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Desert Cruising

Dec 21, 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. 220: 12/21/22

2022 Year in Review Part One!

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Desert Cruising
3:03 PM
Cloakroom - Fear of Being Fixed
Cloakroom Fear of Being Fixed
Dissolution Wave Relapse Records 2022
3:09 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:11 PM
Volcanova - Desolation
Volcanova Desolation
Cosmic Bullshit - EP The Sign Records 2022
3:15 PM
The Bright Dark - Breathe
The Bright Dark Breathe
Breathe - Single The Bright Dark 2022
3:21 PM
Regulus - Into the Black
Regulus Into the Black
Pulse Earache Digital Distribution 2022
3:27 PM
I Barbari - Supernove Che Fanno Bang!
I Barbari Supernove Che Fanno Bang!
Supernove Che Fanno Bang! Overdub Recordings 2022
3:31 PM
Spindrift - Il Chase Della Morte
Spindrift Il Chase Della Morte
Classic Soundtracks Vol. 3 Alternative Tentacles 2022
3:34 PM
Seremonia - Väärä valinta
Seremonia Väärä valinta
Neonlusifer Svart Records 2022
3:38 PM
Mammuthfinger - Valleys End
Mammuthfinger Valleys End
II - EP Mammuthfinger Home Studio 2022
3:42 PM
Stone House on Fire - Waterfall
Stone House on Fire Waterfall
Time Is a Razor Electric Valley Records 2022
3:50 PM
Firebreather - Kiss of Your Blade
Firebreather Kiss of Your Blade
Dwell in the Fog RidingEasy Records 2022
3:56 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:04 PM
Cities of Mars - Towering Graves (Osmos)
Cities of Mars Towering Graves (Osmos)
Cities of Mars Ripple Music 2022
4:09 PM
Slomatics - Buried Axes on Regulus Minor
Slomatics Buried Axes on Regulus Minor
Ascend / Descend Majestic Mountain Records 2022
4:13 PM
Moths - Unbound
Moths Unbound
Unbound - Single MOTHS 2022
4:19 PM
Dungeon Weed - Beyond the Door of Meta-Consciousness
Dungeon Weed Beyond the Door of Meta-Consciousness
The Eye of the Icosahedron Fuzzy Mind 2022
4:24 PM
Oreyeon - If
Oreyeon If
Equations For The Useless Heavy Psych Sounds 2022
4:32 PM
Blind God - Ex Oblivione
Blind God Ex Oblivione
Ex Oblivione - Single Galactic SmokeHouse 2022
4:36 PM
Sunczar - Heresy
Sunczar Heresy
Bearer of Light Argonauta Records 2022
4:42 PM
Psychlona - 1975
Psychlona 1975
1975 - Single Psycho Waxx 2022
4:48 PM
Freebase Hyperspace - Fungi Groove
Freebase Hyperspace Fungi Groove
Planet High Stone Fly/Cosmic Boogie 2022
4:53 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:56 PM
Frayle - Treacle & Revenge
Frayle Treacle & Revenge
Skin & Sorrow Aqualamb Records 2022
Chat is archived.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:00:26 PM
UNDER THE BY GODDAMN SUN
Captain Ahab (host) 3:00:37 PM
haha I know right good transition
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:01:35 PM
I WORKED AT A BIRMINGHAM SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND HAD NO SHOES ON ME FEET
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:01:53 PM
(Ozzy lore)
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:02:26 PM
Ahab that pic is harsh bro
Captain Ahab (host) 3:02:39 PM
hahaahaha
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:02:48 PM
But true 😔
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:03:41 PM
That pic is what they call "cheeky" in Jolly Olde 🇬🇧
Captain Ahab (host) 3:04:45 PM
does the stream sound ok to you?
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:04:53 PM
PLEASE DIRECT ME GOOD SIR TO THE CLOAKROOM
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:05:18 PM
Stream is good 👂💪
Brian D 3:05:25 PM
Love that it appears to be the debut lp old mill house location!
