Chords for Working Class Rock Star - First 4 minutes (feat. Lamb of God, GWAR, Unearth, SYL)
Tempo:
103.55 bpm
Chords used:
Cm
Gm
C
B
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Cm] I [G] think that the reason [C] that the business has degenerated, you had people [Cm] who genuinely
wanted to [Gm] make music and [C] other people who genuinely wanted to sell that [Cm] music and then
the profits began.
[C]
In those days we never referred to a gig [C] as a show.
It was always a concert.
And then it became a show.
Are you going to the Aerosmith show?
Are you going to the Kiss show?
The shows themselves were becoming more shows and less concerts.
[Cm] [D]
[Gbm] People were going to [Gm] these concerts that had become [Ab] visual [Eb] extravaganza and the music
just started to disappear [Gbm] and disappear and disappear into the distance.
[Cm] And then, to top it all [D] off, to make it even worse, [Gbm] people started [Gm] playing in the rock clubs.
And as [Cm] soon as the rock clubs [Gm] became the same, [Gb] now you were mixing this kind of over [Eb]-excessive
rock band trying to do it in a [E] smaller place with a [Am] bunch of people drinking beer.
And so it became drinking man's rock instead of thinking man's rock.
The one thing that I always thought probably contributed the most towards the demise of
rock and roll was the video.
So now [Fm] you're going to get your chance.
You're going to get yourself on video and people are going to see on video, well, what
they didn't tell everybody was the video world [C] was going to do exactly the same as the radio world [F] did.
It was going to become extremely corporate.
[Fm] It was going to be very selective about who it played.
[Am] [E]
[F] [B]
The [Gb] music just kept getting [E] put down and down and down while the [Eb] visuals came up and up and up.
It wasn't even about the songs anymore.
[E] So what were we selling to people?
What were people really [F] buying?
Today [Eb] the business is much more open about how it [G] screws people and it [B]
manufactures artists
at an [Am] alarming rate.
It doesn't really have a whole lot of genuine artists so it goes out there and it finds
whoever it can flipping [Gb] burgers and makes them a big star [Am] on stage for a year or two
and the next thing you know they're gone.
I [B] don't know what happened in the late 70s [G] and 80s but corporate pop took over and it's just [B] horseshit.
The record industry [E] has found ways to [D] make more money on things that [B] perhaps [Bb] hadn't been considered before.
You know, we had package tours with DVDs.
There were 15 different [B] versions of a record in [A] 12 different territories.
[Cm] Back in the 60s and [Gm] 70s there was an [G] enormous amount of, you know, [Eb] kind of reckless cash.
[C]
That kind of crazy cash [Dm] is not there anymore.
I think the music industry got [F] too fat.
There [Gm] has been a kind of [Dm] surge during the last 10 years.
There's this signing, like a signing [Bb] frenzy.
The results of that is that we have a flooded market.
[Dm] Music industry is going down the shitter within the last 10 years.
[Gm] Everything changed.
Like media changed.
The [Dm] old industry changed when the CDs came out because everybody [Gm] now is copying music
CDs and they don't buy [Dm] as much music.
There's less money for record sales.
Record sales are going down.
[Cm] The major labels are just [B] determined to stay the same.
[Cm] Is there more money for artists?
[Em] No, there's less money [Ab] for artists.
I just can't stand the [G] business aspect of it.
[Ab] There's no room for like true artists [Gm] anymore with numbers.
Everyone cares about [C] sound scans.
They don't give a shit about, you [G] know, what [Cm]
your band is.
Bands build their own foundation and stuff.
Other people capitalize on it.
People go into the business now almost knowing that they're going to get screwed by it.
[C] And they go in anyway.
[Ab] [Eb] [Bbm]
[Cm] [Ab] [Cm]
wanted to [Gm] make music and [C] other people who genuinely wanted to sell that [Cm] music and then
the profits began.
[C]
In those days we never referred to a gig [C] as a show.
It was always a concert.
And then it became a show.
Are you going to the Aerosmith show?
Are you going to the Kiss show?
The shows themselves were becoming more shows and less concerts.
[Cm] [D]
[Gbm] People were going to [Gm] these concerts that had become [Ab] visual [Eb] extravaganza and the music
just started to disappear [Gbm] and disappear and disappear into the distance.
[Cm] And then, to top it all [D] off, to make it even worse, [Gbm] people started [Gm] playing in the rock clubs.
And as [Cm] soon as the rock clubs [Gm] became the same, [Gb] now you were mixing this kind of over [Eb]-excessive
rock band trying to do it in a [E] smaller place with a [Am] bunch of people drinking beer.
And so it became drinking man's rock instead of thinking man's rock.
The one thing that I always thought probably contributed the most towards the demise of
rock and roll was the video.
