Sly & The Family Stone – live at Harlem Cultural Festival – June 29, 1969 – Sly & The Family Stone were the staple in just about every diet of anyone who went to the Fillmore in San Francisco or the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles from 1967-1969. They
– President Ford – Amnesty Proposal for Vietnam era Deserters and resisters – September 16, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The War in Southeast Asia; the seemingly endless conflict that consumed Vietnam, as well as Cambodia and Laos and left them countries enveloped in widespread destruction for almost
For everyone who thinks the current situation over Medicare is something new, you’re wrong. The issue of Medicare has been raging since the days long before the FDR administration. The arguments for it are the same – the arguments against it are the same. On May 20, 1962, President Kennedy
Reading reports on what the American Forces Radio service was like during the Vietnam War, and also reading reports of clandestine stations popping up playing what the troops really wanted to hear via taped letters from home containing music the Army had banned during the time, I was curious what
– Eric Dolphy Quartet – Live in Munich – December 1, 1961 – Deutsche Welle – Legendary Concerts this weekend. The Eric Dolphy Quartet, featuring McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Mel Lewis recorded in Munich on December 1st 1961. One of the pioneering figures in Jazz, Eric Dolphy’s influence on
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – Week Ending September 4, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lest we all forget – Red China was going through what was later to become The Cultural Revolution. And beginning this week, the one ending on September 4th in 1966,
Sadly, I didn’t get to work with Roy Orbison until near the end of his career. It was during the resurgence in his popularity around the time of David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet and the duet he did with KD Lang that reminded me what an incredible talent he was and
When you consider the Cold War officially began and 1947 and officially ended in 1990, that’s an awfully long time spent conjuring scenarios and stoking flames. Of constantly entertaining conspiracy theories and second-guessing motives of our allies. It didn’t do a whole lot of good – but there were a
If you were born in 2010 or even 2000 you would most likely feel the same about listening to this as we did watching a documentary on the Wright Brothers and the first time we flew – it’s roughly about same equivalent span of time; 60 years between Kittyhawk and
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