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WTB: Guitarist Magazine. All 12 Issues from 1988.

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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616

    Parker said:
    I think a photo of you reading them like an over excited kid with a new Beano is warranted. NMD post coming up....
    In his pyjamas of course....!
    I'll organise that, great Idea.
    :)
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579
    Alnico said:

    Parker said:
    I think a photo of you reading them like an over excited kid with a new Beano is warranted. NMD post coming up....
    In his pyjamas of course....!
    I'll organise that, great Idea.
    :)
    Are they Spider-Man?
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    Alnico said:

    Parker said:
    I think a photo of you reading them like an over excited kid with a new Beano is warranted. NMD post coming up....
    In his pyjamas of course....!
    I'll organise that, great Idea.
    :)
    Are they Spider-Man?
    *Hangs head in middle-aged shame*......

    No, They're 'Fender'...
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579
    Alnico said:
    Alnico said:

    Parker said:
    I think a photo of you reading them like an over excited kid with a new Beano is warranted. NMD post coming up....
    In his pyjamas of course....!
    I'll organise that, great Idea.
    :)
    Are they Spider-Man?
    *Hangs head in middle-aged shame*......

    No, They're 'Fender'...
    At least they aren't Gibson..
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    edited July 2017
    The Magazines have arrived and they are amazing.
    It's like walking back through my youth and OMG how things have changed.

    A brand new US Telecaster was £399 in 1988, among other things I'm shaking my head at and laughing.

    The gear adverts are the best, ........how good did DOD pedals look back then?
    Just WOW.

    I'll do some photo's of the best pages and adverts and post them here.

    @skipped, thank you so much for this. Honestly, this means a great deal to me and they'll be kept in the same immaculate condition they're in now. The Binder is so "Of its time" and actually goes really well with our furniture so they're staying in there and staying safe.

    Brilliant.

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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    Alnico said:

    A brand new US Telecaster was £399 in 1988, among other things I'm shaking my head at and laughing.

    What wouldn't we all do for a time machine!

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  • beed84beed84 Frets: 2403
    edited July 2017
    Considering their apparent invaluable sentimental worth, please tell me you've got them insured.

    *winces in anticipation*
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    beed84 said:
    Considering their apparent invaluable sentimental worth, please tell me you've got them insured.

    *winces in anticipation*
    I guess they're covered by home insurance now they're here?
    I don't actually know.

    They're pretty safe in our living room but I take your point.
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  • beed84beed84 Frets: 2403
    Alnico said:
    beed84 said:
    Considering their apparent invaluable sentimental worth, please tell me you've got them insured.

    *winces in anticipation*
    I guess they're covered by home insurance now they're here?
    I don't actually know.

    They're pretty safe in our living room but I take your point.
    It was actually a joke, but good on ya for taking it seriously!
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    beed84 said:
    Alnico said:
    beed84 said:
    Considering their apparent invaluable sentimental worth, please tell me you've got them insured.

    *winces in anticipation*
    I guess they're covered by home insurance now they're here?
    I don't actually know.

    They're pretty safe in our living room but I take your point.
    It was actually a joke, but good on ya for taking it seriously!
    Ahhhhh.
    Medication mugged me again.
    lol.
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579
    How many adverts feature blatant boobs?
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    How many adverts feature blatant boobs?
    None I've found so far..........except the ones with pictures of Paul Reed Smith.
    :)
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579
    Alnico said:
    How many adverts feature blatant boobs?
    None I've found so far..........except the ones with pictures of Paul Reed Smith.
    :)
    I was actually talking about Les Pauls :)
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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    beed84 said:
    Considering their apparent invaluable sentimental worth, please tell me you've got them insured.

    *winces in anticipation*

    I hear they're so valuable, Terry Morgan is doing reprints. On better quality vellum.
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579
    Ravenous said:
    beed84 said:
    Considering their apparent invaluable sentimental worth, please tell me you've got them insured.

    *winces in anticipation*

    I hear they're so valuable, Terry Morgan is doing reprints. On better quality vellum.
    Fake news.
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513
    Alnico said:
    How many adverts feature blatant boobs?
    None I've found so far..........except the ones with pictures of Paul Reed Smith.
    :)

    Come off it, really?! I'll have to have another look. I thought 88 was right in the middle of the phase where scantily clad models were unabashedly used to flog guitars. It is possible that the US mags had more of this at that time, though.
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    DLM said:
    Alnico said:
    How many adverts feature blatant boobs?
    None I've found so far..........except the ones with pictures of Paul Reed Smith.
    :)

    Come off it, really?! I'll have to have another look. I thought 88 was right in the middle of the phase where scantily clad models were unabashedly used to flog guitars. It is possible that the US mags had more of this at that time, though.
    Yes,
    You whippersnappers won't remember a she-devil called 'Mary Whitehouse' will you?
    She had a rather profound effect on making sure that we got NONE of that and that kind of influence extended everywhere.

    No sex please, it's the 80's and we're BRITISH.
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513

    Oh, The Mary Whitehouse Experience was one of the most popular shows of my school years.

    I was thinking of this sort of thing (is quite a tame example, really):

    http://www.premierguitar.com/ext/resources/legacy_galleries/thumbs/c8d1133a-653a-4487-bafd-0e382c4193cath.JPG?1374688059

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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    DLM said:

    Oh, The Mary Whitehouse Experience was one of the most popular shows of my school years.

    I was thinking of this sort of thing (is quite a tame example, really):

    http://www.premierguitar.com/ext/resources/legacy_galleries/thumbs/c8d1133a-653a-4487-bafd-0e382c4193cath.JPG?1374688059

    Yes,

    Well the MW Experience was a show aimed at poking fun at the censorship of the 80's (Among lots of other things) and for one of the first times, we were able to publically take the piss out of anything we wanted to on TV.
    Once things became a bit more 'Free' in broadcasting, that show appeared and led the way to actual free speech and us being exposed to what the rest of the world called fairly normal.

    When Guitarist first appeared in the early-mid 80's, sex was almost illegal and the cronies were very much in-charge of keeping us all "Decent" !!!
    There is no way they would have got away with bare naked bodies in the magazine back then and to a large degree, I don't think the readership wanted it anyway.
    Reading some of the letters that got published is also a trip back in time and something else I'd forgotten about.
    You think we all bang on here and the handbags fly online?
    Some of the letters are EPIC!
    lol

    Anyway, that advert is a great example of how "Tame" things were here in relation to Europe or America.
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513
    Alnico said: 
    Reading some of the letters that got published is also a trip back in time and something else I'd forgotten about.
    You think we all bang on here and the handbags fly online?
    Some of the letters are EPIC!
    lol
    Oh yes. And the US mags letters pages were even worse. You can definitely see evidence of the gene pool for YouTube commenters/h8ers/trolls.
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