"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Kerner Commission Report: One Year Later – EEN – Newsfront – March 3, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though the Watts disturbance (pictured above) was from 1965, the destruction, violence and deaths from that turmoil went…
August 31, 1982 – ABC World News This Morning – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 31, 1982 – A day filled with the usual strife and the familiar struggle. But also a day which would have far reaching…
X-Ray Spex – In Session for John Peel – February 20, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 – Continuing our 40th anniversary observance of the birth of Punk, a session tonight from X-Ray Spex and the inimitable Poly Styrene. Their first…
China Crisis – in session for John Peel – May 16, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Not that we’re staying in the 80s this week, but I ran across this John Peel session from China Crisis and was reminded…
Eric Burdon & The Animals – BBC Sessions – April-July 1965 – BBC Radio 1 – The inimitable Eric Burdon in session tonight. Two of several he recorded for the BBC between 1964 and 1968. And in case you didn’t…
The Weather Prophets – in session for John Peel – June 25, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – The Weather Prophets – a band that doesn’t ring a lot of bells, at least on this side of the Atlantic. The…
Fripp & Eno – in session for John Peel – December 18, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 – One of the things that has made me a longtime fan of John Peel was the unflinching sense of adventure he embued…
We’re inching up slowly – but we’re still moving. Your contributions and pledges are trickling in, and that’s good. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate and how grateful I am for all your support so far. History is…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – President Eisenhower Address: Science And National Security – November 7, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the Cold War intensified and the Space Race was roaring…
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Lenny Kravitz – live at The Town & Country – 1990 – BBC 6 Music The great Lenny Kravitz tonight. Recorded for posterity by the venerable BBC 6…