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Band :Something For Kate
Song :Old Pictures
Cd :Echolalia
Play in standard tuning, this tab is correct until further
notice, when it will be wrong, but eventually more right than
ever before, then eventually, ostensibly left liberal but
covertly Trotskyist.
I've tabbed this out in sections and included a thing at the end
that will tell you in which order to play them. You know, just in
case you've never heard the song and need it spelled out for you.
Don't give me that look, i've seen it done.
If you want to use this tab on your own site, there is absolutely
nothing i can do to stop you and will most likely never find out.
Even so, at least be cool and let me know. Jesus sure would.
If this tab is incorrect, email me so I can try and fix it.
(Don't worry, I'm not American, so "fix" doesn't mean i'll
remove it from the archive, delete it completely, and deny that
it ever existed.)
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Verse
1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 *
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|----9-7-----------------|------------------------|
E|7/9------9--9--9--9--7--|7--7--7--5--5--5--5-----|
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|----9-7-----------------|------------------------|
E|7/9------9--9--9--9--7--|7--7--7--5--5--5--5-----|
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|----9-7-----------------|------------------------|
E|7/9------5--5--5--5--7--|7--7--7--9--9--9--9-----|
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Bit that isn't a bridge but that may one day grow to be one,
if nurtured carefully and kept out of direct sunlight.
1 * 2 * 3 * 4 *
G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|2-----------3-----------|
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Chorus
1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 *
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|------------------------|------------------------|
E|9--9--9--9--7--7--7--7--|9--9--9--9--5--5--5--5--|
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Bridge
The bridge lasts for about 8 bars, and is as good an excuse to
improvise as anything else you can think up. Except maybe finding
that you've woken up in a giant seashell right, and this giant
hermit crab has come home been all "Hey, what are you doing in my
shell? If you don't improvise a bridge for me i'm going to snip you
up and eat you!" Contrary to popular analogies, crabs are gracious
hosts providing you don't break and enter.
However, you should have thought have that before your aspirations to
own an all in one house and tidal pool with really killer acoustics
got in the way of your knowledge of the pyschology of giant
crustaceans, and so to appease the mighty crab you will have to
solo well based upon the notes being used by Steph (who is nowhere
near, and won't be rescuing you from the mighty giant fascist
hermit crab. She's busy bargaining with giant seagulls, trying
to implement within their primitive society a form of socialism
that will allow each bird to recieve an even amount of food from
their benefactors without the eruption of a class struggle.)
G|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A|---|---|---|---|---|-7-|-9-|
E|-2-|-3-|-5-|-7-|-9-|---|---|
F# G A B C# E F#
Now that you've saved yourself from the mighty giant fascist hermit
crab of doom and the rest of the world from brutally enforced societal
monotony (and all in just 8 bars) you have earned your freedom from
the giant seashell which you so foolishly broke into in search of...
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Verse Variations!
For the next four bars, play the verse that you know and love,
letting out your pent up creativity and various artistically
motivational emotions in the form of minor variations.
Here are some I prepared earlier.
1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 *
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|----9-7-----------------|------------------------|
E|7--------9--9--9-----7--|7-----7--5--5--5--5-----|
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|----9-7-----------------|------------------------|
E|7/9------9--9-----9--7--|7--7--7--5--5--3--2/ 5--|
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|----9-7-----------------|------------------------|
E|--9------5--5--5--5--7--|7--7--7--9--9--2--2-----|
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------9-----|
A|------------------------|--------------11--------|
E|2-------3--5--7--9--7---|5--3--2/ 9-11--------7--|
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Chorus + Outroduction
Continue playing this until the song ends, which should be
about eight times all up. Any other impressive improvisational
ideas can be deposited here as part of our new Chorus and
Outroduction beautification program.
1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 *
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|------------------------|------------------------|
E|9--9--9--9--7--7--7--7--|9--9--9--9--5--5--5--5--|
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Song Structure
*Verse
*Bit That Isn't The Bridge
*Chorus x 4
*Verse
*Bit That Isn't The Bridge
*Chorus x 4
*Bit That IS The Bridge
*Verse + Variations
*Chorus + Outroduction
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Feel free to contact me with any comments, corrections, email,
or questions (please don't mention any giant sea creatures).
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Transcribed by Matt - [elsewhere_for_eight_minutes@hotmail.com]
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Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
Martin Average |
#1 by Martin Mc Taggart at Jul 24, 1970 at 10:33 PM EST |
| to me this song is about a person struggling with a breakup and he constantly is being reminded by old pictures of the bitterness. "I turned you in I turned you into whispers " seems to be about not letting the bad thoughts get to him, and not letting them control him he's breaking away from the normal and going down his own path and trying to grow. The "i remembered you on trains so now your on every train i hear" seems to be refering to the past when he used to be "in love", but now all the old pictures and trains just remind him of his ex- and it's difficult to move on, so all the thoughts and voices that cloud his mind and remind him of her are just turned into whispers so he can survive. | |
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No Picture
fukt Average |
#2 by fukt at Sep 18, 1978 at 7:52 AM EST |
| Flag poles stand parallel to eachother - never touching, never meeting. This is about the breakdown of a friendship, probably a long-time friend... They're still around, and he reflects upon the relationship, but it was destructive. He forced that person to become nothing more than a memory... He's still concerned, but knows its safer to stay in a place where they don't cross paths. | |
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No Picture
aleXeXeX Rhythm Player |
#3 by aleXeXeX at Mar 17, 1985 at 11:10 PM EST |
| mmmm I really connect with this song too! I think it's about a distant memmory, a loved one that is so far removed all he has left is pictures. It's so sad. I never go on a train without thinking of my ex | |
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No Picture
Will Rhythm Player |
#4 by Will at Aug 23, 1985 at 11:57 AM EST |
| This seems like the story of something terribly important being lost. Perhaps a loved one. In my opinion it's about a point where that thing is remembered in (im just guessing here) maybe Paul's mind. The last powerful memory of a time long past that will never leave the mind and is reflected upon again and again in the heart and the mind. Whatever it is, it's a very powerful, inspirational song that I can relate to so deeply that it scares me. | |
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No Picture
Nicolas Rhythm Player |
#5 by Nicolas Turgeon at Jun 24, 1999 at 6:53 PM EST |
| This seems like the story of something terribly important being lost. Perhaps a loved one. In my opinion it's about a point where that thing is remembered in (im just guessing here) maybe Paul's mind. The last powerful memory of a time long past that will never leave the mind and is reflected upon again and again in the heart and the mind. Whatever it is, it's a very powerful, inspirational song that I can relate to so deeply that it scares me. | |
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