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Song title:       Tinsletown Rebellion
Original Album:	  Tinsletown Rebellion

Words and Music by Frank Zappa
Copyright © 1981, 1995 The Zappa Family Trust
Published 1981, 1990 by Rykodisc 

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The Bass figure underpins the verses and is quite fast. These notes are
quavers (i.e. 8th notes). The chords are D and G but there are no strummed
chords. The last VERSE is free-form FZ jazz, where the words are half-spoken,
half-sung, while all sorts of things are going on behind.


INTRO:
Chords:
D  x57775
G  355433

[play Bass Figure]  [x4]


Bass Figure  

  D
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-0-------0-------0-------0------|-0-------0-------0--------------|
|-------------2---------------2--|-------------2-------2---0------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

   G
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|---------------------0---2------|
|-3-------3---0---3-------3---0----3-------3---0---3--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|



VERSE:
Chords:
D  x57775    B  799877
G  355433    E  079997
A  577655    C  x35553

     [Bass Figure]
     D                               G
From Madam Wong's to Starwood to the Whiskey on the Strip,
        [Bass Figure]
        D                                    G
You can hear the crashing, blasting strum of bands that come to be real hip
    [Bass Figure]
    D                            G
And get a record contract from a talent scout some day

        A                     B
They'll sell their ass, their cocks and balls
        D                 E
They'll take the check 'n walk away

          [Bass Figure]
           D                              G
If they're lucky they'll get famous for a week or two perhaps
       [Bass Figure]
        D                                 G
They'll buy some ugly clothes to wear and hope the business don't collapse
 [Bass Figure]
  D                           G
Before some stupid magazine decides they're really good

          A            B                 D             E
They're a Tinseltown Rebellion Band from downtown Hollywood 


BRIDGE:
Chords:
A  577655    E   079997
B  799877    F#m 244222

N.C.                  A        B
Tinseltown Rebellion (Oooh, ay-yah)
N.C.                       F#m      E
Tinseltown Rebellion Band (Oooh, oo-wah)
N.C.                                      A        B
It's a little bitty Tinseltown Rebellion (Oooh, ay-yah)
N.C.
A Tinseltown Rebellion Band 


[play Bass Figure]  [x2]


VERSE:
They used to play all kinds of stuff and some of it was nice
Some of it was musical but then they took some guy's advice
To get a record deal, he said, they would have to be more punk
Forget their chops and play real dumb or else they would be sunk
So off they go to S.I.R. to learn some stupid riffs
And practice all their poses in between their powder sniffs 

(Chop a line now, snort it up now) 

And when they think they've got it, they launch a new career
G                   A                 C             D
Who gives a fuck if what they play is somewhat insincere 


[repeat BRIDGE]


VERSE:
Did you know that in Tinseltown the people down there
Think that substance is a bore
And if your New Wave group looks good, they'll hurry on back for more
Of leather groups and plastic groups and groups that look real queer
The Tinseltown aficionados come to see and not to hear
But then again this system works as perfect as a dream
It works for all of those record company pricks, who come to skim the cream
From the cesspools of excitement where Jim Morrison once stood
It's the Tinseltown Rebellion from downtown Hollywood 


CODA:

"Hollywood Showtime" Figure

HSF 1a
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------10------8-------7------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-8-----------9------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


HSF 1b
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------10------8--------7-----|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-9-----------7------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


[HSF 1a]
         Is everybody happy?
[HSF 1b]
     Oh, never mind!

[HSF 1a]        [HSF 1b]
     No problem


[play HSF1a and HSF1b and repeat]


1st time:

HSF 1a
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------10------8-------7------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-8-----------9------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


HSF 1b
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------10------8-------7------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-9-----------7------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


[3rd time play:]

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-6------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------9------------------|-7-----------5------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-4------------------------------|---------4----4--5----5--6----6-|
|-------------7------------------|-5---5------5-------5-------5---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

                  D7
|-----------------5--------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------7--------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------5--------------|--------------------------------|
|-7---7---7-7-7---7--------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------5--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


[ends on D7]