Captain Ahab (host) 3:05:29 PM
ok my phone is being funny then
Captain Ahab (host) 3:05:34 PM
just checking
Black Desert Sabbath Cruising 3:05:44 PM
Sounds good to me (headphones and web player)
Captain Ahab (host) 3:06:16 PM
I think it is Brian!
Brian D 3:06:48 PM
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/black-sabbath-cover-art-keef-keith-macmillan-interview-951578/
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:06:55 PM
Yup dat's the mill
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:07:11 PM
I'd known that mill anywhere
Brian D 3:07:36 PM
https://consequence.net/2020/02/mysterious-woman-black-sabbaths-debut-album-cover-found/
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:07:41 PM
That mill haunts my dreams
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:09:06 PM
Great intel Brian D!
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:10:13 PM
Brian D, doomstorian
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:11:44 PM
'AVE A PULL-OVER AT THE SERVICES, LOVE, I NEED SOME CHIPS AND TEA
Brian D 3:12:20 PM
Let them that hath understanding reckon the rest stop (aka services) number... it's number is....
Captain Ahab (host) 3:13:02 PM
that's exactly how people talk hee
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:13:29 PM
My stepdad is a limey from Surrey
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:13:58 PM
Good guy
Captain Ahab (host) 3:14:34 PM
also can we acknowledge this sick user name: Black Desert Sabbath Cruising
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:14:53 PM
Yesssssssssss
Black Desert Sabbath Cruising 3:15:34 PM
haha...my study of Stoner/Doom/Desert bands has taught me to mash all the favorites together.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:15:49 PM
Am hoping the great TAndy is archiving this best of show
Brian D 3:16:01 PM
Gonna give the chippee a jingle then for take away?
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:16:22 PM
Lol Jason !!!!!!
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:16:51 PM
Jason was quick wit dat shit 😂
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:17:27 PM
Lol Brian ! Where's my Chippy
Captain Ahab (host) 3:17:55 PM
our fish and chip shop near the house has the best chips in all of england honest to god
Captain Ahab (host) 3:18:17 PM
I'm a skinny fry girl myself but their chips are perfect
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:18:18 PM
Oi that's a bold claim, love
Captain Ahab (host) 3:18:28 PM
soft inside yet still crunchy outside, defies physics
Captain Ahab (host) 3:19:02 PM
It's bold but I've had a lot of chips
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:19:08 PM
I had "bugs and chips" in Australia that were amazeballs 🦐
Jon Solomon 3:20:19 PM
Hello hello.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:20:21 PM
this song is similar to a Failure song off Fantastic Planet
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:20:53 PM
in a good way
Captain Ahab (host) 3:21:28 PM
hey Jon! tonight's hannukah show right?
Brian D 3:21:57 PM
Aussie writer David Thorne had a bit on their shortened slang for everything. No complete sentences. Just string of 1 word utterances. "Keys. Servo. Ciggys." Means "can i have your car keys so that I can drive to the gas buy some cigarettes? "
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:22:09 PM
Stream nice and hot, Ahab, no clipping or glitch
Jon Solomon 3:22:14 PM
Yep, 10th-annual ALL-HANUKKAH SHOW followed by DJ Pup at 8 pm ET!
Brian D 3:22:21 PM
Gas station that is
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:23:16 PM
Brian D very true. They also have the crazy practice of "ram raiding" a convenience shoppe
Captain Ahab (host) 3:23:19 PM
Thanks Matt! Can confirm just my phone working poorly in this part of the house and not the stream itself
Captain Ahab (host) 3:24:11 PM
Ahem, that's a *petrol station Brian :P
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:24:13 PM
" Dont touch anything " - Bob Log 3 🎧📻🎚️🎙️
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:24:44 PM
Am hoping ram raiding comes to America
Buck Wild 3:24:59 PM
Thanks for the jamz
Buck Wild 3:25:22 PM
Heard of Relicseed outta Latvia?
