Hey Gang - Glad I checked in before the vault locked up. Most of what I'd say has been said already but I definitely want to say Thank You to Raj for building and maintaining an online community that blossomed into so many beautiful real world friendships and experiences. xox - Ms.Bassie
I'll chime in as well - had to make a new account as I don't remember my password from 21 years ago, and it looks like I'm about 15 years too late to reset my password with a collegeclub.com email address, haha.
Like most everyone else I haven't posted here in a long time, but really enjoyed the heyday of Soulstrut. At the time, I was an immature barely-adult with small children, a C- GPA to manage, and occasional $6 an hour part time jobs. I had no time but to take care of kids, go to class, and work. I remember it being an immensely stressful period and even though i was unnecessarily obnoxious half of the time, I enjoyed talking with you all. In retrospect I regret not having the time or money at the time to have connected in person like a lot of you did, but the online community was fun anyway.
A little while back I sold my house and in that process almost all the records I had. They been collecting dust, untouched, for years. Part of a different past chapter of my life, I guess.
Soulstrut is like returning to your hometown years later - you're sad it's not the way that you remember it, but still nice to know it's there if you want to return someday. But you know in the back of your mind that you and the people you knew have moved on and aren't coming back.
As part of trying to figure out my login here I found an old Photobucket account I used for Strut related pics and whatnot. Kind of a weird time capsule - everything from early stage memes to injokes to MySpace screenshots (I have no idea why).
Does anyone still have any of the Leo Sayer Beat-Off archives? Unfortunately a lot of stuff I posted up I used my own website/domain to do it and all that is gone. I remember how many people's beats they made were actually pretty good given the source material.
Would love to catch up with anyone from those days - feel free to drop me a line at rollingacres@gmail.com.
Nagging questions: - Where is TheMack these days? - How will Pap Day be celebrated going forward? - Is Guzzo still in West Covina? Will he be making any more dating show appearances? - Is Reynaldo still down on the hippie commune? - RIP Brian Peppers - Does Faux_rillz still have this shirt?
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Welcome back. It's pretty slow over here for the most part but feel the same way. I've been checking in on SS for so long that I just keep coming back even when it's slow. A lot of us had kids and life got in the way of being a DJ and posting on the forums. Music has always been a constant though and keeps bringing us back together.
Welcome back. It's pretty slow over here for the most part but feel the same way. I've been checking in on SS for so long that I just keep coming back even when it's slow. A lot of us had kids and life got in the way of being a DJ and posting on the forums. Music has always been a constant though and keeps bringing us back together.
I check in every year or two but since I couldn't remember my login it was just for lurking.
I wonder if @RAJ has considered doing a board backup to the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive? Although a lot of the messages are just bs (which I've been enjoying rolling back through - there are a couple of stories I personally shared that I had completely forgotten about since) there's a lot of music/vinyl/DJ/etc info that might be worth saving somewhere. I did notice that if you have a (free) Wayback Machine account you can have it crawl all the outlinks of a page or post, so you don't end up with just one page of a multipage thread, for example.
Think I might take some of the old emojis and make a Whatsapp sticker pack or something. Nobody will get the context but they're still funny with or without it.
I apparently had the same revelation I'm having now, but 10 years ago:
World is going to lose a special place and a wonderful source of music-nerd related knowledge. I always used to and still do check the Strut's search whenever in need for information or suggestions of artists or genres.
went looking for something i wrote years ago on soulstrut and found this to still be active (with the short life span left). listened to a mix. read some old comments. still enjoyable. from the soulstrut emails to the website, this was a home for a lot of us for a long time. thanks rick for doing this and keeping this around.
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Glad I checked in before the vault locked up.
Most of what I'd say has been said already but I definitely want to say Thank You to Raj for building and maintaining an online community that blossomed into so many beautiful real world friendships and experiences.
xox -
Ms.Bassie
Like most everyone else I haven't posted here in a long time, but really enjoyed the heyday of Soulstrut. At the time, I was an immature barely-adult with small children, a C- GPA to manage, and occasional $6 an hour part time jobs. I had no time but to take care of kids, go to class, and work. I remember it being an immensely stressful period and even though i was unnecessarily obnoxious half of the time, I enjoyed talking with you all. In retrospect I regret not having the time or money at the time to have connected in person like a lot of you did, but the online community was fun anyway.
A little while back I sold my house and in that process almost all the records I had. They been collecting dust, untouched, for years. Part of a different past chapter of my life, I guess.
Soulstrut is like returning to your hometown years later - you're sad it's not the way that you remember it, but still nice to know it's there if you want to return someday. But you know in the back of your mind that you and the people you knew have moved on and aren't coming back.
As part of trying to figure out my login here I found an old Photobucket account I used for Strut related pics and whatnot. Kind of a weird time capsule - everything from early stage memes to injokes to MySpace screenshots (I have no idea why).
Does anyone still have any of the Leo Sayer Beat-Off archives? Unfortunately a lot of stuff I posted up I used my own website/domain to do it and all that is gone. I remember how many people's beats they made were actually pretty good given the source material.
Would love to catch up with anyone from those days - feel free to drop me a line at rollingacres@gmail.com.
Nagging questions:
- Where is TheMack these days?
- How will Pap Day be celebrated going forward?
- Is Guzzo still in West Covina? Will he be making any more dating show appearances?
- Is Reynaldo still down on the hippie commune?
- RIP Brian Peppers
- Does Faux_rillz still have this shirt?
I check in every year or two but since I couldn't remember my login it was just for lurking.
I wonder if @RAJ has considered doing a board backup to the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive? Although a lot of the messages are just bs (which I've been enjoying rolling back through - there are a couple of stories I personally shared that I had completely forgotten about since) there's a lot of music/vinyl/DJ/etc info that might be worth saving somewhere. I did notice that if you have a (free) Wayback Machine account you can have it crawl all the outlinks of a page or post, so you don't end up with just one page of a multipage thread, for example.
Think I might take some of the old emojis and make a Whatsapp sticker pack or something. Nobody will get the context but they're still funny with or without it.
I apparently had the same revelation I'm having now, but 10 years ago:
https://community.soulstrut.com/discussion/68489/so-if-we-rolled-the-board-back-10-years-where-is-everyone/p1
Thanks for everything!