As do I.
All my past issues aren't really mine. I just happened to mention to Annalisa that I would like to get ahold of some older GW magazines and look through them, and she says, "Just go to my mom's house and pick up my old ones." I thought it would be something like a small stack of them or something. Oh no. She had a subscription from 1995 until the year 2000. The mid 90s issues were pretty cool and quite nostalgic. Smashing Pumpkins, AIC, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Megadeth, etc. Even the advertisements were quite funny due to the limited technology they were touting back then. "50 MAJOR PRESETS! THE MOST EVER IN A MULTI-FX UNIT!" Stuff like that just made you laugh, especially when they were selling it for like 400 bucks. I even saw an advertisement for the "new" Marshall JCM 2000 100 watt heads and how they were "the greatest heavy amps ever made". It was like going back in time.
However, the issues in the grunge era were interesting, informative, and creative; even if we were dogged by a bit too much "less is more" attitude. Around 1999, however, they hired some moron to do some metal album reviews every month. He would try to be funny and rip on every album even if it was a good album because back then the mainstream still called it cookie monster metal. He ripped apart some really, really, really good albums and even attacked the musicianship, calling a Cannibal Corpse album "simplistic". The guitarist wrote in and basically told the guy that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and if he would like to try to play those riffs and show the world how easy it was, that he was welcome to it.
Now, Guitar World is a bunch of Dimebag and Randy Rhoads tributes, endorsements, columns by bands like Trivium, and beer drinking contests with Zakk Wylde. I think there are too many guitarists.
All my past issues aren't really mine. I just happened to mention to Annalisa that I would like to get ahold of some older GW magazines and look through them, and she says, "Just go to my mom's house and pick up my old ones." I thought it would be something like a small stack of them or something. Oh no. She had a subscription from 1995 until the year 2000. The mid 90s issues were pretty cool and quite nostalgic. Smashing Pumpkins, AIC, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Megadeth, etc. Even the advertisements were quite funny due to the limited technology they were touting back then. "50 MAJOR PRESETS! THE MOST EVER IN A MULTI-FX UNIT!" Stuff like that just made you laugh, especially when they were selling it for like 400 bucks. I even saw an advertisement for the "new" Marshall JCM 2000 100 watt heads and how they were "the greatest heavy amps ever made". It was like going back in time.
However, the issues in the grunge era were interesting, informative, and creative; even if we were dogged by a bit too much "less is more" attitude. Around 1999, however, they hired some moron to do some metal album reviews every month. He would try to be funny and rip on every album even if it was a good album because back then the mainstream still called it cookie monster metal. He ripped apart some really, really, really good albums and even attacked the musicianship, calling a Cannibal Corpse album "simplistic". The guitarist wrote in and basically told the guy that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and if he would like to try to play those riffs and show the world how easy it was, that he was welcome to it.
Now, Guitar World is a bunch of Dimebag and Randy Rhoads tributes, endorsements, columns by bands like Trivium, and beer drinking contests with Zakk Wylde. I think there are too many guitarists.
