"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Subscribe: Become a Patron! – Martha Stuart: Are You Listening? – Boys With Long Hair – July 1970 – Anyone reading this who was born after 1970 will have no idea what the deal was. It was all about hair…
– Backstage Press interviews – 1990 Grammy© Awards – Feb. 22, 1990 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since tonight is a big night in the Music Business (or it used to be), I thought it might be good to take…
We do this every day, so:Become a Patron! – Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Live at The Anaheim Convention Center – February 2, 1974 – KMET-FM – Probably the one band which would gather universal recognition as the quintessential example…
Goes well with a Double-espresso Americano: – Supergrass – Live at The Reading Festival 2001 – BBC 6 Music – Perennial favorites Supergrass tonight. Recorded live at the Reading Festival in 2001 by the venerable BBC. One of the bands…
– Terry Reid – In Session for Beat Club – Dec. 31, 1969 – RBB Berlin – Terry Reid tonight. Probably more well known by fans as “the man who turned down Led Zeppelin” than for the actual artist himself,…
KMPC – Gary Owens – January 26, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You live in L.A. and it’s January; the first month of a new year and a new decade. You have also left your twenties, and the…
Happy Mondays – in session for John Peel – April 1, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Getting ready to start off the week with Happy Mondays, in session for John Peel from April 1, 1986. Happy Mondays were one…
– KBLA – Humble Harve – December 17, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s December 1966. You have this band; The Bow-Tiks. You’ve been practicing ever since you got your bass last Christmas. There’s six of you. Three…
– KHJ – The Real Don Steele – circa Feb. 22, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you were growing up in L.A. in the 1960s, one of the great rituals of listening to Top-40 radio was being…
I suspect a lot of you have no idea who Grapefruit were, or have heard anything about them. Grapefruit were a short-lived phenomenon, lasting a little less than two years but turning out two albums and a slew of singles.…