From August 1991 - August 1994, I was stationed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, which is northwest of Tokyo. My wife and I married in January, and eight months later I drag her off to Japan!
Friday nights we usually went to the Officer’s Club. Stateside, most of the on-base clubs are pretty lame; there’s just too much to do and too many places to go off base. But overseas the clubs are much more active, a gathering where folks congregate to share the familiar. A bit of home, if you will.
We were at the club one Friday and the DJ played this song, which my wife liked. She spoke to him and found out the name of the group and CD. The next day we checked at the Base Exchange, but they didn’t have it, so we jumped on the trains and headed into Tokyo with some friends, with the mission in mind of tracking down the Voice if the Beehive CD.
We ended up at a Tower Records, a huge place of 3 floors. With the help of a friendly salesperson who spoke some English, we found it and paid 32,000 yen (about $29)!
Monsters and Angels, by Voice of the Beehive
What memories does this song make you think of?
