Guitar Buyer Magazine

[shobet]

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.

[Stevepage]

It's still going. Try WH Smith or Tescos.

[FELINEGUITARS]

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.

[Ted 'N' Leo]

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.

[Sifu Ben]

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.

[Ian Price]

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.

[Matt77]

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  :(

[Plexi Ken]

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  :)

[Philly Q]

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).

[Johnny Mac]

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.

[dave_mc]

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:

[Andrew W]

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.

[Ted 'N' Leo]

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.

[Ian Price]

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.

[FELINEGUITARS]

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.