The Zen Circus – Fino A Speccarti Due o Tre Denti – 2006 You may not have noticed it, but we had a small crisis here at Past Daily the past few days and we were dangerously close to having all the posts from the past ten years wiped out.
– CBS World News Roundup – February 6, 1992 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another crack at some sort of affordable healthcare started making the rounds, this February 6th in 1992. President George (HW) Bush was proposing a plan for health coverage for the millions of Americans with no
– Irma Thomas, live at Black Is Back Soul Weekend – June 16, 2013 – It’s hard to believe the Black Is Back Soul Weekend festival was the first time Queen of Soul Irma Thomas played in Spain. But from all accounts it was true. Needless to say, the legend
Pedalo in session for BBC Scotland’s Introducing program, recorded January 31. Pedalo are one of those bands who have gotten an incredible amount of good press and following since they got started in 2022. Drawing on an eclectic melting pot of influences, Pedalo have gained momentum with sold out shows
Over to the Royal Albert Hall in London this week (by way of Swiss Radio) for a concert by the BBC Symphony, led by Sakari Oramo and featuring Kirill Gerstein in music of Fung Lam, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev. It was recorded and broadcast live on July 18, 2012. The concert
Since we are now embarking on uncharted territory, looking back on another time where we feared we were heading into the unknown caused as much anxiety in the 1950s as it does now. But it was a different time then and perhaps we were different people. In the 1950s we
– CBS World News Roundup – February 5, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – And things were heating up in the Middle East, this day 46 years ago. Ayatollah Khomeini appointed Scholar and pro-democracy advocate Mehdi Bazargan as head of the provisional government in Iran. It was an escalation
Something special this morning. The legendary Curtis Mayfield in Concert at The Marcus Garvey Centre in London, recorded by the BBC in June of 1984. As a powerful force in the world of Music, Mayfield was a catalyst in the raising of social consciousness in the 1960s and 70s. Beyond
– Procol Harum in Session – raw session tracks – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – I was watching an excellent BBC Documentary on the birth and life of the Progressive Rock Movement in Britain from 1966-2004. And even though it could be disputed, Procol Harum lead singer Gary Brooker
1969, not that long ago considering the area of Psychiatry and the general emotional well-being of the average human in America. By 1969 we were becoming more and more aware that mental illness was much more widespread than we originally thought. But like most everything – Psychotherapy wasn’t one-size-fits-all, and
