Desert Cruising Wed Nov 9 with Captain Ahab on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Ahoy, captain

hey there!

permission to come aboard?

GRANTED

lolol the meme

Big thanks out to whomever suggested last week "Until The Light Takes Us" on Tubi. Very interesting documentary for those of us who missed the Black Metal era.

Internet Explorer became Edge at some point. No word on whether Outlook has been rebranded as Bono

hooray.

Vanilla is a great and complex flavor and not at all "plain" :D

Nice, J! It is a great doc 🤘

I forgot to announce the starting track lol

A habitat of good graces = swell karma.

Howdy everyone

how are we doing

I'm excited to know there's new Dead Meadow

right?!

The left hand path! The occult - doom music connexion continues

hehe

Reminds me of the theme to 28 Days Later ☣️

@Matty - The harth is always bright and warm in hell. It's a trade off for sure.

lol @Dan ...i just got the joke.

Dead Meadow? I'm in the Stoned Meadow of Doom. Be right over.

@J - nik of time from a cutting edge. :)

Whoops, I was so busy adding up school board election results in my spreadsheet that I forgot to check in and say I was listening since you started...

There was an ice cream place around here (Little Baby's?) that had a "plain" flavor.

Also, Dan your joke about Internet Explorer deserves special commendation.

hey Jon! Nice one helping out with the school board, hope it went smoothly

Any election deniers yet Jon?

Just keeping track at home. :)

Oh, I'm doing this for my own sanity. There are two different sets of results but it isn't clear you need to add the two totals (early / mail + day of) to get the most accurate results.

@J Also unknown is whether the next U2 album will be delivered directly to everyone's Zunes

Straight To Pono.

(signs that you're approaching 40: making dumb jokes about mid-aughts technology)

Only if it's recorded at 7000 bits

Roffle, it appears the three most, uh, extreme candidates in my area do not appear to have finished in the Top 3 but I am not sure how many votes remain to be counted.

They're in the 8.39% to 11.38% range while the top three are 19.93% to 20.53%.

21K overall votes, which is close to the town total in 2018. Back to metal!

I almost played something from this Otolith album on my show today

voting is metal

All good. Thanks for doing the stuff there Jon! I hope it well for the good guys. :)

Otolith -- intriguing word

nice Dan! I was SUPER into that BIG|BRAVE track you played earlier

will def check them out

Ok, I had to go back and look. Kudos on the fantastic/terrible joke Dan.

And thanks for helping preserve our tenuous democracy, Jon!

I love when Negativland prank called U2's The Edge

Anyone whose name suggests pointy bits get a pass in R&R.

Kinda reminds me of Grayceon

Ooh, this is good!

Check out Grayceon, @Bud, esp. Mothers Weavers Vultures

@Matty thanks for the tip

@ahab are you gonna catch High on Fire/Municipal Waste on east coast?

Don't think so sadly, I get gack in January

That's one thrashy lineup

@Matty - JC WTF? Don't you have at least one friend in the mob? lol

@Roffle well Joe Pesci likes a restaurant in town so sorta 😂

I think that counts. :)

I'm in the Dutch Mafia 🤫🌷🧀🐟

very tall and exceedingly friendly??

I dig GITK - the Tool influence is a bit too apparent sometimes though.

Lol

Interesting point, @J

@J - There certainly is a bunch of half-step Tool tomfoolery goings on.

Yeah - it's good, and they are talented, but when you notice it, it's a little dissappointing.

tough crowd!

Lol

The bell cannot be unrung.

Body Bag Boogie! Dark

Lol...i'm trying to encourage them to find their own voice. :)

@ahab a tough crowd is good practice for yer pedagogical future

RUDIMENTARY ANALOG RADIO

dont forget your jumpah, love

Tonight, the trilogy is complete!

(until you decide to make a prequel trilogy)

Going out on a limb a teency weency, but the glitch tune, on a calm fall day can happen 10 times a day. I know, just sayin'....

Lol Dan

A trilogy that would only have been one radio show without so many listener suggestions, submissions and requests.

