Desert Cruising Wed Jan 11 with Captain Ahab on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Fresh new chunes, eh, love?

yes indeedy

Kewl

I feel better about life whenever I hear Dragonaut

Third!

Alconaut into Dragonaut into Drugonaut... one day.. one day...

hey Matt, Jon, Brian!

marijuanaut

This one here. Just right.

Good tones

Dr Cosmonaut

Dr Pepper

And they looked and they heard that the tone was good...

Lol

Go forth and multiply the tones

A delight (and a relief) to have your show live this afternoon, Cap.

same!

I used a Speak n Spell, umbrella, and radial saw to chune in during the outage

bring me some hashish please, many thanks

Long jam alert! Lange Jammer!

I'll mark it as an unexcused absence.

get her, BDSC

I saw Mos Generator open for Fu Manchu, great show (Atlanter, GA)

yeah! they share the stage a lot with all the big names, but i am guilty of having to remember they are not Mondo Generator

I watched Fu Manchu go to their tour van for a pre-show herbal medication lol

"Mos" is a prefix used a lot on Tatooine for town names

Band bio says they named themselves after a moss covered generator they would use, then dropped the second s for some reason lol

Nice! Didnt know that

Jason noooo not an unexcused absence!

Generators in the desert were the workhorses of desert rock

1st tunez of 2023 alert

That Mos Gen chune is punkier than I remember em being

Oh nice. Had been curious to check out this new Bardo Pond and here we are!

Bardo Pond still exist?!

lovin' this new Bardo Pond! Hello, all!

teeeeeechnically it's from 2002 but first time on vinyl

lol beat me to it Jon

Aha... asterisky. Like

Deleted my comment. This is your show!

hahaha

Ahab you sneaky cheeky monkey

It counts!

But vinyl releases are to be commended indeedy

I was checking out Chained to Bottom of the Ocean merch, it's nuts: a wooden LP jacket (!), ski mask, deer teeth-- they are wonderfully nuts

Between the Bardo Pond coming from the other room and the noise of people doing tree removal outside my home it is quite the soundscape over here.

Mail the deer teeth to wprb (but don't)

Only if Flex Luthor orders from CTTBOTO will he git teeth (deer)

I was cleaning up in the room I broadcast from last week and I think I found an extra tooth from that cursed envelope.

Where'd ja get this wooden jacket? Hmmm wha well i got it from the network Mr Spicoli...

Spicoli !! ✊🏄‍♂️

Or, the kid misplaced one of her lost teeth over the years only for it to turn up under a bookcase.

Cursed envelope !!

I keep trying to zip up my wooden jacket but i just end up with a pile of splinters on the floor...

it's a cool LP jacket, they burned the cover

Branded, I guess, literally

There's a Poe-esque story in that reappearance of the teeth ..... THAT NEVER DIE!!

my mom has a little silver cup with several of my baby teeth

is that weird? I feel like other parents do that

The Tell-Tale Teeth

Don't pour cola in that cup

my mom did that too, Ahab 🦷

Bookcase Teeth (Bookcases Full of Teeth?) is a great name for a band.

I lost my children's baby teeth, whoops

I don't think that's weird.

Saving kid teeth is traditional

good good

And you can extract DNA and clone yer kids

Or perhaps, one day, they could clone themselves?

So Ahab you may have doppelgängers

When I was a kid I definitely saved my hair from at least one haircut in a ziplock bag. Those were quite the discoveries in a drawer several decades later...

Very Calvin & Hobbes.

Good point, iam

Chris Isaak has gone desert rock?!

Ha! Roky!

Lovely fuzzed out cover

Yeah love the overdrive

Right on fragile border of distortion

I think Roky would have approved

That doc about Roky is good 👍

Poor guy drowned himself in noise to escape schizophrenic voices and brain noise

Yeah! Finally audio proof from many people that his name, it's just like "Rocky" ha

Shock treatment is not cool. Ya

I've known people battered by shock treatment, it's gnarly

Hard restart of the 🧠

it's crazy looking back on some the medical treatments we thought were acceptable, lobotomies esp

Ctrl, alt, delete of the 🧠

There's an amazeballs Harry Crews story (true) about a Georgia sharecropper who pulled his own teeth out, too poor for a dentist

Okay, ya got me!

hook, line, and sinker!

