Linda Ronstadt – Live at Berkeley Community Theater – July 18, 1974 – KSAN-FM Landing on Tuesday morning with the inimitable Linda Ronstadt, recorded live at Berkeley Community Theater on July 18th 1974. Always one of the favorites and the personification of the laid-back California sound which seemed to be
– CBS Radio – The World Tonight – March 25, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – And on this day in 1976, warnings from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger over Cuban military interventions abroad brought a not-so-thinly-veiled threat of U.S. military involvement and the very real possibility of air-strikes
– Banco del Mutuo Soccorso – live at L’Altro Mondo, Rimini – May 8,1975 – Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, or Banco, or BMS – one of the cornerstone bands of the Italian Progrock movement, beginning in 1969. Having been inspired by the likes of Jethro Tull, Genesis, Van der Graaf
March 20, 1975 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 20, 1975 – The subject was Vietnam on this day – not of American involvement or casualty numbers, but reports that the North Vietnamese army was on a steady, relentless advance South, and that South Vietnamese
– Graham Parker – Live At Hammersmith Odeon – 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – After a number of notable but unsuccessful years fronting The Rumor, Graham Parker quit the band and went solo. It was then his fortunes changed and he achieved the success in the 80s which had
– Isaac Hayes – Live at Montreux 2005 – RTS, Switzerland – The legendary Isaac Hayes this morning. In concert from the 2005 Montreux Festival. Isaac Hayes is another one of those influential artists who left all too soon. As one of the primary writing figures at Stax, Hayes (along
– Secret Affair – Live at Rock Goes To College – 1978 – BBC Radio 1 – Jumping into the Ska/Mod Revival from the late 70s with Secret Affair, recorded by The BBC as part of their Rock Goes To College program in 1978 and rebroadcast in 2010 on BBC6
– Dead Kennedys – Live At Old Waldorf – October 25, 1979 ©Terry Hammer Archives – Taking a brief detour back to the 70s this morning with a concert by California’s own Dead Kennedys. Recorded live at Old Waldorf by the venerable Terry Hammer for KALX in Berkeley on October
– Dexter Gordon Quartet – Live In Paris – Maison de la Radio – Studio 104 – February 9, 1973 – Radio France – Dexter Gordon this weekend. Some weeks ago I ran a concert featuring Wardell Gray, whose Tenor duels with Dexter Gordon in the early 1950s were legendary. This
– NBC Radio – Second Sunday: J.Edgar Hoover’s FBI – May, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Long before the days of Internet spying, domestic surveillance and government intrusion on privacy, we had J.Edgar Hoover. Hoover was the man behind the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and he made is his
