"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Lightning Seeds – Glastonbury 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – In lieu of no Glastonbury this year (remember – it happens every other year), a few reminders of what is one of the best festivals in the world for many decades running. Tonight, it’s Lightning Seeds, recorded during their appearance...
June 18, 2008 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 18, 2008: just ten years ago today. Same sex marriage became legal in California. After a long battle and with still-contentious opponents, the first marriage licenses were granted to Gay and Lesbian couples all over...
4 By Apple 1: Mr. Jones 2: The Otherside 3: Photograph 4: Buffalo Billycan – from the lp An Apple A Day – Page One Records 1969 – Hard core collectors, aficionados of Psychedelia and lovers of the obscure, know all about this band, know all about and either have...
Pierre Sancan – Symphony No. 2 For Strings – ORTF Symphony – Pierre-Michel LeConte – Circa 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pierre Sancan: A name virtually unknown outside his native France, but a major figure in mid-twentieth century music in France who, along with Henri Dutilleux and Olivier...
Carla Bley Big Band – live in Vennes, France – July 30, 2009 – Radio France Musique- Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pardon me while I plug some Desert Island music this weekend – Carla Bley has been a favorite in all her various endeavors for quite some time now....
Canned Heat (w/Kaleidoscope) – The Tea Party, Boston – June 26, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Okay. I will admit; I was never a big fan of Canned Heat. Maybe because they were playing everywhere in L.A. all the time, or it was the terminally long jams, or...
Top-40 Radio -Los Angeles – March 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was the Tuna Fiesta. It had to be. Nobody else ate it – they knew. You were starving. You missed Nutrition. You were building sets for the Talent Show. That’s what you get, taking Stage Crew;...
Big Flame – in session for John Peel – May 4, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Big Flame in session for John Peel to end the week. Often referred to as one of the more influential bands nobody ever talks about anymore, Big Flame were around for a comparatively...
June 15, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 15, 1973 -Busy news day – Starting with President Nixon going to Pekin Illinois to visit the birthplace of the late Everett Dirksen. Nixon and Everrett Dirksen’s widow unveiled the cornerstone of a new research center...
June 15,1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 15, 1995 – A day focused on the madness in Eastern Europe. The Battle for Sarajevo had begun. Bosnian Serb Military officials claimed that government troops had been raining artillery fire on a town just...
