Music – Lyrics & Recording Notes – 2006-2009

By Dexter Radley, on October 21st, 2010

Tradition – Version 2

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This is a remake of one of my older songs. I wrote the lyrics for this one day at the Otahuhu Railways Workshops where I worked as a coachbuilder and was the union secretary. The music came years later after Steve Mapstone came up with a bass riff one day. After he left I played with it and had been listening to Pearl Jam and tried to get the biggest dirtiest in your face most disgusting obscene guitar tone possible. I dug out my old lyric book and found the words to Tradition and they fitted perfectly.

In late Februrary 2009 Dave Arrowsmith and Preston Broun were kind enough to do a drums and bass track for me to have another go at the song. I did the guitars using a Fender 62 re-issue going into a modded TS-9 into a non-bluesberry hotcake driving my Vox Ac15 Heritage amp. I fattened up the sound by doubling some of the bass parts with a modded Big Muff. I mic’d it with a SM57 and recorded it really really late one night in early March 2009.

I got the samples off the net, they’re a radio broadcast on the day the that the National Guard played a starring role in the Kent State University Massacre and Bush Version 1 announcing how America was all set to sort out Saddam Hussien for trying to reclaim Iraq’s oil fields off the democratic kingdom of Kuwait. Not sure how that one ended up.

Anyway, here’s the MP3 DOWNLOAD

For those with a decent download quota you are welcome to grab the Wav file (30 mb) DOWNLOAD

Lyrics:

Tradition

Tradition tells us what to do
Don’t do what you oughtent to
Something bad will happen to you
Tradition will win over something new

Tradition, Tradition, Tradition, Repetition

Tradition make you change your ways
Forget about those rebel days
Tradition make sure one rule stays
They get paid, it’s us who pays

Tradition has it’s roots in the teachers
The judges, the cops, the Tv and the preachers
Tradition has such frightening features
Tradition maintain the rule of the leeches.

Tradition, Tradition, Tradition, not sedition.

Throw Your Arms Around Me

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Way, way back a bunch of friends of mine went to live in Australia for a while. When they came back they were raving about a band called Hunters and Collectors. Their first single was Talking To A Stranger and it was great. The next time i heard of them they came up with this song, which was recently voted the best Australian song of all time.

Can’t argue with that.

I’m doing some recordings for a new album and I am running a Vox Heritage AC15 for the guitars, great little amp it is too. I was after a certain sound and I got it by running a modded TS9 tubescreamer into a non-bluesberry Hotcake then into the Vox. The sound was pretty much what I was after so I decided to do a demo of Throw Your Arms Around Me to see how the sound came out on record.

What do you reckon?

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Throw Your Arms Around Me

[E]I will come for you at night[A]time
I will [E]raise you from your [B]sleep
I will [E]kiss you in four pla[A]ces
As I go [E]running along your [B]street

I will squeeze the life out of you
You will make me laugh and make me cry
And we will never forget it
You will make me call your name and
I’ll shout it to the blue summer sky

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And we may [E]never meet a[A]gain
So [E]shed your skin and lets get [B]started
And you will [E]thr[A]ow your [B]arms around me
Yeah, you will [E]thr[A]ow your [B]arms around me
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I dreamed of you at nighttime
And I watched you in your sleep
I met you in high places
I touched your head and touched your feet

So if you disappear out of view
You know i will never say goodbye
And though i try to forget it
You will make me call your name and
I’ll shout it to the blue summer sky

Re-recording Dexter Reloaded at Waikaretu April 21st – 22nd 2007

The recordings from the November concert have been lost so if you missed it, too bad.

What we have done is re-record some of the songs ‘live in the studio’. Dave Arrowsmith and Warren Cate came down to the Waikaretu farm on April 21st and 22nd 2007 and the band set up in the lounge and plugged into the a Spirit Folio SX mixer which was then hooked up to a Zoom MRS 8 track DAW.

The following 8 songs were recorded in this session:
(Click on the song to download the MP3 and/or Video)

I’m not your Stepping Stone (Rolling Stones)

Warren Cate – Telecaster and lead vocals
Dave Stewart – Drums and backing vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Bass and production

The Last Time (The Monkees)

Warren Cate – Telecaster and lead vocals
Dave Stewart – Drums and backing vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Bass and production

The Passenger (Iggy Pop)

Warren Cate – Telecaster and lead vocals
Dave Stewart – Drums and backing vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Bass and production

Jeepster (Marc Bolan with T Rex)

Warren Cate – Telecaster and lead vocals
Dave Stewart – Drums and backing vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Bass and production

Teenage Kicks (The Undertones)

Warren Cate – Les Paul (main guitar) SG (second guitar and solo) and backing vocals
Dave Stewart – Drums and lead vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Bass and production

Sweet Jane (Lou Reed with The Velvet Underground)

Warren Cate – Telecaster and backing vocals
Dave Stewart – Drums and lead vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Bass and production

Vicious (Lou Reed)

Warren Cate – Telecaster and backing vocals
Dave Stewart – Drums and lead vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Bass and production

Satelite of Love (Lou Reed)

Warren Cate – Telecaster
Dave Stewart -Lead vocals
Dave Arrowsmith – Production