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INTRO:
G-|-----------------------7---7---------------------------|-
D-|-------------------------7-----------------------------|-
A-|-5-0h5p0-5p0-5-0h5p0----------5-0h5p0-5p0-5-0h5p0-5-0--|-
E-|-------------------------------------------------------|-
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
First VERSE:
G|------------------------------------------------10---------|
D|------------------------------------------10--10--10-------|
A|--5--5h7-8---5--5h7-3---5--5h7-8--5--5h7-8--8-------10-----|
E|----5----------5----------5---------5----------------------|
Repeat Intro
CHORUS:
G-|---------------------|
D-|---------------------|
A-|-8--3--6--1--3-------|
E-|---------------------|
Second VERSE:
Play this part twice
G|---------------------------------|---------------10---------|
D|---------------------------------|---------10--10--10-------|
A|--5--5h7-8---5--5h7-3---5--5h7-8-|-5--5h7-8--8-------10-----|
E|----5--------5------------5------|---5----------------------|
Outro:
G-|--------------------|
D-|--------------------|
A-|-8--3--6--1---------|
E-|--------------------|
Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
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Phil Wanna Be |
#1 by Phil Cifone at Apr 17, 1973 at 11:44 AM EST |
| GODDAMN i love the gutiar in this song! | |
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Alisha Wanna Be |
#2 by Alisha A. at Aug 14, 1975 at 9:27 AM EST |
| Piros001's picking up on the two similar lines in "Red Mosquito" and "I'm Open" are every clever..... Clearly there is a correlation between the two and it surely reflects the experimental nature of No Code..... This song is about Eddie's food poisoning incident... eddie was forced off stage at a show in front of about 60,000 people in a free concert because of his food poisoning... Neil Young Filled in for him for 4 whole hours but it was this incident that cast Ed and Pearl Jam as unappreciative of their fans.... and therefore probably forged the experimentation of No Code.... Thank God for that little Red Mosquito..... | |
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st3fan Average |
#3 by st3fan sanchez at Nov 24, 1981 at 5:31 PM EST |
| i have never heard the studio version of this song, ive only got live on two legs and its awesome on that so yer. | |
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matt Average |
#4 by matt lenardson at Mar 6, 1983 at 2:13 PM EST |
| "Ed took ill when the band was touring for Vitalogy, And Ed was so sick he thought he was going to die. The band had to cancel a few shows, and Ed had to stay in bed." Concert Review: Pearl Jam @ Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 6/24/95 Pearl Jam took the stage around 2:00 in the afternoon, and Eddie Vedder seemed shaky, messing up "Corduroy" and plowing through several other numbers (including "Go," "Animal" and "Not For You") in a sort of strangled croak. After saying "I want to tell you something from my heart," Vedder informed the crowd that he had the flu or maybe food poisoning and that he'd had to be taken to the emergency room at 3:30 that morning. He then went into more detail about his various bodily functions--vomiting, etc--than anyone needed to know. After promising to try to come back later in the show, and telling the crowd, "Lucky for you, Neil Young is here," he left the stage. Young came out about twenty minutes later, backed by the other members of Pearl Jam. They played an extended set, performing everything from "Hey Hey, My My" and "Powderfinger" to newer material from the Young/Pearl Jam collaboration, "Mirror Ball." Young was wonderful, and the crowd of 53,000 was polite. Only scattered boos had greeted Vedder's announcement anyway, and everyone sat quietly through Young's set. Everybody figured that Vedder would eventually come back, an assumption based at least partly on Young's frequent teasing. "Let's go see if we can wake up Eddie." "Maybe Eddie's feeling better now." At one point, Young even said, "I saw Eddie lying backstage on his face. He didn't look so good." According to later news reports, at that point Vedder wasn't even at Golden Gate Park, but had gone back to his hotel. So why keep hinting that he would return? Anyone lying in a pool of their own vomit, as Vedder ostensibly was, is probably not going to come back for an encore. But it took two and a half hours before Young told the crowd what he must have always known, that Vedder wasn't going to return. | |
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Martin Lead Player |
#5 by Martin Endara at Jul 29, 1996 at 3:19 AM EST |
| The live version of this song is awesome | |
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james Average |
#6 by james at Jun 10, 1999 at 10:19 PM EST |
| Gforce38, Eddie has mentioned that the lyrics came to him while he was sick and bedridden; a pesky mosquito kept entering the room he was in, threatning him with its stinger. Eddie's drug of choice appears to be the bottle of crimson wonder, not Heroin's poppy powder of doom. Also, given the uplifting nature of many of No Code's songs (in contrast to the first three PJ records), I doubt that Eddie was dabbling in heroin during the No Code sessions. | |
