Is this new? I subscribe to Google News Alerts for various things I'm interested in, one of which is local news of Stockton-on-Tees. Google sends me an email of any news reports that mention Stockton. Today I got this from them...
This was the last performance at CBGBs on October 15th 2006,,,
OK again, but I love his later acoustic performances & this includes a better version of Joey. At Fastlane in New Jersey in 1990...
This is superbly surreal and at the same time so real...
On February 28th 1957 Buddy Holly was concerned about the demos he'd recorded in Nashville for Decca so he made a phone call. Though always polite and respectful, he was savvy enough to record the conversation...
Buddy went on to re-record That'll Be The Day for Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico and sell it to Decca subsidiary (!) Brunswick.
Thanks to the Purple Chick fans' bootleg. There's more info at WFMU.
]]>This is an interesting time of year for mushrooms. Ann has found some good examples in East Yorkshire. (Here & here)
A portrait by Ann...
The final part of Claude Friese-Greene's journey around Britain. I've blogged other parts but BoingBoing today pointed to this...
This recording (there are others) of Buzz Aldrin on the moon was apparently made independently of NASA by an amateur radio enthusiast, Larry Baysinger, in Kentucky. It ties in well with the NASA archive but doesn't have the additional voices from Mission Control & Michael Collins in the Command Module and seems to be a genuine recording of the speech of the astronauts directly from the moon. I think this is further evidence, if any were needed, that the event actually occurred...