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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: shobet on February 01, 2010, 01:05:38 PM
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Is this still about as I've not been able to find it any of the shops I usually buy my plank mags from?
Their website says the latest was published on the 21st of Jan, but I'm $%&#ed if I can find it. I'm getting bored to shitee by Guitarist these days and Guitar Buyer was the best alternative I'd found.
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It's still going. Try WH Smith or Tescos.
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Yes - still going - Think the last issue I got had KISS in it and a feature of the Ibanez Iceman.
It has changed over the last 6 months and is on better quality paper and the print quality looks great.
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I'm getting bored to shiteee by Guitarist these days and Guitar Buyer was the best alternative I'd found.
Agreed, there used to be a time when i'd look forward to the new mag coming through the post. Now i just idly flick through it.
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I'm getting bored to shiteeee by Guitarist these days and Guitar Buyer was the best alternative I'd found.
Agreed, there used to be a time when i'd look forward to the new mag coming through the post. Now i just idly flick through it.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I think I'm going to cancel my guitarist and TG subscriptions this month. I recently signed up to www.truefire.com, which costs about the same but I find far more beneficial, and I'm subscribed to licklibrary as well, so I think it could be time to wave the mags goodbye.
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I'm getting bored to shiteeee by Guitarist these days and Guitar Buyer was the best alternative I'd found.
Agreed, there used to be a time when i'd look forward to the new mag coming through the post. Now i just idly flick through it.
Me too. I was flicking through some old issues last night. Much better quality of interview, review and demo. I used to buy Total Guitar until it turned into a pile of steaming shi!t. I'm just hoping that Guitarist doesn't go the same way but thinking it is.
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I'm getting bored to shiteeeee by Guitarist these days and Guitar Buyer was the best alternative I'd found.
Agreed, there used to be a time when i'd look forward to the new mag coming through the post. Now i just idly flick through it.
Me too. I was flicking through some old issues last night. Much better quality of interview, review and demo. I used to buy Total Guitar until it turned into a pile of steaming shi!t. I'm just hoping that Guitarist doesn't go the same way but thinking it is.
Too late :(
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I'm getting bored to shiteeee by Guitarist these days and Guitar Buyer was the best alternative I'd found.
Agreed, there used to be a time when i'd look forward to the new mag coming through the post. Now i just idly flick through it.
Another +1 for me, I let my subscription lapse last year. I'd been buying it for over 20 years but just couldn't take the predictable, over-positive, low quality reviews any more! IMO Guitar Buyer is better :)
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I have to agree that Guitarist has slipped a bit in quality (not sure why, but it has).
Can't stop buying it though, never missed an issue and I plan to out-last it (subject to unexpected walking-under-a-bus, falling-off-a-cliff etc).
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The first copy of Guitarist I bought in the 80's had a Bon Jovi Feature. It also had an advert for a DOD Programmable Distortion, which I bought and paid 80 quid for, second hand in Denmark Street. It was cr@p. I've still got it.
i used to drool over the pics of guitars in Guitarist back then. It was the window to a world far away from where I was. Now we are spoilt by the Net.
TG is poop.
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i thought guitarist took a bit of an upturn when mick taylor came over from guitar buyer. though it's still not amazing, just a bit better than it was.
interesting that guitar buyer is out. Mine hasn't arrived yet. Not having the best of times with my subscriptions... :lol:
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It's a bit more focused in its content but I really like Vintage Guitar magazine. The interviews are generally very informative, you get a lot of history and quite a bit of tech. Obviously not one for lovers of the modern but I think it's the best researched and written guitar mag I've read. When Borders went bust leaving me nowhere to buy it off the stands I took out a subscription but I'm still waiting for my first copy to show up. :( Bad subscription karma all round. Guitarist is pretty dreadful these days I think. I occasionally buy it but I generally regret doing so once I've tried to read it.
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i thought guitarist took a bit of an upturn when mick taylor came over from guitar buyer. though it's still not amazing, just a bit better than it was.
I quite like Mick Taylor, especially when he does the video reviews on the disk, always nice to have a change from Simon Bradley.
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i thought guitarist took a bit of an upturn when mick taylor came over from guitar buyer. though it's still not amazing, just a bit better than it was.
I quite like Mick Taylor, especially when he does the video reviews on the disk, always nice to have a change from Simon Bradley.
Yep - he's a great player but I do find him a little nauseating/boring. I've never understood why they have so many pictures of writers in the technical section but MT is pretty much the only one that has stuff printed.
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I confess that I still really like Guitar and Bass magazine (formerly "The Guitar Magazine")- I like the workshop articles and read them with interest .
Total Guitar apparently was the best selling title but I find the content too lightweight - for 5 minute attention spans.
Guitarist has been reasonably consistent but certainly has had it's ups and downs - felt it has been a bit more cohesive since the recent addition of Mick Taylor
Guitar Buyer is a great mag and they have always been great with me - I had a few reviews in there .
I was a fan from issue 1
Sadly with the shake up and losing a few key members of editorial staff - my regular dealings with them haven't been so strong.
They were the people who started the London Guitar Show and it eveolved nicely for a while.
