"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
While we’re sifting through the onslaught of current Festival season recordings, I thought I would post something historic as a reminder that seeing a band live was often an entirely different experience to hearing them on record. This Grateful Dead…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Slim Gaillard – Laguna – Bee-Bee Records 101 – 1945 Had Slim Gaillard never appeared, the world would have been an awful place. Truly and totally unique, with a language of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KNX-AM – Hawthorne’s Encore Time – June 3, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection No shortage of personalities, when it came to local radio in Los Angeles in the 1950s. You…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KNX-AM – Michael Jackson Show – Hour 2 – January 4, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The writing was on the wall as far back as the early 1960s; Talk…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Warlocks – In Concert at Route du Rock Hiver – Recorded Feb. 22, 2014 – RFI Nothing like catching a local band in a venue some 5,000 miles away. The…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Los Angeles Philharmonic in Concert – Lawrence Foster, guest Cond. – Jacqueline Du Prè, cello – Feb. 16, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another long-thought lost concert this week, and…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – January 27, 1996 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this January 27th in 1996 began with a standoff between police and John DuPont, great-great-grandson of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – All-Star Parade Of Bands – Les Brown – live at The Hollywood Palladium – October 12, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection By the 1950s, the era of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KRHM-Los Angeles – House Of Sight and Sound – Live From Number One Sheridan Square – December 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of those rare live broadcasts from the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KFWB on KMET – Gary Owens Show – November 11, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Unless you grew up in L.A. in the 1960s, or have an interest in Top-40…