Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS News – China After Mao – September 10, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For those of you who don’t know who Chairman Mao was (and for those of you who do, imagine my shock at how many actually don’t),
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – September 8, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Shades of October 1962, this day in September 35 years ago. A flurry of reports claiming the presence of Soviet troops on Cuban soil brought a wave of paranoia
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bonfire: Sage of The Running Nose – from lp – Bonfire Goes Bananas – Dutch EMI – 1974 Last night I ran a track by Supersister, one of the more influential bands on the Prog scene of the early 1970s. Another
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Graham Parker and The Rumour – Live at The Savoy – KSAN-FM – Nov. 7, 1976 During the watershed and constantly-changing period of the mid-late 70s, a lot of bands were appearing on the scene that made describing somewhat difficult. Somewhat
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup – in session for John Peel – February 9, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 Ending up the week similar to a note we began with. A session by blues legend Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup, recorded for the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Son House – In Session for John Peel – July 6, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 When the resurgence in Rural Blues swept the U.S.in the early 1960s, one of the most revered, yet almost totally unknown outside a small coterie
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Monochrome Set in Session for John Peel – Feb. 14, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 The Monochrome Set tonight. One of my favorite late 70s bands who were very difficult to describe, musically. Best as I could figure, The Monochrome
The Stranglers – In Concert from Paris Theatre, London – March 24, 1977 – BBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Become a Patron! The Stranglers in concert from 1977. And another one . . . . the news today that keyboard player Dave Greenfield passed away earlier today from
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup + The World Tonight – August 22, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A busy and controversial day – no less controversial than the abrupt resignation from UN Ambassadorship of Andrew Young, who announced his leaving in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Au Pairs – in session for John Peel – October 9, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 The Au Pairs were around for only a short time (1978-1983) and made very little dent outside the UK. Even though they were well received
