sandusky drummer resurfaces?

UPI (Honolulu, HI)

Dive Oliphant, former member of seminal lo-fi country pioneers Sandusky, has emerged from his sabbatical of silence.

It was reported this morning that a 90-minute Maxell cassette wrapped in a plain rown wrapper arrived at the offices of 3.2 BOILERMAKER, an unofficial fanzine/pirate radio station based on an atoll off the coast of Guam, on March 27. 3.2 writer Merle Swisher explained the delay in releasing the contents of the tape, stating it took several months for a voice expert to confirm the voice was indeed that of the erstwhile drummer.

"Side one is basically a rambling, bourbon-addled apology to his band mates (Sal McKraut and J.. Pedantic),," Swisher said. "It's punctuated by a lot of sobbing and the sound of shit breaking, like glass and stuff. At one point, it sounds like he's jacking off."

Swisher said side one was labeled LIGHT, and side two DARK. "Side two is Dive laying five or six Smog songs on a horrifically out-of-tune acoustic. It goes on for a really long-ass time. Then he closes the tape by saying once all the painkillers are used up, he's going to stick his cock in an empty bottle of Knob Creek and shoot
heroin into his duodenum."

The tape contained no return address and offered no clues as to Oliphant's whereabouts. Swisher said there had been rumors of Dive sightings in Arkansas, Maine, and British Columbia, but none had been confirmed.

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