"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Turtles – BBC Saturday Club – June, 1967 – BBC Radio Light Programme A very short one tonight, a little over four minutes to be exact. But a rare one Anyone who spent any amount of time on the West Coast, most notably Southern California, in the 1960s will...
Gong – live at The Marquee Club – September 10, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gong this weekend. Perennial favorites, exquisitely whacked-out, endlessly creative and a band that hasn’t aged all that badly in the almost 50 years since this gig at the famed Marquee Club was recorded....
– KRLA-KFWB-KHJ-KBLA- recorded between February and May, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Long before the days of downloading, streaming and ripping, if you wanted to listen to a new song over and over, the only way you could do that was hook up your tape-recorder (or your parents...
Manfred Mann – Poll Winners Concert – Wembley Stadium – 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Manfred Mann to end up the week. A short (two song) set from one of the bands who were an integral part of the first British Invasion. Coming to prominence in the U.S....
CBS World News Roundup – April 9, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While news for this day in 1994 focused on Shuttle Endeavor, President Clinton’s Healthcare Bill and the situation in Bosnia, a darker more horrifying story was unfolding in the African nation of Rwanda as reports surfaced of...
Although they were together for a comparatively short period of time (1978-1984), and really had only one hit, The Waitresses were one of those early 80s bands which had a lot more going for them than they were credited for. Their one hit, which actually didn’t do anything the first...
April 8, 1945 – CBS Radio – World News Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 8, 1945 – Another busy day in war news. Allied armies continue to advance across Europe. Reports were coming in that the British 2nd Army now seven miles away from the German cities...
As the situation in Vietnam went from bad to worse to hopeless – the Pentagon was pressuring The White House to pressure Capitol Hill to provide $ 1/2 Billion in immediate Military aid to the South Vietnamese government. Even the Pentagon was less-than-optimistic that this sum would do any good;...
An Emotional Fish – In session for Dave Fanning – RTE-Dublin – 1989 – An Emotional Fish in session from 1989 tonight. Every so often, when there’s the urge to go exploring, seeing what else is out there, what other websites are doing what, you run into something really interesting...
The Borodin Quartet – in concert at The Vienna Festival 2012 – June 19, 2012 – Deutsche Welle/Radio Nacional España – Chamber music this week. A concert by The Borodin Quartet given during the 2012 Vienna Festival and featuring the music of Tchaikovsky and Brahms. Opening with the Quartet Movement...
