"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Iron Butterly – in concert at The Galaxy Club, North Hollywood – 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Okay – this one comes with a caveat: The sound is so-so. Well . . it’s stereo and there’s some…
– Johnny Guitar Watson – In Session at NDR – 1977 – It occurred to me I haven’t been giving much space over to the cause of Funk lately – no good reason. Getting overloaded with festivals and gearing up…
– Culture In America: An Assessment – 1960 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Culture in America, circa 1960. Even 62 years ago, we were starting to ask questions about our accomplishments as a people – what…
– 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…
Roxy Music – Live at City Hall, Newcastle – October 29, 1974 – BBC In Concert – Radio 1 – Something special this week in case you missed their concert in Los Angeles this past week. The legendary Roxy Music,…
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…
– Missing Persons – Live At My Father’s Place – August 25, 1981 – WLIR-FM – Ending out the weekend with a set from 80s darlings Missing Persons, recorded live in concert at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York…
– Leon Boellmann Cello Sonata – 1949 – ORTF, Paris – Another rarely performed composer this week, as performed by a then-rising-star Cellist, Jacques Ripoche and legendary pianist-teacher Jean-Jacques Painchaud in a broadcast recital recording made by French Radio in…
Whiteout-Time And Again – In session for John Peel – October 11, 1994 – BBC Radio 1. Earlier this year I ran a track by the 90’s Brit-Pop band Whiteout with promises to run some of their session recordings at…
Cabaret Voltaire in concert tonight – live at Amsterdam Paradiso and recorded by Dutch Radio VPRO/3VOOR12 in 1980. Although they came to larger audience popularity during the post-Punk period, they actually had their roots back much further. Having started in…