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got it through the post today, has a massive feature on the jazzmaster, with a review of the classic player jazzmaster, the elvis costello model and a jag i think.

thoughts?

poast scans?

How do publications even stay in business now? I can't think of anything I would have time to read that I couldn't get online. Shit just stacks up. Of course I looked to see if Guitarist had a web site and then was stuck on a few sites for 20 minutes. They had a Billy Zoom (X) article. He has only ever traveled with his one Gretsch. One!

When laptops are finally super cheap, we will see more and more published/printed things come to an end.

The best reason I can think of to read guitar mags is to find gear reviews by professionals who actually know what they're talking about. They're almost impossible to find on the web since any search for "Supergizmo 9000 review" will just get you thousands of online store customer "reviews" with comments like "The base is awsum", "This tele suck for death metal" and "Im giving it 1 star bcos the strings it came with were shit"

I'm a subscriber because I'm an idiot. However once in a while these issues come along and make it worthwhile in a sea of PRS's and Gibsons.

Yeah me too. I haven't read this month's yet, but is nice to see something other than a flamed maple top on the cover.
I like having them to read - not sure I'd take a laptop to read on the loo.

I like reading Vintage Guitar a lot.

Everyone else i the North American mag circuit seem to be trying too hard to impress the uniformed reader, whereas the crusty folk at VG just truck along with some great reviews of quality gear, decent interviews, and neato historic factoids that make understanding the guitar an enjoyable long term discovery.

Wait a sec, that sounds like my marriage.

Neil wrote:The best reason I can think of to read guitar mags is to find gear reviews by professionals who actually know what they're talking about.

I dunno. Now a days you have to really know the reviewer to know if they really think its a good piece of gear or if they're just being paid to hype up potential shit.

They're all biased to fuckery by their advertisers too.

Guitarist wanks off Korg and everything they release. Even stinky Marshall and Vox products get roundly fellated.

Mode4.... 5 stars? REALLLLY?

Mike wrote:They're all biased to fuckery by their advertisers too.

Guitarist wanks off Korg and everything they release. Even stinky Marshall and Vox products get roundly fellated.

Mode4.... 5 stars? REALLLLY?

Well that's how they get their funding :/ Shite as it is.

I remember one issue of Guitar World that reviewed guitar cables. I was pissed, but everyone in my class still swears by anything gold. Fuck Mogami and fuck Monster.

More Cowbell wrote:

Neil wrote:The best reason I can think of to read guitar mags is to find gear reviews by professionals who actually know what they're talking about.

I dunno. Now a days you have to really know the reviewer to know if they really think its a good piece of gear or if they're just being paid to hype up potential shit.

Point taken but I've yet to see one magazine review complain because the strings that came with the guitar were shit. I mean they do have some basic level of competence or they wouldn't have been hired. You can allow for corporate bias. It's a lot harder to allow for sheer idiocy.

BobArsecake wrote:

Mike wrote:They're all biased to fuckery by their advertisers too.

Guitarist wanks off Korg and everything they release. Even stinky Marshall and Vox products get roundly fellated.

Mode4.... 5 stars? REALLLLY?

Well that's how they get their funding :/ Shite as it is.

That's not an excuse. It's pathetic.

Mike wrote:

BobArsecake wrote:

Mike wrote:They're all biased to fuckery by their advertisers too.

Guitarist wanks off Korg and everything they release. Even stinky Marshall and Vox products get roundly fellated.

Mode4.... 5 stars? REALLLLY?

Well that's how they get their funding :/ Shite as it is.

That's not an excuse. It's pathetic.

Haha, it's not, but it's the truth!

Neil wrote: customer "reviews" with comments like "The base is awsum", "This tele suck for death metal" and "Im giving it 1 star bcos the strings it came with were shit"

well, the strings WERE shit. really, there's no need to slag off my reviews on a public forum, i put a lot of thought into them, ok?

I was disappointed when I bought my EVH Strat that I instantly couldn't play Eruption. I thought it was part of the £10 grand I paid.

I would love to read a mag that had a clear, unbiased voice of authority. Talk to me about equipment AND bands. And STFU about classic rockers who have already been covered to death. I never want to read anything else about Clapton unless he starts off on a new discovery or something akin to David Byrne making visual art. If they have trouble funding the magazine, fill the margins with JUGGS models.

I think PASTE magazine seems honest and fresh. They don't talk equipment, though.

DGNR8 wrote:I would love to read a mag that had a clear, unbiased voice of authority. Talk to me about equipment AND bands. And STFU about classic rockers who have already been covered to death. I never want to read anything else about Clapton unless he starts off on a new discovery or something akin to David Byrne making visual art. If they have trouble funding the magazine, fill the margins with JUGGS models.

I think PASTE magazine seems honest and fresh. They don't talk equipment, though.

I would read an entire monthly magazine devoted to what David Byrne has been doing.

Magazine's give you a handjob about new products, ss.org gear videos give you sex.