Thunderbird

Seasick Steve – Thunderbird

From the album ‘I Started Out With Nothin’ And I Got Most Of It Left’ and the EP ‘It’s

good’

Tuning – This is a tricky one, technically all you need to do is drop your A down to a G

Steve plays it on his 3-stringed guitar, but if you want to play all raw and ramshackle

Steve does, I’d recommend tuning to open G (DGDGBD) so if you hit the 1st or 6th strings

at least be in the right key. Don’t be afraid of hitting the middle D string, it

fine since it’s just adding the 5th to the G chord that makes up most of the song.

if you have a no-name 3-stringed guitar it will be much easier!

To get the tone of the 3-string Trance Wonder use your neck pickup and fingers and crank

gain.

Intro/Verse

“Goin’ up north…”

G|-0--0---0-0-0-0--0--0—0h3------------------------|

Chorus

“Stealin’ Thunderbird…”

Repeat the verse and chorus

Breakdown

G|--0-----0h3---(x16)—12----------------------------|-(hit string to beat whilst

D|-------------------------sliding to 0)------------|

Repeat breakdown, then go back into the chorus

Bridge

D|--------(strum for 2 bars, use fretting hand-----|

G|--0------to grab your slide!)--------------------|

Slide break

After this, just ad lib sliding those 3 open string notes between open, 3rd and 12th fret.

That’s it, remember, the more rough and out of control the better!