"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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...
L7 – In Concert From Norwich Waterfront, UK – April 25, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – In concert L7 to end up our week of Riot Grrrl and Riot Grrl/Grunge/Indie bands from the 90s that brought Women to center stage and who pioneered a new course in Pop music....
Wishbone Ash – In Concert from The Paris Theatre, London – May 25, 1972 – BBC Radio 1 – Wishbone Ash to start the week. One of the better, but unfortunately more underrated Hard Rock bands of the early 1970s. During a time when Rock was going through a lot...
Mogul Thrash In Concert – Recorded at The Paris Theatre- April 25, 1971 – John Peel/In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Mogul Thrash for a Thursday night. Fans of early 70s Prog Rock will no doubt know who this is, you know who they are and who some...
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...
Robert Plant – Live At Glastonbury 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – Robert Plant tonight. I can’t remember the last time I posted a Led Zeppelin concert, and I don’t think I ever have. Not that I was never a fan of the band, but that it’s been my assumption...
Terry Reid – live at Fillmore West – December 15, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Terry Reid this weekend. In concert at Fillmore West and recorded on December 15, 1968. File under: Improbable but completely factual coincidences in life. I was having lunch with my old pal and...
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...
Jethro Tull – in session for John Peel – June 16, 1969 – BBC Radio 1 – Jethro Tull, winding up the week of Prog/Glam/musical revolutions. Together since 1967, Jethro Tull were initially a Blues-Rock band, with a certain leaning in the direction of Herbie Mann and Jazz flute (via...
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