"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Van Der Graaf Generator – In Session – BBC Radio 1 – 1970 – One of the most influential bands of the early 70’s Progressive Movement was Van der Graaf Generator. Virtually unknown in the U.S., save for pockets…
February 25, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With grossly inflated casualty and capture claims coming from both sides, the war between China and Vietnam was heating up, this week in…
1973-06-09 BBC In Concert (Amon Duul II) – BBC Radio 1 – Heading earlier into the 70s tonight with a band that has been acknowledged as the cornerstone in what became the Krautrock movement in Germany in the late 1960s/early…
– Abba – Live In Concert – 1981 – Abba Fan Club Recording Commemorating their 1981 Tour – Truly 70s this weekend – even though the concert is from 1981 and one of the last before ABBA broke up. Nonetheless,…
Eno & The Winkies – In Session for John Peel – February 26, 1974 BBC Radio 1 – Probably one of the most interesting groups to emerge from the early 1970’s was Roxy Music. More than just the band itself…
– Faces-live-at-the-paris-theater-1971 – Familiar territory tonight. The inimitable Rod Stewart and Faces, recorded in concert for the BBC at The Paris Theater in London in 1971. Faces formed in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer/guitarist Steve Marriott…
(Editors Note: Hearing the very sad news of the passing of Mike Nesmith earlier today, it only seems fitting to re-run this concert I had originally posted in 2013 as a tribute. Heavy hearts and speechless words.) Much as most…
Over to Vienna Austria this weekend for a set by The Gary Burton Quintet, live from the Vienna Konzerthaus on July 7, 1975. Burton attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts,[3] in 1960–61 and the Stan Kenton Clinic at…
– 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…
