Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Crazy_Joe on October 16, 2006, 10:08:09 PM
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I saw a Painkiller pickup in Total Guitar magazine today, i also saw the Warpig and Nailbomb. That is all as i can't remember what it said about them lol But i think the Painkiller had a thing next to it saying it was TG's pick out of the pickups reviewed.
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Yeah I saw that the other week.. Is it just me or is TG getting cr@pper and cr@pper? My Chemical Romance as a main feature? Disgusting.. I'm glad my subscription ends soon, need to change to a mag that doesnt have such bad taste :lol:
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Haha yeah, MCR are terrible. Though it had Zakk Wylde with his unbelieveably cool mirror bullseye Les Paul guitar.
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Doing his usual silly-constipated-style faces :lol:
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I've noticed that all the mags lately have been getting progressivly worse.
Who the hell cares about AFI's new hairstyle????
I've found that Guitar One seem's ok. This months feature was with John Petrucci and Paul Gilbert.
The reviews would be interesting though.....
EDIT: Just noticed that this was my 100th post!, still got a way to go to match Sambo :lol:
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Yeah I saw that the other week.. Is it just me or is TG getting cr@pper and cr@pper? My Chemical Romance as a main feature? Disgusting.. I'm glad my subscription ends soon, need to change to a mag that doesnt have such bad taste :lol:
They moved up a little bit for including BKPs....
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I think i remember reading in that TG mag that Paul Gilbert has finished his little corner in Total Guitar forever, so yes it is getting worse.
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I hate guitar magazines anyway they're full of shite.. the transcriptions are always wrong, the interviews never cover what you want to hear and the products they review are cr@p why would i want to buy the new cheapo mexican strats? why am i interested in marshalls mg100dfx?! im just not..
i want to see them review quality products.. i want to read a SLO100 review!!! bar-stewards!!
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i want to see them review quality products.. i want to read a SLO100 review!!! bar-stewards!!
That's funny, because I used to read Guitarist magazine & stopped because it was the opposite - they frothed endlessly about any guitar or amp that cost >£2k and/or was built before 1969 as if it was the second coming, you could have read a few issues & been forgiven for thinking that expensive = good, cheap = bad :lol:
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That's why you need an understanding local newsagent, so you can have a proper look through the magazine before deciding to buy (or otherwise).
I find that the TG 'special' editions actually have more in them, but for some reason I can never find them in the newsagents in and around London. Whereas in Befast theres atleast 3 places I can have a rummage before considering purchase
Rob...
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I hate guitar magazines anyway they're full of shitee.. the transcriptions are always wrong, the interviews never cover what you want to hear and the products they review are cr@p why would i want to buy the new cheapo mexican strats? why am i interested in marshalls mg100dfx?! im just not..
i want to see them review quality products.. i want to read a SLO100 review!!! bar-stewards!!
guitar buyer and guitarist might be worth a look, though you'd need to check each month just to be sure they have good reviews at that specific time...
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I found Guitar Buyer to be the best, but as with all magazines, they seem to give anything a good review which is annoying.
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I found Guitar Buyer to be the best, but as with all magazines, they seem to give anything a good review which is annoying.
advertising revenue is the phrase that covers such events.
Rob...
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I hate guitar magazines anyway they're full of shitee.. the transcriptions are always wrong, the interviews never cover what you want to hear and the products they review are cr@p why would i want to buy the new cheapo mexican strats? why am i interested in marshalls mg100dfx?! im just not..
i want to see them review quality products.. i want to read a SLO100 review!!! bar-stewards!!
You can say that about most transcriptions in any tab books though (there IS a reason for online guitar tabs.... the way I see it, they can't even get it right in the books they sell, so what right do they have to ban tabs?)
... but I totally agree with you once again.
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Guitarist is pretty balanced these days. I also like Guitar and Bass - a good range of stuff every month.
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I found Guitar Buyer to be the best, but as with all magazines, they seem to give anything a good review which is annoying.
advertising revenue is the phrase that covers such events.
Rob...
yes.
though guitar buyer does seem to be better than most. I've seen the odd bad review in it. as opposed to TG, where if I bought an advert for my patented "shoe-box strung with elastic bands" guitar, they'd give it a good review.
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WHY is this thread in the pickups forum?!! :evil:
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^ It's not anymore :lol:
Just to add my bit:
As guitar magazines go, they're all good depending on what you're looking for...
Total Guitar seems mostly aimed at emo posers that don't really care about gear, or can't afford anything good.
