The Radar Bros. are a band based out of Southern California currently consisting of Jim Putnam, Stevie Treichel, Be Hussey, Dan Iead, and Brian Cleary. Hussey was in the band Morsel, Iead was in another Merge band, The Broken West while Treichel and Cleary were in a fellow Silver Lake band, The Movies.
Until early 2008, its members were Putnam, Jeff Palmer, Senon Williams (now with Dengue Fever), and Steve Goodfriend. The Radar Brothers (now with
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
******************************************************** * RADAR BROS. - THE SINGING HATCHET (1999) * * Album tabs by Zachary William Snow * * Questions or corrections? - [email protected] * ********************************************************
Radar Bros. songs are not terribly difficult to play or to tab, but I've seen some really bad tabs out there (especially "Tar the Roofs"), and I also noticed a general lack of their tabs, so I decided to do these myself, dammit. As far as I know, these are all correct, but I'm not entirely sure on some of the voicings, so if anyone has questions or corrections, email me. All songs are album versions, and in normal tuning. Oh, and I leave it up to you to figure out picking and strumming patterns. These are slow songs, but their use of key changes and odd voicings is what makes them a bit weird.
01 - Tar the Roofs 02 - Shifty Lies 03 - Shoveling Sons 04 - All the Ghosts 05 - Find the Four 06 - You're on an Island 07 - The Pilgrim 08 - You've Been Hired 09 - To Be Free Again 10 - Five Miles 11 - Open Ocean Sailing 12 - Gas Station Downs
------------------ 01 - Tar the Roofs ------------------
C Tar Gm The roofs E Of the houses D That are leakin' C The religions Gm Of who live there E And are leavin' D Their infidelities C At the door EbC When they come in.
C Tar Gm The peaks E Of the mountains D That are singin' C The beliefs Gm Of who live there E And are leavin' D Their impurities C On their faces EbC When they're wasted.
GC In between GC Chivalry of the armor-clad GCD7D7susD7D7susD7 Lies a focus in I GC Now you're singin' GC It takes too long to remind you of your hearts G You're way behind the county line CD7D7sus You must have fallen off somewhere sometime D7D7sus Now you're here delivering your
GCAm Shifty lies and senseless vision GCAm Overflow like frozen rivers GDsus/F# Stand in line, they watch the time C You're cattled up and weeks behind C How long, how long C7 Until we reach the bottom of the lake?
Then we'll see Murky water visions Misleading us again There you are delivering your
Shifty lies and senseless visions Overflow like frozen rivers Stand in line, you watch the time You're cattled up and week behind How long, how long until we reach the bottom of the
Shifty lies and senseless visions Overflow like frozen rivers Stand in line, you watch the time You're cattled up and weeks behind How long, how long until we reach the bottom of the lake?
------------------- 03 - Shoveling Sons -------------------
AmFG Shoveling sons keeping us awake AmFG Into the night's misfortunes we fade AmFG Giving the land's only fair eye AmD7G Shoveling sons are marching away FAmGF And you never will be confused by the few who ride down FAmG The only road paved by dead souls
Shoveling sons keeping good time Digging the holes where others reside Fortunate sons keeping us awake Into the night's misgivings we fade
And you never will be confused by the few who ride down The only road paved by dead souls And they never will credit you on the few times you ride The only road worth your time
And you never will be confused by the few who ride down The only road paved by dead souls And you never will be confused by the few who ride down The only road paved by dead souls
------------------- 04 - All the Ghosts -------------------
[Note: this song is mostly piano with light electric guitar. The piano would be too hard to tab exactly for guitar, so these chords are not exact voicings, but just the basics.]
EmEm/F#Em/GCB
EmEm/F#Em/G Have you been paid
CB To bring us down
EmEm/F#Em/GCB against our will again?
EmEm/F#Em/G And how'd you follow us?
CB And how'd you see?
