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Desert Cruising

Nov 30, 2022 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

With Captain Ahab

The latest and greatest in stoner rock, doom metal, fuzz and more.

Every Wednesday 3–5pm on 103.3fm WPRB.

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Ep. 217: 11/30/22

SO LONG NOVEMBER

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Desert Cruising
3:03 PM
Yndian Mynah - Gestalt
Yndian Mynah Gestalt N
The Boys Scribbled Like Mad 2022
3:08 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:13 PM
All Them Witches - Hush, I'm on TV
All Them Witches Hush, I'm on TV N
Hush, I'm on TV - Single 2022
3:18 PM
AAWKS - Beyond the Sun
AAWKS Beyond the Sun N
(Heavy On the Cosmic) Black Throne Productions 2022
3:24 PM
Mansion - You Are Suspicious
Mansion You Are Suspicious N
You Are Suspicious (Extended Version) - EP 2022
3:34 PM
The Tyromancers - Gilded Run
The Tyromancers Gilded Run N
Colors Through the Void 2022
3:40 PM
Ciminero - Torment
Ciminero Torment N
Shadows Digging the Grave 2022
3:46 PM
Stone House on Fire - Uzumaki
Stone House on Fire Uzumaki
Time Is a Razor Electric Valley Records 2022
3:49 PM
Neptuna - 13
Neptuna 13 N
13 - Single Neptuna 2022
3:53 PM
Blackwülf - Shadow
Blackwülf Shadow N
Shadow - Single 2022
3:58 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:08 PM
GAUPA - Elden
GAUPA Elden N
Myriad Nuclear Blast 2022
4:14 PM
Elder - Catastasis
Elder Catastasis N
Innate Passage 2022
4:24 PM
Cosmic Reaper - Sundowner
Cosmic Reaper Sundowner N
Doom Sessions, Vol. VII Heavy Psych Sounds 2022
4:30 PM
Greyborn - Jharia
Greyborn Jharia
LEECHES - EP F2M Planet 2022
4:37 PM
Planet Gemini - The Year of Our Lord
Planet Gemini The Year of Our Lord N
The Year of Our Lord - Single 2022
4:41 PM
The Riven - Sorceress of the Sky
The Riven Sorceress of the Sky N
Peace and Conflict 2022
4:46 PM
Mushroom Tea - Vertigo
Mushroom Tea Vertigo N
Mushroom Tea - Single 2022
4:51 PM
Delco Detention - Idolize
Delco Detention Idolize N
Crack the Lock - EP 2022
4:55 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:57 PM
Amphibian Man - Reflection
Amphibian Man Reflection N
Flaming Home 2022
Chat is archived.
Jon Solomon 3:02:05 PM
Here we go!
Captain Ahab (host) 3:03:45 PM
Vroom vroom
Captain Ahab (host) 3:03:54 PM
Final few hours of November!
Rofflestomp 3:04:10 PM
Hold, hold, hold, Loose!
Moth Sabbath 3:05:05 PM
Nice, this is like Sgt. Papers
Brian D 3:06:45 PM
First thing I thought to Matmothmosabbath!
Jon Solomon 3:06:52 PM
THIS IS GOOD.
Jon Solomon 3:07:09 PM
Also, there has been a goal scored in the soccer.
Moth Sabbath 3:07:13 PM
Nice Brian D 👂
Brian D 3:07:51 PM
The tube socks are strong with the Sgt Papers one.
Moth Sabbath 3:08:43 PM
Lol!!
Moth Sabbath 3:08:54 PM
🧦
Moth Sabbath 3:09:26 PM
tube socks are punk
Brian D 3:09:30 PM
Saw a pic of them and main dude was rocking the high tubes
Rofflestomp 3:09:39 PM
That was so good! Monster genes Ahab!
Matthew Maginley 3:09:45 PM
Turkey tacos!
Moth Sabbath 3:09:47 PM
I'm eating RAT SALAD
Moth Sabbath 3:10:17 PM
PRAY FOR CAPTAIN A
Jon Solomon 3:10:17 PM
I think with the last of the chai spice bread pudding enjoyed at lunch we've depleted our leftovers.
Brian D 3:10:25 PM
No doubt the tube socks dial in another level of dirt tone on the guits.
Matthew Maginley 3:11:14 PM
Sorry you're sick, Ahab. Great show!
