"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – In Session For Beat Club – October 6, 1968 Another rarity this weekend. Tonight it’s Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Lewis – Midsommer – from the album European Windows – February 1958 – RCA-Victor John Lewis, aside from being a founding member of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet was a…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Paul Creston: Fantasy For Piano and Orchestra – Martin Balsam, piano – NBC Studio Orchestra – Joseph Stulpak, cond. – July 1, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Heading over to…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra – Live in Bremen, Germany – August 17, 1987 – Radio Bremen As I said in my earlier post today, regarding The Ramones and the passing…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Fat White Family – in concert at Eurockéennes – July 4, 2014 – RFI According to press reports, UK Sleaze/Psych Rockers The Fat White Family have achieved a level of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chateau de Sceaux Festival – Girard String Orchestra, Andrè Girard, Cond. – 1952 – Paris Radio Taking a brief tour far back in history, all the way to the 18th Century…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Richard Burgin, assoc. Cond. – Joseph Battista, piano – April 14, 1951. For this week’s rehearsal, Associate Conductor Richard Burgin leads the Boston Symphony in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Can – Live at Lyon, France – January 17, 1976 – Band soundboard. One of my favorite bands of all time tonight. Can were part of that initial wave of Progressive…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bobby Womack (w/Sly Stone) – Live At The Roxy – 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I’m not sure if it’s always been this way, or are we losing a lot…
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…