{"id":37,"date":"2025-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:15:12","slug":"the-story-behind-the-song-combat-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/09\/the-story-behind-the-song-combat-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Song: \u201cCombat Boots\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I began writing \u201cCombat Boots\u201d in January 1997. At the time I described it as having a Stevie Ray Vaughan vibe, and I came up with the title as I was writing the main riff. It wasn\u2019t until November that the song was completely finished. It was included as the opening track for <em>Machine Dream<\/em> (1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 2024 re-release, I re-recorded everything except the vocals. There were some irregularities in the rhythm of of the recording and the solo was twice as long. Plus I\u2019m a better guitar player now than I was then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, as now, people twist religion to suit their worldview, even if it directly contradicts what the founders of the religion actually taught. I imagined a drill sergeant indoctrinating his new recruits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Combat Boots\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhGEhp4hRtc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began writing \u201cCombat Boots\u201d in January 1997. At the time I described it as having a Stevie Ray Vaughan vibe, and I came up&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/09\/the-story-behind-the-song-combat-boots\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story Behind the Song: \u201cCombat Boots\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,11,7],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-behind-the","tag-indie","tag-indie-music","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}