Mike Tropiano 3:11:21 PM
Thrak
Moth Sabbath 3:11:21 PM
The tube 🧦 are key to their desert punk sound
Moth Sabbath 3:12:52 PM
District 9 🦐🦐🦐🦐 xyloprawns 👾🛸👽
Moth Sabbath 3:13:08 PM
gestalt is a tricky word
Mike Tropiano 3:13:25 PM
Grrrrrrrree.
Moth Sabbath 3:13:43 PM
Jon that sounds delish 😋
Captain Ahab (host) 3:13:52 PM
Ok that is not what I remember gestalt meaning!
Captain Ahab (host) 3:13:56 PM
I have failed you
Captain Ahab (host) 3:14:06 PM
How did they let me into grad school
Brian D 3:14:51 PM
I have noticed that clicking on the "View Full Playlist" from the main wprb dot com site yields a truncated page of chat where the chat box bottom is flush with the bottom of the entire page and the Coming Up / Recent sections are not there at all. Whereas if I enter url wprb dot com slash chat i get the full page.
Moth Sabbath 3:14:57 PM
Lol Roff
Rofflestomp 3:15:03 PM
Gestalt is everything ink ever was.
Captain Ahab (host) 3:15:11 PM
I was thinking of ERSATZ
Captain Ahab (host) 3:15:15 PM
those german words
Moth Sabbath 3:15:59 PM
The gazpacho police & the luftwaffle
Moth Sabbath 3:16:58 PM
You pulled a Marjorie Taylor Green, Ahab
Captain Ahab (host) 3:17:35 PM
I do not wish to be used in the same sentence as her please lol
Bud Burroughs 3:17:52 PM
Ooh, that's harsh, Moth!
Moth Sabbath 3:18:02 PM
Lol
Moth Sabbath 3:18:19 PM
I'm toughening her up for teaching
Captain Ahab (host) 3:18:28 PM
lol
Brian D 3:18:44 PM
Faux Pho. Ersatz Spätz(le)
Moth Sabbath 3:19:21 PM
Technically not a MTG, you just confused German words. I rescind, sheesh
Brian D 3:19:44 PM
Ersazchpo Gazpacho
Rofflestomp 3:20:18 PM
Oh Scheiße
Moth Sabbath 3:22:24 PM
Aawks is an English band named after hawks
Captain Ahab (host) 3:23:57 PM
AAWKward
Moth Sabbath 3:24:05 PM
Lol the ol' riff slowdown
Moth Sabbath 3:24:31 PM
Hawkward
Jon Solomon 3:24:49 PM
Having recently done a newspaper word Jumble, I assume AAWKS anagram. But for what?
Jon Solomon 3:25:24 PM
Perhaps a ska band from Seattle.
Bud Burroughs 3:26:05 PM
WAKAS!
Bud Burroughs 3:26:16 PM
I don't know what that means, but I enjoy saying it.
Moth Sabbath 3:26:32 PM
Sus as the kids say
Captain Ahab (host) 3:26:59 PM
No clue
Moth Sabbath 3:27:40 PM
Marilyn Mansion
Moth Sabbath 3:29:42 PM
this song reminds me how rats trust each other and sus foods based on whether a rat returns to the colony smelling of the food or not
Colin 3:30:00 PM
AAWKS = Aways Anchored With Kyuss Songs
Captain Ahab (host) 3:30:05 PM
have you been watching Ratatouille?
Brian D 3:30:20 PM
Waka Jawaka
Moth Sabbath 3:30:24 PM
excellent, Colin
Jon Solomon 3:30:36 PM
Kid is home sick today. We're watching soccer on the couch and she just called up "I can't hear you, daddy's listening to metal music!" to her mom.
Captain Ahab (host) 3:30:46 PM
YES
Moth Sabbath 3:30:48 PM
Lol Ahab I've studied rats, basically ancestors, fascinating
Captain Ahab (host) 3:31:15 PM
Well, YES to you listening to metal, hope she feels better soon Jon
Rofflestomp 3:31:45 PM
I think I have a can of Ratatouille in the cupboard somewhere.
Jon Solomon 3:32:23 PM
Just a cold she picked up traveling over Thanksgiving week, but still super stuffy. I am trying to use the healing power of your show to nurse her back to health.
Moth Sabbath 3:32:43 PM
Haaa the King Diamond falsetto moments
Moth Sabbath 3:36:14 PM
Love these overdriven bass chunes yer playing Cap
Bud Burroughs 3:38:27 PM
Excellent riffage here!
Moth Sabbath 3:38:28 PM
stoner doom surf rock
Rofflestomp 3:38:30 PM
Bass chunes put me in debt to Fender. Again...
