"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
KHJ – The Real Don Steele – circa Feb. 22, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you were growing up in L.A. in the 1960s, one of the great rituals of listening to Top-40 radio was being the first kid on your block to hear the latest single...
Toscanini – The Man Behind The Legend – NBC Radio circa 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Arturo Toscanini is a name most likely not familiar to a lot of people today (especially under a certain age), unless you are a serious music student and spend a lot of...
Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen – opening night at The Fillmore – March 27, 1970 – Band soundboard – The inimitable Joe Cocker tonight. The band and the tour that put Joe on the Musical map and made Leon Russell a household name, not to mention a cast...
The Pretty Things – In Session at The BBC – 1965/1967 – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things were, if you remember, part of that initial wave of British Invasion bands which hit these shores in 1964/1965. They were, without a doubt, one of the rawest, most primal 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...
Benny Carter – Maria Muldaur – in conversation with Nat Hentoff – August 26, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Maria Muldaur, who had scored a huge hit in the early 1970s with Midnight At The Oasis, had been well established in the New York Folk Scene since the...
Fleetwood Mac – In Session for Saturday Club/Top Of The Pops – April 9, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Early Fleetwood Mac tonight. Years before their transformation into a hit-making machine, Fleetwood Mac was a serious blues-based band. Heavily rooted in the Chicago sound and the rural classics of...
– Steely Dan – live at The Sopwith Camel — Glendale, Calif. – March 9, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Steely Dan this weekend – one of the rare early concerts, recorded live at The Sopwith Camel in Glendale on March 9, 1974. This was from the tour promoting...
The Sundays – In Session for John Peel – February 28, 1989 – BBC Radio 1 – The Sundays in session tonight. One of those bands with every indication and capability of being a screaming success; whose first single (Can’t Be Sure) raced up the British Indie Charts and proclaimed...
The Smiths – In Concert at The Universal Amphiteatre – August 26, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Smiths, one of those bands considered by many to be the most influential British group of the 80s. NME went so far as to say they were one of the...
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