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[Mike-M68]

@Real-Vic-G, Thanks for providing the links to our VOM sites. I noticed that the “Kitchen Sessions” VOM was left of the list. It runs weekday mornings, 6-8 AM (Central Time). . I’m on an “early to bed, early to rise” schedule so this time slot works well for me. I’m usually there on Monday mornings. There may be others in the same situation, or different time zones, that would enjoy it as well. You might consider including it in this VOM list. Thanks

[Real-Vic-G]

@Mike-M68 the new TAC forum doesn’t allow me to go back and edit earlier posts, but here is a link to Dennis’ Kitchen Sessions

https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/kitchen-sessions/

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Kitchen Sessions

[Mike_S]

Vic, Thank you for posting the list of VOM’s. I have been attending the Kitchen Sessions that Dennis Glen hosts but I don’t see that one on this list. I was accessing it on the calendar but that is gone now. I did manage to find it with some difficulty, but it would be great if it was on this easy to find list with the rest if possible. Not sure if you’re the person I should be asking so please let me know if I should be asking someone else. Thank you very much!

[Real-Vic-G]

<div>Hi @Mike.S , you may have missed the previous post. The new TAC forum doesn’t allow me to edit my original post so I can’t update it for the kitchen sessions, however here is Dennis’ post for your convenience.</div>

https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/kitchen-sessions/

Kitchen Sessions

[Mike_S]

Thank you Vic. I did miss the previous post. Perfect!

[Milt]

Hey, VIc. I do enjoy the open mics, so if TAC is going to do away them, and each host is going to run them from separate blogs. Someone asked for us to send you our email address, if we wanted to do the VOM outside TAC if those disappear. Mine is [email protected] . Thanks. Great idea to keep these going as long as there are participants. Once COVID is over, we may have the good performers elect to go back to real audiences. But, until then, I would like to keep going to VOMs.

Thanks, again, for running these.

Milt

PS. Do I need to send my email address to each of the other hosts?

[Real-Vic-G]

Hi Milt, Thanks for your comment. I’d like to clarify something that you mentioned which I hope is not a common misconception among our audience. The VOMs are not going away and TAC isn’t doing away with them. The VOMs were member-initiated and was run independently from TAC so the VOMs were never really TAC’s to do away with. As we should be able to tell, TAC is becoming more focused in individual guitar journeys, and the new forum format reflects that. The VOM news that we were posting in the old forum doesn’t quite fit in with the new forum format and that’s why we started all of our blogs. Levi and I have been conversing the past two months and he informed me courteously of the direction that TAC was heading. Thus, I researched new communication options and I introduced the blog format to all of our VOMs.

The new blogging platform provides a few features that the TAC platform can’t offer. Number one is that all of the VOM participants can subscribe to the blogs of their choices to get updates via email for that VOM, for example theme news, new Zoom links, and just VOM news in general will arrive in you email Inbox. We’ve tried to structure each of the VOMs as if our participants were going to a different venue each time they logged in, and thus, each venue may have a variety of different news and information, and incidentally, their own “house operations”. We’re essentially simulating the real world, but instead of you going to various venues, various venues are coming to you.

Considering that each “venue” has different ways of doing things, the Friday Night VOM does not need participant email addresses (at least not at this time, but other VOMs may request it). Instead, for FNL, you can follow or subscribe to the FNL VOM blog and get updates via email, or you can simply navigate to the FNL blog to find out the latest news and Zoom links to our next VOM. The other VOMs may request you for your email address so check with them if that is the case. As for getting all of the FNL performers their links to their recordings, we will continue to use the TAC messaging system and we are using the pinned post in the Play for Us forum as a directory of sorts to find performer profiles to send messages. Again, speaking for FNL, we are actively discussing how we can do recordings differently, so stay tuned for that news which should be announced soon.

Lastly, I’ll say that the VOMs will continue to happen as long as there is demand and so far, we are seeing plenty of demand, so fret not (pun intended).

Sorry for being wordy in my reply, but hopefully I’ve answered your questions. Thanks.

– @Real-Vic-G

[N-lightMike]

Thanks @Real-Vic-G for this very complete comment on the state of the VOMs. 😊

[CathyBelle]

Nice evening on Friday. Thanks to Krozz for hosting!

[Dirk_R]

I tried to get into Aunday VOM about 12:30 pacific time, was it over by then?

[Real-Vic-G]

Showtime on Sunday is 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific Time. Glad you were eventually able to make it in @Dirk_R . Good to see you there.

[AttyTJ]

NOTE for my TAC Friends:

The latest Blog post with the informatio for the VOM on Sunday, May 2, at Noon, Mountain Time is up at Sundayvwa.blogspot.com. Everyone at TAC is welcome, and I hope to see you there.

[Ed_G]

Hi Vic – where do we find the Zoom links for all the OMs? I’m mostly interested in FNL, but would like to know how to find all the links for future use.

Ed_G

[Real-Vic-G]

Hi @Ed_G . The link for the Friday Night LIve VOM (FNL) is here: https://fnlvom.blogspot.com/

Within that link, you can find links to our other VOMs in the menu at the left margin. Depending on what device you are viewing, you may need to click/tap on a menu icon on the top left corner of your screen to reveal the menu.

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