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I'd like to see them do an issue where they aren't allowed to mention 'classic' guitars from the 50s and 60s, valve amps or interview anyone over 40.
Some ideas for articles that might break the drudgery:
Are old guitars really that special, or are they just a bit, well, old?
The miracle of CNC Part 1 - Why Korean guitars are pretty much as good as their US counterparts (e.g. Musicman Valentine vs Sterling equivalent)
The miracle of CNC Part 2 - Why Mexican guitars are pretty much as good as their US counterparts (Baja tele vs Am professional)
How to dial in great tone on your modeller (could be a series covering all the usual suspects)
Home recording / using an interface and DAW (this is no longer the specialist preserve of sound on sound etc)
Do you still need a 4 x 12 cab?
Interviews with the Youtube stars - Johan Segeborn, Danish Pete, Rabea, Pete Thorn etc.
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Guitarist mag needs a good shake up. Kudos to ChrisV for not getting drawn into producing a similar bland glossy.
His face is too small for his enormous head.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
Gear reviews will need to cover a Fender Strat of some kind or another at least once a year. There isn't really any way around it.
Getting the balance right and coming up with interesting stuff has to be hard.
Guitar Magazine is currently the best of the bunch.
Even in Guitar Magazine I do think there is scope for widening the artists they look at. Given how huge he is, a feature on Sheeran's looping technique, and how to do it, would be good. As mentioned above, you could widen the net to look at country players like Chris Stapleton.
I used to buy 3 or 4 magazines every month but these days the only one I get is Guitar.
Also their entire knowledge of the UK music scene seems limited to the Bath/Bristol corridor. It’s hardly a national magazine anymore.
i think it’s something to read on a train when I’m bored. But that’s about it.
It's not 15 or 20 years though, it's 15 or 20 months. If that.
And those burst articles are shit, they just take a few photos and say ooh, isn't it nice. Maybe compare it with a new Historic, a Traditional and an Epi.
If they were really bothered they'd measure and weigh everything, note down the codes on the pots etc and print everything in all its nerdy glory.
FFS!
Just kidding!
Least they don't keep harping on about bloody '59 Bursts (whatever they are).
Used 59 bursts are guitars no-one wanted in the early sixties. They were old-fashioned. Strats ruled. Jim Marshall’s amps later changed that. Now the ‘bursts’ are hallowed. Are guitarists fickle or what?
It was far better written than today's equivalent. Today's is simpler, more repetitive linguistically, less textured and more sound-bytey as if they assume that today's reader can't read a sentence longer than 6 words, with no word having more than 2 syllables.
Which may well be right.
As in many walks of life we are being short changed these days because people have either forgotten, or have no experience of, the way things were done in the analogue age. It is (wrongly) assumed that we have moved forwards because things are now done quicker or cheaper.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/