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Soundgarden- Never the Machine Forever
Tabbed by a member of the Bass Tab Archive Tabbing army


Tuning   CGCG

Time Signature:  9/8                  Verse Riff
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
C|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------3--3---3--------------------------|
C|----0--0----0----3--3---3-----------------5--5----5----3---|


                          Chorus Riff  “Get up…”
G|----5--5---5---------------3--3---3-------------------|
C|-----------------------------------------5--5---5--------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------|
C|-----------------3--3---3---------------------------3---|

                Bridge Riffs  “ Forever means…”
G|------------------------------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----5--5---5----------------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------------------------------|

G|----9-/-10--9--------------------------------------|
C|-------------------------------------------------------|
G|----9-/-10--9--------------------------------------|
C|-------------------------------------------------------|

         Interlude Riff
G|-----------------------------------------------|
C|----------------12--10----------------10--|
G|--------------------------12--9--12--------|
C|--0---0---0----------------------------------|


This Riffs are approximate.  Ben Sheperd has a tendency to follow the guitar
parts.
Remember with the Rythem, it’s not a triplet feel, it’s a eighth note
pattern. It’s easily divided into 2-2-3.


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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Kieran Average	#1 by Kieran Hurley at May 20, 1972 at 1:47 PM EST
	Is it about that crazy show they air at 2am called 'robot wars', where college students battle their home made robots?

No Picture Hobson Average	#2 by Hobson at Jan 22, 1973 at 10:57 PM EST
	This is the best song in the wolrd ever ...and that is my generous input to the world.

No Picture Bassman_2000 Rhythm Player	#3 by Bassman_2000 at Jun 10, 1975 at 11:01 PM EST
	i think this is about the battle u have with yourself over the way u r when you dont wanna be cold like a machine so you fight the machine in you

No Picture Diego Wanna Be	#4 by Diego at Jan 1, 1978 at 5:50 AM EST
	For some reason I had a "memory" that this song was inspired by a novel but that's probably wrong. It's based on Kim's personal experiences and according to him, "it's about a life-and-death match between an individual and a less specifically defined entity" - KERRANG!, March 16, 1996. The lyrics suggest that the voice in the song is the victor in the end, presumably due to their ambition, creativity, resourcefulness, and heart, all of which the machine lacks. The machine is probably a metaphor. Kim stated that "It's not about computers" - CMJ New Music Monthly, July 1996. In any case, this is one of Soundgarden's most interesting songs.

No Picture kieron Wanna Be	#5 by kieron prosser at Jul 22, 1980 at 8:23 PM EST
	seems to be about a battle with some kind of killing robot machine...

No Picture mason Average	#6 by mason coats at Aug 25, 1991 at 4:56 AM EST
	Robot Wars didn't premier until 1997, while Down on the Upside came out May 1996.

No Picture Cody Wanna Be	#7 by Cody Kavesh at Jul 29, 1998 at 9:06 AM EST
	Haha, I don't knnw why, but this made me think of a "Men in black" type scenario at first. I must've been high