Black Sand Archives Vol.2 CD-R

Hot on the heels of Vol.1 comes another 12 hours of psychedelic mud, along with the usual flubs, goofs & boners you've come to expect from the suave Conrad Capistran, & the other guy. Spans the dates 11/15/05 - 12/20/05. 5 bucks postpaid in US, same deal as the other one. Yep, sure is Volume 2!

Black Sand 12/27/05

Final show of the year! Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback...in the grand Christmas tradition of making a list & checking it twice, I typed up all the remaining playlists and kind of half-assedly checked them once. I'm not Santa, for Christ's sake.

Artists: Bunalimlar, Troyka, Food Brain, Suely e Os Kanticus, Pappo's Blues, Ariesta Birawa, etc.

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Black Sand 12/20/05

Well, to say the friggin least, the "Xmas spirit" hasn't really been happening around Black Sand HQ. But I did manage to scrape up some Jesus/Santa related crap for the first 20 minutes of the show. From there on out pretty much anything goes, as usual. I'm actually really pissed that I didn't think to alter the theme song to say "Black Santa", but maybe next year (if there is one).

On an unrelated note, special thanks to MV for including Black Sand in his top 10 of the year list at Volcanic Tongue (check it out here). Just one correction: it's spelled "nucular". I'm 99% sure about that.

Artists: Armando Piazza, The Love Machine, High Speed & The Afflicted Man, Kenneth Higney, Albert Marcoeur, The Bunnies, etc.

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Black Sand Archives Vol.1 CD-R

So, you may have noticed that a bunch of the old MP3s have disappeared...this is due to a combination of limited disk space & my bandwidth getting hammered. Which means the show must be catching on (a good thing), but I can't shell out the extra $ to keep them all available.

Luckily there is a solution: Black Sand Archives Vol.1 is a CD-R of the first 6 shows (at least the ones that I recorded) in MP3 format, with all the playlists. Yep, it's 12 straight hours (!) of everything you love about Black Sand; the awkward banter, incessant guitar solos, gratuitous drug references, etc. Best part: it looks like a wittle wecord! Awww. Paste-on cover, just like a crappy bootleg.

It's available for $5 postage paid in the U.S. Not sure how much for our overseas friends, but we'll stab that horse when we cross it. Or however that saying goes. Shoot me an email (from my profile) if you're interested.

One more thing: I actually got off my ass and typed up some of the old playlists, so if you already grabbed any of the 1st six shows, but got a a dead link for the playlist, try again...right now they go up to 11/15, but more are forthcoming in the next week or so.

Black Sand 12/13/05

Pretty uneventful show from our end; the combination of freezing cold & no calls left us feeling like we were broadcasting from some Antarctic pirate radio outpost. At least Conrad didn't sprout spider legs & attack me. That would have been the icing on an already horrible cake. Or day. He did freak out on the mixing board, however.

Lots of un-American stuff: Apryl Fool, Dickens, Montes, Picchio Dal Pozzo, Jacques Fihl, Osamu Kitajima, etc. What can I say, we must hate "freedom" or something.

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Black Sand 12/6/05

The phone rang during the first or second song; it was a pal from Easthampton informing me that he and some other friends were completely stoned out of their minds & digging the show. This is the kind of call we like to get, not some disturbed loner with a Dick Dale fixation. Inspired me to condense most of the hard rock stuff scattered through the playlist into one big sticky glob...it was the least I could do after Conrad's sax heavy Wazoo track (he regrets nothing). So yeah, look out for the wank factor about 45 minutes in, if you're allergic to that kind of thing. Conrad follows that w/lo-fi live Pink Fairies, so it goes on for quite a while. Fuckin A! Grab a 15 pack of Black Label & ...

Played: Taman Shud, the cartoonish Lagger Blues Machine, Damon, Ofo The Black Company, Labat, Ze Remalho y Lula Cortes, and a heartfelt tribute to "The Bar" by Tom Sirard.

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Black Sand 11/29/05

Conrad's car was out to lunch again, so I "flew" this "mission" alone. The plus being that there was less blabberin and more tunes. Fixed the ground loop problem as you will hear (or not hear). Thanks to Josh for the ride to & from...

Not too much else to say, but some good stuff: Pugh Rogefeldt, Love Depression, Dull Knife, Electric Lollipop (schoolkid psych!), Saing Saing Maw, etc.

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Fuck yeah, there was a Pugh stamp!