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Artist: Radiohead
Title: The Trickster
Album: My Iron Lung (EP)
Tabbed: AA23 - aceacetwothree@hotmail.com
This is my favorite radiohead song to play by a lot. It's mostly
correct, not sure about the end to the coda.
Intro/Verse
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|6-6-6--5-5------|
E|3-3-3--3-3-/6-6-|2-2-2--2-2-/6-6-|1-1-1--1-1-/6-6-|------------6-5-|
Intro Second ending Verse Second Ending (into prechorus)
D|-------4-4--4-4-|
A|6-6-6-----------| A|6-6-6---5-------|
E|----------------| E|----------6-5-3-|
Pre-chorus
A|6---------------|------|6---------------|----------------|----------------|
E|--------5-------|3-----|--------5-------|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
Chorus
G|-----2-3-2----2-|------------2---|-------2-3-2----|----------------|
D|5---5------5---5|4------4--4--54-|3---35--------5-|----------------|
A|----------------|---5-5---5-5---5|----------------|6-6-6--5-3------|
E|(3)-------------|----------------|----------------|------------6-5-|
Interlude [condensed time]
D|-----------------------------/10| (that's the tenth fret)
A|--------------------------------|
E|6---7---8---7---6---7---8---8---|
Coda
G|--------|--------|--------|------4-|--------|--------|--------|------------|
A|--------|--------|--------|6---65-5|--------|--------|--------|6---5-------|
E|3-------|2-------|1-------|--------|3-------|2-------|1-------|------6-5-3-|
D
Structure:
Intro (x2) [2nd time with intro ending]
Verse (x2) [2nd time with verse ending]
Prechorus
Chorus
Verse (x2) [2nd time with verse ending]
Prechorus
Chorus
Interlude
Coda
Pre-chorus
Chorus (x2)
Outro (x2)
Note the outro is the root notes of the verse banged away an octave higher.
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Ben Average |
#1 by Ben Rackow at Oct 23, 1970 at 8:15 AM EST |
| who/what is the trickster? | |
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Jer Average |
#2 by Jer at Nov 24, 1976 at 10:55 AM EST |
| I don't understand the context either, gs care to explain please? | |
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masahiro Average |
#3 by masahiro rekisha at Oct 11, 1983 at 11:14 PM EST |
| After "Just", probably my favorite Radiohead song. | |
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Kc Wanna Be |
#4 by Kc at Sep 14, 1987 at 8:36 AM EST |
| yuh. I just got this song, listening to it for the first time ever and straight off, I adore it. | |
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slapslappopslap Badass |
#5 by slapslappopslap at Sep 3, 1995 at 4:45 AM EST |
| again, another example of thoms obession with orwells 1984....."chestnut tree" is your indicator here. not putting thom down, just saying.....1984 is present in almost everything he writes. | |
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Howwhywyz Howwh Professional Badass |
#6 by Howwhywyz Howwhyam at Jul 4, 1999 at 7:28 PM EST |
| I’m not sure what is meant by “long white gloves,” but the stanza that says “"Long white gloves Police check carefully Escaped from the zoo The perfect child facsimile" could mean one of two things: 1) that the trickster checks carefully to see if the police are around so that the trickster can do mischief, or 2) that the police are looking carefully for the trickster. Either way, the trickster is and/or has broken the rules. The function of police is to enforce the rules of society (the values of the larger group). That the trickster spends a lot of effort avoiding the police (society), or that the police are searching for the trickster, indicates that the trickster does not follow the laws, nature, or values that the rest of society upholds. This difference further exemplifies the alienation that the trickster feels (see gs’s comments on 12-9-2004). We can also see that society does not like the trickster or his tricks because specifically the police are searching for him, presumably to arrest him. Through a change in tenses, York leads us to speculate in the next line, “Escaped from the zoo,” that the trickster is no longer separated from society and is out to create havoc. The words “escaped” and “zoo” could mean that the trickster has broken the boundaries of what is acceptable in society and is wild in nature. Additionally, Nerve mentioned "The trickster seems to have been and still is one of these [truant, mean] kids even if he is an adult now." The line in the song, "The perfect child facsimile" supports this idea. It leads us to infer that the trickster is not physically a child, but exactly like one (hence "facsimile"). Thus the trickster is an adult that has not grown up. | |
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Matt "Wolfeman" Average |
#7 by Matt "Wolfeman" Wolfe at Feb 6, 2001 at 5:53 PM EST |
| This song is so goddamn amazing | |
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Chris Rhythm Player |
#8 by Chris Hall at Jan 31, 2004 at 4:41 PM EST |
| I feel like that sometimes, wanting something so bad it hurts and then it fades and turns into some kind of braindamaged feeling... | |
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JustiN Professional |
#9 by JustiN at Apr 3, 2005 at 3:25 PM EST |
| I really would agree with gs, and I can't certainly relate the trickster to people that I know. Like someone who for whatever odd reason, just has to be spiteful, when the victim finally just quits tolerating it and leaves or whatever, no more person to play tricks on | |
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