Sadly moving it to Excel cost them financially as did the tie in the the MIA and I fear that is what took them to the brink of insolvency.
there was a shake up and a rescue of the magazine by the Publisher and it seems to have regained it's footing over the last 6/7 months and having a new printer seems to have done wonders for the actual paper and print quality of the magazine and thjey have also striven to revamp the look a bit to make it more of a posh "coffee table" magazine.
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I confess that I still really like Guitar and Bass magazine (formerly "The Guitar Magazine")- I like the workshop articles and read them with interest .
I love the "Private Collection" feature in G&B (although obviously some are more interesting than others). Probably because it features silly geeks exactly like me with small houses stuffed full of guitars they don't need.
Of the mags I buy, I find Guitar World least interesting, largely because it features lots of irritatingly brief interviews with American bands I've never heard of. It's good for transcriptions I guess, but I'm too lazy and incompetent to use them.
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Of the mags I buy, I find Guitar World least interesting, largely because it features lots of irritatingly brief interviews with American bands I've never heard of. It's good for transcriptions I guess, but I'm too lazy and incompetent to use them.
The interviews are so brief because it has an insane amount of adverts in it :lol:
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Of the mags I buy, I find Guitar World least interesting, largely because it features lots of irritatingly brief interviews with American bands I've never heard of. It's good for transcriptions I guess, but I'm too lazy and incompetent to use them.
The interviews are so brief because it has an insane amount of adverts in it :lol:
That's true. I got the new issue yesterday and I must have leafed through 15-20 pages before I even got to the Contents page. :?
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That's true. I got the new issue yesterday and I must have leafed through 15-20 pages before I even got to the Contents page. :?
That sounds like a lady's magazine Philly. Are you sure you're not confused?
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That's true. I got the new issue yesterday and I must have leafed through 15-20 pages before I even got to the Contents page. :?
That sounds like a lady's magazine Philly. Are you sure you're not confused?
I'm confused about many things Ian, but not this one! :P
It is a bit like GQ or something, but instead of a load of chiselled, dimwitted male models advertising flash suits and watches, it's a load of tattooed gormless oiks advertising ESP and Ernie Ball.
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I confess that I still really like Guitar and Bass magazine (formerly "The Guitar Magazine")- I like the workshop articles and read them with interest .
+1
G&B is the only 1 I subscribe to and has been the only 1 I've religiously bought for the last 12 years or so.
Of the others I've tried I'd say Guitar Buyer was probably my 2nd favourite. All the other seemed to take a nose dive and concentrate on the same 3 guitarists every other issue or so.
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That's true. I got the new issue yesterday and I must have leafed through 15-20 pages before I even got to the Contents page. :?
That sounds like a lady's magazine Philly. Are you sure you're not confused?
Actually, maybe it is a ladies' magazine after all.... the bloke on the cover looks like some kind of blandola daytime soap actor. His name's John Mayer or something....
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That's true. I got the new issue yesterday and I must have leafed through 15-20 pages before I even got to the Contents page. :?
That sounds like a lady's magazine Philly. Are you sure you're not confused?
Actually, maybe it is a ladies' magazine after all.... the bloke on the cover looks like some kind of blandola daytime soap actor. His name's John Mayer or something....
Cheeky - you know I like John Mayer :)
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I quite like Mick Taylor, especially when he does the video reviews on the disk, always nice to have a change from Simon Bradley.
:lol:
i don't actually have a problem with simon bradley. everyone else seems to hate him, though.
to jonathan's/feline's post:
total guitar pissed me off- when i was starting out playing, it was an intermediate magazine (and there were no magazines for beginners). then when i hit intermediate, it changed to a beginners' magazine.
speaking of guitar and bass changing printers... that would explain a lot. My last several magazines feel and smell like they've been coated in industrial solvents before being sent out. :( i still haven't read last month's issue because i open it and instantly get a solvent headache. :lol:
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That's true. I got the new issue yesterday and I must have leafed through 15-20 pages before I even got to the Contents page. :?
That sounds like a lady's magazine Philly. Are you sure you're not confused?
Actually, maybe it is a ladies' magazine after all.... the bloke on the cover looks like some kind of blandola daytime soap actor. His name's John Mayer or something....
Cheeky - you know I like John Mayer :)
:wink:
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to jonathan's/feline's post:
speaking of guitar and bass changing printers... that would explain a lot. My last several magazines feel and smell like they've been coated in industrial solvents before being sent out. :( i still haven't read last month's issue because i open it and instantly get a solvent headache. :lol:
Nooooo - it's Guitar Buyer that has a new printer
I'm sure there is a fetish for the smell of magazine print!
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touche. I actually meant guitar buyer, just got my wires crossed :oops: . It is indeed guitar buyer that stinks. Mine came today, now I need to make a fume cupboard in my house. :( any ideas? :lol:
guitar and bass doesn't stink, nor does guitarist.
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Yes - new copy out now - Big telecaster issue and stuff on Esquires too!
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I managed to find a copy on my way back from Birmingham. Ooohh the smell...
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Guitar Buyer is great! Guitarist is the same junk every month!
