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I'll organise that, great Idea.
No, They're 'Fender'...
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.
What wouldn't we all do for a time machine!
*winces in anticipation*
I don't actually know.
They're pretty safe in our living room but I take your point.
Medication mugged me again.
lol.
I hear they're so valuable, Terry Morgan is doing reprints. On better quality vellum.
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.
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.
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
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.