Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] THESE SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN YEARS - AN OILSLIVE PROJECT

Jeff and Jane Scott jscott@iinet.net.au
Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:24:07 +0800


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The original Bakerman demo came from the Place Without A Postcard era.  It's
just a song that was never used as far as I can see.  The story I heard for
the Red Sails version is that the band, recording in Japan, had a local high
school band to play the horns etc on that album.  One day the high school
band was at the studio but the Oils didn't have anything ready for them to
play on.  So Rob wrote Bakerman on the spot to give them something to do.
Obviously it wasn't so much a case of writing something new, but rather
recycling the tune from an old unused song.  The tune on the demo is pretty
much as we know it from Red Sails.  The lyrics are pretty innocuous really.


jeff...

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