Sticking around the 70s this week with a concert from Deep Purple – recorded on January 26, 1976 at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield Massachusetts. For fans of Deep Purple, you know all this – but for those who don’t: This concert was recorded during what would be the
In 1949, as The Red Scare was grabbing the minds and nerves of the American people, a concerted effort was taking place to give explanation as to what Soviet Russia was all about and how formidable an enemy the Russian people actually were. Among all the people who sought to
Over to the 2012 Salzburg Festival for a concert featuring the Vienna Philharmonic, led by Valery Gergiev with tenor Sergei Semishkur in Moussorgsky’s Chant ed danses de la mort (Songs and Dances Of Death). Beginning the concert with Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the Vienna State Opera Chorus – followed
Three major parties tonight were running a close race for membership of Japan’s 468-seat House of Representatives trailing far behind. Nine women appeared certain of election. Scattered nation-wide results from the first postwar election gave the Social Democratic Party in Japan, 25 seats, the Progressives 24 and the Liberals 23.
Parliament/Funkadelic to get your blood circulating on a Wednesday morning. In concert at the Convention Center in Dallas on November 5, 1976. I cannot imagine anyone who has not seen, heard or experienced Parliament-Funkadelic in all these years. They were (and still are) a genre unto themselves, wildly innovative, totally
– Procol Harum – In Session – BBC 1967 – More familiar territory tonight. Procol Harum is no stranger to these pages, but the session recordings haven’t gotten around much and they did several for the BBC between 1967 and 1970. Tonight it’s from their first group of BBC sessions,
Prophetic and disturbing words from UN Secretary General U Thant, who gave that assessment on the escalating war in Vietnam, this April 8th in 1967, joining a growing swell of voices opposing our further involvement in what was deemed a costly and pointless war. Of course, mainstream media wasn’t going
Linda Ronstadt – Live at Berkeley Community Theater – July 18, 1974 – KSAN-FM Landing on Tuesday morning with the inimitable Linda Ronstadt, recorded live at Berkeley Community Theater on July 18th 1974. Always one of the favorites and the personification of the laid-back California sound which seemed to be
The Young Knives in session tonight – recorded April 4th at Radio X for John Kennedy’s X-Posure program. Formed in the north Leicestershire market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch under the name ‘Simple Pastoral Existence’, the Young Knives began their career “playing bad funk and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin covers”, but it was
In 1949, as the world was becoming a more contentious place; between the Cold War, the growing independence movements sweeping through former colonies, the fledgling United Nations stuck in the middle of upheavals and revolutions, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization further agitating an already strained relationship between Europe and The