So now [Fm] you're going to get your chance.
You're going to get yourself on video and people are going to see on video, well, what
they didn't tell everybody was the video world [C] was going to do exactly the same as the radio world [F] did.
It was going to become extremely corporate.
[Fm] It was going to be very selective about who it played.
[Am] [E]
[F] [B]
The [Gb] music just kept getting [E] put down and down and down while the [Eb] visuals came up and up and up.
It wasn't even about the songs anymore.
[E] So what were we selling to people?
What were people really [F] buying?
Today [Eb] the business is much more open about how it [G] screws people and it [B]
manufactures artists
at an [Am] alarming rate.
It doesn't really have a whole lot of genuine artists so it goes out there and it finds
whoever it can flipping [Gb] burgers and makes them a big star [Am] on stage for a year or two
and the next thing you know they're gone.
I [B] don't know what happened in the late 70s [G] and 80s but corporate pop took over and it's just [B] horseshit.
The record industry [E] has found ways to [D] make more money on things that [B] perhaps [Bb] hadn't been considered before.
You know, we had package tours with DVDs.
There were 15 different [B] versions of a record in [A] 12 different territories.
[Cm] Back in the 60s and [Gm] 70s there was an [G] enormous amount of, you know, [Eb] kind of reckless cash.
[C]
That kind of crazy cash [Dm] is not there anymore.
I think the music industry got [F] too fat.
There [Gm] has been a kind of [Dm] surge during the last 10 years.
There's this signing, like a signing [Bb] frenzy.
The results of that is that we have a flooded market.
[Dm] Music industry is going down the shitter within the last 10 years.
[Gm] Everything changed.
Like media changed.
The [Dm] old industry changed when the CDs came out because everybody [Gm] now is copying music
CDs and they don't buy [Dm] as much music.
There's less money for record sales.
Record sales are going down.
[Cm] The major labels are just [B] determined to stay the same.
[Cm] Is there more money for artists?
[Em] No, there's less money [Ab] for artists.
I just can't stand the [G] business aspect of it.
[Ab] There's no room for like true artists [Gm] anymore with numbers.
Everyone cares about [C] sound scans.
They don't give a shit about, you [G] know, what [Cm]
your band is.
Bands build their own foundation and stuff.
Other people capitalize on it.
People go into the business now almost knowing that they're going to get screwed by it.
[C] And they go in anyway.
[Ab] [Eb] [Bbm]
[Cm] [Ab] [Cm]
Key:
Cm
Gm
C
B
G
Cm
Gm
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_ _ _ [Cm] I [G] think that the reason [C] that the business has degenerated, you had people [Cm] who genuinely
wanted to [Gm] make music and [C] other people who genuinely wanted to sell that [Cm] music and then
the profits began.
[C] _ _ _ _ _
In those days we never referred to a gig [C] as a show.
It was always a concert.
And then it became a show.
Are you going to the Aerosmith show?
Are you going to the Kiss show?
The shows themselves were becoming more shows and less concerts.
[Cm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gbm] People were going to [Gm] these concerts that had become [Ab] visual [Eb] extravaganza and the music
just started to disappear [Gbm] and disappear and disappear into the distance.
[Cm] And then, to top it all [D] off, to make it even worse, [Gbm] people started [Gm] playing in the rock clubs.
And as [Cm] soon as the rock clubs [Gm] became the same, [Gb] now you were mixing this kind of over [Eb]-excessive
rock band trying to do it in a [E] smaller place with a [Am] bunch of people drinking beer.
And so it became drinking man's rock instead of thinking man's rock.
The one thing that I always thought probably contributed the most towards the demise of
rock and roll was the video.
So now [Fm] you're going to get your chance.
You're going to get yourself on video and people are going to see on video, well, what
they didn't tell everybody was the video world [C] was going to do exactly the same as the radio world [F] did.
It was going to become extremely corporate.
[Fm] It was going to be very selective about who it played.
[Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ The [Gb] music just kept getting [E] put down and down and down while the [Eb] visuals came up and up and up.
It wasn't even about the songs anymore.
[E] So what were we selling to people?
What were people really [F] buying?
Today [Eb] the business is much more open about how it [G] screws people and it [B]
manufactures artists
at an [Am] alarming rate.
It doesn't really have a whole lot of genuine artists so it goes out there and it finds
whoever it can flipping [Gb] burgers and makes them a big star [Am] on stage for a year or two
and the next thing you know they're gone.
I [B] don't know what happened in the late 70s [G] and 80s but corporate pop took over and it's just [B] horseshit.
The record industry [E] has found ways to [D] make more money on things that [B] perhaps [Bb] hadn't been considered before.
You know, we had package tours with DVDs.