Moth Sabbath 3:38:53 PM
🏄‍♀️🌊
Brian D 3:42:00 PM
Christine McVie RIP
Moth Sabbath 3:45:26 PM
Fleetwood Mac Sabbath
Moth Sabbath 3:46:10 PM
Ahab you should play some Mac Sabbath 🍟🧹
Rofflestomp 3:47:25 PM
Death always shows up, often uninvited.
Moth Sabbath 3:48:11 PM
thank goodness Death invented punk
Captain Ahab (host) 3:48:22 PM
seriously
Moth Sabbath 3:50:43 PM
Yes more punchy bass punchin me in the face 👍
Moth Sabbath 3:52:04 PM
speakin of which, saw a hilarious pic of Henry Rollins looking 8 years old next to Doyle von Frankenstein of Misfits, with Kira of Black Flag in between em 😂
Moth Sabbath 3:52:25 PM
Will find
Brian D 3:54:00 PM
Oh yeah this!
David Shortell 3:54:00 PM
It's got to be a 1984 or 1985 pic, right, Moth?
Moth Sabbath 3:54:56 PM
Yes David S, Rollins has less tattoos but has hair
Brian D 3:55:02 PM
Ol Haagen Dazs Hank
Moth Sabbath 3:55:26 PM
It's just hilarious with cute Kira in between those particular boys
Rofflestomp 3:56:01 PM
We all ice scream!
David Shortell 3:58:37 PM
Blackwolf was the villain in Ralph Bakshi's Vaughn Bodē-derived 1977 film "Wizards".
Moth Sabbath 3:59:30 PM
NICE David!! Love Bakshi animation and OG LotR
Moth Sabbath 3:59:52 PM
SHAME ME MOMMY, SHAME ME 😂
Matthew Maginley 4:00:17 PM
what about zeitgeist?
J 4:00:19 PM
fahrvergnügen
Matthew Maginley 4:01:22 PM
Entschuldigung
Brian D 4:01:24 PM
Ersatz Gestalt band name (they're not really greater than the sum of their parts)
Matthew Maginley 4:01:42 PM
Gesundheit
Moth Sabbath 4:01:55 PM
lol Brian
Brian D 4:02:26 PM
Reinheitsgebot
Jon Solomon 4:02:26 PM
Everyone's a diacritic!
Moth Sabbath 4:03:06 PM
Lol
Brian D 4:03:13 PM
L Ron Hovercraft
Brian D 4:03:52 PM
He wrote Diacritics i think ..
Moth Sabbath 4:04:59 PM
Ahab is lost in time and sludge
Moth Sabbath 4:06:01 PM
Ox 🐂
Moth Sabbath 4:07:30 PM
We are finding this footage, Captain
J 4:07:46 PM
LOL @Moth
Moth Sabbath 4:08:17 PM
Baby Ahab stuff is always fun 👶
Rofflestomp 4:08:44 PM
@Brian D, Clearly!
Moth Sabbath 4:08:46 PM
TAndy will find the Baby Ahab footage in like .9 seconds
Captain Ahab (host) 4:09:01 PM
lol
Captain Ahab (host) 4:09:11 PM
I would be so beyond impressed
Captain Ahab (host) 4:09:15 PM
but also delighted
Captain Ahab (host) 4:09:30 PM
It was the Paso Robles Boys & Girls club!
Rofflestomp 4:09:57 PM
Paso Robles! lol
Moth Sabbath 4:10:01 PM
oh TAndy's on it 🕵️
Moth Sabbath 4:10:46 PM
Guapa w/ the dub fx
J 4:11:34 PM
I'm expecting Baby Ahab dropping people left and right with sidekicks and hook kicks.
Moth Sabbath 4:11:39 PM
Ahab, the footage has been found, images captured and stickers just went into production
Moth Sabbath 4:12:31 PM
Sending 500 to wprb po box
Captain Ahab (host) 4:12:41 PM
Will that be enough?
Brian D 4:13:51 PM
Mmmm.... Firestone Walker.. Paso Robles nectar
Moth Sabbath 4:15:34 PM
the mighty Elder
David Shortell 4:15:51 PM
I was required to read that Nazi-banned novel in grammar school. Watch the 1930 movie here:
David Shortell 4:15:54 PM
https://ok.ru/video/2068339624558
David Shortell 4:16:25 PM
–and watch the 1979 TV movie here:
David Shortell 4:16:27 PM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KPKeYhkBt5A
Rofflestomp 4:17:42 PM
I am loving this Ahab! Nice!
