Dr Gaz, Great song there.
It was pretty well organized by genres. The ones you mentioned plus progressive, folk, revival/neopsych perhaps? And a few others.
I used to make compilations composed of random sources like WFMU rips and share them there via rapidshare.
Sir Psych did the same only much better quality.
The forums had a little more atmosphere because folks would post psychedelic gifs, pics here and there.
Maybe someday there will be a reunion:)
Firstly, howdy all. Haven't been here on Regal Zonephone in eons, assuming i ever posted here at all. Thanks to a web search for the tracklist of Pop Cycles Series Sampler, I landed here and started poking thru recent posts.
Its Psych was a wonderful forum. Everyone so engaged and kind. No snarky posts (as long as Hans Devente's various aliases were blocked). I was originally invited to it by Paul Ellis via Soulseek, where we were both in a SS group. After several forum changes over the years I volunteered to create, migrate forum history & operate the last couple. Unfortunately after the final forum died in 2011 (the cloud provider closed pretty much with no notice), I moved Its Pysch to Google Groups, and posting activity slowly petered out over time by Jan 2016. It remains alive but other than an 'is this thing still alive" post in 2017, no activity.
Besides Paul, I fondly remember Johhny Rainbow's Sunshine & Rainbows compilation series, the EvenJo comps (I Will Play My Lute If You Will Play Your Flute, & Random Selection of Pop Gems among others), definitely Sir Psych's Presents series (which I think he still does via his website), Elliot Wilder posting not just obscure finds but his own music also, and other folks like lasjo, jon mitchell, Popcat, Jenerator, MEZ, furryoldgrover, Psy Guy, etc.
Great times and so fortunate to have participated.
Hi Michael hope you're doing fine, yes I remember trying to keep up with Elliot's output (sometimes 3 albums in the same month?) but didn't want to miss anything because of his consistent high quality songwriting. What was the motivation behind that malicious troll, was it a personal grudge? he just wouldn't let go.
If by malicious troll you mean Hans Devente, well he was (& may still be) quite well know all over the rock/psych/60s-70s forums/blogs world. He was evidently initially infamous for creating blogs sharing rare/obscure stuff, then killing them as soon as they started getting DL attention. Lately it seems he's now known for reporting on other bloggers, etc and getting their blogs killed. One search result sums him up correctly I think: "web-psychopath". Sad but true.