The Hooch Tape

发行时间:2015-05-15
发行公司:CD Baby
简介:  It was 1968, as I recall. I had been flying combat missions out of Ubon Royal Thai AFB long enough to have penned well over a dozen songs. I'd had the hell scared out of me numerous times, and severely enough to engage the warrior's vernacular both in the cockpit and in the poetry.    When it became obvious enough to me and my fellow Satan's Angels that just maybe we might want an easy and sure way to remember and recount our adventures, the next step was to get the ballads on magnetic tape.    Whit Swain, one of the front-seaters assigned to our 2-pilot jet fighter had recently returned from R & R with a brand new, state of the art, TEAC reel-to-reel tape recorder. He and I got together over in his hooch for a recording session. While I was exercising my pipes in preparation, Whit was hanging blankets from the ceiling in various places to create as nearly as possible an acceptable sound environment in this somewhat makeshift recording studio.    So this is the effort as it sounded when I was hardly out of boyhood and a fairly new veteran of air combat in the Vietnam War. Since then, the songs and the music have undergone some polishing. Today, they are all available commercially on disk and digital download.    But it all began on tape in Whit Swain's hooch.
  It was 1968, as I recall. I had been flying combat missions out of Ubon Royal Thai AFB long enough to have penned well over a dozen songs. I'd had the hell scared out of me numerous times, and severely enough to engage the warrior's vernacular both in the cockpit and in the poetry.    When it became obvious enough to me and my fellow Satan's Angels that just maybe we might want an easy and sure way to remember and recount our adventures, the next step was to get the ballads on magnetic tape.    Whit Swain, one of the front-seaters assigned to our 2-pilot jet fighter had recently returned from R & R with a brand new, state of the art, TEAC reel-to-reel tape recorder. He and I got together over in his hooch for a recording session. While I was exercising my pipes in preparation, Whit was hanging blankets from the ceiling in various places to create as nearly as possible an acceptable sound environment in this somewhat makeshift recording studio.    So this is the effort as it sounded when I was hardly out of boyhood and a fairly new veteran of air combat in the Vietnam War. Since then, the songs and the music have undergone some polishing. Today, they are all available commercially on disk and digital download.    But it all began on tape in Whit Swain's hooch.