"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Depeche Mode – Live At Amsterdam Paradiso – December 6, 1983 – VPRO, The Netherlands – Depeche Mode in concert and on the verge in 1983. Recorded by VPRO, The Netherlands, on December 6, 1983. Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980. The group...
Eddie Harris Quartet – Live at Lugano, Switzerland – July 1, 1989 – RTS – Switzerland – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Eddie Harris this weekend. Don’t know about you, but my first encounter with Eddie Harris was by way of Exodus To Jazz, an album he did for Vee-Jay...
The Pretty Things – live at Golders Green, London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things in concert tonight. Lest you think The Rolling Stones can lay claim to being one of the oldest still-performing bands in Rock (50+ years!) –...
My Bloody Valentine – live in Lyon, France – March 21, 1989 – Radio France, International – My Bloody Valentine this weekend in a concert from Lyon, France, recorded by the venerable Radio France International on March 21, 1989. Don’t know about you, but I was taken aback, the first...
Salzburg Festival 1980 – Gidon and Elena Kremer Recital – August 17, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic recital. This week it’s from the 1980 Salzburg Festival featuring Gidon and Elena Krember in music of Pärt, Beethoven, Schubert, Franck, Satie and Milhaud. From his Biography at Gidon...
October 30, 1994 – ABC Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 30, 1994 – Formal charges were filed this day against Martin Durand, the Colorado man tackled in front of the White House after spraying the front of the building with assault weapon fire. Durand was...
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Georg Solti – The Chicago Symphony – In Concert – May 21, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another historic concert this week. This time featuring legends Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Georg Solti, who leads the Chicago Symphony in music of Duparc...
ABC – In Concert from the Musikhalle, Hamburg – Feb. 2, 1983 – NDR Radio – ABC to end the week. As long as we were on something of a roll last night with Prefab Sprout, I thought I would toss another prime example of the 80s from a band...
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