Radio Hanoi

Radio Hanoi is Ronnie Riggar with help from friends and family along the way. I didn't really want to make this a biography written in third person, so I'll just tell you the story. After my old band broke up in early 2006, I wanted to create music again on a more personal level. I bought an old 8 track recorder and laid down a few tracks. They turned out pretty good. It wasn't just all acoustic songs, there were some rocking jams too (I know there's a stigma attached to being a solo musician, so no, it wasn't sappy acoustic ballads). After a month or so, I found the name Radio Hanoi in a book I was supposed to be reading for a Summer college class. The book was called The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. It's a Vietnam war book, kinda. One of the characters was describing a mission and referred to the mountains as being tuned in to "Radio fucking Hanoi." I read that and fell in love with the name. It hit me hard. I knew I had to use it. So I called my project Radio Hanoi. I took my couple of songs I had and enlisted some friends to play them with me at shows. That was fun for a while. But it got boring. I didn't like being in a band. The thing is, I don't really get along with people when I'm making music with them (you could say I don't get along with people period). I told the other guys that I wanted to go back to playing solo again. They said "ok", and I went back to performing and recording solo. That was in April 2007. I ended up releasing a full length CD in August 2007 under the name Trumpets & Sirens. Fast forward to November 2008 (I was finishing and graduating from college in between that time). My dog Rocko died, and I was inspired to record some new songs. Those songs turned out to be the Forever Curious EP. I released it on my label Fish Bowl Recordings. Since then I have updated all of my recording equipment, officially launched my studio, Fish Bowl Studios, and released a new EP, Fish Bowl Sessions: Part One. That's the story, I hope I told it well.