"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
June 12, 1970 – Stephen Hess – Commonwealth Club Of California Lecture – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the tide of opposition to the ongoing Vietnam War grew larger, and in 1970 more lethal, the issue of Youth Culture;…
Since I first ran this concert in 2009, I kept promising I would run it again someday with better sound on a better player than what was available at the time. But as time tends to slip by quickly, it…
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band – live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival – June 30, 1984 – Radio Canada-Montreal. Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, live at the 1984 Montreal Jazz Festival and preserved for posterity…
KHJ – Johnny Williams – November 26, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You didn’t think about it before – but you got to thinking about it now; here you are, crash-course and heading in the direction of graduating…
Something different this weekend – a rare appearance from the pre-PBS NET series Soul! hosted by Poet/Author Nikki Giovanni and featuring The Delfonics in a live set, as re-broadcast on April 21, 1972 (it originally aired on January 5th). Live…
January 30, 1977 – KTNQ-AM – The Real Don Steele – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If they looked at your i.d. closely they would realize you weren’t 250 pounds – you weren’t 6 foot 6 and you weren’t 40…
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While I was sifting through a box of unmarked tapes a few weeks ago, I came across this 1978 session from Punk pioneers 999, recorded for John Peel at The BBC in November 1, 1978. 999 formed in London in…
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Hank Aaron – Play by play – April 8, 1975 – WSB Atlanta – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A legend is gone – Hank Aaron; homerun King, icon and legend, passed quietly away in his sleep overnight – he…