Welcome to the Strombo Show Chat Blog..

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Welcome to the Strombo Show Chat Blog!



[ NOTE: Picture is from George receiving his Doctorate of Laws from the University of Calgary.. We think it was ~2007 (but don't quote us on that). We'll find out & confirm. Not sure who to do photo credit to? If you know, let mus know! Thanks. ]

We created this blog.. actually about a week or so ago to support the Strombo Show Chat that is running on Skype now as StromboShowChat (see "former" posts for information, or if you need technical help getting setup, please contact us). We are just getting the blog up & running finally now as we've been busy.

It's an "unofficial" chat (and blog) at the moment. Not sure if "we'll" ever get any official recognition at any point, but we are chatting with "the powers that be" (when we have time to email them again that is..) and that takes time.

We've "ported" posts that we originally put up elsewhere ... but the Strombo Show Chat information was sorta taking it over & we'll leave them duplicated there probably until the month end (April 2010, likely end of May now to handle the transition/setup) to make sure we have them successfully moved over with all information, and then we'll probably delete them from there.

If anyone has any questions/concerns/etc.. please feel free to post or comment on here.. or drop us a note some other way. The side panel has some info, as we're working on a few things like a Contact Info/About Us pg & a Chat Rules/Info pg, How-To-Sign Up (see blog post here), several FAQs, etc.

We will seeing about setting up a Strombo Show Chat email as well.. but we don't want to step on George's toes in anyway doing any of this stuff.. so we're waiting for some response before we do anything more "official" like that.

Please join the chat session on Sunday nights..

Join up & join in on your time zone, or whenever you listen.

Interesting enough though.. most people are streaming the show online at CBC Radio 2 website: http://www.cbc.ca/radio2 and the earlier timezone(s).. 8pm AST/7pm EST/4 pm PST are the MOST popular at the moment, with most people out East tuning in & then signing off by ~8-8:30pm PST.. which is.. late-ish.. out East.

We are currently planned to be around for the whole time frame across all time zones (4pm PST/8pm AST to midnight PST) since ~(now former) StromboShowChat Collective team members are all across the country.

Maybe in the future we'll sort out confirming some other moderators to help out.. but we listen right now, first time in AST during the craziness of the chat.. and then the 2nd time (as long as the show is good, which is usually is..) in PST as it's quiet in the chat & we can catch up on things we missed and sit back, enjoy.. update this blog hopefully and occasionally a few people drop into the chat on CST/MST, or a the few of the "old guard/regulars" in PST stumble in...



So.. Please participate. Please engage.
Please offer feedback/insight/help/etc.
Enjoy.


Yours in musical awesome-ness,

~(now former) StromboShowChat Collective

March 28, 2010 ~ Discussion Topics for The Strombo Show Chat(s)

TOPICS:

The goal (for me anyway) is to post some discussion topics.. a few weeks in advance, or so..

Obviously as we get set up still, I'm working on a few hours notice. It can't be helped. I'm currently doing this on my own time.. in my (limited) spare time.

We'll see how having a list or something in advance goes, so we have something to refer to regarding bands or music, etc to talk about.

Ideas are welcome here (post in comments section if you have any), and we can try doing band or song reviews, our own versions of the G12 (George's top 12 songs of the week), or easier.. The Furious Five (I liked that better anyway), the songs from the vault of Forgotten Songs (or whatever this is called!) and even borrow ones from Bob like the Hidden Gems (since I'm sure he played one I posted on my blog here), or anything new we can come up.


Possible Discussion Topics for The Strombo Show Chat
Sunday, March 28, 2010:

Music/Strombo Show Related:
~ Depending on the timezone you are joining in from.. what songs are you listening to tonight, what moves you, what do you love/hate, flashbacks, future, requests.. etc..
~ Thoughts on the past 3-4 shows, songs, bands, etc
~ Thoughts on the G12-List (George's topic 12 songs of the week list).. do you like the concept, do you like the songs he's played, which ones, why/why not, etc
~ Thoughts on the Furious Five.. did you like/dislike that format, prefer it to or over the G12-List?
~ Thoughts on the album side played
~ Thoughts on Bob & Rich's segments on the show
~ Thoughts on Scott on the show
~ Thoughts on the Facebook group (located here ) discussion threads.
NOTE: The playlists for the old shows are also posted up here. (up until ~March 14, 2010)
~ Thoughts on the updated website: http://www.strombo.com
~ Voting for the last week/current weeks Sad-off?
~ Others...


George/The Hour Related:
~ Musical guests from The Hour this past week (see The Stroumboulopouli blog for details, or The Hour's website.
~ Other segments from The Hour, guests, skits, Mile a Minute, It Takes a Nation to Raise Your Kids, etc
~ Others...


George/Other Projects Related:
~ Love, Hate & Propaganda Documentary Series
~ Score - The Hockey Musical
(WHAT?! REALLY?! Was what I said when I read this on Twitter I think it was.. I recall George having a convo on the show w/Bob talking about musicals and how he hated them. Ok, maybe hate is a strong word.. but did not like. I can't wait to see how this turns out!
~ Via Barb (a long time fan): mentioned The Tracy Fragments to me the other day
- Not sure what it is, but I've kinda heard of it. George is in it. I wonder if my video store has it?
~ Also via Barb: Hard Core Logo 2 is filming on The Hour (I have no idea what this is?!)
More to come on it. George mentioned it on The Hour on last Thursday's show.
~ Others...

WOW.
I think that's lots.. we can re-use a lot of those of the coming months as they are "generic". If there are any specific ideas you may have, please post them on the comments section & I'll integrate them in.

Hopefully something can be setup or arranged regarding future coordination with George and/or his producers Darby (& Mike, etc) and the newly UPDATED (so excited) and super sleek, svelte and sexy Strombo.com.

And I'm hoping we can get some show related topics set up in advance, sort of like The Stroumboulopouli Blog sometimes gets the guest lists for The Hour to promote it.

I'd like to ideally have a few weeks or ~1 month of topics up & ready so others can take the lead in the chat, or do research on bands, topics, etc.



Yours in musical awesome-ness,
All across this glorious nation!
(Thanks again George. I have that in my head ALL the time now ;)

~(now former) StromboShowChat Collective

(Composed of a number of long-time fans of The Strombo Show - list to come).


REFERENCES/WEBSITES:

Strombo.com YAH! Updated!
Strombo Show Facebook Group
You may need to login/have a Facebook account & login to view this group & information.
NOTE: The playlists for the shows are also posted up here.

CBC Radio 2
The Hour

The Stroumboulopouli Blog