Black Sand is moving...

I guess it came down to the question of which term was more offensive: "blog" or "podcast"? It's tough, right? But "blog" was the winner, or loser (the sound of it still makes me cringe)....so head over to the new site & bookmark the fucker, cause I won't be updating this thing anymore.
Or you can stay here and stare at this thing - which could be more entertaining, depending...

Black Sand Archives Vol.4

Ok, ok, so I know this has been done to death already, but how could I not? I mean, it's Volume 4 (my favorite Sabbath album), it already said "Black Sa...", and the last time I was on an album cover was "Look At Yourself" (cheers to Ken & the lads for that). Plus, I thought our faithful listeners from out of state/country might like to put a face with the voices they hear every week - that's Conrad on the right - anyway, $5.00 for 6 shows spanning 2/7/06 - 4/11/06, you know the rest...

Black Sand: 5/23/06

It's fundraising week at VFR - check out our completely botched attempt to raise some green for the station...my vaguely threatening "we want cash" technique combined with Conrad's inability to remember what station we're on resulted in zero calls, but hey, we tried. Maybe if we were actually offering those hemp diaper bags as a premium it might have helped.

Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on with this cover?

Artists: El Reloj (pictured), Steeplechase, Fort Mudge Memorial Dump, Might Of Coincidence, Pierrot Lunaire, Edip Akbayram & Dostlar, and, uh, Bachman Turner Overdrive.

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Black Sand 5/9/06

Fairly unusual episode, notable for the fact that I play a 14 minute Italian prog track. If Cappy starts playing lobotomized hard rock from Croatia next week, we'll know some kind of Freaky Friday scenario has taken place...

Artists: Drosselbart (pictured), Albert Band, Rainbow Generator, Mark Tucker, Dirty John's Hot Dog Stand, etc.

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Red Sand 4/25/06

What is it exactly about the name Black Sand? It seems simple enough to remember, but as Justin's intro will attest, things are not always as easy as they appear to be (listen for Conrad's booming laughter in the background). Later that night I spied the revised VFR schedule - "Black Sands". Does that even make sense? Sands?

Artists: Ahora Mazda (pictured), Samla Mammas Manna, The Bermuda Jam, Salt Water Soul, Bang, and some frank & thought provoking perspectives on the demon weed.

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Black Sand 4/11/06 w/ Guest DJ Josh Burkett

Here it is, the Joshua episode...J.B. brought some nice stuff, including a great teen cover of Blue Cheer's cover of "Summertime Blues" that totally slays...thanks to the Jibba for coming out...this brings us up to Vol. 4 of the archives, which will be available in the next couple of days (or whenever I type up all the playlists). What is "French hair"?

Artists: New Americans, Trevor McNamara, Stonewall, Aeroblus, Le Assemblee, Gordon Alexander, I Drive, etc.

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Black Sand 3/28/06

Long time no see huh? The computor has been out of service for a long overdue upgrade - rather than bore you with endless tales of "SATA floppies" & "flashing my BIOS", I humbly present last week's show. Next week, the one and only Josh Burkett, a.k.a. Joshua, a.k.a. "The Jibba" will be our special guest, with some bizarro shit from his stacks...you don't want to miss this one....

Artists: Beauregard Ajax, Second Life, Docdail, Third Power, Citizens For Interplanetary Activity, etc.

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