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For no good reason whatsoever, it’s been almost 5 years since I last posted a Led Zeppelin concert. There are times you assume everyone has heard every note and every handclap of every album and every concert they ever did. And since Past Daily is, for the most part, committed...
The Yardbirds – live at Stadhall Offenbach (Beat Beat Beat program) – March 15, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending up the week and getting ready for a new one with The Yardbirds, recorded at Stadhall, Offenbach in Germany on March 15, 1967. This is the version of...
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 underground FM in the early 70s. They did score one...
The Cult – live in London, 1994 and recorded by BBC Radio 1 for their weekly In Concert Series. Originally know as Southern Death Cult, the band dissolved initially in 1983, but resurrected as The Death Cult a few months later, but in 1984, they dropped Death, opting just...
Jeff Buckley – Live At Glastonbury 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – Jeff Buckley in concert this week. One of those brilliant lights that streaked across the horizon, but was extinguished all too soon. Buckley had the gift – he had the voice and he had the presence. The voice,...
One of the legendary bands of the original British Invasion of the early 1960s. The Yardbirds were one of the most influential bands to come along, and certainly one of the bands providing the groundwork for some of the most iconic musicians in Pop Music to pass through. From its...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Royal Blood – Live at Debaser Medis, Stockholm – March 23, 2015 – Sveriges Radio P3 I was wondering when we were going to get around to doing an homage to the power trios of the early...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Deep Purple In Concert for John Peel – February 22, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 I think the last time I posted any Deep Purple it was by way of a tribute to the passing of the...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Roy Harper -Live at Golders Green Hippodrome – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 Although Roy Harper is widely recognized as one of the most unique and individual singer-songwriters to come along in many years, and his associations...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Yardbirds – In Session at The BBC – Feb-May, 1966 – BBC Radio 1 You’d be hard pressed to name a band which had as many legendary guitarists passing through its ranks as this one. Okay,...
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