
Author: gordonskene


It’s 1979 -You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Don’t Know And You Don’t Care.
KROQ-FM – Larry Woodside – 11:30am-1:30pm – February 24, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hits you like a ton of bricks – somewhere around 16 1/2 everything gets just a little dark and very uncool. You live in L.A., you have creeping cynicism. You don’t like your teachers,


China After Mao – 1977 – Era Of The Two Whatever’s – Past Daily Reference Room
NPR: Options – What’s Happening In China Now? – December 23, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – China after Mao. When Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, died on September 9, 1976, China was in a political and economic quagmire. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and

May 17, 1975 – The Mayaguez Postmortem – Anwar Sadat Goes Opinion Sampling -The Shah Pays A Visit
May 17, 1975 – CBS Radio The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 17, 1975 – End of a busy week. With the Mayguez incident resolved, with President Ford announcing the two-day crisis was over, it was now time to look at the incident itself and



Sir Simon Rattle With The Berlin Philharmonic In Music Of Schoenberg And Mahler – 2010 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Sir Simon Rattle – Berlin Philharmonic – Music of Schoenberg and Mahler – October 30, 2010 – RBB Berlin – When Sir Simon Rattle finished out his tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic last year, after 16 years leading one of the world’s great orchestras, critics said the audience reception and

