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MUSIC - Tradition - Version 2

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.

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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.