"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Ending up a hectic and strange week with a session from The Verve, recorded for John Peel at The BBC on February 13, 1992. Fronted by the charismatic Richard Ashcroft, The Verve had been around for a while before…
Back to the 80s this week. A set tonight from the highly influential Punk/Post-Punk Buzzcocks, in a set recorded by the venerable Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1981. Buzzcocks have reformed several times since 1989, featuring Shelley and Diggle with other musicians;…
– Stone Temple Pilots – Live At Reading Festival 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – A dose of early 90s West Coast by way of Stone Temple Pilots, during their formative years under the influence of Grunge. After forming in…
KNX – Jack Linkletter’s Teen Club – November 23, 1954 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The one constant, which will be forever part of our culture, no matter when it was or when it will be; being a teenager and…
– President Franklin Roosevelt – Message for the 1934 Mobilization For Human Needs – Oct. 22, 1934 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1934 we were still in the grip of a Depression. Federal, State and Local governments were…
– Geoff Edwards Show – November 26, 1979 – Looking around for events which occurred on this day in history, I ran across this tape of an hour’s worth of L.A. radio station KMPC, recorded between 9 and 10 in…
– CBS Radio – The Washington Week – October 13, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Following the surprise announcement of President Nixon’s choice of Gerald Ford as his Number 2, all of Washington was going into overdrive with…
– CBS World News Roundup – October 8, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A day loaded with negotiations, decisions and protest, this October 8th in 1977. Beginning with the UN and the question of Middle-East Peace talks, or…
For the seventh time since she took office four years earlier, Philippines President Corazon Aquino was faced with yet another military coup. From 1986 to 1990 numerous coup attempts were enacted on the Aquino administration and the new Philippine government.…
CBS Radio – The Hidden Revolution: The 20 hour Work Week with Edward R. Murrow – Dec. 17, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It seems that every generation has its goodly share of people who long for the…