Biography:
There has been more than one artist known as The Thrills.
1. The Thrills are an Irish indie rock band, formed in 2001 in Dublin. The band is made up of lead vocalist Conor Deasy, guitarist Daniel Ryan, bass player Padraic McMahon, pianist Kevin Horan and drummer Ben Carrigan.
Their big break came with their debut album So Much for the City (2003) which became an Irish number one. The five members spent a month on vacation in San Diego where they wrote several of the tracks for the album such as One Horse Town.
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Other songs:
- Big Sur
- Dont Steal Our Sun
- I Came All This Way
- Irish Keep Gate
- Just Travelling Through
- Midnight Choir
- No More Empty Words
- Not For All The Love In The World
- Nothing Changes Around Here
- One Horse Town
- Restaurant
- Santa Cruz Youre Not That Far
- Saturday Night
- Say It Aint So
- Teenager
- Whatever Happened To Corey Haim
- You Cant Fool Old Friends With Limousines
- Your Love Is Like Las Vegas
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This is my version of Big Sur from the Thrills album "So much for the city"
I've stolen a couple of bits from the previous version and obviously added
in a few guitar bits too. The picking pattern from the intro is pretty much
maintained during most of the verses but usually with an open top string, play
around and see what you like the sound of. I don't think the opening Dsus2 is
strictly right but its the best I could figure out in the 15 mins I've spent on
this.
[Intro]
x2 [fILL 1] --->[TO VERSE]
Dsus2 Cmaj7 Em F
e|---0--0--0|--0--0--0 |-0-0---1-|---------------|
B|----3--3--|---0--0---|-0-0---1-|---------------|
G|-----2--2-|----0--0--|-0-0---2-|---------------|
D|-0--------|----------|-2-2---3-|---------------|
A|----------|-3--------|-2-2---3-|---------------|
E|----------|----------|-0-0---1-|---------------|
e|----------|----------|---------------|
B|-------1-3|---1----3-|-1---3-1-------|
G|-0-0-2----|-2---2----|---2-----2-----|
D|----------|----------|---------------|
A|---------0|----------|---------------|
E|-3-3------|----------|---------------|
[Verse 1]
F Am Dsus2
So much for the city, tell me that you'll dance to the end
F [Fill 2]
Just tell me that you'll dance to the end
F Am Dsus2
Hey hey you're the monkees, people said you monkeyed around,
F [Fill 2]
But nobody's listening now.
[Chorus]
C F Dm G Em Am Em Am
Just don't go back to big sur, hanging around letting your old man down
C F Dm G F
Just don't go back to big sur, baby baby please don't go
G [Fill 1]
Baby please don't go.
[Verse 2]
F Am Dsus2
So much for the street lights, they're never gonna guide you home
F [Fill 2]
No thet're never gonna guide you home
F Am Dsus2
Down at the steam boat show, all the kids start spittin'
F [Fill 2]
I guess it didn't live up to the billing.
[Chorus]
C F Dm G Em Am Em Am
Just don't go back to big sur, hanging around, letting your old man down
C F Dm G F
Just don't go back to big sur, baby baby please don't go
G C
Baby baby please don't go.
repeat [Intro] then [Fill 1]
[Solo]
e|--1-1--1-1--3-1-|0-------|0-0-0-0-0---|-----------|-1-1-1-1-1-0----|
B|----------------|--1---1-|----------3-|1---1-1h3p1|-------------3--|
G|----------------|----2---|------------|-----------|----------------|
D|----------------|--------|------------|-----------|----------------|
A|----------------|--------|------------|-----------|----------------|
E|----------------|--------|------------|-----------|----------------|
Repeat [Fill 2]
[Chorus]
C F Dm G Em Am Em Am
Just don't go back to big sur, hanging around, letting your old man down
C F Dm G F
Just don't go back to big sur, baby baby please don't go
G C
Baby baby please don't go.
************************************
| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
************************************
I've stolen a couple of bits from the previous version and obviously added
in a few guitar bits too. The picking pattern from the intro is pretty much
maintained during most of the verses but usually with an open top string, play
around and see what you like the sound of. I don't think the opening Dsus2 is
strictly right but its the best I could figure out in the 15 mins I've spent on
this.
[Intro]
x2 [fILL 1] --->[TO VERSE]
Dsus2 Cmaj7 Em F
e|---0--0--0|--0--0--0 |-0-0---1-|---------------|
B|----3--3--|---0--0---|-0-0---1-|---------------|
G|-----2--2-|----0--0--|-0-0---2-|---------------|
D|-0--------|----------|-2-2---3-|---------------|
A|----------|-3--------|-2-2---3-|---------------|
E|----------|----------|-0-0---1-|---------------|
e|----------|----------|---------------|
B|-------1-3|---1----3-|-1---3-1-------|
G|-0-0-2----|-2---2----|---2-----2-----|
D|----------|----------|---------------|
A|---------0|----------|---------------|
E|-3-3------|----------|---------------|
[Verse 1]
F Am Dsus2
So much for the city, tell me that you'll dance to the end
F [Fill 2]
Just tell me that you'll dance to the end
F Am Dsus2
Hey hey you're the monkees, people said you monkeyed around,
F [Fill 2]
But nobody's listening now.
[Chorus]
C F Dm G Em Am Em Am
Just don't go back to big sur, hanging around letting your old man down
C F Dm G F
Just don't go back to big sur, baby baby please don't go
G [Fill 1]
Baby please don't go.
[Verse 2]
F Am Dsus2
So much for the street lights, they're never gonna guide you home
F [Fill 2]
No thet're never gonna guide you home
F Am Dsus2
Down at the steam boat show, all the kids start spittin'
F [Fill 2]
I guess it didn't live up to the billing.
[Chorus]
C F Dm G Em Am Em Am
Just don't go back to big sur, hanging around, letting your old man down
C F Dm G F
Just don't go back to big sur, baby baby please don't go
G C
Baby baby please don't go.
repeat [Intro] then [Fill 1]
[Solo]
e|--1-1--1-1--3-1-|0-------|0-0-0-0-0---|-----------|-1-1-1-1-1-0----|
B|----------------|--1---1-|----------3-|1---1-1h3p1|-------------3--|
G|----------------|----2---|------------|-----------|----------------|
D|----------------|--------|------------|-----------|----------------|
A|----------------|--------|------------|-----------|----------------|
E|----------------|--------|------------|-----------|----------------|
Repeat [Fill 2]
[Chorus]
C F Dm G Em Am Em Am
Just don't go back to big sur, hanging around, letting your old man down
C F Dm G F
Just don't go back to big sur, baby baby please don't go
G C
Baby baby please don't go.
************************************
| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
************************************
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