"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Blue Cheer – Demo/sessions – KSAN-FM 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Picture this: You live in L.A. – you are a regular of the concerts at the Shrine Expo Hall near USC. It’s 1967. Some friends of yours who have moved up to the Bay area are telling...
State of Education – Franco-American relations – Listen To Washington – February 15, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1955 we were in the middle of what became known as the Post-War Baby Boom. Kids born after 1945 were either approaching school age or were well into elementary...
February 28, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 1942 – While the news was coming in over the threatened Japanese invasion Java in the Pacific, a bulletin had flashed just towards the end of this newscast. Giving little in the way of...
The Limiñanas – Live at Route du Rock Hiver – February 25, 2017 – Radio France Heading across the Atlantic tonight for a concert by French Psych-meisters The Limiñanas, recorded live at this last week’s Route du Rock Winter festival on February 25th. Actually, the husband and wife team of...
February 27, 1979 – CBS The World Tonight + Walter Cronkite Comments – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 27, 1979 – A day up in the air, as a proposed Middle-East peace summit went. When this day started, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said no to a proposed Camp...
Maurice Emmanuel – Overture pour une Conte Gai – French National Orchestra – Eugène Bigot, Cond. – Radio France broadcast, circa 1956. The music of Maurice Emmanuel this weekend – a name which may not ring any bells, but a prolific composer who was very active during the early years...
Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker – live on Jubillee – Dec. 29, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Two legends together this weekend; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, together with Milt Jackson on vibes, Al Haig on piano, Ray Brown on bass and Stan Levey on drums. All appearing...
Echo & The Bunnymen – Live at Barrowlands – Glasgow – December 21, 1985 – Radio Clyde – FM Echo & The Bunnymen this week. Recorded live at Barrowlands in Glasgow by Radio Clyde on December 21, 1985. One of those bands at the forefront of neo-Psych, whose reputation was...
Isla Vista Demonstrations and riot UCSB campus – William Malloch/KPFK – Feb. 24-26, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 47 years ago, Protests against the Vietnam War were at a fevered-pitch – college campuses all over the country were hotbeds. And 1970 was just getting started. The situation in...
Television Personalities – in session for John Peel – August 20, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Television Personalities in session tonight; their first (and only) session for John Peel and recorded at BBC Radio 1 on August 20, 1980. An homage to 60s Mod-revival, some Psychedelia with Indie and...