• Dave Rabbit's First Termer Radio - pirate radio station run by US troops in Vietnam
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A friend of mine who is into Vietnam reenactments sent me this. I thought it was cool and wanted to share [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N13-kFk8Ix0[/media] Video description: "Radio First Termer was a pirate radio station which operated in January 1971 in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The station was hosted by a United States Air Force Sergeant[1] Clyde David DeLay (15 August 1948 – 20 January 2012[2][3]) better known to some by his DJ alter-ego "Dave Rabbit."[2] The two other members of the crew were known as "Pete Sadler" and "Nguyen." Nguyen is Roma from "Don and Roma" radio show on WLS Chicago. After three tours in Vietnam, "Dave Rabbit" and his friends launched Radio First Termer from a secret studio in a Saigon brothel. The station broadcast for 63 hours[2] over 21 nights (between 1 January 1971 and 21 January 1971[4]). The station played "hard acid rock" such as Steppenwolf, Bloodrock, Three Dog Night, Led Zeppelin, Sugarloaf, the James Gang, and Iron Butterfly, bands which were popular among the troops, but largely ignored by the American Forces Vietnam Network. The music was mixed with antiwar commentary, skits poking fun at the U.S. Air Force and Lyndon B. Johnson, and raunchy sex and drug oriented jokes.[1]" [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-yjdEGQqs[/media] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-yjdEGQqs[/media] Here is an interview with "Dave Rabbit" which kind of sums up the point of all this in about 10 minutes if you don't want to watch 3 hours of content. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPjKcCRGtT0[/media] [editline]27th September 2017[/editline] I looked but I couldn't find volume 4 so if anyone else can, please, feel free to post it
I was listening to part 2 on my way to and from school today and, I have to say, I think I'm becoming a fan of Bloodrock. I hadn't heard of them before listening to these recordings and I'm really digging the way they combine those groovy hard rock riffs with super dark heavy metal-esque lyrics. Its almost like black sabbath but with different style, less distortion, and more blood and murder.
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