"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Background For Headlines: The Beat Generation – CBS-West Coast/KNX, Los Angeles – 1958 – USC Digital Library Collection – With the passing earlier this week of Beat Generation icon, publisher and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, attention has been drawn to that…
KROQ – Mike Rophone – February 5, 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Well, maybe not screwed but your life got complicated. It just happened. You’ve known each other since grade school – you didn’t actually like each other…
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…
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…
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…
Another installment of Teenage life in the 1960s and the L.A. Radio that was inseparable along with it. Tonight it’s BMR and KFWB and Monday night, October 2, 1967. The news was strange – San Francisco just had the Death…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6701″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 28, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Even though one of the deadliest earthquakes to hit Southern California occurred on January 17th of 1994, the earth was still…
Wilhelm Kempff, Piano – Zubin Mehta, conductor – Los Angeles Philharmonic In Concert – December 5, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Historic, long-lost and not heard before. An all-Brahms concert from December 5, 1965 featuring the Los Angeles…
KFWB – Joe Yocam – January 11, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You should know by now they can’t predict the weather in L.A. – they always get it wrong. When it’s supposed to be in the 70s…
KIQQ – The Real Don Steele – Billy Pearl – January 18, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s happening – you’re heading into senior year and suddenly you don’t care about anything. Your parents look strange, your teachers…