"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
KIIS – April 30, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1976. Aside from being the year of the bi-centennial, 1976 also marked your Junior year in high school. Like most of your friends, in fact just about everyone you…
KFRC – Rick Shaw Show – Fall 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The 70s are over and MTV is just getting started. Your radio is more lively than usual. Disco has drifted off into the Sunset and Springsteen…
KUSC – Air-Bag with Jay Cee – September 13, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – College Radio – it’s slick, highly produced with considerable thought going into focus groups marketing and raising money. That’s the way it is now.…
KEWB, San Francisco – Gene Price Show – December 19, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ever since Rock n’ Roll took American youth by storm in the 1950s, it has been an acknowledged fact that probably the majority…
Paul McCartney – The Testimony – F. Lee Bailey and others – Nov. 30, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In an era rife with conspiracies, rumors and urban myths, the one that took something of a dubious prize…
KROQ – Frazier Smith – September 16, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Weekend. That stretch from Friday night to Saturday night where everything looks possible, at least on paper or in your daydreams. Being smack in the…
Harlan Ellison Has A Word Or Two For You – Buzz Magazine Essay – 1991 – Sallie Green Harlan Ellison died in his sleep last night. News of his death sent shock waves to all those who either knew him,…
Little Richard – Interviewed on KRTH-101-FM Los Angeles – June 18,1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Editors Note: I originally ran this 1986 interview in 2018. With the sad news of Richard’s passing earlier today, it’s now offered as…