EARLY RENDITIONS

I was already messing around with the theme on a Yamaha FE-40 organ in the mid-1980s, but I knew someday I'd need computer sequencing kit and proper professional synths if I was ever to recreate the show's 'Main Theme' the way it deserved – all utter self-indulgence, of course! During that period I also started the International Appreciation Association for the AIRWOLF series, producing a regular, semi-professional magazine continually until mid-1997, when the Internet took off.

WINNING STREAK

I suddenly won some money from a local radio station competition in 1995, bought a second-hand pro synth (Yamaha SY-77) and just built my kit up from there. At the start it, again, was all self-indulgence.

The first piece of music I messed around with was, of course, the show's Main Theme... for the first time complete -- with the Yamaha synth's built-in sequencer. But I quickly outgrew that, bought an Apple PowerMac (I'm a Graphic Designer by profession) for freelance graphics work, which then doubled up as a professional music studio with the right software (an all-new approach in MOTU's FreeStyle 2 for Mac).

AIRWOLF ACORN

One day, a friend of mine heard my extended rendition of the AIRWOLF Main Theme, and said: "That's a class recording. What CD did you get that of?" I told him it was my own. He had honestly thought it was the original, it was so close. Then I let other people (within the International AIRWOLF Appreciation Association) hear it and they agreed; and the project just grew from that little acorn. I did a few more episodic tracks, sent them to Gerry R. Forrester, who was an AIRWOLF Appreciation Association member at the time and a professional soundtrack producer in his spare time. We got talking, and voilà... the AIRWOLF THEMES 2CD: Special Limited Edition was born.

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