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Ogre 2015 Remix

from The Smile That You Prefer by The Gatekeepers

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A song about childhood imagination in my ol' D modal tuning. This was recorded in the 1988 sessions when the band was a trio and so is one of the few recordings that we ever did as a group playing the bulk of the track live in the studio (well, in Ian's room) Done on Greg Wadley's Portastudio 4-Track.

It was one of the tracks on the B-side of the 12 inch single Indoors from 1988. It was mixed in Brisbane by Greg and Ian Wadley. I was encouraged to join them but was confident they'd do a decent job. They did, but they of course couldn't hear what I was hearing. So, here's my mix, digitised as a multitrack at 24 bit 96 khz from the source cassette.

lyrics

OGRE

We were there on the edge of the screen
Where the grass is big and green
Rattling a hack that stank unclean
We knew the ogre's sins
Saw its work in the garbage bins
And groaned through nights soaked in its grin
It was big and the sky was grey
Sharp rocks with a lot to say
At the start of the coming of its day
Cut thumbs and the blood we kissed
Not much we did resist
Armed against its night time curse

We were there with a sharpened hoe
A will of tin and a blood red glow
On a field where the ogre didn't show

No fear of a lightning bolt
Vengeance and chocolate malt
We killed the slugs with sand and salt
By the Ross, by Temple Bar
By the banks of the Vistula
A stench was stretching from afar
There was a ball with a crack in the seam
And a field where we could scream
Manufactured from a dream
Asphalt and broken glass
Scrap metal from a broken class
And a burnt out car shell in the grass

We were there with a sharpened hoe
A will of tin and a blood red glow
On a field where the ogre didn't show

credits

from The Smile That You Prefer, released June 13, 2015
Words and music Peter Jetnikoff 1988
Peter Jetnikoff Vocals and guitars (Maton Fyrbyrd through a silverface Fender Twin)
Greg Wadley, Bass
Ian Wadley, Drums

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