Moth Sabbath 4:20:06 PM
Roff "Gemini" by Elder is incredible
Rofflestomp 4:21:00 PM
@Moth, sounds like a plan. TY
Richard from Rocky Hill 4:21:54 PM
@ Captain Ahab (host) Shining show, enuf doom metal to slice thru even today's local rain & gloom!
Captain Ahab (host) 4:22:21 PM
Thanks for the links David!
Captain Ahab (host) 4:22:32 PM
Thanks Richard
Mike Tropiano 4:22:48 PM
getting proggy. cool.
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 4:24:04 PM
!
Rofflestomp 4:24:25 PM
@Mike Tropiano, and that is exactly why your math teacher was right!
Colin 4:25:15 PM
lol, DTO be like, somebody say proggy?
Captain Ahab (host) 4:25:22 PM
lol
Captain Ahab (host) 4:25:41 PM
his phone sends him alerts
Moth Sabbath 4:26:01 PM
Lol
Moth Sabbath 4:26:11 PM
His FitBit buzzes
Rofflestomp 4:26:20 PM
LOL, so spot on Ahab!
Moth Sabbath 4:27:25 PM
DTO's phone has a lil alert icon that's just Geddy Lee's face when prog trends
Mike Tropiano 4:27:47 PM
Leibniz looked like he'd fit in a progbmetsl band.
Colin 4:27:55 PM
new for the hiliday gift bags, progbit! it can be programed to play your favorite riff when you reach 10,000 RSrF
Colin 4:28:52 PM
also available in the SOC version for those tropical heads out there.
Moth Sabbath 4:28:53 PM
Leibniz! Are we living in the best of all possible worlds? 🤔
Brian D 4:29:42 PM
Dr Pangloss I presume...
Mike Tropiano 4:30:17 PM
Leibniz on guitar, Newton vocals, until they couldn't stand each other fighting over a forbidden riff.
Matthew Maginley 4:33:40 PM
HI J
Mike Tropiano 4:33:48 PM
Hilbert on flute (looks like a flutist i think)
Matthew Maginley 4:34:03 PM
Hi ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ
Rofflestomp 4:35:48 PM
For Pete's sake Capt'n, you are making me snipe download a bunch of tunes today. Thanks!
Captain Ahab (host) 4:36:14 PM
sorry!
Captain Ahab (host) 4:36:17 PM
not sorry!
Rofflestomp 4:36:39 PM
Never ever be. :)
Moth Sabbath 4:36:56 PM
Lol Mike T
Matt Maginley 4:37:19 PM
@David thanks for the links
Mike Tropiano 4:37:51 PM
DTO, I usually have your show playing in class before my Friday lecture starts. Always annoyed i miss the last hour.
Francis 4:38:39 PM
I'm just happy I can listen at work to this
Rofflestomp 4:39:37 PM
@Mike Tropiano, I have schedule that works for a 3AM listen. :)
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 4:39:37 PM
@Mike, that’s great to hear. Sorry about the inconvenient time slot.
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 4:40:25 PM
And Hi, Matthew!
Mike Tropiano 4:41:00 PM
No problem. I'm always tempted to keep it playing during class.
Moth Sabbath 4:41:35 PM
Ahab have you checked on Flex in wake of The Sword's demise? Worried about him
Captain Ahab (host) 4:42:21 PM
I haven't, hopefully I'll see him at some gigs soon when I head back to boston in a month-ish
Mike Tropiano 4:43:30 PM
Roffle, I'm also often tempted to listen to the early AM replays. Sometimes insomnia is a blessing.
Rofflestomp 4:44:53 PM
@Mike Tropiano, totally a mixed one for sure.
Mike Tropiano 4:46:49 PM
I am so dense! Newton, leibniz, Hilbert, Gauss, Causey, they'd all be in math Rock band.
Moth Sabbath 4:47:37 PM
GAUSS !!
Moth Sabbath 4:48:03 PM
Failure's first drummer was kinda math-y, Robert Gauss LOLOLOL
Mike Tropiano 4:48:17 PM
Now thats something I'd say in class and have everyone look at me like freak...
Jon Solomon 4:48:37 PM
Haven't had mushroom tea in a while but I did have some avocado leaf tea recently. They said it would be "mild" but it tasted more like "warm water."
Mike Tropiano 4:49:03 PM
The people with a sense of humor would call me out on the dad joke
Moth Sabbath 4:49:05 PM
I had 🍄🍄 tea last spring in upstate NY 👍
Captain Ahab (host) 4:49:32 PM
avocado leaf tea?!
