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I recently bought both Guitarist and Guitar Magazine cos I was going to a place where you couldn't use the internet, hadn't bought either of them for a while. Couldn't get over how thin both mags had become and how dull the content was. Worst £12 I've spent in recent memory. I'm middle aged but there's not much of interest in there for me musically and its all old news to be honest if you keep abreast of things online. You can get more enjoyment on Instagram than in there.
Not sure the age demographic for buying mags in general these days but the parent company are making plenty of millions still and the chief exec earns £350,000per annum so they are doing something right. He could buy a Burst every year with that.
I still think that magazines like Guitarist could die out in our lifetime, however I thought the same about bloody caravanning and I was wrong about that......hipster campers...ffs.
The first 40 pages are adverts. I kid you not.
It's supposed to be a specialist magazine, but every tech article has always been written as if they were explaining it to my mum.
Before the internet I used to crave detailed knowledge about amp guts, or pickup mods, or any other tech stuff which could help me get to where I wanted to be, and occasionally I'd grab a copy of Guitar Player and a booklet of wiring tricks by Dan Erlewine or someone would fall out.
But Guitarist? Not a chance, just a bunch of know-nothing journos without the slightest clue (or even interest) in how anything actually works, which is fine in a one-off coffee table book for beginners, but every month for decades?
Is their target market just anyone with a passing interest who just grabs any old thing to read on the train, or is it actually guitarists?
When I first started reading it, I didn't know that stuff though and it was interesting. When you have read 15 articles on the history of bursts over the years though, they just get repetitive. The recent one in Guitar Magazine, where they had a lesser known burst, was more interesting for me and probably a better take on it.
It is a difficult balancing act to try and do something that works for newer readers without boring the long term readers.
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I’d have to disagree - as one of the very(!) few UK publications targeted at guitarists, I’d say their content is very much up for discussion.
There’s obviously *something* pertinent, considering the number and range of responses on this thread...
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Rising inflections, starting a sentence with 'So.....', lazy speech such as saying wiv and vhe instead of with and the.
And that's a typical 'spokesperson' on Radio 4. I often have to fight the urge to throw my radio against the wall, but just as often turn it off rather than listen to some triumph of education over intellect talk like a teenager.
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It was this very magazine that lead to my joining the Guitarist forum and later Musicradar and even later after being ditched en masse lead to my eventually joining this forum. I stopped reading Guitarist over ten years ago when I realised a) I rarely revisited a magazine unlike Sound on Sound b) It was really a needless cost and c) aside from the rare article or review there was not a lot I would call decent content. When shopping I still have a peak to see if much has changed (if it is not bagged that is) and it is almost like they are trapped in a time bubble. One thing I would give as a positive, both my Pawn Shop Mustang Special and PRS Mira purchases despite being bought second hand years after they were released were fuelled by reading/ glancing at this magazine.
Guitarist seems to appeal to the middle aged indeed, plus people who are coming back to it after family with more disposable income - I see a few of these from time to time at jam nights, shiny new EC Sig Strats or PRS CU24's etc but it keeps the industry alive. For a number of us the reviews are not that relevant, once you get the stuff you are really happy with "that's it" unless you are collecting of course, a whole other story.
Maybe it'll morph into another US "Guitar Aficionado" type mag, expensive watch adverts alongside the guitars.