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Location: Texas | Without a doubt, the best guitar magazine around.
As most every weekend, me and my family go to Half Price Books to check out older books, magazines, LPs, CDs, etc. that we can find.
And as always I go to the art and music section to see what they have. Well, to my surprise I see a stack of old Guitar Player magazines from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, about 35 of them all in excellent condition for $1 dollar a piece; of course I bought them all!
What a great read. Every featured artist from Josh White (of course) to rockers like Keith Richards, Ron Wood, jazzers like Scofield, Mike Stern, McLaughlin, Ritenour, folkies like Messina, Loggins, Jerry Jef Walker, as well as Knopfler, Roy Clark, Cat Stevens, Metheny etc, etc, etc, most everyone, I mean EVERYONE lists various Ovations and Adamas guitars in their arsenal for live and studio work.
My favorite magazine ever was the old "Frets" magazine, and I really do not like "Acoustic Guitar" magazine or any of the current ones, except maybe "Vintage Guitar" but I do not subscribe or buy every issue.
But "Guitar Player" magazine still has something for every one and I think is still the best.
Finding all these older issues takes me to another world, a time that reminds me of why I love music and why I play guitar and spend my life enjoying something that all of us guitar nuts have.
We should feel very lucky we have music and the guitars we love so much. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | What a great find! Enjoy many hours of happy reading. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I agree. Every issue has at least one article that I copy and put into my loose leaf notebook. And if you go to the right place you can get a subscription for less than $12 a year!
I used to save them, but it was just too much and I move too much to lug them around so that's way I make a new book of my favorite articles. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | CA,
Thanx for the post! I'll have to check it out.
I used to subscribe to many mags and saved way too many of 'em. I finally carefully ripped out the worthwhile articles and put 'em in a large 3-ring binder with subject dividers. Sure saved a lot of hassle when moving from base to base!
The internet sure has changed the ol' procedures... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Great find, Sergio. A few years ago, I happened upon an inventory of Downbeat magazines from 1959 through 1966 being excessed by the Kansas City Public Library. I bought the entire stock, over 350 pristine weekly editions. I was looking for the advertisements for the electric guitars from that era, and each edition had something like 10 to 12 full page adds. The big names are there, of course, but the small USA manufacturers (Kent, Harmony, etc.,) were suprisingly all over the pages. Drum manufacturers, too. Back in those days, this may have been the only magazine catering to the guitar trades. The full-color annual multi-page Fender Instrument inserts were all there as well. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I have this plan to buy frames in bulk for the better full page spreads and sell them on eBay when I retire. I bought a few years of Rolling Stone from the 60's as well, but their advertisements were nowhere near as nice as those from Downbeat. When I opened the first issue in that batch of Rolling Stone, the headline story was all about Jan Berry's (Jan and Dean) rear-end crash of his Corvette. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I wish I still had all of my old copies from the seventies and eighies. I also wish I had kept all of the old FRETS magazines. Ovation's own Jim Rickard had a regular feature there. |
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Location: Chicago | Takes me back to High School: I grew up in a lilly-white jazz-free zone (Los Altos CA). If not for Down Beat and Guitar Player (my collection ran from 1968-1975) I would never have been exposed to the wide world of music outside Top 40 Radio.
Post a report on some gems you find Sergio! |
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