"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Alvin Lee – Ten Years After – Helsinki 1969 – Finnish Radio Most people think of Alvin Lee and the images from Woodstock come to mind. How his performance electrified that festival, and in doing so, catapulted his career…
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…
– John Coltrane Quartet 1962-11-19 Sveriges Radio – Konserthuset Stockholm Sweden – Not having posted any John Coltrane in a while, I realized not everything he recorded, officially or unofficially, has been re-issued. And even if it has, some material…
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…
Faurè: Impromptu No. 3 : Debussy: 3 pieces: Excerpts from a broadcast recital tonight by renowned Hungarian/French Pianist Livia Rèv, recorded around 1951 by ORTF (Radio France), circa 1951. Livia Rèv is regarded as something of an institution. In her…
The legendary Miles Davis this weekend. From a series of concerts at the 1963 Juan-Les Pins Festival in France, recorded by ORTF in Paris on July 26-28, 1963. This concert has been available officially and unofficially in various forms over…
– Guy Ropartz – Quartet No. 6 – Pascal String Quartet – 1951 – ORTF Radio – Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another overlooked composer who has been getting some attention in recent years. Guy Ropartz was all but…
Beach House in concert at Paleo Festival 2013 – Nyon, Switzerland – July 24, 2013 – RSR Heading over to The Paleo Festival 2013 tonight for a set by Baltimore Dream Pop/Space Merchants Beach House (actually, one half of the…
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…