"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Levellers – In Session – BBC – November 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Early 90s Folk-Punk/English Folk/Alternative band The Levellers tonight. Recorded in session at the BBC (and not for John Peel) in November of 1991. The Levellers…
East of Eden, in session for Top Gear with John Peel – April 6, 1970. East of Eden tonight. A band most people on this side of the Atlantic hadn’t heard of. I don’t even recall them being played via…
Flaming Lips – live at Reading Festival 1996 – August 25, 1996 – John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – Flaming Lips, to end this week of Reading Festival 1996 excerpts, recorded by BBC Radio 1 and broadcast via John…
The Yachts – In Concert at The Paradise Theater, Boston – October 15, 1979 – WCOZ-FM, Boston – The Yachts. One of those bands of the New Wave era who came and went in a flash, recorded 2 albums, toured…
– Jerry Garcia Band – Live at Calderone Theatre, Hempstead New York – Feb. 28, 1980 – WLIR-FM A lot of people have been perplexed by the series of farewell concerts from The Grateful Dead the past few weeks. Perplexed…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – KCBS-AM – Bill Weaver Show – Red Blanchard Filling in – June 30, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. It’s difficult, if not impossible to figure out…
While we’re sifting through the onslaught of current Festival season recordings, I thought I would post something historic as a reminder that seeing a band live was often an entirely different experience to hearing them on record. This Grateful Dead…
Click on the link here for audio player: News for August 9, 1995 There was a lot of news going on in the rest of the world, this Wednesday August 9th in 1995, but it was overshadowed by the sad…