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Desert Cruising

Dec 20, 2024 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Doctor Ahab

The latest and greatest in stoner rock, doom metal, fuzz and more. Regular purveyor of the hidden treasures of Anatolian Rock during my (usually) monthly "Anatolian Hour."

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Ep. 293 12/20/24

THE DEBUT OF DOCTOR AHAB

5:00 PM		Witchcraft Hey Doctor The Alchemist Rise Above Limited 2007
5:06 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:11 PM		Asteroid Doctor Smoke Asteroid Fuzzorama 2016
5:17 PM		Low Orbit Timelord Crater Creator Pink Tank Records 2021
5:22 PM		Naxatras Spacekeeper N Spacekeeper (Single) - Single 2024
5:27 PM		Acid Row Human Machine (feat. Bön & Olaf Olafsonn and the Big Bad Trip) N Human Machine (feat. Bön & Olaf Olafsonn and the Big Bad Trip) - EP 2024
5:47 PM		Black Capricorn Zeernebooch N Ira Dei - Single 2024
5:55 PM		Astral Kompakt Pirsch N Goldader 2024
6:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:06 PM		Mountain Of Misery Hollow Water N Deep Seven, Vol. 1 2024
6:11 PM		Dunes One Eyed Dog N One Eyed Dog - Single Ripple Music 2024
6:16 PM		Kadavermarch Rabbit Killer N Rabbit Killer - Single 2024
6:21 PM		Dead Meadow The Space Between N The Space Between - Single 2024
6:28 PM		Desert Suns Sweet Sorrow N Sweet Sorrow - Single 2024
6:34 PM		Asteroid Time N II Fuzzorama Records 2010
6:40 PM		Heavy Trip Astrononaut N Astrononaut - Single Heavy Trip Records 2024
6:49 PM		Ironweed Aegis N Aegis 2024
6:51 PM		Möuth Sheep N Sheep - Single 2024
6:58 PM		Time Rift FOLLOW TOMORROW N In Flight Dying Victims Productions 2025
7:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:08 PM		Nebula Between Time To the Center Sub Pop 1999
7:11 PM		Velvet Rush Fire Spirit N Fire Spirit - Single 2024
7:15 PM		Kaiser Brotha N Brotha - Single 2024
7:20 PM		Nightstalker Uncut N Uncut (Single) - Single 2024
7:25 PM		CROWLEY Silver Star N Silver Star - Single 2024
7:30 PM		Mondo Drag Through the Hourglass Through the Hourglass RidingEasy Records 2023
7:36 PM		Pale Mare Corpserider N Corpserider - Single 2024
7:42 PM		Sergeant Thunderhoof Salvation for the Soul N The Ghost of Badon Hill Pale Wizard 2024
7:48 PM		Fuzznaut Ear Bleeder N Ear Bleeder - Single 2024
7:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:55 PM		Heavy Velvet Scarlet N Scarlet - Single 2024

Chat is archived.

what's up DOC

AHOY

Ahab Ahoy! Doctor Doctor PLEASE OH THE MESS I'M IN!! Congrats!

I tellya folks I was "there" and our dj Cap Ahab hit it outta the park at her doctoral defense. Total pro.

Whoah, listening to that promo thinking "can it really be?"

Guess I'm not previewing Xmas records at 5 after all. THE DOCTOR IS IN.

this calls for an edible

Hehe hey friends, it's nice to be back in the world of the living

The last two months have been NUTZ

Ahab how you feelin champ

such great news! i peeked @ the calendar grid and .... yee haw! desert snowin

Hello and congrats Doctor Ahab!

The universe giveth then it taketh it away, I got food poisoning on Weds, literally only feeling back to normal as of a few hours ago!

Ahab I LOL'd that "sassy pants" was at yer dissertation defense LOL

Hey Rob!

Ahab, first it giveth...

Lol Sasson is my bud

Oh man, food poisoning. Yikes! I'm glad you are feeling better now

Also, I love the image of you riding the whale!

BRAT is a great band. "bimboviolence"!

Felicitations & AUGURI, Dr. Ahab!!! YAY!!! Welcome back!

Ahab I senta my notes re yer diss. It's a short doc. Only 72 pages.

Gotta recommend this museum in Hartford before I break for dinner...

https://www.thewadsworth.org

CONGRATS Dr. AHAB !!!

omg! Dr. Ahab! congrats!!!

