Cited in Life Magazine as one of the most influential movements of the 20th Century, the movement that gave birth to the concept of the 12-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous got its start on June 10th 1935. Not without its detractors, naysayers, gurus, pontificators and bashers, Alcoholics Anonymous has maintained its
KBLA – Lord Tim – May 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You probably have no memory of it – 1967 went by in a blur after all. Big chunks are missing – how and why things happened are mysterious shadows, even to this day. But there you were,
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– The Drug Scene In America – Groovin’ – May 18, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – America’s long-standing love affair with all things distracting. Drugs, by the late 1960s were just as much part of American culture as Hot Dogs. Part of it was understandable – if you
– March 17, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 17, 1942 – War in the Pacific is ramping up. U.S. troops arrive on Australian soil, amid fears an invasion by Japan is imminent. Still, repeated air attacks on Japanese positions are putting a
X in concert this weekend. A live broadcast from My Father’s Place in Roslyn New York on November 12, 1983. X came to epitomize the L.A. music scene in the late 1970s/early 1980s and they were one of the most influential to come out of the Punk/New Wave/Rockabilly/Rootsrock movements during
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– Traffic – in Session for John Peel – October 1, 1967 – BBC Radio 1 – Traffic came along during a time when music was in full blown revolution. Those of us who remembered The Spencer Davis Group wondered what this new group would sound like. We got glimpses
– NBC Nightly News – January 16, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in 1975, something was happening in Congress that hadn’t happened in living memory; rank and file Democrats voted to oust some of the most powerful members of the house and seriously challenge others.
KMPC – Gary Owens – January 26, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You live in L.A. and it’s January; the first month of a new year and a new decade. You have also left your twenties, and the only thing more precarious than Eight-oh is turning Three-oh. Hangovers
