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  Sure Know Something
  
  as performed by KISS
  from the album DYNASTY
  written by P. Stanley and V. Poncia
  Transcribed by B. Priddle
  
  
  This song is not too hard, but the bass riff that Gene Simmons plays is just
  totally cool.  This is my first attempt at tab, so it may be a little rough.
  You are going to have to listen to the recording for the 'feel.'  The song
  begins with:
  
  
  |------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
  |------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
  |-7---|--7-5---5-7--|--7-5--------|-------------|-------------|
  |------|------7------|------7-3-5--|--5-3-0-3-5--|--5-3-0-3-7--|
  
  
  |-------------|-------------|-------------|
  |-------------|--7-5--------|----------5--|
  |--5-7-5------|------7-5-7--|--------5----|
  |--------7-5--|-------------|--3-5-3------|
  					    
  
  and this is repeated throughout the song (except for the opening slide).
  This riff changes slightly just before the chorus, with the last bar in the
  above changing to:
  
  	|-----------------------------------|
  	|-----------------------------------|
  	|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-3-3-5--|
  	|-----------------------------------|
  
  Simmons spices this up this riff by adding hammer-ons and slides in certain
  places, but this is enough to start with.  From what I can tell, the chorus
  riff is as follows:  
  
  
  |-------------|-------------|-----------|-------------------|
  |-------------|-------------|-----------|-------------------|
  |--5-3-2-0-2--|--5-3-2-0-2--|--3-2-0----|--3-2-0-------(5)--|
  |-------------|-------------|--------3--|--------3-(0)------|
  
  This is repeated 2 times (in the first chorus), and then the last time there
  is a variation:
  
  |-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------|
  |-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------|
  |--5-3-2-0-2--|--5-----0-2--|--3-2-0---3--|--5--------|
  |-------------|----0-2------|--------3----|-----------|
  
  He changes the order of the riffs in latter choruses, but I think you get
  the point.  This may not be exact, but it is as close as I can come to the
  actual riff.
  
  The only other part of the song that is different is the 'ah-ah-ah' part and
  the last verse.  All Simmons does here is pump on the root notes, which in
  this case are E-A-B-A-E, where the E sounds like the low E.  Here are the
  words (once again, they may not be exact!):
  
  
  I've been up and down, I've been all around
  I was mystified, almost terrified
  But late at night I still hear you call my name
  I've been on my own, I've been all alone
  I was hypnotized, I felt paralyzed
  But late at night I still want you just the same
  
  CHORUS:
  I've been a giver but I'm nobody's fool
  And I sure know something (sure know something)
  You showed me things they never taught me in school
  And I sure know something (sure know something)
  No one can make me feel the way that you do
  And I sure know something, ah-ha
  
  I was seventeen, you were just a dream
  I was mezmerized, I felt scared inside
  You broke my heart and I still can feel the pain
  I've been carried out, I've had fear and doubt
  I've been stored and I'm never satisfied
  Cause late at night I still need you just the same
  
  CHORUS
  
  Ah-ah-ah...
  
  I've been carried out, I've had fear and doubt
  I've been stored and I'm never satisfied
  Cause late at night I still need you just the same
  (just the same)
  
  CHORUS
  
  
  Any questions, comments, or suggestions, please send them to me at
  bpriddle@plato.ucs.mun.ca.

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