"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for audio player: News for August 22, 1971 Since August 22nd came on a Sunday in 1971, the news for this day was taken up mostly with looking at the week past and contemplating what…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Patto – BBC Feb 12 1973 – In Session Anyone who has a passing fancy in anything other than Pop Music will quickly realize the shelves of any self-respecting collector are fairly…
Click on the link for Audio player: Jethro Tull – BBC Session – June 22, 1969 One of the early legends of the Progressive Rock movement. Jethro Tull initially got lumped into a mish-mash of genres. Labeled Folk-Rock, Art-Rock and…
Click on the link here for Audio player: Jackie Lomax – Sour Milk Sea – 1969 One of the most distinctive voices in Rock tonight. Jackie Lomax is probably best remembered for his brief stay at Apple Records, and the…
Click on the link here for audio player: Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – It’s gonna be high tonight/It’s A Drag – 1972 To call Ashton, Gardner & Dyke one hit wonders is something of a cheat. They were a short-lived…
Grateful Dead – High Time – 1970 Since we’re spending some time today remembering the contributions to music by Jerry Garcia, I thought I would toss in my two cents and offer a track tonight from one of my favorite…
Click on the link here for audio: Steve Biko Interview – August 1977 Although it hasn’t been that long since the end of brutal and repressive Apartheid policies in South Africa, some of the voices most closely associated with the…
Click on this link for the audio player: News for August 1, 1978 News for August 1, 1978 had much to do with rumors surrounding a pending major East-West Prisoner exchange. At the center of the rumors was Soviet dissident…
Click on the Link: Giles, Giles and Fripp – 1968 On last night’s Roundtable I played a track from a 1969 session King Crimson did for the BBC. Almost exactly a year before that session, an album was released by…
Click on the Link: King Crimson in session at The BBC May 6, 1969 One of the bands who proved pivotal in the Progressive Rock movement were King Crimson. With the release of their debut album, In The Court Of…