EmEm/F#Em/G Wishing's lost to the touch
C To see your eyes are painted shut
EmEm/F#Em/GCB And we won't come clean.
EmEm/F#Em/GC EmEm/F#Em/GCB
Are you too late To serve again a locked out salary? Just buy me something. I'll pay you later for these things.
------------------------ 06 - You're on an Island ------------------------
[Note: for the D7 to G7 transitions in the verses, you're only going to play the top couple strings, not the full chords.]
Intro: GD/F#FAb GD/F#FAb GD/F#FAb GD/F#C
CFD7G7 I listened too many times CFD7G7 To phone calls on your private line CFD7G7 And now you're loud and clear
CFD7G7
Now alternate between F and FMaj7, and C and CMaj7 until you end on E.
CFD7G7 Your island suited us fine CFD7G7 Your contact was better than mine CFD7G7 With all our missions clear CEFC To take you out was never made too clear EFC It was never made too clear EFC La da da da da da da dum Da da da da da da da dum Da da da da da da da dum Da da da da da da da dum
Cadd9 Five miles of unused highway G7 Three flares to bring you my way C Too late the kitchen's closed AmE We'll have to sleep forever now Cadd9 Thin lines are paint between us G7 Outside the symphony of C Hellbound fortune-driven AmE Soldiers out on holiday
CAmE CAF
CA As you walk away again G7C A dynasty of broken feet give in FFm Four wakeless mornings beat the sun down C On the chaplain's head A And as he cues for you to sing G7C Rhapsody you promised would bring FFm All chapel-beaten soldiers down C Upon their knees again
FFmC FFmC FFmC
CF Wake up the town to bring lost parodies of FmC Faceless demons scattering away F On borrowed time the FmCC7 clock will unwind
CFFm
CF Wake up the town to give us rhapsodies of FmC Timeless rhythm scattering away FFm As formless creatures lift C The time from every working day
----------------------- 11 - Open Ocean Sailing -----------------------
EF
CAmEF You don't know me so you won't pay me anymore
CAmEF And you won't hire me to come and clean your floor
CAmEF But let me take you down to the lake so we can get paid
CAmEF one more time around
And your technology has a fade in its life expectancy And only one thing could release you from your misery Fight the ways of a slow production on a field day Fight the ways of a slow production day
Until you're real I'll fall into your arms of hatred and harm Until you're safe I'll fall into those places you've been running from so far
And you won't feed me angry pages anymore The salted windows you will view me from no more But let me turn you down so the rest of us could hear one more time around
And your technology has a fade in its life expectancy And only one thing could release you from your misery Fight the ways of a slow production on a field day Fight the ways of a slow production day
---------------------- 12 - Gas Station Downs ----------------------
[Note: Okay, so they get a little tricky here with us. This was by far the hardest song to figure out, and I'd welcome any corrections, especially to the "Have fun done" part. I'm pretty sure I got it, though. The B7add4 and D9(no3)/A are outlined rather than strummed, so it's pretty easy to hear the individual notes.]
B7add4 = [X2120X] D9(no3)/A = [X00210]
Organ intro [transposed for guitar]: AEmAAAEm
ECBbDBbC walk to D ECBbDBb
ECBbD Show your face 'round here again BbC We'll have to burn the stations down EC One by one BbD It's too bad your face BbC reveals the state you'll be living in EC And in the time BbD It takes you to run BbC From end to end, you'll be dead again
B7add4 D9(no3)/A Have fun done B7add4 D9(no3)/A You're the same in the photograph B7add4 D9(no3)/A So keep your hands tied up
CEAA2AA2AA2AA2
ECBbD You're the type everyone tries BbC to have and run their watches by ECBbDBbC Only time ain't what they need
B7add4 D9(no3)/A Half contained B7add4 With the land D9(no3)/A Half with the cell again B7add4 D9(no3)/A And if it made you think like others do B7add4 D9(no3)/A Come a long way to make you think like them