Daydream Nation Tabs:
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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:56:08 -0500
From: SilvrRockt@aol.com
To: michael@magick.net
Subject: Silver Rocket B-tab
Bass Tab for "Silver Rocket" (my signature song!) by Sonic Youth from the
album Daydream Nation. Tabbed by Simon (SilvrRockt@aol.com or simong@goodnet.com).
For the riff and chorus ("you got it..."):
D ------------1-1-1-1-1-----------1-1-1
A -3-3-3-3-3-3---------3-3-3-3-3-3----- (throughout chorus).
For the verse ("snake in it, jack into the wall")"
D -7-7-7-7---------
A --------8-8-8-8-8 (throughout verse).
On the verse, it also sounds good to do it an octave lower like:
A -0-0-0-0---------
E --------1-1-1-1-1
I've found that this song sounds best with an octave pedal, which gives you
both octaves at the same time and sounds really cool.
Comments/corrections to the above addresses and please give me credit if
you post this anywhere else. Thanks.
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
http://www.bassmasta.net/s/sonic_youth/.html
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Max Wanna Be |
#1 by Max Contreras at Oct 3, 2007 at 9:43 PM EST |
| It seems to me that this song is pretty obviously about psychedelic drug use, like LSD or peyote. Heres evidence: "Got some kicks, wanna take a ride?" --> kicks = hits, ride = trip "...leave yourself behind" --> hallucinagens sometimes give the sensation of being outside your body "tried to walk, found a severed hand...recognized it by the wedding band" --> he can't walk right, he sees his hand, but is outside it, "severed" from it, and he only recognizes that it is his by the wedding ring "you'll see dragons after 3 or 4" --> hallucinations "the rooms taller now" --> spatial perception shifts "I see the sound in waves" --> experience of synaesthesia (i.e. tasting shapes, smelling colors, etc.) caused by psychedelics "If i don't lose control explore not explode" - often users of hallucinogens panic when their world starts to desolve. he realized that he must keep control and not explode "a preternatural other plane" --> reference to the transcendent journey he in undergoing "once dissolved we are free to grow" --> a hippie idea, on the same page as Timothy Leary, that humans can reach spiritual freedom when the mental filters that structure our world are broken down in addition to all this, the picture that accomplanies the lyrics in the album seems to fit along the lines of transcendence, mental/spiritual freedom altogether, a great song | |
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