Captain Ahab (host) 3:25:22 PM
My pleasure!
Captain Ahab (host) 3:25:35 PM
I have not, on to the list they go
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:25:43 PM
RELICSEED
Buck Wild 3:28:14 PM
Heavy Metal
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:29:02 PM
One of the highlights from 2022 was Ahab's Sabbath Sounds show at Halloween. That was bananas
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:30:11 PM
It almost gave credence to those PMRC moralists in the 80s, the occult in heavy music
Captain Ahab (host) 3:30:39 PM
There'll be a part two for sure in 2023
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:31:01 PM
and Ahab, Flex played Dopesmoker yesterday 😂😂😂
Captain Ahab (host) 3:31:15 PM
oh shoot I meant to tune in!
Captain Ahab (host) 3:31:20 PM
I should have set an alarm
Captain Ahab (host) 3:31:24 PM
that madlad
Brian D 3:31:45 PM
Noy Ahab, it's a "Servo ". That word's heaps better mate
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:31:47 PM
He did it MIDSHOW
Captain Ahab (host) 3:31:49 PM
I think he's played dopesmoker like 4 times just this year
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:32:00 PM
HEAPS
Brian D 3:32:37 PM
Sorry mate... just bein a bit stroppy
Captain Ahab (host) 3:32:55 PM
lolol fair enough
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:33:07 PM
LOOK THEY WERE HESDIN EAST IN HEAPS O' TROUBLE, I'M JUST HERE FOR THA GUZZOLINE
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:33:37 PM
Brian D is a stroppy dodger
Captain Ahab (host) 3:33:45 PM
No issue with servo, was poking fun at "gas station" - they say petrol station here
Brian D 3:34:13 PM
Yah totally i gotya!
Captain Ahab (host) 3:34:41 PM
I went to the shops today to get our christmas turkey and other bits and bobs
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:34:50 PM
lol the shops
Captain Ahab (host) 3:34:55 PM
and rutabagas are not rutabagas
Captain Ahab (host) 3:35:01 PM
they are swedes
Brian D 3:35:03 PM
The shortening of the word gasoline to "gas "is so wrong and confusing on many levels...
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:35:38 PM
Neonlusifer with an S
Captain Ahab (host) 3:35:53 PM
you know im going to say it
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:35:57 PM
Oh shit, Swedish?
Captain Ahab (host) 3:36:17 PM
finland actually
Captain Ahab (host) 3:36:31 PM
the rutabagas are swedes!
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:36:37 PM
Ah the Finns
Brian D 3:36:57 PM
I work with products at our company that use the correct meaning of gas (as in physical state)... friends stillb don't get it... keep asking me if i know about gasoline prices, gasoline products etc..
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:37:14 PM
lookin for some buttery fuzz singe tones today
Captain Ahab (host) 3:37:26 PM
lol Brian
Captain Ahab (host) 3:37:39 PM
I would start making things up
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:38:01 PM
language is essentially made up anyway
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:38:25 PM
There is no outside-text as Derrida said
Brian D 3:39:05 PM
Or they do get it and it's a repeat of theme and variations on the "heh can you get me a tank of nitrous..." joke. That one gets old
Brian D 3:40:04 PM
This one. Right from get go. Sounds just right
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:41:18 PM
Brian lookin for some right smart tones today
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:41:42 PM
None of those wanker tones
Black Desert Sabbath Cruising 3:42:50 PM
Guitarist smashed his thumb and gave himself a Mammuthfinger.
