
Year: 2019


The Germs – Live At The Starwood – 1980 – Past Daily Soundbooth – RIP: Lorna Doom (1957-2019)
The Germs – live at The Starwood – December 3, 1980 – Rhino Records 2010 – The Germs to end out an insane week. With the sad news on Thursday of the death of bassist Lorna Doom (aka: Teresa Ryan), I was reminded of how short-lived, but how seismic this

January 18, 1999 – A Slaughter Of Innocents – A Matter Of Extradition – A Bleak View Of Angola
January 18, 1999 – NewsHour – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 18, 1999 – Another day where innocents are caught in the middle and factions are settling old scores. This time it was the town of Recuk in Kosovo where unarmed ethnic Albanians were rounded



January 11, 1997 – The Blizzard Of ’97 – Ol’ Blue Eyes Recuperates – Using The Velvet Glove On Serbia
January 11, 1997 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 11, 1997 – The Blizzard of ’97. When much of the nation was nailed by an arctic blast – bearing the brunt of it seemed to be the upper Midwest, where temperatures dipped

January 10, 1995 – Soggy SoCal – Appointee Shown Door – Climbing Walls In Chechnya.
January 10, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 10, 1995 – As the rest of the world spun quietly off on its own, SoCal was in the midst of getting soaked by a relentless series of storms, slamming in from the Pacific. Contrary

Blur – Live At Peel Acres – 1999 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Blur – live at Peel Acres – October 5, 1999 – BBC Radio 1 – Blur on a Wednesday night. This time it’s a live set from the legendary Peel Acres, hosted by none other than John Peel, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on October 5, 1999. In addition

Alexandre Paley With Alexandre Dmitriev, David Gaillard And Amiram Ganz Play Music Of Medtner, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Rachmaninov And Catoire – 2010 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Alexandre Paley, Alexandre Dmitriev, David Gaillard, Amiram Ganze in concert – October 17, 2010 – Radio France Musique – Virtuoso group endeavors this week. Moldavian pianist Alexandre Paley is joined by cellist Alexandre Dmitriev, Amiram Ganz, violin and David Gaillard, viola for a concert of reasonably rare material (the Rachmaninov

Shutting Down The Government 1995 – Past Daily Reference Room –
Government shutdown news – excerpt from ABC World News This week – November 19, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Government shut downs. We’ve had several of them. In fact, since 1976 we’ve had 22 of them – all for different reasons, all over different issues, all have had