There was a lot to come out of the talk today I had with Tom Ray of Lorenzo’s Music, and at some point I need to address some of those topics in greater depth.

One thing though that came up though was what became the CC Listening Party. Since the CC Listening Party recently had a rebirth, I thought it might be a good time to dig into that history.

Originally – very originally – it was a work thing. That…literally lasted one episode. I mentioned Ben in the talk with Tom, and well, Ben is in that very first episode. The second episode Viktor Van River joined us (not at the beginning, but after a bit). We did 15 “episodes” of that on my YouTube, when I decided I guess it was going to be a thing.

I think it may have been “Quarantine Music Chat” from the beginning but maybe I just put that name on things and we came up with it later. That kinda doesn’t matter.

Then, to try to create some buzz, I moved things to the Creative Commons Community Music Awards page…which has since changed names to the Friends of CC Music page. If you start at the bottom, and scroll up, you will see the videos start 4 years ago. In reality, that first video was Aug 12, 2020, so much closer to 5 years than 4, but whatever. Math, right?

Somewhere along the way, we ran out of “topics” we wanted to talk about and just started listening to CC music. Originally, we were not just CC music, but we had a video get banned in some countries due to copyright disputes, so we decided to do CC.

We stayed with that page for a while, but then it got confusing for folks that we were on the “CC CMA” even though we weren’t really specifically about the CC CMA. It was when we moved to the Creative Commons Listening Party page that we dropped the “Quarantine Music Chat” name. We stayed with that page until March 2023. Caleb had stopped coming, and he was the one that prompted the Listening Party Page, so we moved back to the Friends of CC Music page.

Somewhere along the way, we had two separate sessions. One for Asia (basically Japan and Kazahkstan) and one for “everyone else”. Part of the problem was Sam didn’t want to come early but then that would get really late for folks in Japan. This history is why I think it’s really important that we have regional folks step up to make CC organization happen in the various regions, but I gave up on that back in February.

May 28, 2023, Donnie Ozone and I decided to forget the early morning thing and make an actual show. Donnie bowed out in November of that year, and I kept things going until we decided we wanted to start Friends of CC Music. I knew I couldn’t keep up with a weekly show and run this organization, and no one wanted to pick up the show, so it died.

Some of these videos live on on our PeerTube, but due to space concerns, there is only one “Quarantine Music Chat” video one the PeerTube. If someone would like to get these videos on archive.org, I would be happy to give someone access to the YouTube for syncing.

Obsidian is on the same Friends of CC Music feed, and was birthed out of Netlabel Day 2024, but was pretty shorted lived. It was clear I needed to focus on the Constitutional Convention, which was a colossal failure.

As I noted, the CCLP are now back, on Thursday nights at 6:30pm US Central. At least for now. It’s hard to know how long that will exist if the views don’t increase.

It’s hard to see where we go from here, but that is a topic for another day. I thought this was a topic small enough to actually get something post about and although it has taken way longer than I wanted, I did actually get it done.