Seemed like a great idea at the time. Months away from turning 18 – months away from the Draft Board – Months away from getting “the telegram”. Everybody you knew was against the war – except for the jocks, none of the guys you hung out with were big on
Badfinger to start the weekend. In concert at Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City from 1972 and broadcast by KSHE-FM in April of that year. You can’t help but shake your head in bafflement that such a wildly influential band – a band that did as much to put Power Pop
Dutch Wine at BBC Scotland’s Introducing – Tenement Trail festival – recorded in September. This sojourn over to BBC Radio’s Introducing sites has been an education and an eye opener with a sampling of just how many new bands and artists are out there, just in the UK alone. I
– November 1, 1956 – UN General Assembly Meeting re: Suez Crisis -1st half hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 1, 1956. November would be a month of turmoil in 1956. Two major crises were developing, either of which would have tested the limits of the United Nations
– Devo – In Concert at The Walker Center, Minneapolis – November 3, 1978 – Devo to end a fractious week – in concert at The Walker Center in Minneapolis on November 3, 1978 Probably one of the more visible and influential bands of the 70s, Devo rode the crest
It just came to my attention that the month of October was given over to featuring new bands in a live setting at the BBC Radio Introducing series. This one comes via the Tenement Trail Festival in Glasgow and features several bands who have been gathering positive vibes and enthusiasm
– ABC World News This Week – October 31, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Election ’76: Down to the wire – the last full week of campaigning before America went to the polls, this week ending October 31st, in 1976. President Ford and Jimmy Carter and, by the
– Vampire Weekend – live at DCode Festival 2013 – Recorded Sept. 16, 2013 – Radio Nacional Espãna – Since it IS Halloween and since my Rocket From The Crypt concert has turned up missing, I thought I would re-run this concert from 11 years ago. This morning it’s a
Bug Teeth from the Float Away Festival in Sheffield, recorded in September of this year by BBC 6 Music for BBC Introducing. Curious name for a band, however the band is pretty wonderful – so what’s in a name, anyway? Bug Teeth started out in 2018 as the solo project
Ten years before this broadcast of Youth Wants To Know in 1957, the fate of Japan was unsure. Having weathered two Atomic Bombings, hundreds of air raids, destroying infrastructure and manufacturing – turning once thriving cities into heaps of burning rubble, the outlook wasn’t particularly good. Under U.S. Occupation Japan