Thanks all! It's a mood for sure

Thanks Jon! It's on my list

Congrats, Doctor!! 🤘

Thanks Debbie!

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/high-on-fire-matt-pike-jeff-matz-cometh-the-storm deep dive of High On Fire/Matt Pike for those interested

great to hear you on the air, Dr Ahab!!!!!! Congrats!!!

doc dj check out Sandkrawler if ye havent yet, my new fave doom https://sandkrawler.bandcamp.com/album/sandkrawler

ooh excellent, seems like great May 4th material for Jon

thanks Richard!

Right. Outta. Da. Gate. This... epicness

Are ye Edibly edible yet Mattosaurus?

we are kneedeep in the guts of TIME and SPACE

Lol Brian D oh yeah (Kool-Aid guy busts thru wall)

and yes, Brian D, when my liver fails please bbq me, I am edible as well as on edibles

When I hear "OH YEAH! " I think 50 / 50 Kool Aid mascot OR.. WPRB wrestler ID

OLAF OLAFSONN !! Doc Ahab cannot resist the power of swede

Lol Brian D

I AM OLAF SON OF OLAF

Olaf Another One (hic.... )

Lol!

Olaf a pint! Olaf a pint with you sir! And if one of ya' doesn't order soon We'll be chucked out of the boozer!

Once again... they are playing the riffs with vice grips! This is great stuff!

https://media1.tenor.com/m/GCMSgtLymaQAAAAC/fat-guy.gif Doc Ahab at IKEA

Evening Ahab 🏥🎓🔥

hey Ossy!

lol Matt, certainly lots of shopping involved with furnishing a whole damn house

This is the part where they recite Coleridge... or the warped Psalm like Floyd in Aminals Sheepz

Some good adds to the wishy list tonight for sure

Lol Brian D, reminds me of Bruce Dickinson singing Rime of the Ancient

Rime of the Ancient Marinade Recipe

(creaking ship sounds, wind, noodley bass line)

Lol Brian D

Rime of the Ancient Marijuanaut

Congratulations to you doctor. Savage show as always.

Mime of the Ancient Marinara Against the Wind

Thanks Christopher! Have to let out that pent up dissertation rage somehow

Just got over some bad scampi myself.

Dissert(tation) Cruising

ooof, my sympathies

Lol Brian

Was just thinking about your Dessert sweet themed show playlist the other day Ahab. A good time that

aww yiss

And the 4 song show (2 hours) or was it a 6 song show (3 hours) or both...

hahahahaha

PhDoom

Lol Jimboooooooo

https://media.tenor.com/HaE_APHlLVwAAAAM/black-goat-rearing.gif

Loool

I miss seeing the 2 lil mini goats do their "pre rear-up gear-up" dance 3 times then clock heads at the rescue farm down the street. Now there's only 1 mini goat and 3 regular size ones. She's a bit outsized. But... the other week there was a very friendly "teen age" deer in the goat & pony section by the road where i hike. Mini goat kept head butting the deer gently. Deer was not even fazed. Just kept eating the grass. Love my aminal friends it is

little goats are the absolute best

we are desert sludging

Deer came right up to fence all "hey have you met me yet? I'm cute. I like humans to pet me. I'm a put my wet nose in your hand now..." Haven't seen the deer in past few times. Might have hopped into a different field or back to the woods

Pioneertown, CA, bans drones outright, as they spook horses. Thinkin NJ might take a cue.

https://www.google.com/search?q=vegeta+db+daima&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sca_esv=29b631a3bb3a5bbd&udm=2&ei=hfdlZ8HTEYek5NoP-YOswA0&oq=vegeta+db+daima&gs_lp=EhJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWciD3ZlZ2V0YSBkYiBkYWltYTIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGAcYHjIGEAAYBRgeMgYQABgFGB4yBhAAGAUYHki2HFC-D1j1FHAAeACQAQCYAZoCoAGkBKoBBTMuMC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIEoAKNBcICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgINEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEYDcICBxAAGIAEGA2YAwCIBgGSBwcxLjIuMC4xoAf3Cg&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img

JA DER GOLDADER

Congratulations Doctor Ahab!

I will see yer NaHAtras and raise you an Earthless

WE ARE 138

thanks Kelly!

