103.7’s 20th Anniversary

Well I’m back from vacation and forgot that I was to blog yesterday, I’m still on vacay mode, but here I go…
This morning we were taking about the new search engine www.cuil.com and with my addiction to Google, Lock and Chris told me all morning I couldn’t use Google, only cuil. It was not easy. I love my google. I tried all morning to find a picture of a radio for the next part of my blog but couldn’t! Eventually I did on Wikipedia (thank goodness I could sometimes get to Wiki through cuil) and had to cut and past some, so it’s a hatchet shot, but you get the picture. Onto the rest of the blog…

The 20th anniversary of the launch of 103.7 FM happened Monday, to celebrate our General Manager and former announcer on 103.7 FM gave a brief history of our fantastic station, which had launched at 1:03, twenty years ago so fittingly we played music from the year the station launched (1988 if you don’t want to get the calculator out).
Then our GM sent out a list of former announcers over the 20 years, it was a long list (I happened to be on it) and I started reminiscing. I actually remember being at the cottage listening to the radio, remember the little ghetto blasters that were cool in the ‘80’s, they were about the length of your keyboard, maybe four inches tall and wide? It was tuned in to 103.7 FM, and ironically the song playing was “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors, which as become one of my favourite Doors songs, but the ironic part was the fact that it was a warm August night with a fantastic thunderstorm booming all around me while I sat in my room listening to the rain on the roof and waiting for the power to go out, as it usually did back then out at the cottage. I thought the song fit perfectly to the setting and was fascinated that the guy (or girl) back at the station was able to play a song so fitting to the setting. I think it may have been at that moment I thought that I wanted to do that. And here I am.
Any memories of your own about XL103.7 FM?

~Ali

Curses.

So I just spent this afternoon constructing a folding table. I'm not frustrated and I'm not peeved, but let's just say it's typical of a certain Swedish company that will go unnamed. Maybe I'll talk about it more on the show tomorrow.

Speaking of Friday, it's your last chance to win Great Big Seagulls tickets (scroll down), and the weekend update is going to be HUGE!

- Chris

14 Carrot Gold

Great Mythstoppers today as Lock stumbled around in a dark room hoping the carrots he was eating would improve his night vision. Didn't quite work out. Fortunately, he was able to find the doorknob to get out. Next week's Mythstoppers promises to be the most painful yet, however. Stay tuned.

Todd Van Allen joins us on the show tomorrow. Will he try to top last week's joke about O.J. Simpson and Courtney Love? I sure hope not.

Also, the Great Lake Lamberts join us. We expect that to go swimmingly.

- Chris

Great Big Seagulls

So what would happen if you mixed Great Big Sea together with The Eagles? Well, you'd get the Great Big Seagulls. A mix of east coast folk rock with "California Rock" with long hair, long beards and dueling fiddle solos. While that sounds awesome, it'll never happen. What CAN happen is you can win tickets to see The Eagles or Great Big Sea on BOB this week. Without any of the giant droppings I'm certain a Great Big Seagull would leave behind.

You saw the dealie in Ali's post about how to qualify to see the Eagles in T.O., so there's no sense repeating it here. Here's how you get to see GBS in K-Town this November... just listen for one of their songs in the morning show and be the right caller in. Simple as that. In an instant you've got passes for immense maritime rocktitude.

Speaking of rocktitude, I'm about to nerd out for a second.

Get a load of this list...

This is the song list for Rock Band 2 which will no doubt find itself in my X-Box 360 in September. Not everything on it is my cup of tea, but - seriously - Fleetwood Mac? AC/DC? JBJ? Idol? The Guess Who? Alanis? DYLAN?? Holy!

Almost makes me forget about the 12 Who songs I can download tomorrow. Wait a minute... 12 WHO SONGS!!!! YEEEEAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

I'm a geek.

- Chris

Eagles!!

This morning, we announced the next in Bob’s Summer Concert Series: You could win tickets to see the EAGLES! These guys are legendary:
• They have five Number 1 singles and six Number 1 albums
• The most successful recording artists of the 70’s
• Were given the title of having the “Best Selling Album of the Century” (for Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975))
• They are the best selling American group ever
• They have the best selling album in the states to date
• Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998

All week (starting Monday) you have a chance to instantly win Eagles tickets, no qualifying, each day we will give away a pair of tickets and a seat on Bob’s Party Bus to get you to the show! To win these tickets listen for the Eagles songs between 6am & 6pm. When you hear one, write down the song title (or if you have a memory like Chris Holski and Rain Man you’ll just be able to remember them), then as soon as the fourth song starts, call our studios, if you can name all four Eagles songs you’ll instantly win!!!! Good luck!!


Also this morning, we were talking about this cool helicopter blimp crane thingy. I just had to post pictures of it, because…well it’s cool!

Basically the way it works is like a blimp with helicopter and crane capabilities. Technically speaking “The helium-filled envelope would support the weight of the aircraft itself (fuel included). Four rotors sticking out from the sides of the envelope would provide the lift for the external payload”.

It’s called the Skyhook JHL-40 and the companies say, should be able to lift a 40-ton sling load and then transport it 200 miles without refuelling. They say it is perfect for getting into harsh, undeveloped regions like the Canadian Arctic. The patent belongs to an Alberta based company Skyhook (hence the name the Skyhook), and prototypes will be built at a Boeing facility in Pennsylvania – pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and Transport Canada.

~ Ali

STP n Me

I have been debating this since it was announced, do I go or do I stay? Scott Weiland back with Stone Temple Pilots. How do you pass that up! Um…well,

- it’s in a big huge field in the middle of no where in Toronto
- there will be thousands of people
- I’d have to be there for the day
- it’ll cost me an arm and a leg
- my husband won’t go
- I’m too old

But, in the end I’m going to Edgefest!!!! In the end, all those “negatives” did not weigh heavily enough against the one “positive”

- Scott Weiland!


The eight years that they were not together I had been kicking myself for not going to see them while they had been together. Now is my opportunity. It's one of the few concerts that I still want to see because I have seen hundreds of awesome concerts, some legendary ones (in my mind)…The Guess Who at the Kingston Memorial Centre (huge band rocked a small venue), John Mellencamp (after his four-pack-a-day habit, he’s lucky to still be alive), Tom Petty (cuz he’s Tom Petty), Lenny Kravitz (in is tight white pants), Pearl Jam at Maple Leaf Gardens (before it became an empty wasteland) and too many more to list. But there are very few concerts that I would go out of my way to see, Neil Young and Neil Diamond are two that come to mind (no that was not a spelling mistake, I meant Diamond you would know every word to almost every song), maybe NIN and Jack Johnson too.

So off I go. Have there been any concerts you’ve wanted to see so badly that you've kicking yourself for not seeing? Or a concert you are sooo happy you go to see? Or maybe one that you wanted to see and it dissapointed (don't jinx my STP dreams).

~ Ali

Welcome Dan!

For the first time since the rebirth of Bob's Breakfast, Dan Wylie will be sitting behind the big board.

Even though he's not a Habs fan, I'm anxious to talk about Montreal's signing of Georges Laraque. He brings a strong element of toughness to the team, and is a good acquisition in my eyes. Dan may disagree, though, as he's more of a point man.

We'll see.

- Chris