"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
This has not been a good week for music. With the news earlier today of Robbie Robertson’s passing, social media has been filled with tributes, memories and recollections of one of the key figures in Rock of the later 60s.…
– Ocean Colour Scene – live at Manchester Apollo – 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – History is jammed with bands who got sidetracked somewhere out of the starting gate and never regained their momentum; crashing and burning and left…
Never assume everything that’s ever been discovered, played, listened to or released by an artist has been done already. There are always things lurking around in warehouses, basements, libraries, private collections, garage sales. It’s all out there. Sometimes it’s overlooked…
– Strawbs In Concert from London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – Strawbs were a band who went though a number of musical changes during their initial tenure from 1964-1980. Initially a bluegrass/folk-rock ensemble, boasting the…
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…
– 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…
Jefferson Airplane – Live at The Calliope Warehouse – San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal Party – November 6, 1965 – KSAN-FM – A bit of Rock history tonight. In what was billed as the first Bill Graham production, a fund…
Everly Brothers 1963-09-23 The Olympia Paris France – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Editors Note: I ran this concert several years ago, before Phil’s death – and now with the news that Don has gone, it only seems fitting to…
In retrospect, the 2013 Jazz Fest in New Orleans was a watershed event. It would be one of the last appearances of the legendary Allen Toussaint (who would leave us in 2015). Guitar Slim Jr. is still very much with…
Melody’s Echo Chamber – London Calling 2012 A band that have gotten a lot of positive attention. Melody’s Echo Chamber is the brain child of Melody Prochet, who has mixed elements of Electronica, 70’s Progressive, Alternative, a bit of Psychedelia…