Your Guidance Counsellor twisted your arm off. “Computers are the wave of the future”, she said. “Everybody will have one”, she said. Furthest thing from your mind. She was persistent. She promised you’d graduate early. Instead of getting railroaded into ROTC, you nodded your head and got signed up for
Legendary summit meetings this week – The Sonny Rollins – Don Cherry Quartet, live at l’Olympia in Paris on January 19, 1963 and broadcast by Radio France. Joining them are Billy Higgins on drums and Henry Grimes on bass. Originally released as only excerpts from RCA Victor as Our
– Spooky Tooth – In Session – BBC Radio 1 – 1968 – Spooky Tooth were one of those bands which should have made it huge. But for whatever reason they came close, but in the end came up short. Not for lack of trying and certainly not for
Diving into the 70s this weekend with a set by Hall and Oates, recorded and broadcast live by KLOS-FM at the Roxy in Hollywood on November 4, 1979. Although a band (duo) that achieved a lot of success in the 70s and 80s, it was hard to pin down any
– June 20, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 20,1988. After four months of relative democracy under civilian rule, Haiti was once again the object of a military coup and takeover. Troops loyal to Gen. Namphy freed him from house arrest and fought
Ending the week with a set by The Soundtrack Of Our Lives (aka: TSOOL) – recorded at Cirkus in Stockholm on January 21, 2009 by Swedish Radio and broadcast live. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives formed in Gothenburg in 1995 and disbanded in 2012, before reuniting again in 2023. The
Taking a breather before Friday – Leonard Cohen in session for John Peel’s Top Gear program for BBC Radio 1 – recorded on July 9, 1968. When Songs Of Leonard Cohen, his debut album, came out in 1967 it immediately became one of the most heavily played albums on what
– Civil Rights Progress Report: 1960 – The Open Mind – NBC – Feb. 21, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The state of Civil Rights in 1960. Some six years after Brown v. Board of Education. Six years after the famous Rosa Parks bus protest and the ensuing
– CBS World News Roundup – June 19, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – The World: A day full of contrasts, like every other day, only this one was from June 19, 1990. An Airline hi-jacking ended In Helsinki Finland with all passengers aboard the Soviet Jet released and
Black Sabbath this morning – recorded by the band’s soundcrew at the Asbury Park Convention Hall on August 5, 1975. Amazing, fifty years on and the sentiments are still the same – I’m talking about one hour in and the somewhat prophetic War Pigs. To be honest, I never took
