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Capital Radio – June, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! So you wound up in London. You scored a free roundtrip ticket and you got your passport. The picture looks nothing like you. The photographer told you not to smile, so you look like a serial...
KRLA-KHJ-KFWB-KBLA – February 22, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No pressure . . .but: Become a Patron! Authority figures – they never seemed to bother you until sometime around Junior High. But then, sometime around Junior High was when life as you knew it changed. You changed, the...
Day Wave – In session – Huw Stephens – BBC Radio 1 – November 2015 – BBC Radio 1 Become a Patron! Ending the week with Day Wave – a taste of Indie-Pop from Oakland by way of Maida Vale Studios in London for Huw Stephens at BBC Radio 1...
Andy Fairweather Low – in session for John Peel recorded October 21, 1975 – Broadcast November 17 – BBC Radio 1 – Honest. Kick in a buck and we will love you for it: Become a Patron! Andy Fairweather Low in session for John Peel tonight. A long-standing musician of...
Gloria Mann, The Jayhawks, The Three Chuckles, Sam “The Man” Taylor – Alan Freed’s Camel Rock N’ Roll Dance Party – July 31, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Another installment of the short-lived, but very important network rock n’ roll radio show, The Camel Rock...
The Chambers Brothers – live on German TV – 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! If the Chambers Brothers did nothing else in the course of their careers than the iconic Time Has Come Today, they would still be regarded as one of the primary figures...
Steel Mill (Bruce Springsteen) – Live at The Matrix, San Francisco – January 13, 1970 – Band soundboard – Become a Patron! Something historic, a little unusual and an adventure in listening. Steel Mill, one of the earliest bands featuring Bruce Springsteen, in concert at The Matrix in San Francisco...
WAIR-AM – Winston/Salem North Carolina – August 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you like us, would you mind supporting us? Not whole lot, just a little: Become a Patron! Much as we’d all like to think that once Rock n’ Roll landed in our collective national consciousness,...
Become a Patron! Hearing the sad news today of the passing of legendary Drummer Ginger Baker – it’s further evidence 2019 has not been a good year for Music. Tributes have been pouring in all day, including this one via Pitchfork earlier this morning (October 6,2019): After days of being...
WMCA – B. Mitchel Reed – May, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Patrons get to download this gem and keep it forever: Become a Patron! Here you are; Spring, 1963. You’re a teenager and the world is loaded with possibilities. Maybe that it’s just not Winter anymore. Maybe...
