– Mink DeVille – Live at Pinkpop 1982 – May 31, 1982 – VPRO/3VOOR12 Radio – The inimitable and sadly missed Mink (Willy) DeVille this morning. In concert at the 1982 Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands, recorded by the venerable VPRO Radio Network on May 31, 1982. DeVille was a
Busy month for scandals, revelations and upheavals. September in 1963 was no different, it seems. On this day in September, the McClellan Crime Committee Hearings on Capitol Hill were going full speed ahead, with star witness, organized crime figure Joseph Valachi poised to give bomb-dropping evidence on the activities of
Sly & The Family Stone – live at Harlem Cultural Festival – June 29, 1969 – Sly & The Family Stone were the staple in just about every diet of anyone who went to the Fillmore in San Francisco or the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles from 1967-1969. They
– CBS Radio – Frontline Reports-World News Roundup – Sept 24, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day was a glimpse of things to come. The Reagan Budget was topic-A in conversation around Capitol Hill for this September 24th in 1981. The era of slashed budgets,
Depeche Mode – In Concert at The Hammersmith Apollo, London – October 6, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert Series – BBC Radio – Depeche Mode in concert this morning. With origins beginning in 1977, they were highly influenced by The Cure and later, Ultravox, and Depeche Mode,
September 23, 1938; another crisis had boiled up in Europe, threatening to plunge the world into another war. This time it was a land dispute between Germany and Czechoslovakia, with whom Germany claimed Czech territory to be theres and was willing to go to war over it. The crisis, which
– The Go Go’s Live At Emerald City, Cherry Hill New Jersey – Aug.31, 1981 WMMR-FM – Philadelphia – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Celebrating Monday with a slice of Americana in the form of The Go Go’s, live in concert at Emerald City on August 31, 1981. The Go Gos
– NPR -America’s Town Meeting – American Leadership In The Coming Election – Oct. 1, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – America was in a quandary in 1975. Suffering through the Watergate scandal and the fall of Richard Nixon, along with the soul-searching going on at the end of
– Catherine Wheel – live at Peabody’s Down Under – WMMS-FM – Dec. 12, 1993 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Catherine Wheel in concert this morning. Forgive the repetition if you’ve heard this from me before, but Catherine Wheel were one of the game-changer bands for me in the
– September 19, 1979 -CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 19, 1979 – A day which made many people nervous. On Capitol Hill, Congress was finally in a position to act on legislation giving President Carter standby authority to ration gas in the event of
