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Post subject: a magazine first for me!
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:11 am
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Long ago I had whittled myself down to just one guitar magazine a month and a couple of trade magazines.

Now, after what seems like buying Guitar World (with DVD) for forever
I finally decided to not buy the current issue.

I feel the magazine seems to be heading towards mostly shread / metal which does nothing for me.
Hoping the next issue have something more to my liking, but looking for other sources. that might be more my preference.

Did pick up the current Guitar Player but only a couple of articles were mildly interesting in it.

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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:37 am
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I had a subscription to GW for years. I always liked it because it was like a music magazine, but asked questions about gear, technique, writing, etc. The tabs and posters were great too as were the articles and writing. I agree though, most of more recent issues have been on shred-bands and crap groups that don't appeal to their long term audience.

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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:51 am
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I agree, GW is too shred oriented. Usually I look through Guitar Player and if there's something interesting in it I'll get it. There's a really good guitar magazine from the UK called Guitar Techniques, which focuses less on interviews and gear reviews and more on actually playing. (And they cover a very broad range of music.) It comes with a CD too, which is very helpful.

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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:30 am
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I gave up on mags a while back. Unless theres a interview with someone i want to know about. Even the reviews cant be trusted. You never see a review that says 'avoid this product' despite more than half the stuff on the market being garbage. Magazines are a buisiness too, being a medium for advertizing is just good buisiness sense. You cant really expect em to give anyone a bad review then expect the manufacturer to pay to advertize in the mag can you.

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Check out "Guitar Edge"

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I've bought a couple of issues of "Guitarist" from the UK, which seems pretty good and features lots of artists I wouldn't otherwise know about.

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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:20 pm
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EllenW wrote:
I've bought a couple of issues of "Guitarist" from the UK, which seems pretty good and features lots of artists I wouldn't otherwise know about.


+1 for me. Seems quite a good read.

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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:26 pm
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PT, bro i've not looked into those mags but i'll check 'em out let you know if i see a good one or what .

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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:44 pm
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guitar mags was a good knowledge base for me about gear.
in one point niki is right, no one in the mags writes this or that is sh..
for excample the gitarre & bass mag i like the stories about bands and musicians different styles from pop over metal till jass. the gear test for getting an overview about new stuff.
but important for me are the workshops (songs, technics...), guitar and amp technics like pimp up your cheapo, amp station (tubes, resistors, trafos, speakers...), DIY, Tone (as about the hype of vintage gear, that not all of them are great but good that someone clear us up).

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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:14 pm
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Hey Fellow FenderCats-

This Forum is my Guitar Mag. There are always great topics, Opinions, Reviews, and if I have aquestion about a piece of gear, I almost find some answers here - or suggestion on where I can find the information I need.

I used to get "Blues Review". It's a great magazine if you are into blues.

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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:37 pm
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EllenW wrote:
I've bought a couple of issues of "Guitarist" from the UK, which seems pretty good and features lots of artists I wouldn't otherwise know about.


I picked this one up a few months ago, for the first time. The front cover lept out at me, a " Rusty Holey Steelcaster". The magazine is decent enough, a lot better than the one I used to subscribe too.


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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:11 pm
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"Bass Player" still mainains a good balance between new and old and not all the gear reviewed is high end. Case in point: they reviewed 3 entry level 6 string basses a few months ago. I tried each and their reviews (allowing for personal differences) was pretty dead on.

While I've never seen them totally ding a product, they do list cons and they're pretty straight if the con would affect playability or some other critical issue for almost anyone who tried it. Even so, I always take reviews with a grain of salt -- they (and most others) typically get one piece of gear and a limited time to try it. I suspect that a review would never be written if some manufacturer sent them something so bad that it didn't even work or worked so poorly that no one would consider it.

Lessons and features divide between current and classic jazz and rock artists and they do include metal, alt and other current forms. About the only thing I've never seen is purely classical bassists or anyone way out in the extremes of metal.


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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:11 am
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I kind of like a few articles that come out on GW but most of it I admit is nonsense :)


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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:12 am
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GW does have a good interview once in a while, however they have geared more towards the "mainstream" Metal/Death/Goth mag.
Of which I personally dont care for. I opened an old mag(Cuase I refuse to buy the magazine anymore) and found that the first 13 pages were ads.
who wants to see this? The publisher, of course! Guess what? There were no Fender Ads!! in the entire mag. The tabs are nice to see, and I do think they try to mix it up a bit there; the last one I found had SRV,Finger Eleven,Led Zep,Dream Theater,Damage Plan,and Jimi Hendrix tabs. It also featured an interview with Page and Perry which was good.
It also featured Steve Vai's UNBEELIEVABLE 30-HR GUITAR METHOD!!
hehe, I really dont want to go there........
If I see another interview with EVH, or his son, im gonna puke!
anyway thats my rant on the subject!!


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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:17 am
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I used to read all the guitar magazines...Guitar World used to be very good in the late 80s and early 90s, but lately seem to be the Tiger Beat of guitar magazines. Guitar Player is the only magazine that seems to try and cover everything equally ever since the 80s, and I like how most of their reviews seem honest, and not like they are holding back for fear of losing advertising money or like paid reviews like some other magazines seem to be. However, with that being said, I will usually pick up either one if there is something inside that I want to read, but yeah, Guitar World, after some different owner and publisher changes through the years does not seem to be the magazine it once was...

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