"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– 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…
However melancholy one gets over the Christmas season, there’s always the possibility of getting stuck in the middle of a war to consider. Not that we aren’t without one at the moment, or there haven’t been others since the early…
Can’t do it without you: Become a Patron! If you happened to be dial-hopping around midnight on December 22nd 1979, one of two things were going on; you were either working late or you were coming home from a Christmas…
– KBLA – Humble Harve – December 17, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s December 1966. You have this band; The Bow-Tiks. You’ve been practicing ever since you got your bass last Christmas. There’s six of you. Three…
(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…
Ending up a hectic and strange week with a session from The Verve, recorded for John Peel at The BBC on February 13, 1992. Fronted by the charismatic Richard Ashcroft, The Verve had been around for a while before…
– Stone Temple Pilots – Live At Reading Festival 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – A dose of early 90s West Coast by way of Stone Temple Pilots, during their formative years under the influence of Grunge. After forming in…
– Geoff Edwards Show – November 26, 1979 – Looking around for events which occurred on this day in history, I ran across this tape of an hour’s worth of L.A. radio station KMPC, recorded between 9 and 10 in…
– Sham ’69 – Live at Paris Theatre, London – February 21, 1979 – BBC 6 Music – One of the first wave of Punk bands, Sham ’69 got started in 1976 – and called it quits (initially) in 1979,…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10090″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 13, 1938 – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News of the Crisis in Czechoslovakia NBC Blue Network – September 13, 1938 September it seems, is a crisis month in history. On this…