ZZ Top – Formerly Moving Sidewalks. ZZ Top, this Thursday – recorded live at the Doningen Festival on August 20, 1983. We’re all over the place this week – I don’t think I’ve ever posted any ZZ Top as long as Past Daily has been up. Since our site is
January 5, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 5, 1983 – The big news was coming from Capitol Hill on this day. President Reagan was preparing to give a news conference, his first since November. The subject was expected to
Speaking of our incursions past, 43 years ago we were busily invading the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada in what has been described as “A lovely little war”. Considered a threat to stability in the region, the small island was at the center of a controversy involving Cuba, a lot
December 20, 1989 – CBS Radio News – reports and bulletins – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 20, 1989 – Shortly after midnight on this day, A U.S. invasion force of some 20,000 troops came ashore in Panama with the objective of removing Panamanian strong-man Manuel Noriega and
The Cure for this Christmas Eve Jr. – recorded on May 30, 1984 at the Examinaton Festival in de Moorpoort Netherlands by VPRO, Hilversum. Just prior to this concert, The Cure had released their fifth album, The Top (in May) and received glowing reviews from the Press and making it
– Television Personalities – In Session for John Peel – September 1, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Television Personalities, despite a constantly changing lineup, are still (reportedly) together since their initial formation in 1978. Founded and headed by Dan Treacy, Television Personalities has weathered much controversy, including extended jail
December 19, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 19, 1988 – A day of diplomacy, olive branches and back-slapping. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat met with Austrian leaders in his first trip to a Western country since UN decision to open a dialogue with
Joe Ely (1947-2025) One of the leading figures in Roots Rock and Country Prog. Joe Ely in tribute today. He passed away yesterday from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia at 78. Joe Ely was a leading light in the Texas Progressive Country movement and enjoyed a genre-crossing career, performing
Close Lobsters – In Concert at Ka-Bu Club, Hanau, West Germany – April 16, 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection -Close Lobsters In concert this weekend. One of the Indie bands from Scotland who made a huge impression on U.S. audiences in the late 1980s. This one from their
December 12, 1981 – CBS Radio News on The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 12, 1981 – A day of Dissidents. The 17-day hunger strike by Soviet Dissidents Andrei Sakharov and wife Yelena Bonner came to an end when Soviet officials unexpectedly granted a reunion with 26