Done!

Druids on the loose

Wearing the 80s NWOBHM proudly on sleeves nice

WE RIDE AT DAWN

Brian D, I was just watching some old Diamond Head stuff, what a time

It's a long and sad story, but one of my professors underwent EST. It got him out of deep depression, ut there were other things too....

Tatoo wahoo Brian.

Finnish met'l nice

THE ORCS STAND NO CHANCE 'GAINST CIMMERIAN STEEL

Green King w/ the Maiden love

This album is currently name your prince: https://motordrive.bandcamp.com/releases

May have been a little audio from movie of same name at end of "I walked with..."

@Mike Tropiano, those are my initials. lol

yeah Brian I suspect that's where that audio was from, haven't seen the film tho

Totally Matt. Maiden sound def

Roffle your name is Eastern Standard Time?

Almost. :)

Major stankface riff

But yea

Before Ahab hit the air today, 1983-era Maiden was played

Elves Slamming Tequila

circle pit

I'm cringing already at music journalism

Those archive Ahab show recordings were cool to hear

OMG, I remember the day Ahab. THAT is really when the hook was set. Thanks.

I like this John guy!

Ya that whole "bars owned by brewery companies" is hard to wrap the Yank head around

I banned Thrasher apparel in my classroom if the student was posing, ie hadnt ever read the mag or sk8ed in their life

haha @Matt

Low tolerance for poseurism, rampant in Gen Z

@Matt Sabbath, I loved high school tee shirts. Many kicks.

Was in the middle of binging the UK Shameless for 2nd time and i think it was taken off of the streaming platforms that i was trying to use twice... it takes a while to watch all 13 seasons (or 13 series as they say over there...)

They touch on that pub owned by the brewery thing in that show

I got frustrated seeing Thrasher shirts, gettin excited, and student had blank face about what Thrasher is

Ok, my grumpy Gen X venting is over, let's roll

Beard doom

@Matt ...totally justified.

Thanks BDSC 😘

https://axiom9.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-inner-sanctum

@Matt Sabbath, Too drunk to F was my fave, back in the day. :)

I have had similar thoughts about people just wanting to collect old vinyl record albums solely to hang the cardboard sleeve on the wall Matt

It's not John, it's Sam Smith! https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-sam-smith-pubs-mobile-26512047

Roff that's rad! A punk in high school I knew wore the "cowboy cocks" t shirt Sid Vicious wore, and got away with it

Swearing is also banned

Nice!

Vote Sam Smith, for fuck sake

Please note my contraction. :)

Brian D, yeah, it's a fine line

No Jukeboxes!

Matt, your students wearing thrasher shirts: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmzmypsya94/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=

I was told my Corrosion of Conformity 'Animosity' shirt was ugly. Oh well.

Low low low bass rumble

Axiom9: "No real keyboard players were harmed during the making of these tracks."

EST or est. Both scary.

LOLOLOL Ahab

LOL Ahab!

Aha this is the big'n! Ahab meal break song?

I am highly tolerant in general (dutch trait perhaps) but dont mess w/ my head by posing

I am not sacrry Mike, but tall enough so that others think so. :)

Ahab is going to France then scooting back at end of hour

I had one student who was knowledgeably into punk this semester. She dressed the part and knew bands I'd mention. I was dismayed that she didn't do well. I offered to help but she never took me up on it.

haha I've got time to run to the pub and back

the band Rush WOULD NOT EXIST if a DJ hadn't needed a long song for a bio break

I should have said, the pub a block from our house is a greene king pub, don't go there often though

Mike T, interesting

Run to the pub, leave yer mobie at home n have some (clean) conversation

Students as soooooooooo behind academically, socially, mentally, tis a shame

*are

I approve of all except maybe the "no cursing "... hmmm hard to imagine that going over well in a pub but what do i know

(Ahab is on 🎯 as a PhD candidate)

The other weird thing about Sam Smith pubs is that they make all their own alcohol, including like spirits n stuff, so you can only get sam smith branded spirits for cocktails, they can't many people going to their pubs for mixed drinks anyhow so i've always wondered about that logic

*there can't be many people

'ave a Ruby ale, Ahab, you earned it

(Matt's student : [takes chin out of neck, looks up n says, "whut?"]

