"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Ben L’Oncle With The Monophonics – Live At Hotel de Ville de Paris – July 20, 2014 – FNAC Live – RFI FIP – Ben L’Oncle With The Monophonics tonight. It occurred to me that I haven’t been paying a whole pile of attention to what’s currently going on in...
Morris Day & The Time – Live At The Roxy – Hollywood – February 2, 1982 – NDR-2 Germany – Morris Day this weekend. Lead singer and stage bon-vivant of The Time, in concert at The Roxy in West Hollywood, recorded by North German Radio on February 2, 1982....
Haircut 100 – Live in Munich – March 1, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Haircut 100 – recorded live in Munich on March 1, 1983. At a time when Music was going in a million directions at once, Haircut 100 came along and further complicated the situation by...
Earth, Wind and Fire – live on Soul!- WNET – January 10, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Earth, Wind and Fire – celebrating the legacy of founder Maurice White, who passed away today at the age of 74, following a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. When Earth, Wind...
Herbie Hancock and Headhunters – Live in Bremen, Germany – Nov. 6, 1974 – Radio Bremen – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Herbie Hancock this weekend. Along with Headhunters, recorded live at Radio Bremen on November 11, 1974. As one of the prime architects in the Post-Bop period and one...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Crusaders – Live in Seattle – 1973 With the sad news this week of the passing of another Jazz giant, founding member of The Jazz Crusaders, and later just Crusaders, Joe Sample, the ranks of influential and pivotal figures in...
Click on the link here for our DONATION PAGE – Indiegogo/Past Daily/Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fundraiser As you probably all know by now, we’ve been having a Fundraiser. In connection with Fractured Atlas and Indiegogo, Past Daily is in the middle of raising funds to continue our preservation and restoration...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Level 42 – Live at Hammersmith Odeon – May 31, 1986 -BBC Radio 1 In Concert An hour tonight over at the Hammersmith Odeon for a set by Level 42 from May 31, 1986. It occurred to me there was a...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Average White Band, live at The Paris Theatre, London – October 13, 1973 – BBC Radio One – In Concert Series At the time, it didn’t occur to anyone that The Average White Band would be as hugely popular as one...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Miguel – live at Malmö, Sweden – recorded live by Sveriges Radio P3 – August 5, 2013 Over to Malmö Sweden tonight for a mini-concert by West Coast native Miguel, recorded by Sveriges Radio in January of this year and broadcast...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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