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I was going through some old music books & charts and came across several old issues of "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" magazine from the late 80's. Glad I found them as one of the issues has a very well done tab of SRV's "Lenny" that I want to start working on again. Another has an excellent tab for Joe Satriani's "The Forgotten (Part 2)" which I started learning many years ago ago and gave up somewhere around the 4th bar of the lead :\ (maybe time to give it another shot?)

I see that GFTPM is no longer around. Not that is matters, these days, I don't have any interest in subscribing to guitar magazines. Just wondering what happened to them. Also see that back issues are selling for some amazing prices on Ebay -- wish I had kept more of them!

Anybody else kept their old guitar mags or have any favorite issues worth mentioning?
 
Years ago, I used to keep guitar and computer magazines for reference purposes. Then, one day while looking at these monstrous piles of magazines eating valuable space, I realized I had never referred back to a single one of them. Out they went, and I've never kept one since. Read it and pass it along or pitch it.

 
I had boxes and boxes of motorcycle magazines and guitar magazines stored. And I've finally went thru them and trashed all the guitar mags that didn't pertain to SRV, and kept a few motorcycle mags.
 
It's always great to revisit stuff you have tried in the past. Even re-reading some material. (books and tech manuals) Revisiting material with your added experience makes the old stuff seem new again in a different light. Perception is reality. With that, the more experienced you will be able to easily understand and do things that seemed difficult in the past. I should pull out some old music books too and try some stuff I bailed on. Too bad I pitched so much material just like Cagey did.

Lenny is one of my favorite tunes to play. There is an enormous opportunity for improvisation within the structure. The movable chords provide the frame work. After the second main chord try dropping into an E7 and then back to the same chord as one of the transitions. The movable chord structure is key to many Hendrix songs as well. The song Rivera Paradise is also a movable chord song as well as Stangs Swang(intro). All of which are favorites. The circular picking in Stangs Swang is a great exercise and a nice intro to some jazz flavors. If you try that song then you could do Dirty Pool as well.

I've got a stack of those records that you could tear out of the magazines. They had some great instructional stuff on them as well as song versions I haven't heard elsewhere. I wish I had a way to play and convert to digital. I could use the input from those.
 
I have boxes of magazines waiting to be scanned and thrown out - which is at least admitting you have a problem, but no better honestly than just having boxes of magazines. It's a lot easier to look at my wife's Circus and Rolling Stones magazines from the 80s and decide they need to be pitched. Maybe we should just make a deal to pitch each other's magazines.
 
SalsaNChips said:
I was going through some old music books & charts and came across several old issues of "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" magazine from the late 80's. Glad I found them as one of the issues has a very well done tab of SRV's "Lenny" that I want to start working on again. Another has an excellent tab for Joe Satriani's "The Forgotten (Part 2)" which I started learning many years ago ago and gave up somewhere around the 4th bar of the lead :\ (maybe time to give it another shot?)

I see that GFTPM is no longer around. Not that is matters, these days, I don't have any interest in subscribing to guitar magazines. Just wondering what happened to them. Also see that back issues are selling for some amazing prices on Ebay -- wish I had kept more of them!

Anybody else kept their old guitar mags or have any favorite issues worth mentioning?

I have a few old "Guitar For the Practicing Musician" mags and I'm glad I still have them.  That magazine was far better than today's toilet paper known as "Guitar World."  I had fun thumbing through them and reading some of the interviews.

Cagey said:
Years ago, I used to keep guitar and computer magazines for reference purposes. Then, one day while looking at these monstrous piles of magazines eating valuable space, I realized I had never referred back to a single one of them. Out they went, and I've never kept one since. Read it and pass it along or pitch it.

Just did this not even a year ago.  I had a TON of automotive magazines; Car & Driver, Road & Track, AutoWeek, Automobile, Motor Trend, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Super Chevy, GM High Tech Performance, Pontiac High Tech Performance, High Tech Performance, etc.  I figured one day I'd "refer" back to them and never did.  I really didn't wanna get rid of them, just because I had a really nice "library" going on.  I hadn't missed a single issue of any of these magazines in over 15 years, so you can imagine how many magazines I had.  I had to have AT LEAST 1,500-2,000.

Anyway, I kept a few "special" issues but glad I freed up some room.  Nowadays, I'm starting the same thing over again with "Guitar World" magazines...  :icon_scratch:
 
Daze of October said:
SalsaNChips said:
I was going through some old music books & charts and came across several old issues of "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" magazine from the late 80's. Glad I found them as one of the issues has a very well done tab of SRV's "Lenny" that I want to start working on again. Another has an excellent tab for Joe Satriani's "The Forgotten (Part 2)" which I started learning many years ago ago and gave up somewhere around the 4th bar of the lead :\ (maybe time to give it another shot?)

