"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Farmingdale Long Island – Eyewitness reports of First Air Raid Drill in U.S. – May 16, 1938 – WOR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With ominous war clouds gathering over Europe, the question of preparedness in America…
– Working Week – live at Glastonbury 1985 – BBC Radio 1- Working Week tonight. From their concert at Glastonbury in 1985, recorded by the ever-present-always-amazing BBC Radio 1. Working Week were one of the first British Jazz/Pop/Funk/New Wave conglomerations…
– Deaf School – in session for John Peel – August 9, 1976 – BBC Radio 1 – Deaf School. Despite a lot of promotion and great press, a band which, on the face of it didn’t achieve a…
– Stiff Little Fingers – in session for John Peel – April 13, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 – Stiff Little Fingers – their very first session for John Peel from April 13, 1978. It would be the first of…
KROQ – Jed The Fish – Iggy Pop Live From The Stardust Ballroom – Hollywood – November 30, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There are times, important times, times where you made every plan and had it…
– April 7, 1940 – Reports from Europe – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 7, 1940 – A day loaded with ominous ironies. This roundtable series of reports on the situation in Europe, as…
The Stranglers In Session for John Peel – September 13, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – The Stranglers in session, their second for John Peel, recorded on September 13, 1977. FYI: I ran the first session a couple years ago,…
– Aztec Camera – in session BBC Radio 1 -1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Making a brief stop in the 80s tonight with a session by Aztec Camera, a Scottish pop/new wave band formed by Roddy Frame, the group’s…
– The Yardbirds – live at Stadhall Offenbach (Beat Beat Beat program) – March 15, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Yardbirds, recorded at Stadhall, Offenbach in Germany on March 15, 1967. This is the version of the…
– Mutual – John Steele, Reporting From London – Feb. 21, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – 1938 started out with War jitters. With the German issues over the situation in Austria and a general purge of Hitler‘s Generals.…