Mike Tropiano 4:49:36 PM
oh wow Moth
Rofflestomp 4:49:38 PM
Most people just trip balls. :)
Moth Sabbath 4:49:53 PM
people w/ a sense of humor, please procreate like 🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰
Jon Solomon 4:49:57 PM
It came free in one of N's "tea samples of the month" boxes.
Jon Solomon 4:50:20 PM
Random single bags or loose leaf teas. Sometimes there are gems. Other times there's avocado leaf tea.
Mike Tropiano 4:50:27 PM
I had a student a couple years ago who shared a last name w
Moth Sabbath 4:50:38 PM
Jon is part koala bear, Ahab
Jon Solomon 4:50:49 PM
https://avocadotea.com
Rofflestomp 4:50:51 PM
This was an awesome show Ahab! Thank you!
Moth Sabbath 4:50:54 PM
Oh wait that's eucalyptus leaf
Captain Ahab (host) 4:51:13 PM
Y'all didn't have anything to say bout the opening sample in that AAWKS track (about psilocybin etc)
Rofflestomp 4:51:29 PM
Koala packs a lunch.
Captain Ahab (host) 4:51:30 PM
lol Moth
Moth Sabbath 4:51:44 PM
eats, shoots, and leaves
Captain Ahab (host) 4:51:50 PM
My pleasure Roffle!
Mike Tropiano 4:52:17 PM
with the drimmer from philly's Stickmen (Meneses). So I had to ask. She never heard of him but said her cousin is a famous drummer in the Phillipines.
Brian D 4:52:17 PM
Riff-age on that last one yeah!
Moth Sabbath 4:52:39 PM
Ahab has been on 🔥🔥of late, fantastic shows
Jon Solomon 4:52:47 PM
Excellent name for a local band here.
Jon Solomon 4:52:53 PM
Apparently they're father + son!
Moth Sabbath 4:52:56 PM
Lol Mike T
Captain Ahab (host) 4:53:48 PM
Correct! The songs on their debut album were written by the 9 year old
Mike Tropiano 4:54:13 PM
There was a Buehler in the first class I ever taught. Of course I couldn't resist but I did ask for her forgiveness first and promised I wouldn't do it again.
Moth Sabbath 4:54:43 PM
Lol
Captain Ahab (host) 4:54:45 PM
lol
Captain Ahab (host) 4:55:04 PM
My freshman year dorm was named after Gauss
Mike Tropiano 4:55:07 PM
Great show Cap. As always, kudos and thanks.
Captain Ahab (host) 4:55:10 PM
We called it Gauss House
richard lyons 4:55:10 PM
Great show Captain! That was an awesome open to the AAWKS track 🫠
Moth Sabbath 4:55:32 PM
Feel better Ahab!
Rofflestomp 4:55:50 PM
@Mike, until she cuts class. Then it's pure gold!
Moth Sabbath 4:56:11 PM
Descartes was totally metal too, total, total nut
Matt Maginley 4:56:33 PM
Thanks for the warmth on a cold and rainy day. Feel better. Great show!
Moth Sabbath 4:56:44 PM
mycology
Mike Tropiano 4:56:56 PM
Moth, put his Discourse to music.
Moth Sabbath 4:57:13 PM
Lol Mike T
Mike Tropiano 4:57:35 PM
Oh and thank you all for the enriching interactions.
Moth Sabbath 4:57:50 PM
Descartes made a doll after his deceased daughter (scarlet fever) died 😶
Matt Maginley 4:57:50 PM
myco​phile =shroom collector
Brian D 4:57:55 PM
Great show Ahab!
Captain Ahab (host) 4:58:09 PM
yes! myco something something
Captain Ahab (host) 4:58:11 PM
thanks team
Moth Sabbath 4:58:25 PM
Great chat! Keep the dial chuned to wprb (duh)
Colin 4:58:31 PM
thanks capt!
Matt Maginley 4:58:38 PM
Call me Ishmael
Jon Solomon 4:58:54 PM
Great show, Cap.
Rofflestomp 4:58:56 PM
Micro tonez
Moth Sabbath 4:59:08 PM
call me, Ishmael 🤙
Brian D 4:59:10 PM
Totally
Mike Tropiano 4:59:20 PM
only station in New jersey
Mike Tropiano 4:59:37 PM
But we don't have any in PA
Captain Ahab (host) 4:59:48 PM
lol we can share
Brian D 4:59:55 PM
They moved me frets around...