I see that GFTPM is no longer around. Not that is matters, these days, I don't have any interest in subscribing to guitar magazines. Just wondering what happened to them. Also see that back issues are selling for some amazing prices on Ebay -- wish I had kept more of them!

Anybody else kept their old guitar mags or have any favorite issues worth mentioning?

I have a few old "Guitar For the Practicing Musician" mags and I'm glad I still have them.  That magazine was far better than today's toilet paper known as "Guitar World."  I had fun thumbing through them and reading some of the interviews.

Cagey said:
Years ago, I used to keep guitar and computer magazines for reference purposes. Then, one day while looking at these monstrous piles of magazines eating valuable space, I realized I had never referred back to a single one of them. Out they went, and I've never kept one since. Read it and pass it along or pitch it.

Just did this not even a year ago.  I had a TON of automotive magazines; Car & Driver, Road & Track, AutoWeek, Automobile, Motor Trend, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Super Chevy, GM High Tech Performance, Pontiac High Tech Performance, High Tech Performance, etc.  I figured one day I'd "refer" back to them and never did.  I really didn't wanna get rid of them, just because I had a really nice "library" going on.  I hadn't missed a single issue of any of these magazines in over 15 years, so you can imagine how many magazines I had.  I had to have AT LEAST 1,500-2,000.

Anyway, I kept a few "special" issues but glad I freed up some room.  Nowadays, I'm starting the same thing over again with "Guitar World" magazines...  :icon_scratch:
So you're collecting "toilet paper" now.... :icon_scratch:
 
DangerousR6 said:
Daze of October said:
SalsaNChips said:
I was going through some old music books & charts and came across several old issues of "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" magazine from the late 80's. Glad I found them as one of the issues has a very well done tab of SRV's "Lenny" that I want to start working on again. Another has an excellent tab for Joe Satriani's "The Forgotten (Part 2)" which I started learning many years ago ago and gave up somewhere around the 4th bar of the lead :\ (maybe time to give it another shot?)

I see that GFTPM is no longer around. Not that is matters, these days, I don't have any interest in subscribing to guitar magazines. Just wondering what happened to them. Also see that back issues are selling for some amazing prices on Ebay -- wish I had kept more of them!

Anybody else kept their old guitar mags or have any favorite issues worth mentioning?

I have a few old "Guitar For the Practicing Musician" mags and I'm glad I still have them.  That magazine was far better than today's toilet paper known as "Guitar World."  I had fun thumbing through them and reading some of the interviews.

Cagey said:
Years ago, I used to keep guitar and computer magazines for reference purposes. Then, one day while looking at these monstrous piles of magazines eating valuable space, I realized I had never referred back to a single one of them. Out they went, and I've never kept one since. Read it and pass it along or pitch it.

Just did this not even a year ago.  I had a TON of automotive magazines; Car & Driver, Road & Track, AutoWeek, Automobile, Motor Trend, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Super Chevy, GM High Tech Performance, Pontiac High Tech Performance, High Tech Performance, etc.  I figured one day I'd "refer" back to them and never did.  I really didn't wanna get rid of them, just because I had a really nice "library" going on.  I hadn't missed a single issue of any of these magazines in over 15 years, so you can imagine how many magazines I had.  I had to have AT LEAST 1,500-2,000.

Anyway, I kept a few "special" issues but glad I freed up some room.  Nowadays, I'm starting the same thing over again with "Guitar World" magazines...  :icon_scratch:
So you're collecting "toilet paper" now.... :icon_scratch:

Pretty much.  They have some good "panels" in the back of the mags called "transcriptions." :D
 
Not music mags .... But
I have (well they were my dads) monthly issues of 'Electronic Today' Magazines.
Every issue from 1941 ---- 1996 ..... yep 55years  :doh:
(Think they had some name changes along the way)

They are still sitting in the same cupboards from when I was a kid.
:sign13:  (Darn.... I could fit a heap of guitars in there too)

Been meaning to get rid of them for ages now. I have No interest in them.
I can't come to ................. just tossing them out as rubbish.
May-be a museum or something like that, would take them  :dontknow:

There probably more of a fire hazard sitting here, than anything else.
Have seen individual one's on fleabay ..... I'm not gunna scan all of these thou.  :tard:

Wonder if anyone is stupid enough to bid for 55years worth  :laughing7: 
Local pick-up only  :laughing3: 
Bring a trailer  :icon_biggrin: 
 
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