Today marks a milestone in the life of OTN.
On this date five years ago On That Note was launched on Cyclone Fanatic. Initially, it was a joint venture between myself and cyclones500. Very soon CycloneRulzzz was coaxed into becoming a regular contributor and the now-classic 3-man rotation was born.
For some of the initial concepts and history about the birth of OTN let me offer this link to that first post:
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...kly-wednesday-music-post.229952/#post-5772641
Interesting to note that when we launched it, we stated On That Note was to be a temporary name - that certainly turned out to be wrong!
We first off want to thank all of you readers and contributors. One of the goals was to learn more about music and find some new artists to add to my favorites. There definitely was some of that and I hope the same happened to a few of you.
As this week approached, we on the OTN team had many discussions behind the scenes about which were our favorite topics. Like picking your favorite child (or in my case picking my favorite Beatles song) I have personally decided to opt out of that exercise. I did especially like some of the earlier efforts when we decided to do more in-depth explorations of artists or genres. I particularly remember doing lots and lots of research on the Iowa artists series. Those I well remember for the effort necessary to pull them together - if for nothing else.
One of my favorite aspects of the OTN experience is when a post coaxes a memory out of a poster of a particular time or event in their life when that song or album became a part of the memory. The "music as the soundtrack to my life" aspect. I know we even had that as a topic once; with some, but disappointingly few for me, responses.
The team aspect of OTN cannot be overstated. So many times we've individually had to beg off for a crisis or life demand. But each time another of the guys would jump in and take the reins for that week. I'm proud so say we've done a post EVERY week for five years, missing no weeks, EVER! That's 260 consecutive weeks. So humor us a bit as we celebrate!
This week we're not specifically looking for songs, artists or lyrics. Instead if you would chime in with your favorite topics or moments from OTN in the last 5 years we'd certainly enjoy hearing from you all. Of course, if those should happen to include a song in your post, that's definitely cool!
And lastly, keep those cards and letters coming. As you might expect, in 5 years we've covered a lot of ground. That said, we ALWAYS welcome ideas from you. We take each suggestion seriously and if we haven't used it (or sometimes even if we've had one close) we will do our best to make it happen.
On this date five years ago On That Note was launched on Cyclone Fanatic. Initially, it was a joint venture between myself and cyclones500. Very soon CycloneRulzzz was coaxed into becoming a regular contributor and the now-classic 3-man rotation was born.
For some of the initial concepts and history about the birth of OTN let me offer this link to that first post:
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...kly-wednesday-music-post.229952/#post-5772641
Interesting to note that when we launched it, we stated On That Note was to be a temporary name - that certainly turned out to be wrong!
We first off want to thank all of you readers and contributors. One of the goals was to learn more about music and find some new artists to add to my favorites. There definitely was some of that and I hope the same happened to a few of you.
As this week approached, we on the OTN team had many discussions behind the scenes about which were our favorite topics. Like picking your favorite child (or in my case picking my favorite Beatles song) I have personally decided to opt out of that exercise. I did especially like some of the earlier efforts when we decided to do more in-depth explorations of artists or genres. I particularly remember doing lots and lots of research on the Iowa artists series. Those I well remember for the effort necessary to pull them together - if for nothing else.
One of my favorite aspects of the OTN experience is when a post coaxes a memory out of a poster of a particular time or event in their life when that song or album became a part of the memory. The "music as the soundtrack to my life" aspect. I know we even had that as a topic once; with some, but disappointingly few for me, responses.
The team aspect of OTN cannot be overstated. So many times we've individually had to beg off for a crisis or life demand. But each time another of the guys would jump in and take the reins for that week. I'm proud so say we've done a post EVERY week for five years, missing no weeks, EVER! That's 260 consecutive weeks. So humor us a bit as we celebrate!
This week we're not specifically looking for songs, artists or lyrics. Instead if you would chime in with your favorite topics or moments from OTN in the last 5 years we'd certainly enjoy hearing from you all. Of course, if those should happen to include a song in your post, that's definitely cool!
And lastly, keep those cards and letters coming. As you might expect, in 5 years we've covered a lot of ground. That said, we ALWAYS welcome ideas from you. We take each suggestion seriously and if we haven't used it (or sometimes even if we've had one close) we will do our best to make it happen.