The last time I taught was Spring 22 semester and yeah the kiddies are not alright, covid really wrecked em

Let's hear some beer burps next mic break, Ahab

Lol Brian D, basically

I want that here in Philly Ahab.I have a list of reasons to stop by that! lol

Let's do it! Let's open a Sam Smiths style pub in Philly lol

Not the COVID stuff.

Covid "rekt" em, as the kids say

I'm in!

what do we call it

Do they over use the vocalized pause/ filler words n phrases : like, you know, actually, ummm, know what I'm saying?, right.... etc etc

Rule of Green King, Philly: only WPRB allowed on radio

Lol Brian D you know em well

Drink your ass off until we kick you out? It's a name.

The Dragonaut

So they do like Samuel Smith in England! I thought we were the only ones that bought them for years and years. But then i heard about that whole regional / brewery owned pubs etc thing.

Droughtgon.

Ahab YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Unfortunately (actually it's good) ol' Matt Pike no longer drinks

That's ok he can have lemonade when he stops by

The Crimson Pike 🍺

The 'Obgoblin 🍺

Matt Pike drinking lemonade 😂😂

@Brian, Sam Smith still makes the occasional royalties from me in the grave.

Last I saw him in Oakland he was drinking thc tincture pretty enthusiastically

Didnt Sam Smith brew a stout or the like in a stone fermenter, like medieval style?

Get yer salts and minerals in yer brew

not sure about that but I am reading about their controversies, they sound rather curmudgeonly

The Bludgeoned Curmudgeon alehouse

banning motorcyclists from one of their pubs, for eg

Sam Smith is Olde School 💪

Working while listening so haven't kept up with the chat....Yes, the kids are NOT alright.

It's a constant, continuing source of concern and discussion.

And if you teach pre-meds...

I love the word curmudgeonly Ahab. Definitely scoring a place in my vernacular. Thanks.

Pre-meds made me lose sleep, they were intense

They've always been a nervous bunck.

Yes Matt. I think many wanted to hurt me last Spring.

Call the place Mudge.

I had a student who gave me the death-look, arms folded, total Chad, his papers read like Trump rally speeches @MikeT

MUDGE

Gotta : read long form works/ articles/ books, speak, spell, pronounce, enunciate, speak up, socialize in person, do puzzles, have imagination, have confidence etc etc etc...

Lost in Time at Mudge

Good ideas Brian D

Mudge is quite defining. I like it.

Only sludge to be played at Mudge, as per Sam Smith

The Paul Rudd scene in Wet Hot American summer in the camp cafeteria when he petulantly whines when told to clean up is a great imitation of a teen

Matt your fondness for the word curmudgeonly led me to look up its origins, which is how I learned it's almost exclusively used for men, and that there's a female equivalent: TERMAGANT

not quite the same ring to it, fun nonetheless

Hi Captain - Enjoying this Axiom9 while working

holy shit Ahab! what!! 💃

No it was Roffle! Not Matt

OMG, you girls!

Termaguncle

great word!

Lol Brian D

I have often been there Matt, though there's no place in lab reports for any philosophical or political disagreement. the animus, when it shows up, is only due to displeasure with grades.

I hearya Mike T

Hi Rob F! Glad you're enjoying it

Termaguncle. Wow, Brian.

Prof Ahab is gonna turn this shit around in academia, no pressure Ahab

"This week on Capt Ahab's new vocabulary show..."