Brian D 3:43:34 PM
This one too! Percussion grooves
Brian D 3:44:47 PM
Just heard a few tiny silence split seconds on stream... not bad
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:48:20 PM
I went in car for a bit and sounded good
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:49:16 PM
'ad to go to the post
Captain Ahab (host) 3:49:50 PM
ok so i like to tease british english on this point in particular
Captain Ahab (host) 3:49:57 PM
it's called the Royal Mail
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:50:08 PM
Get em
Captain Ahab (host) 3:50:10 PM
but they dont call it mail like we do, it's the post
Captain Ahab (host) 3:50:18 PM
so WHY IS IT ROYAL MAIL
Captain Ahab (host) 3:50:49 PM
the postman brings the post
Captain Ahab (host) 3:50:55 PM
but he works for Royal Mail lol
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:52:19 PM
Royal Trux
Brian D 3:54:28 PM
The time o year when the sun shines right through the door in my eyes... much needed sun... headache not so needed. So door it closes.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:55:13 PM
😎
Brian D 3:55:34 PM
The "mall" (grassy long walk) rhymes with "pal" thing is strange to me.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:56:10 PM
the mawl (I'm from Bergen County lol)
Brian D 3:56:40 PM
Maths not math. Sport not sports.
Brian D 3:57:19 PM
Johnny Maths
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:57:35 PM
light the biftah
Brian D 3:58:27 PM
Have a kip in yer kit lying down on the pitch
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:58:40 PM
Lol!!
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 3:59:12 PM
Several species of small furry animals gathered in a cave and grooving with a Pict
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:00:20 PM
We are 138
Brian D 4:00:31 PM
Saint Biftah. Patron saint of crumpets and buntings.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:00:42 PM
Lolololol
Brian D 4:01:10 PM
WAN TOO FREE FOR!!
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:01:24 PM
🇸🇪
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:01:57 PM
how far the mighty vikings hath fallen, now associated with root vegetables
Brian D 4:03:33 PM
Aye an a bit o' mackerel, back-a-racken Fear 'nd a revit Din bat-a 'hed 'nd a thoit' Well i slap'd thea in a flem 'nd din an'a sade 'Nd a creed, creed, creed
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:04:31 PM
Lol!! Patois mon
Brian D 4:04:55 PM
Ya rotten hound of de hondny free Well I snakd for a blame 'nd a clamore cut and a crust
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:04:55 PM
Brian D is scuppered on eggnog mefinks
Brian D 4:06:09 PM
Someone did an ok attempt at Roger's Several Species pictish recitation. I was just copying
Captain Ahab (host) 4:06:21 PM
mm eggnog
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:06:51 PM
the mighty nog, the devil's libation
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:07:44 PM
I have nog trauma
Captain Ahab (host) 4:07:51 PM
also here pigs in blankets refer to little sausages wrapped in bacon!
Captain Ahab (host) 4:08:06 PM
why would piggies be in blankets of their own flesh!!
Brian D 4:08:10 PM
Mmmm phlegm strengthening drinks.. what more can one ask for? Love how it pours in slow motion
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:08:18 PM
And diapers are nappies
Brian D 4:08:46 PM
Sounds perfectly natural actually
Brian D 4:09:35 PM
It's like bringing it all back home pig to blanket
Captain Ahab (host) 4:09:57 PM
lol
Brian D 4:10:15 PM
Occasionally heard that for tiny sausages in puff pastry or crescent roll
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:11:17 PM
SLOMATICS 🥰
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:11:32 PM
This band is consistently heavy as shit
Brian D 4:11:53 PM
When i was a kid that's what i first heard that blanket term applied... then later someone showed me a tray full of cabbage in red sauce... hmmmm
Captain Ahab (host) 4:12:45 PM
yeah Brian I always thought the "blanket" was puff pastry
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:12:54 PM
There's a great episode of Anthony Bourdain's show where he cooks with Josh Homme at Rancho de la Luna
Brian D 4:14:22 PM
Aha... i thought that Slomatics was familiar. First heard that on your show back in spring
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:14:43 PM
Bass tone
Brian D 4:15:08 PM
Be cool to do a big old Desert Sessions and adjacent show sometime
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:15:51 PM
Great idea
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:16:06 PM
Play Desert Sessions in reverse order
Brian D 4:16:33 PM
Ya good episode that Josh desert Bourdain one. Theme song
Brian D 4:17:06 PM
Big mighty bass ya
Black Desert Sabbath Cruising 4:21:04 PM
aww yeah...this is a favorite.
