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Chummy Morello.
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- Violet Welles.
- Who?
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No, no. See, you don't know her.
You're too young.
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She's probably dead by now.
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But Violet...
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"The vibrant Violet of song,"
they billed her at the Apollo.
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This is the chick I was playing behind
when I found my style.
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I was just backing her up.
I didn't even have a regular gig.
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I was just washing dishes
and jamming after hours.
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Of course that's before I became...
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...the titanic commercial success
that you see sitting before you.
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That's before I captured the fancy...
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...of the adoring public.
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But I started playing these little...
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...these figures behind her, see?
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And they fit with the song...
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...but it was like
going inside the melody.
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And she says, right on the stage...
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...she says:
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"Nigger...
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... don't be playing that shit
behind me while I'm trying to sing. "
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After that, a little later on...
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...me and the piano player,
we got together...
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...and we were working on "Cherokee".
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Now, this was a song that
I had played 10,000 times...
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...and I was sick of this song.
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But I found this new way...
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...of extending the chord changes...
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...so it was like a whole new song.
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And it still fit.
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I've been trying to do this since
they gonged me off the Reno Club.