Late to party but re comment on "...mid aughts technology..." I started watching that Swedish series The Playlist. I didn't know much about Spotify. Saw several scenes where people were rocking their old school Winamp minimized player in their cool Swedish architecture digs or glass walled offices. Interesting show so far. For not so related but not so far off adjacent reading check out the book "How Music Got Free". Divided into alternating chapters on 3 main stories...

Professor Ahab said we have crystals in our ears

last.fm! wasn't sure many people were still on there

@Brian Winamp!!

Winamp minimized player! lmao

I listen to Elder's "Gemini" so much I forget they have so much else 😂

Andrew I've been on it since 2009! I've got so much great data there, love seeing my listening trends

@roff dude I got some sweet new skins for my mini winamp

1 the evolution of the mp3. 2 the piracy growth including "The Scene" and the uploading of cds smuggled out of the main pressing plant in NC & , Napster etc & other Euro/ UK file sharing people. 3 the music industry and their "dropping of the ball" etc. Very good read

Right Matty? Though I think Compendium was what really blew my mind

I don't know where this tune is going, but I'm all in for the ticket!

or Lore rather

That book sounds fascinating, Brian

winamp kicks the llama's ass

@capt - I signed up in 2005! It's so useful since I can never remember what I've been listening to lately!

Also sounds like it would pair well with Jonathan Sterne's book "MP3: The Meaning of a Format" which is just what the title suggests

@Brian the mp3 was absolutely fascinating to me when it was still something that needed a command line interface and some know-how to encode

I still use my Winamp build # 5.1.66 or something ha... it might even be build 5.666 now that i think of it. No joke. (No llamas were harmed ... Wesley Willis Forever!)

LOL @gboss . Winamp was fun.

I wonder if anyone has run Doom in Winamp

@Dan - Let me guess, the .mp3 compact edition?

I mean Doom the game

lol

Does it DOOM?

"How Music Got Free ...[long sub title here] " by Stephen Witt. ISBN 978-0-525-42661-5

that's a great youtube series by the way

Thanks Brian! I'll have to check out those books

Soo soo Good!!!

mp3 came at a time when I was trying to get "bit perfect" 44.1/16bit transfers into my computer.... digital input (toslink/coax) was a BIG ask for a personal computer in the mid-late 1990's

Someone got Doom running in a digital pregnancy pee test

@Guelo Elder is unreal

ahhh there's the melotron

This is a ripper indeed.

The backstory on mp1, mp2, mp3 and eventually mp4 was really interesting. Had no idea. The little kid that didn't get picked for the team, the mp3, ended up famous and embraced by file sharers

Interesting, @gboss

Mp3 reminds me of Steve Albini listening painfully to an iPod

@gboss - Then it got easy and Metallica chimed in to kill Napster. It was their purge day. I guess if you can kill off the library of Alexandria, why not?

I think Cliff Burton would be horrified at what Metallica have become

Other Swedish content (of course duh.. what radio show is this anyway? Ha) I binged the entire series "Clark" . Fun ride. About that career bank robber dude involved in the Stockholm Syndrome deal. Wild over the top series. "Based on truth and lies" as they say in beginning. Dir by Jonas Åkerlund who did a ton of music videos I see (and was a member of Bathory for a hot minute). Clark has crazy frantic filming. Goes from b&w too beautifully oversaturated full color at times

BATHORY

@Matty - IKR? I swore to never buy anything that puts so much as a penny in Metallica's pocket.

I still generally avoided napster, but boy oh boy did I go to town on Oink and later on What.

Lead actor (one of the Skarsgard kids) is eating potato pancakes in 1 scene and I just so want to make every shredded fried potato breakfast & otherwise dish now

I did Napster and avoided LimeWire like the plague

ooooh limewire that takes me back

In the series The Playlist basically every resident of Sweden in the 00s had the Pirate Bay in their home. Natl pride heh

@Brian go to (potato) town!

Ah, the Pirate Bay, online anarchy for awhile there

Potato pancakes!