There were 15 different [B] versions of a record in [A] 12 different territories.
[Cm] Back in the 60s and [Gm] 70s there was an [G] enormous amount of, you know, [Eb] kind of reckless cash.
[C]
That kind of crazy cash [Dm] is not there anymore.
I think the music industry got [F] too fat.
There [Gm] has been a kind of [Dm] surge during the last 10 years.
There's this signing, like a signing [Bb] frenzy.
The results of that is that we have a flooded market.
[Dm] Music industry is going down the shitter within the last 10 years.
[Gm] Everything changed.
Like media changed.
The [Dm] old industry changed when the CDs came out because everybody [Gm] now is copying music
CDs and they don't buy [Dm] as much music.
There's less money for record sales.
Record sales are going down.
[Cm] The major labels are just [B] determined to stay the same.
[Cm] Is there more money for artists?
[Em] No, there's less money [Ab] for artists.
I just can't stand the [G] business aspect of it.
[Ab] There's no room for like true artists [Gm] anymore with numbers.
Everyone cares about [C] sound scans.
They don't give a shit about, you [G] know, what [Cm]
your band is.
Bands build their own foundation and stuff.
Other people capitalize on it.
People go into the business now almost knowing that they're going to get screwed by it.
[C] And they go in anyway.
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_ _ _ [Cm] I [G] think that the reason [C] that the business has degenerated, you had people [Cm] who genuinely
wanted to [Gm] make music and [C] other people who genuinely wanted to sell that [Cm] music and then
the profits began.
[C] _ _ _ _ _
In those days we never referred to a gig [C] as a show.
It was always a concert.
And then it became a show.
Are you going to the Aerosmith show?
Are you going to the Kiss show?
The shows themselves were becoming more shows and less concerts.
[Cm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gbm] People were going to [Gm] these concerts that had become [Ab] visual [Eb] extravaganza and the music
just started to disappear [Gbm] and disappear and disappear into the distance.
[Cm] And then, to top it all [D] off, to make it even worse, [Gbm] people started [Gm] playing in the rock clubs.
And as [Cm] soon as the rock clubs [Gm] became the same, [Gb] now you were mixing this kind of over [Eb]-excessive
rock band trying to do it in a [E] smaller place with a [Am] bunch of people drinking beer.
And so it became drinking man's rock instead of thinking man's rock.
The one thing that I always thought probably contributed the most towards the demise of
rock and roll was the video.
So now [Fm] you're going to get your chance.
You're going to get yourself on video and people are going to see on video, well, what
they didn't tell everybody was the video world [C] was going to do exactly the same as the radio world [F] did.
It was going to become extremely corporate.
[Fm] It was going to be very selective about who it played.
[Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ The [Gb] music just kept getting [E] put down and down and down while the [Eb] visuals came up and up and up.
It wasn't even about the songs anymore.
[E] So what were we selling to people?
What were people really [F] buying?
Today [Eb] the business is much more open about how it [G] screws people and it [B]
manufactures artists
at an [Am] alarming rate.
It doesn't really have a whole lot of genuine artists so it goes out there and it finds
whoever it can flipping [Gb] burgers and makes them a big star [Am] on stage for a year or two
and the next thing you know they're gone.
I [B] don't know what happened in the late 70s [G] and 80s but corporate pop took over and it's just [B] horseshit.
The record industry [E] has found ways to [D] make more money on things that [B] perhaps [Bb] hadn't been considered before.
You know, we had package tours with DVDs.
There were 15 different [B] versions of a record in [A] 12 different territories.
[Cm] Back in the 60s and [Gm] 70s there was an [G] enormous amount of, you know, [Eb] kind of reckless cash.
[C]
That kind of crazy cash [Dm] is not there anymore.
I think the music industry got [F] too fat.
There [Gm] has been a kind of [Dm] surge during the last 10 years.
There's this signing, like a signing [Bb] frenzy.
The results of that is that we have a flooded market.
[Dm] Music industry is going down the shitter within the last 10 years.
[Gm] Everything changed.
Like media changed.
The [Dm] old industry changed when the CDs came out because everybody [Gm] now is copying music
CDs and they don't buy [Dm] as much music.
There's less money for record sales.
Record sales are going down.
[Cm] The major labels are just [B] determined to stay the same.
[Cm] Is there more money for artists?
[Em] No, there's less money [Ab] for artists.
I just can't stand the [G] business aspect of it.
[Ab] There's no room for like true artists [Gm] anymore with numbers.
Everyone cares about [C] sound scans.
They don't give a shit about, you [G] know, what [Cm]
your band is.
Bands build their own foundation and stuff.
Other people capitalize on it.
People go into the business now almost knowing that they're going to get screwed by it.
[C] And they go in anyway.
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