Cheap Thrill - Play with Stevie Nicks

[GAS Man]

Chord Chart:

C=x355xx

D=x577xx

Em=022xx

 

Repeat endlessly

 

(a bit of C and D back and forth in the middle as a bridge)

 

Palm mute throughout.

 

I googled the tab and it seems to work well, and I notice in the vid that the lead seems to be chording as above and using his thumb as a wrap around on the C and D chords to mute the E at the chord position while thumping it for the added bass.

 

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[derf]

 

 

 

maybe a cheap thrill, but that guitar player later became an expensive wino. :poke:

[cbh5150]

Waddy Wachtel.

 

Ugh.

[guitarman3001]

from about 2:05 to 2:20 she looks like she's trying to take flight.

[Axe_34]

From Wikipedia....

 

"Edge of Seventeen" is a song by American singer Stevie Nicks, the third single from her successful 1981 solo debut album Bella Donna. Written by Nicks to express the grief resulting from the death of her uncle Jonathan and the murder of John Lennon during the same week of December 1980, the song features a distinctive, chugging 16th-note guitar riff, and a simple chord structure typical of Nicks's songs.

 

Released as a single in early 1982, it just missed out on the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 making #11 and the live version on the B-side reached #26 on Billboard's Top Tracks chart. The album track had previously made the Top 5 of Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in 1981, peaking at number four. It is one of Nicks' most enduring and recognizable songs, and has been covered by many artists. The distinctive riff was sampled by Destiny's Child in their 2001 song "Bootylicious", with Nicks in a cameo appearance in the music video. Nicks herself also played the introductory guitar riff for "Bootylicious." The song was also sampled by Drum and Bass musician High Contrast in the song "Days Go By."

 

The song is featured in the movie School of Rock and in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

 

Inspiration

 

According to Nicks, the title came from a conversation she had with Tom Petty's first wife, Jane, about the couple's first meeting. Jane said they met "at the age of seventeen," but her strong Southern accent made it sound like "edge of seventeen" to Nicks. The singer liked the sound of the phrase so much that she told Jane she would write a song for it and give her credit for the inspiration.

 

Although Nicks originally planned to use the title for a song about Tom and Jane Petty, the deaths of her uncle Bill and of John Lennon during the same week of December 1980 inspired a new song for which Nicks used the title. Nicks' producer and friend Jimmy Iovine was a close friend of Lennon, and Nicks felt helpless to comfort him. Soon after, she flew home to Phoenix, Arizona, to be with her uncle Bill, who was dying of cancer. She remained with her uncle and his family until his death.

 

Lyrics and music

 

Throughout the song a distinctive 16th note guitar riff is played by Waddy Wachtel, progressing through C, D, and E-Minor chords. During the bridge, the chords alternate twice between E-Minor and C.

 

As is typical of Nicks' songs, the lyrics are highly symbolic. Nicks has said that the white-winged dove represents the spirit leaving the body on death, and some of the verses capture her experience of the days leading up to her uncle Jonathan's death.

 

Perhaps ironic for a song named for a mondegreen, the line "Just like a white-winged dove" is sometimes misheard as "Just like a one-winged dove", thus Edge of Seventeen has been cited frequently as a source of misheard lyrics since its release, and appears on a number of misheard lyrics web sites and in books of famous misheard lyrics.

 

Both the guitar and drum parts are heavily derivative of "Bring on the Night", a song by The Police from their 1979 album, Regatta De Blanc. According to guitarist Waddy Wachtel, Nicks and Iovine intentionally based the song on the feel of "Bring on the Night," but Wachtel himself has stated that he was unaware of this during the recording session. When he heard the Police song on the radio some time later, he says, he was taken aback at the similarity and told Nicks over the phone "don't ever do that again!"

[bruto]

I like Stevie Nicks but never really got on with this song. I prefer Bring on the Night by the Police. In fact, Regatta de Blanc is one of my favorite albums of all time.

 

Still, playing muted 16ths is a great rhythmic technic. It's perfect for soft vocals or an intro.