"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Bill Evans Trio this weekend. Recorded at Casale Monferrato, Italy on November 30, 1979 and broadcast by RAI Radio 3. No doubt about it, we are living in fractured, nervous times – and anything we can do to calm…
Mott The Hoople tonight. From a concert recorded at the BBC’s Paris Theatre in London in 1971. In case you didn’t know, Mott The Hoople had been around since 1968 and had recorded a string of high-energy hard-rock albums which…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”28273″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”July 16, 1999 – News – JFK jr. reports – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] On the evening of July 16, 1999, a Piper Saratoga piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., with…
Leon Russell and the Shelter People during their whirlwind European tour of 1971. This stopover was in Stockholm and recorded by the venerable Sveriges Radio on November 26th of that year. Even before his milestone solo career and the Mad…
Youth and Police in America, circa 1971. If there was one thing the 60s made glowingly apparent, that most decades previously didn’t, it was the notion to question authority. Sparked by the Vietnam War and set ablaze by the Youth…
The Lurkers – in session for John Peel – January 24, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – The Lurkers tonight – one of the first Punk bands to appear on the scene and the very first band to be signed…
Dixiecrats: A relatively new word in the political lexicon in 1948. The Southern wing of the Democratic Party, or States Rights Democrats, represented a staunch resistance to Civil Rights, Integration in the Armed Forces and the end of Segregation. This…
July 15, 1996 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this July 15, 1996 had to do with bad manners, mixed signals and no-shows. Russia’s Boris Yeltsin abruptly cancelled a planned meeting with vice-President…
Killing Joke in concert tonight. From the 1986 Reading Festival, a one-hour set by the pioneers of Industrial Rock. Killing Joke were a very influential band in the 80s. Their mix of Electronica, Goth, and Synth Pop paved the way…