Again with the right outta the gate riffage

attn Brian D re riffs https://media1.tenor.com/m/hGeBi61XBLIAAAAd/star-wars-ufc.gif

MOUNTAIN OF MISERY WEED BASTARD SABBATH WIZARD THUNDERGOAT JOSHUA TREE AFLAME

(sorry I was just glitching there)

MAMMOTH VIKING SHJIPS BASTARD WIZARD WEED MONOLITH GOAT DESERT TENTS AFLAME

Keef Glitchard. Little Glitchard.

Haaaaaaa!! Keef Glitch Hard!!

have ya got it out of yer system yet Matt?

Life is but a joke Dr Smoke

Brian, I found kif once in Seattle at a dispensary, wild shit

Glitchard Simmons

Lol

Ahab you are tearin it up ya!

Ahab is BACK

YOU CANNOT KEEP MATT PIKE OR DOC AHAB DOWN, YOU CAN ONLY HOPE TO CONTAIN THEM

Love the year 24 representation. Desert Cruising always featuring the new tunes

that white whale best be scurred

Baby kif you ever wondered.. wondered whatever became of me.. I'm livin on the shelf in Seattle... Seattle dis-pen-sary....

Lol!

Matt Shingleshot Sabbatical! In the houz!

LOVE THAT BREAKDOWN! mini lead. Then some organ

Lol

Brian D, Green Lung is the master of that

just realized Jen Redlights is gonna segue into DebbieW Saturday night!! the hard rockin ladies of the wprb!

awww yeah

3 hours of Doc Ahab, this is such a treat

the Asteroid love today!

couldn't resist

Lucky folks we are indeed

Came back just in time.

Jon Matt linked a star wars themed doom band, might be useful for May the 4th https://sandkrawler.bandcamp.com/album/sandkrawler

and they dress like (tall) Jawa when playing live!

their lyrics are pure SW Ep 4 fan love

Younger neigbhors just gave us some cookies, including one personalized for me, their imagining what I looked like going to shows at the 930 Club in DC in the 80s.

The figure is bald and is wearing a black t-shirt with a skull on it

That's not too far off... There's a candy cane under the skull design on the t-shirt that "I" am wearing

Rob MD that is rad. Neighborliness still exists!

930 Club leeeeeeeeeegendary

TURN IT UP NJ DE PA EARTH

hell yeah neighborliness! been waiting until i'm fully recovered to bake some cookies and go meet my new neighbors

Welcome back and congrats doctor! Listening to the show while cruising to the desert. Colorado to New Mexico today

What would a heavy trip be for an astronaut in space?

woah Travis muchos miles!

@Capt./Dr. Ahab, that should be fun! We're trying to figure out what to give to our neighbors in return

Incredible, Rob.

And Travis, that's the most appropriate place to listen to this show!

Brian D when a tasty riff comes on https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/13/7c/f0137c99531fef767a3d39d20bd34903.gif

Rob, such a great coincidence!

Travis nice! I went to Joshua Tree CA recently and so miss it in a big way

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire

I may be headed that way Matt. Working remote from the desert for the next two weeks! We will see where the road takes me!

Travis, do it! Go there!

I stopped short at quartzsite last Christmas road trip.

best water I've ever had was outside Tucson

San Diegbro

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Marvin Rosennnnnnnnnnn Selecta Jerrrrrrrrryyyyyy

TAndy we got 3 hours of Doc Ahab!

Where are thou selecta...

the mighty NEBULA

cool Kaiser album cover. Nuttin like magic hour in the dezert

Smash those Nebula teeth, Sabbath!

https://weedian420.bandcamp.com/album/the-100-best-releases-of-2024 Weedian has been thriving lately folks

Surprising treat!

hey Mike!

Kudos to the PhDoctor.

Impressed I was, if out of my element.

Different from what I'm used to. You were right when you said I'd be nonplussed.

I was inpressed by Harvard's rigor and of course our DJ's composure

*impressed

I can spell. I teach English

I try to speak English..

Matt, you signed off before I had a chance to get back to you...

HI...Just poppin' in here to say its super good to hear this show back on WPRB at this moment... Epic Awesomeness as Always... ThanX

Did you think some of the comments were nit-picky?

Thanks Mike O!

whoops sorry Mike, I get confused by technology

It was about what I expected Mike T, my advisor (the last one) was a bit more nitpicky

Me too, often. I had hoped that no one else saw my comment to you.

