.
In fact, some of [C] them are keyboards, bass, and drums like with the band
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
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_ In 1978, with the release of [Dm] this song, this three-piece band
[A] from England was [Eb] about to become one of the biggest [F] bands of all time. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ By the time they had called it quits in 1984 [B] after their fifth [Eb] record, Synchronicity,
[Db] they had become one of the biggest bands in the world.
The late 70s and [Em] 80s gave rise to even more new [F] and different power [Gb] trios. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] Like Motorhead, Robin Trower, [Abm] and then in 1989 we had a [Eb] three-piece band from Aberdeen,
Washington [E] that was to change the face of music in the 90s, [Dbm] Nirvana. _ _
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_ [Db] The release of Nirvana's second record, [Em] Nevermind, in September of 1991,
marked [F] a complete change stylistically in [Ab] what had been going [Db] on in the 1980s
[A] hair metal movement.
This was [Gbm] to become one of the most seminal records of all time.
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_ [F] Another band that came on the scene in the mid-80s from the Southern California punk scene
was Green [Ab] Day.
Green [Bb] Day's 1994 release Dookie was to become one of the biggest pop punk records
of [Eb] the [Gb] 90s.
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_ Another [E] early 90s trio that was fronted by bass [G] player Les [D] Playful was Primus,
who can be seen here playing [Abm] on SNL. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Eb] King's X was [Ab] another American trio that [Gb] formed in the 80s and continued on until the present.
[C] Their music combines [E] progressive metal, soul, and funk with three-part [Eb] harmonies
influenced by gospel and raves.
[Db] _ _ Another great power trio from the mid-90s,
[Eb] Failure.
Their song Stuck [Bb] on You was a [Eb] breakout hit from the [Gb] 1996 release Fantastic Planet.
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_ _ _ [G] The 90s brought even more trios like Firehose, [E] _ Sublime, [A] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ Australia's Silverchair,
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California's pop [E] punk legends Blink-182.
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[F] _ _ _ _ The 2000s have brought [G] even [Dm] more new [F] and interesting [Db] takes on the power [G] trio
[Db] like [B] the British band [D] Muse, _ _
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[E] The Joy Formidable,
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[G] The Secret Machines, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] Instrumental power [Eb] trio Russian [D] Circles.
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