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I would like to see them bring out one Decent Annual a year and i would buy it. If it was £30 or £40 it would still be worth it than a years worth of repeats.
Not a fan but I re-heard some of his things recently and:
(1) (incidental point) I could immediately hear the bits Allan Holdsworth must have picked up on. The influence is unmistakeable.
(2) Once you get past the flurry of crazy-fast notes, it's amazing. Weaving in & out of the chords, effortlessly. Quite amazing stuff.
Charlie Parker?
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My choice for runner-up would be Wayne Shorter.
Thread hijack over.
Guitarist seems a bit expensive too.
I did - the punters were mainly grey haired old men with beards containing the remnants of their breakfast, who probably love nothing more than Led Zep, Clapton and Peter Green. As a balding 40-something, I felt young.
Guitarist magazine are probably just catering to their targeted demographic audience (rightly or wrongly).
I read Harry's original post about the content of this month's Guitarist and I honestly thought no, that was last month. Or possibly the month before. It is getting beyond a joke.
But I still buy it.
However, after 34 years I have finally made the decision to stop buying the paper edition and switch to digital. I've already missed one issue so my collection is no longer complete... it's quite stressful.
Can't say I actually like reading online, though. I may have to get a bigger monitor. God knows how people can read it on their phones or tablets.
Maybe I will now be able to start getting rid of all the old ones. I can't remember what colour my carpets are...
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The next month the letters page was full of miserable old bluesers moaning about it.
Guitarist are a bit stuffed; their established readership doesn't want to know about new music, but potential new readers don't want to read the endless rehashes of content that could have been published 30-40 years ago.
Their best bet is probably to keep on tapping the historical re-enactment market.
Could be they're focussing on intermediate guitarists who've just got to (or stuck) digging into SRV/Clapton/Green/Bonamassa etc, they definitely don't cater to anyone who's moved on past that. Dentist/Doctor/Lawyer guitar porn is poorly represented for that matter too
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