DEXTER RELOADED - THE OKE KARAOKE

MUSIC - Tradition

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. The drum track here is from a DX50 and was programmed in a hurry by some keyboard player who had no idea about drum machine dynamics. Steve plays bass, a Fender Precision, I'm doing the guitar work on a Hondo Strat with Jackson stacked humbusker pickups. Recorded at The Lost Note Studio 1994. Gear used : Fostex x26 4 track, Alesis III Midiverb, Shure SM58 mics for vocals, guitar recorded through a Sansamp Original driven hard by a Boss DS-1 distortion pedal and Akai Studio Compressor.

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.