I have been there, Matt and probably will in thew future. The animus I sometimes get is solely due to duspleasure with grades (no room for philosophical or political discourse in lab reports).

Termaganthill

Is the chat working?

Yes it is,

I learned another new word from Termagant.

Chat Pile, affirmative, Mike T

If I came here to have fun word play, then thanks for heaven.

The synonym "harridan."

SATs got nothing on us

Last year was much more difficult (thus the "murderous" of pre-meds) because it was the first year back to on campus format.

House Harridan

Two years ago, I "taught" virtually while listening to Desert Cruising and participated in the chat for the first time. It helped me get through that hectic transition to e-learning.

Isn't termagant a type of bird?

Harridan. Just read that is also name of a vodka made in NY state

That might be ptarmigan Mike T

another excellent word

Chat is on fire today

Ptarmigan mated with a cormorant, yes Mike. Exactly

I also like the alternative spelling of curmudgeon, cornmudgin lololol

I lied...

Here's a word from my part of the cosmos that fits with this music... N, N-dimethyltryptamine

Nice, Mike T! Good compliment for Ahab

Aaaaaaand Ahab is back from France

I'll have corn mudgins with my Sam Smiths, fanks den luhv

@Ahab, My girlfriend has her old Masters study books in Chinese about the place. LOL Good shit.

Hah!! Brian D

Ol' Cockney Brian D

Mike T is that a DMT reference?

Bingo!

Nice one, droogie!

Doc, will this clear up? No, afraid it's permagant.

Horrorshow.

Sam Smith sounds kinda like a Donk

Donk !!

Big ' Orra

Lol Brian D

Sam ASSmith

Hahahahah Brian D! Love that weird Maiden chune

Thanks for stuff Ahab! Have a warm safe week.

I missed the whole show but I’m sure it rocked. Cheers Ahab!

Big ups captain been enjoying

Enjoy your travels, Cap.

Dey loss dere words den innit? Aye? Big 'orra dat. Like Brando at the end mate...

Brian have you seen Nicko McBrain imitate Idi Amin?!

Thanks everyone! And yeah Sam Smith DOES sounds like a donk!

This show seemed shorter than two hours and only 10 songs. A BIG HOOT. Thanks and Safe Travels!

Or two...

Total donk!

Twas a hoot indeed, good job, all

haha Mike T hope that's a good sign???

good curation, Ahab, fanks den luv

Oh i was just reading about Nicko and the Idi Amin imitation (of another person's Idi Amin imitation) for that fake backward message joke on Piece o Mind

You got it Brian D

Time flies, they say, when you're Desert Cruisin'

Idi Amin was a piece of work 😳🤯

Next show, only 5 songs?

Ya. Saw that film w the dude from UK Shameless years back. Good that.

Seeya in chew weeks Ahab

Don't tempt me with a good time!

Last King of Scotland

SOLLY UP NEXT, STAY CHUNED

Forest Whitaker

I have been called a demon.

Great show Ahab!

3:02 PM		Alconaut Ascending I : The Departure N Ascending I : The Departure - Single 2022
3:07 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:12 PM		Mos Generator Getting Good at Revenge Time / /Wounds 2022
3:16 PM		Bardo Pond Lomand N Bardo Pond, Vol. 3 ATP/Recordings 2023
3:32 PM		End Of Age Cat's Blood N Turned to Stone Chapter 7 Ripple Music 2022
3:36 PM		Isaak Rotten N Hey 2022
3:41 PM		Druid Stone I Walked With a Zombie N I Walked With a Zombie - EP 2022
3:51 PM		Green King Gates of Annihilation N Hidden Beyond Time 2022
3:55 PM		Motordrive Primitivo N Sangue, Suor e Rock And Roll - EP Bode Preto Records 2022
3:59 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:09 PM		Axiom9 Psychedelic Inner Sanctum I N Psychedelic Inner Sanctum 2022
4:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:54 PM		Fogteeth The Cosmic Experience N Headspace 918 Records 2022

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