"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Live In London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – A familiar name from the British Invasion days of the mid-60s, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band was a distinct about-face from Pop and…
Roxy Music – Live at City Hall, Newcastle – October 29, 1974 – BBC In Concert – Radio 1 – Something special this week in case you missed their concert in Los Angeles this past week. The legendary Roxy Music,…
Bob Dylan – live on Skip Weshner’s Accent On Sound Program – Feb. 1963 – WNCN-FM, New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something rare but no doubt something fans, purists and completists have. An excerpt of a session…
Tomorrow – Top Gear – John Peel – September 21, 1967 – BBC Radio 1 – Tomorrow – A band featuring future Yes bassist Steve Howe and The Pretty Things/Pink Fairies drummer Twink in what has been acknowledged as one…
– Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Live at Rockpile, Toronto – February 23, 1969 – As long as we’re visiting the 60s this weekend (for entirely different reasons), I though I would dig into the vaults and…
– The Sugarcubes – In session for Simon Mayo – BBC Radio 1 – March 12, 1988 – BBC Radio 1 – The Sugarcubes tonight. A band that achieved international recognition and were widely acclaimed by both audience and critics.…
– Small Faces – In Session for Top Of The Pops – BBC Radio 1 – March 2, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Dialing it back to the 1960s tonight with a live session by the high priests of…
– Them w/Van Morrison – Live In Paris – October 19, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Them tonight – maybe a slight distraction or an antidote. Van Morrison, lead singer of Them before he went solo and on…
– Keeping Up With The Joneses – April 15, 1959 – KNX-Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Hard to imagine now, but in 1959 Los Angeles was in danger of becoming an overcrowded city, like so many cities…
For all the talk about the 70s fashion, Punks and Shag Haircuts, the 70s were also a decade of strange new customs. Hot on the heels of Disco came other odd rituals; Wet t-shirt contests and Mud Wrestling. Somehow in…