Personally, i don't like the Rolling Stone magazine. It used to be so awesome, but now the magazine is getting into politics and different kinds of music.

Besides, I'm pretty conservative, and the Rolling Stone is SO liberal now.

So do you like or dislike the magazine?

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Rolling Stone was always political, and always liberal.

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to me it went the same way mtv went. downhill fast. i catagorize both as soft porn.

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This oulde hippie has no use there for.

I had a subscription to it once a few years ago and let it run out after the first 12 issues. There were just too many ads, and there were more articles on politics than there were on music. I simply didn't enjoy reading it.

Lists=Hate

Daily Rock News blog-Good

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I used to read it ravenously as a kid, and at one point had about 10 years worth of issues saved.

When I moved to Australia I read their version for a little while but it changed editors and became really, really useless, just a gossip mag for teenagers, so I stopped even looking at the covers at the newsagent.

Then when I moved back here about 2 years ago I picked up a US one again and it was so much less useless than the Australian one that I was all delighted and resubscribed. I got some deal with like 4 years for the price of 1 so will be receiving it for a long time. It's not perfect, too many teeny bopper girls on the cover imo and too many articles about the same old, same old baby boomer music, but I'm finding it an okay way to keep up with news and get reacquainted with the US music scene after a long time away.

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The stone's definetly not what it used to be.

Never read it. Not even once.

My son got a subscription as a gift a while back, so I thumb through it occasionally. Definitely does not have the same social/political relevance it used to pack, more like People but focused on music rather than Hollywood. And when they went form the oversized format to the standard magazine size format (last year?) any soul that was left was completely sucked out.

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Not what it was but music today isn't what it once was, Last month had a great section on kris kristofferson.

there have been articles worth reading and i have read some of those over the years other than that i don't agree with all the other useless opinions they are pushing and worry a little about the younger people believing the lies and exaggerated points of view that are crowded into the magazine hopefully there are caring parents and other older people in their lives to tell them its OK not to agree or believe any of it.

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I try to kepp My reading material on the more intellectual side of things. And stay away from the political stuff!

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My brother is a lifelong subscriber even though he stopped listening to any new music for over a decade. When I drop by to see him I will usualy flip through it. It is a total joke, run mostly by 20 year old kids who are not qualified or have not heard enough good music to know it, and I dont mean you have to be over a certain age to know good music. But the icing on the cake was there 100 greatest guitarist in rock history issue and if no one saw this list look it up on the web as it is the only time I have written in to a publication in my life that's how furious I was. Here are some of the highlights.

#98 ANGUS YOUNG #17 JACK WHITE
#85 RANDY RHOADES #16 JOHNNY RAMONE
#82 DAVID GILMOUR #13 JERRY GARCIA
#70 EDDIE VANHALEN #12 KURT COBAIN
#60 DANNY GATTON #50 LOU REED

After reading the placement of Vanhalen at 70 I had to continue the article to see who the 69 others were ahead of him.Even though I knew the writers who were responsible were tripping heavy on acid and smoking crack, as I would dare any one with any relation to guitar playing to even make a ludicrous attempt to the placement numbers, and any attempt why 4 of the 5 guys in the second column could wind up on anyones top 200 list at all. Now we know we all feel we are right in an argument of opinions but this list was the most ridicules I have ever seen in my life there is not the slightest chance to make any sense of this at all and these are music experts.Oh and that genius JAN WENNER who is on the board of the rock and roll hall of fame was the one who found the loop hole in the voting system in 2007 that even though the Dave Clark Five finished with more votes, they were left out so Wenner could put in that great rock band GRAND MASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOS FIVE,and the DC5 had to wait till 2008 and MIKE SMITH the great vocalist from that band died a week before they were inducted.I swear I am getting twisted just writing this.The only thing I can say rollingstone has a use for is if you ran out of toilet paper in the bathroom.

+1frosty.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.