"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Electric Prunes – In session for Bouton Rouge – 1967 – ORTF – Radio/TV – Paris – The Electric Prunes in session tonight. Recorded in Paris for the Bouton Rouge program presented by the ORTF (Public Radio/TV) in 1967. This session comes around the same time as the Stockholm...
January 22, 1997 – on the 24th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion, law enforcement nerves were on full alert as protests and expected attacks on Family planning clinics went into high gear. Sure enough, a small explosion went off a few doors away from a...
Coldplay – in concert at Glastonbury 2011 – Recorded June 25, 2011 – BBC 6 Music – Coldplay at Glastonbury 2011 tonight. Probably one of the most commercially successful of the Alt/Indie/post-Brit-Pop genre, Coldplay have parlayed commercial success into social activism while maintaining a goodly amount of integrity and a...
NBC Radio – Monitor – 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm – June 25, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Considering America had gone through a World War, gone through Korea and was smack in the middle of a Cold War with The Soviet Union, our predilection for fun had...
Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet – Live at The Continental Restaurant – WNOR-AM Broadcast – June 18, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Clifford Brown this weekend. In what very well may have been his last known broadcast before an untimely death from a car accident...
Beady Eye – In Concert at Brixton Academy – April 3, 2011 – XFM Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Beady Eye in concert this weekend. Reminded and remiss that I haven’t posted any Liam Gallagher, while posting lots of Noel Gallagher (via High Flying Birds), I decided...
KMET – Steven Clean – June 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s almost Summer – why you know it’s almost Summer is that it’s June; not yet June-gloom, but that week in June where it suddenly hits 100 degrees during the day and you can smell infinite possibilities...
Yes – in concert from London – 1971 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert series – BBC Radio 1 – Yes in concert to end the week. Recorded in London in 1971 for the BBC In Concert series which ran on BBC Radio 1. Although they had become something of...
Teenage Fanclub – Reading Festival – 1992 (Abbreviated set) – August 30, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Teenage Fanclub tonight, in an abbreviated set from their legendary 1992 Reading Festival appearance – recorded on August 30, 1992 by BBC Radio 1. Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band...
Pale Saints – in session for John Peel – recorded July 23, 1989 – broadcast August 17 – BBC Radio 1 – Become a Patron! Pale Saints for the middle of the week. I remember hearing Pale Saints around the same time I heard Lush, by way of their initial...
