SPACEMEN 3 - "honey" Tablature

Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:08:08 -0400
From: a spaceman <gravitygrave_resident@yahoo.com>
Subject: s/spacemen_3/honey.crd

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Song: Honey
Performers: Spacemen 3
Album: Playing With Fire
Writer: Peter Kember

_Notes:_ When Playing With Fire begins, the listener
instantly is transported somewhere very different and
very beautiful. Whereas the opening drone reminds
vaguely of 'Take Me to the Other Side', the gently
wayfaring guitars soon obliterate that and a feeling
of hope, of gentle acceptance, follows. Soon it is
surrounding you, and 'Honey' is the all. This is one
of Sonic's greatest songs and probably the best on
Playing With Fire after 'Lord Can You Hear Me' - like
'Let Me Down Gently' it shows Sonic's equally adept at
creating mesmerizingly beautiful songs as he is songs
that are chaotically beautiful.

As was my understanding, since Mogwai was able to
cover it I reached the conclusion that it _is_ indeed
possible to tab out this song! Since I quickly
discovered it was only one chord, and as such would
not make a particularly exciting .crd file, I tabbed
out the whole thing. Enjoy!

_Effects:_ Chorus for 'McCabian' stylee, otherwise
this is one of the fewish Spacemen 3 songs I play
reasonably clean actually! :-) A good reverb never
hurts though.

_Tuning:_ This sounds standard to me! (EADGBe)

_Rhythm:_ This song is played in 4/4 time.

There is only one chord used throughout the song (A -
577655) and the entire song is constructed of a few
seperate riffs/power chord sequences.

Legend:
- = 1/8 note
~ = Trill
5h6= Hammer on
6p5= Pull off
\ = Slide down
/ = Slide up

Ok...


Intro
e --------------------
B --------------------
G 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
D 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
A 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2- (with heavy sustain and
distortion)
E --------------------

Riff #1
e ---------------------------------------
B ---------------------------------------
G ---------------------------------------
D 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7h9-\-4/7---------9-\-4/7
A 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0
E ---------------------------------------

Verse Riff
e -------------------------------
B -------------------------------
G 6-6----------------------------
D ----9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9\4-7-9\4-7-
A 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
E --------------------------------

Riff #2
e ------------------------
B ------------------------
G 7-7-7-7\6-6-6-6---------
D ----------------9-9-9\7-
A 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
E ------------------------ x3

Song structure:

Intro
Riff #1 x2
Riff #2 x2
Verse Riff (honey won't you take me...) x2
Riff #2
-break-
Riff #1 x2
Verse Riff (honey won't you take me...) x2
Riff #2 (listen to the winds wistling through...) x2

That all!

You can visit my Spiritualized site at
http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/electricity/index.html
for more information about this band. There is also a
guitar tabs section where things like this are
exchanged...

Comments or questions should go to
gravitygrave_resident@yahoo.com

Thanks again...