Mike T I think Prof Casale was fishing for Ahab to discuss time as a hyperobject, but maybe I was just projecting. Not too nitpicky but every dept argues over semantics.

yeah Giancarlo was asking me about something I DID NOT discuss at all and it was bit like ummm well I can theorize but IDK!

Then he did a good job with a talented protege. I'd expect nothing less form my professor, wh's been very critical when I needed and deserved it.

he and I had spoken about it casually before so it was fair but still

you did great Ahab, you conceded and also held yer ground, all ye can do

Exactly Matt, maybe it's because I'm in science (where we do have a specialized jargon that only rarely overlaps with everyday language, and we all know how to use it), but at times I thought they were picking on word choice but not ideas.

You were very respectful and composed, Ahab.

I loved how intellectual Harvard was, pure intellect, but yeah it's a diff field than I'm used to (in a good way)

the grilling was gentle/loving and Ahab slayed

I wouldve asked her, in her studied opinion, if Black Sab's Cornucopia is one song or two, and why

lololol

That's exactly what I thought. it was a very conversational and affable discussion (not what I'd expect in my area) but challenging. Yes, Cap slayed.

But I wouldn't have looked askance if I'd hear, "that's beyond the scope of this investigation."

1st lyric of Cornucopia "Too much near the truth, they say... " yep

ooooo that Pale Mare tone is a very nice

Brian D NICE

many grinding riffs today

In defenses I've been to in chem, there has been a public part, where the defender presents their work. The grilling then goes on in private. Thanks again Dr. for granting me a view of this other part of academia.

My pleasure! Was nice to see you and Matt there :)

Twas an honor.

I didn't think you'd notice, but I'm glad I was there, if only to show my support.

and Sassy Pants was there LOLOLOLOLOL. I knew when I saw that name that the defense would go great

Who was that Matt?

I think Sassy Pants must have been my friend Sasson

I knew he was there but I didn't see the names of everyone on the zoom

Oh, I didn't see that name. Trying to make you laugh?

It's on brand for Sass

At a presentation I made, a friend sat in front and as I began, shoved a huge hoagie roll into his mouth to make me laugh.

LOL

LOL!!

LOOOOOOOL

I wanna deliver a doctoral defense while eating powdered donuts

Funny was eating glazed donuts at a friend's gym fitness holiday party

Something that continually comes to mind,

in my work...in my first college chem class, I was amazed at how this guy would come in and seemingly brood in the front of the room until class began...

he seemed not to give any mind (and had no notes) about what he was going to say.

haaaaaa!! The BroodLord. I had a brooder student once

Then class began, and he'd give the most organized and knowledgeable lectures.

I'd think to myself how amazing that was, how I could never do that.

Noiw I can.

At times, I've had to give lectures on completely unforseen topics

And those are ones that are often the most organized and clear.

Hey Dr. Capt. Ahab, we enjoyed your show tonight! We hope you recover fully, have a great holiday week, and settle in at your new location!

Lol Mike! I wing it 30% of the time or more

I am sure your committee already knew that you had achieved that level. But once you get the letters, you are one of them.

"One of us, one of us." Great to have anoither subversive freak in the bunch.

some academics can just flow. Stanley Cavell was like that, Zizek. Deleuze & Guattari. Donna Haraway is pretty wild. Nick Land was wild.

I try not to do that, but sometimes...

Now those are names I don't know!

WE ACCEPT HER GOOBLE GOBBLE GOOBLE GOBBLE

You will be assimilated.

Resistance is futile Ahab

Thank you again!. Proud of you! And sorry to be such a nerd.

Thanks for the sub show!! Great to hear you back on, have a good holiday :)

dont apologize Mike T! we accept you, gooble gobble

Thanks for the kind words everybody! Was a pleasure to stream these tunes for ya

It ate David Crosby but then spit him up. No gobble.

Great show! We miss you!! See you soon!!

thanks Doc DJ!! Good shite love

Lol Mike T

That was such a blast Ahab. Great show. Congrats!

I wanted to say, the Mondo Drag reminded me of 1000Mods

1000 Mondos

30 seconds of high on fire thera at the end lolk

yessssssssss

YES!

Little Chocolate Donuts have always been a part of my dissertation training table. - J Belushi

Belushi Speed Ball

nighty night friends

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