Dizzy Gillespie Big Band – Live In Vienna – 70th Birthday Concert – July 17, 1987 – ORF-Radio, Austria – Dizzy Gillespie this weekend. In a concert given on his 70th birthday at Arkadenhof Rathuas in Vienna on July 17, 1987 and recorded for posterity by Austrian Radio. And here’s
KOBY-AM, San Francisco – Jim Wayne Show – August, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When a phenomenon goes from being a wishful fad to a hardcore lifestyle, little things begin to happen. And if you’re at that coming-of-age place – that phenomenon becomes part of your DNA; not
Supersister In Concert – Pik-Inn Baarn, Netherlands February 5, 1971 – Midsummer Pop Festival – July 8, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Supersister in concert this weekend. If you’re a fan or follower of Progressive Rock, you know exactly who Supersister were and are more than familiar with
The Germs – live at The Starwood – December 3, 1980 – Rhino Records 2010 – The Germs to end out an insane week. With the sad news on Thursday of the death of bassist Lorna Doom (aka: Teresa Ryan), I was reminded of how short-lived, but how seismic this
January 18, 1999 – NewsHour – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 18, 1999 – Another day where innocents are caught in the middle and factions are settling old scores. This time it was the town of Recuk in Kosovo where unarmed ethnic Albanians were rounded
January 11, 1997 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 11, 1997 – The Blizzard of ’97. When much of the nation was nailed by an arctic blast – bearing the brunt of it seemed to be the upper Midwest, where temperatures dipped
January 10, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 10, 1995 – As the rest of the world spun quietly off on its own, SoCal was in the midst of getting soaked by a relentless series of storms, slamming in from the Pacific. Contrary