Guitarist is quite a good read with some interesting interviews at times. It seems to be written by people who have some understanding of what they're on about at least (unlike TG) and has some fairly constructive reviews about decent gear (most of which i can't afford)
Guitar Buyer is a good magazine too, although it seems more product orientated and I don't have the cash to buy stuff often enough to read it on a regular basis - but I always grab a few issues when I'm in the market for buying something or other :lol:
So yeah. That's my opinion on guitar mags :drink:
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recently I went on a long trip and bought some guitar mags (guitar player and classic rock) to kill time on the plane and they both sucked horribly. It was just full of advertising and BS. I literally just flipped through the pages and that was that. I'm definitely never ever getting one again. and they're pretty pricey too..
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I live in New Zealand and got hardly any choice of guitar mags, i can only get TG which in my opinion is absolute cr@p.
:evil:
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I subscribe to TG and Guitarist, and I think they're both perfectly good magazines. Yes, there's a lot of advertising, but there's a lot of advertising in any specialty magazine, and that's part of the point of a specialty magazine anyway.
Most of the people who moan about TG seem to believe that they should run only Slayer, Pantera and Metallica (but only pre 1991) tabs and features, and to be fair they DO do a lot of that stuff anyway (proving that you can't please all the people all the time).Indeed, it's a much fairer criticism that Guitarist has WAY too much blues coverage.
Now I'm something of a realist, and I realise that there's probably never going to be a mag called "Hard rock and melodic metal guitarist", and so accept that the magazines that are available are going to appeal to a slightly wider readership. It's the same with the reviews. Are you going to by a Mexican strat? Maybe not, but many, many people are.
As for MCR, they are a highly relevant modern guitar band, and indeed their coverage in TG up until this point has been pretty minimal (especially when when you consider that groups like Lamb of God have probably had more). The bottom line is that more people are going to be interested in MCR and their playing than in some self harming, horror film obsessed Finnish Tech Metal band who've shifted a tenth of the number of albums.
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Total guitar got bad many years ago, Guitar techniques has gotten pretty bad lately too.
The only guitar magasine which seems to be good and always has been good is Young Guitar, the only problem is its in japanese but that doesnt affect the excellent dvd instructionals and spot on tablature.
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Total guitar lets face it is is mostly for those who are starting off (or are utterly cr@p like me).
Theres nothing wrong with that, and I find their 'Specials' more interesting.
I find that although there is intersting stuff in say Guitar Techniques, theres too much 'advanced' material, that even if I had the ability.
No magazine is going to be good all the time, but it dosn't excuse shoddy reviews of equipment
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^ seconded... however.
When I was a beginner (about 6 or 7 years ago), Total Guitar wasn't a beginner's magazine. All those features that they brought in for the beginner guitarists came in ironically when I didn't need them any more... I'd have killed to have their beginner columns when I was starting out.
Grrr.
:lol:
I'm with you, though. I have no problem with MCR or whoever being in the mag. It's the shoddy reviews that annoy me.
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I havn't seen them give a bad review yet, it annoys me, i would rather they be a bit more critical, they always review the korean made guitars and give them sparkling reviews when blatantly they arn't that good. It's always the same, and usually it is for the price. for example: It may not be as Gibson but for over half the price it's a great guitar! 10/10!!!
It may not be the proper PRS guitars, but it's a cheap version and it sounds great because i'm using loads of effects with it!!! 10/10!!!
It sickens me.
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The thing that most annoys me is when they dont really describe the tone of distortion pedals. They just say "Hows it sound? well, its got enough gain to make any metalhead go crying for their mummy with their tails between their legs" or something stupid like that :lol:
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:lol: yeah that really annoys me.
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Total guitar lets face it is is mostly for those who are starting off (or are utterly cr@p like me).
Theres nothing wrong with that, and I find their 'Specials' more interesting.
I find that although there is intersting stuff in say Guitar Techniques, theres too much 'advanced' material, that even if I had the ability.
No magazine is going to be good all the time, but it dosn't excuse shoddy reviews of equipment
For beginners? This year they've had tab for Avenged Sevenfold, Steve Vai, Children of Bodom, Van Halen, Black Label Society, Trivium and various others that are far from basic.
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WHY is this thread in the pickups forum?!! :evil:
WHY would you care so much? :lol:
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For beginners? This year they've had tab for Avenged Sevenfold, Steve Vai, Children of Bodom, Van Halen, Black Label Society, Trivium and various others that are far from basic.
I havn't bought TG for about 7 months, but certainly did find that the vast majority of the material was for beginners for a good 12 months or so.
Rob...
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The way in which its written seems to me like its for beginners, as I described before with their cr@p metaphors/similes.