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Yes - new copy out now - Big telecaster issue and stuff on Esquires too!
i'll check it out in 6 months when the smell has gone. :lol:
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I have not got guitar buyer for a while now. Used to find it not a bad read but lots of reviews of guitars where they did not make left handed versions kind of made me only buy ocassionally.
What I did buy this month was guitar player.com magazine. I really enjoyed it and found it a much better read than this months guitarist. One thing that shocked me was how cheap subscription to it in the states was $15 a year. Anyway I went online and checked out how much for delivery to uk. 12 months subsription is $15 + $25 delivery aproximatly £25. I hada moments madness and paid for 12 months. Time will tell if its a good move or not. For those of you that have had enough of guitairist magazine, guitar player.com magazine may be one to check out as a cheaper alternative.
Time will tell if continues to be more enjoyable than guitarist for me.
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Is guitar player.com different from the normal Guitar Player magazine?
(That's a genuine question, not being sarcastic! :) )
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I beleive they are the same think they have just added the .com bit to the name. Im guessing to give more expose to the website though could be wrong .
Philly never thought you were being sarcastic.
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I beleive they are the same think they have just added the .com bit to the name. Im guessing to give more expose to the website though could be wrong .
Philly never thought you were being sarcastic.
Philly, sarcastic? never...
(sarcasm intended) :)
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Lowest form of wit. :wink:
But no, it was a serious question. I've been buying Guitar Player for nearly 30 years, but I thought they might've launched a spinoff I didn't know about.
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I managed to find a copy on my way back from Birmingham. Ooohh the smell...
Out of curiosity I browsed one in smiths today, it really does smell quite strongly. Content seemed good though.
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I'm beginning to think I'm not a 'real' guitarist... I have one main guitar (and one as a gigging backup), one pedal that I use in front of my amp, and I've never so much as thumbed through a guitar mag, let alone actually bought one.
But then I see the utter disgrace that is the telecaster, and realise I'm in the right after all :D
Roo
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But then I see the utter disgrace that is the telecaster, and realise I'm in the right after all :D
:lol: Is this just you making up for lost time Roo?
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I'm beginning to think I'm not a 'real' guitarist... I have one main guitar (and one as a gigging backup), one pedal that I use in front of my amp, and I've never so much as thumbed through a guitar mag, let alone actually bought one.
But then I see the utter disgrace that is the telecaster, and realise I'm in the right after all :D
Roo
i was wondering where you'd been. so many new tele threads popping up nowadays, and no complaints from Roo! what gives!
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he is probably mad at me - i have made 5 tele's in the past year and not a single other vociferator :)
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I'm beginning to think I'm not a 'real' guitarist...
Roo
Welcome back Roo, I've kinda missed yer :D
You don't need to worry - I don't read the guitar mags either...
All you really need is one of those Wez tele models and you'll have nothing to worry about at all, old chap... (and as a side-effect, you'll look more manly and the wimins will fall at your feet... :lol:)
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Just seen the recent ABC figures for Guitar magazines
ABC, the press and event auditing service, has released its 2009 figures, which show a general decline across the board for magazines, with specialist music titles flowing with that trend:
total guitar - 40k
guitarist - 31k
guitar techniques - 22k
guitar and bass - 12k
guitar buyer - 4k
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Just seen the recent ABC figures for Guitar magazines
ABC, the press and event auditing service, has released its 2009 figures, which show a general decline across the board for magazines, with specialist music titles flowing with that trend:
total guitar - 40k
guitarist - 31k
guitar techniques - 22k
guitar and bass - 12k
guitar buyer - 4k
I'm surprised TG is that far ahead of the others.
I've been looking for a copy of guitar buyer but can't find one anywhere! I've checked loads of newsagents, WH Smith, Sainsburys etc but with no luck. Perhaps Roo has bought every copy of the latest edition :wink:
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4k for GB - is that all :o
I subscribe so I don't know how hard it is to get hold of...
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^ same here. But those figures make sense, i hate TG but can understand why it's popular. GB is probably a bit niche- for example, i only buy, say, computer shopper when I'm thinking of buying a new computer (which is about once every 5 years), and I'm guessing a lot of guitarists do the same with GB.
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It's tricky from an advertisers point of view
Guitar Buyer - only 4000 copies sold - but sold to people who are looking for new gear or to keep themselves aware of what is for sale ?
If that were true then it may be a good place to advertise
Guitarist has 31000 - many of them serious players and enthusiasts , but do they buy it for the interviews and lessons or for gear reviews ? Maybe some of each ......
Guitar techniques - 22000 but would an advert appeal to players who may only be focussed on learning songs.
Total Guitar - 41000 - Large readership but wonder if is a demographic who will spend money on repairs and the like
Guitar and Bass - 12000 - a magazine I enjoy a lot and they are based in Croydon, with a fair readership
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yeah, good point, it's definitely not just as simple as the numbers.
EDIT: guitar and bass gets bonus points from me because it doesn't refuse to ackknowledge the existence of tokai and similar MIJ makes.
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Just loacted a copy of Guitar Buyer. Good stuff - I might see how next months is and cancel my Guitarist subscription and buy this one instead.