There's this over the top dude playing the head of Sony "s Swedish division that keeps freaking out about Pirate Bay. Actor kinda looks like a younger Walter White/ Bryan Cranston

Lars Ulrich will never, can never, be forgiven for the snare sound on St. Anger

Ought to be right up there w water boarding that snare sound

Preferably in a sound proof undisclosed location

I tend to just keep the name of that band frozen in a state that is assoc w my teen mind hearing Kill 'em through Justice for the first time(s)

Smart @Brian

COWBELL

Lol

That guitar sound is very Millissa from Screaming females to me.

Nice one @ahab

And the '86 tour opening up for Ozzy. Spectrum. Cliff had hair longer than his body it seemed. His head just constantly banged back & forth for the entire set (hair goes back to ankles... and hair flies over head down to boot toes... lather rinse repeat...)

That snare sounds a bit like Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom. Only it was entirely appropriate there.

Yo, I love this.

Bookmarked the record.

Brian nice!! Cliff 'em all

Read his book too , Soul Coughing guy M Doughty

Great stories about the biz

Ya that was a good one! Caustic Casanova

Glad you both enjoyed it!

Learned about Soul Coughing from Cartoon Network. LOL

@Roffle ? i'm curious - what did they do on CN?

Just killin' it today Ahab! Nice

Thanks team, we can call this week's flavor rocky road rather than vanilla maybe

Yeah, really cool set, expansive

TUTTI FUCKIN FRUTTI

Sorry, Devil's Rejects reference

that works too hahaha

@J - There was a plug for the station and they played Circles with old cartoons repeating the backround. It was quite cool.

Any Samurai Jack fans in the crowd? That was my jam

Red Fang did a great song for Fraggle Rock (!)

Love Samurai Jack. My kids do too. We bought the set of DVDs.

This one good too!

@Ahab - O gosh yea! Back in the day the creator would actually email back and forth. Those days are gone. lol

Same J! I thought the way they ended it years later was perfect

Cowboys & Aliens with new music is so great.

I think we discussed Genndy Tartakovsky on the show before

I remember Jon Solomon chiming in about the clone wars cartoons?

I do recall.

I believe so because I was a fan of his Clone Wars shorts. We own both DVD sets.

Great show, Captain! Many thanks & wprb keep being awesome

That was cool, thanks Capt'n!

Thanks for the show, cap'n!

Epic songs today

Great show, Captain.

Epic name

thanks for tuning in! catch you all again next week

Seven pigs. A fine number of swine

OMG swine tuning...

3:02 PM		Ruff Majik She's Still a Goth N She's Still a Goth - Single 2022
3:06 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:12 PM		Dead Meadow The Left Hand Path N The Left Hand Path - Single Blues Funeral Recordings 2022
3:19 PM		Vitskär Süden Shepherds on the Roadside N Shepherds on the Roadside - Single Ripple Music 2022
3:27 PM		The Otolith Sing No Coda N Sing No Coda - EP BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS 2022
3:40 PM		Indus Valley Kings ...And the Dead Shall Rise N ...And the Dead Shall Rise - Single IVK Records 2022
3:48 PM		Godzilla In The Kitchen The King of Monsters N Exodus Argonauta Records 2022
3:54 PM		The Death Wheelers Body Bag Boogie N Mondo Trasho - Single 2022
3:57 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:08 PM		Elder Endless Return N Innate Passage 2022
4:18 PM		LáGoon Dead and Gone N Dead and Gone - Single Electric Valley Records 2022
4:23 PM		WARLUNG Hypatia N Vulture's Paradise Heavy Psych Sounds 2022
4:28 PM		io audio recordings Awaiting the Elliptical Drift N Awaiting the Elliptical Drift - Single 3578051 Records DK 2022
4:33 PM		Caustic Casanova Anubis Rex N Anubis Rex - Single Magnetic Eye Records 2022
4:37 PM		Astrosaur The Deluge N Portals Pelagic Records 2022
4:45 PM		Cowboys & Aliens Find You Soon N Find You Soon - Single 2022
4:49 PM		Burning Sister Acid Night Vision N Mile High Downer Rock Burning Sister 2022
4:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:58 PM		Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Mr Medicine N Land of Sleeper 2022

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Ep. 213: 11/9/22