DSM 4:21:31 PM
Ahoy!
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:22:44 PM
DSM we found out, Ahab, is short/Aussie for DOPESMOKER
DSM 4:22:48 PM
Dungeon Weed's vocals make me feel like I'm traveling thru a dial up connection or something
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:23:14 PM
Lol! Earthlink.net
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:23:42 PM
Whoops didnt mean to create a link lol
Captain Ahab (host) 4:24:39 PM
hey DSM!
DSM 4:24:47 PM
I clicked the link. I'm shocked it still exists!
Captain Ahab (host) 4:25:16 PM
wait is it actually short for dopesmoker?
DSM 4:26:13 PM
donutsmuggler
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:26:24 PM
lolololol
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:26:35 PM
Donutsmüggler
Captain Ahab (host) 4:26:57 PM
mmmm donuts
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:29:04 PM
Apple spider donuts made with real apple spiders
Captain Ahab (host) 4:30:12 PM
with a side of bone apple tea
DSM 4:31:05 PM
now I'm imagining a spider living in the core of apples, it's legs emerging as you take that final bite too close to the core, and I am disgusted
Jon Solomon 4:31:24 PM
My dad still has an Earthlink email!
Jon Solomon 4:32:02 PM
I assume eventually he'll be the last person with an @earthlink.net address and they'll give him the company Wonka-style.
DSM 4:32:03 PM
bless him Jon! That is incredible
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:32:09 PM
Jon LOLOLOLOL
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:32:25 PM
Papa Solomon is OG
Jon Solomon 4:33:15 PM
He also has a Gmail now too to be fair, mostly because Earthlink kept rejecting emails from me to him as SPAM.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:33:30 PM
Galactic Smokehouse records lol
DSM 4:34:37 PM
Earthlink been around long enough it's developed it's own sense of hummor
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:35:26 PM
I remember emailing the Voivod fanclub from an earthlink email
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:35:43 PM
Cutting edge at the time
Brian D 4:46:14 PM
My EarthLink email rejected emails as Spiders
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:47:13 PM
Sounds like an early New Order song
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:49:35 PM
need cowbell
DSM 4:50:08 PM
def need to drop the cowbell on this one
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:51:01 PM
I shoulda asked Santa for a cowbell
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:51:50 PM
Doesn't an eastern Europe country have a kind of anti-Santa, like he's Santa but drunk and falling down, Ded Moroz or something?
Jon Solomon 4:52:00 PM
I got a Hanukkah present last night I am still laughing about.
Captain Ahab (host) 4:52:05 PM
what was it
Jon Solomon 4:52:40 PM
He'll be at the top of my playlist tonight (and perhaps will make an on-air appearance if he doesn't shuffle off this table).
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:53:09 PM
Lol
Jon Solomon 4:53:14 PM
Sometimes Hanukkah dreams come true a year later than planned...
Rob F 4:54:03 PM
Thanks Captain! Great show
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:55:00 PM
Fun show, thanks Captain
Black Desert Sabbath Cruising 4:56:08 PM
Rockin' show. Merry Christmas!
Jon Solomon 4:56:26 PM
Thanks, Cap.
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:56:39 PM
Merry Crimbus
Captain Ahab (host) 4:57:05 PM
thanks team! catch you next week, hope you have a great christmas and hannukah
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:57:23 PM
Happy Boxing Day Captain
Captain Ahab (host) 4:57:52 PM
haha thanks Matt!
DSM 4:57:53 PM
Thanks Captain! Have a Holly Jolly week!
Matt Sabbath Desert Goat Toker 4:58:14 PM
Good doom/joom today
Brian D 5:00:11 PM
Great show Ahab!