Conference napalm::guitar

    
    
    
    So, what's the URL for Keyboard?
    
    

    Keyboard URL:   	http://www.mfi.com/keyboard
    Keyboard E-mail:	[email protected]
    
    Maybe we should create a special note for a directory of interesting
    music related Internet things???
    
    BTW, I have yet to be able to access the keyboard www page.

    
    
    Thanks!  Is there an FTP or URL for the Guitar stuff???
    
    BTW, I'll be updating my GFTPM tab list, as soon as I can find some
    missing '94 issues.
    
    

    
    	guitar player is [email protected]
    
    	Would love to see web page!
    
    	Tom
    

    there's a Guitar Player homepage which features excerpts from GP
    articles. It's at
    
    gopher://gopher.enews.com/11/magazines/category/culture/Music/guitar_player

Does anyone know if/how you can download the GFTPM .WAV files without being
a member of compuserve?
MIKE

    > Does anyone know if/how you can download the GFTPM .WAV files without
    > being a member of compuserve?
    
    You have to be a member, $10 a month (recently up from $9/month).
    
    	db

    Hi all!
    
    Glad to see this conference is still flourishing; some of the names
    change but it always seems to be pretty busy in here. Unfortunately,
    I've been practically read-only for most of the last year, but I do
    stick my nose in here every now and then.
    
    Anyway, a quick question for you folks Stateside. I recently saw the
    Guitar Player WWW page and was interested to read that the latest
    edition of the magazine contains a rockabilly lesson with Cliff Gallup 
    (a posthumous lesson, obviously!) and a whole load of stuff about the
    San Francisco sound (complete with umpteen wordplays on the word
    "trip"!). It's not easy to find Guitar Player here in Italy, but when I
    did finally manage to find the January edition, I discovered that it
    was dedicated to the 20th (??) anniversary of Guitar Player, and had
    none of the articles I expected to see (instead it had loads of metal 
    riff tabs and equipment shootouts if I remember rightly).
    
    Any of you subscribers know what's up? I'm guessing that the February
    edition comes out in the States when us Europeans are only just
    receiving the January edition!
    
    Thanks,       
    		
    	Dom 

    
    I just got a GP with Junior Brown on the cover, if 
    that's any help.   I think the one before had a feature
    on "psychedelic music" like San Fransisco/60s/Dead etc.
    
    The new one is probably Feb.
    
    Dave
       

    Right, and the 30th Anniversary issue was December, just before
    the psychedelic issue.
    

    Great stuff...thanks, both of you.
    
    Sounds like you folks in the U.S. are TWO editions ahead of Europe,
    given that the 30th Anniversary GP has only just arrived in the shops
    here!
    
    I guess what fooled me was also that age-old American custom of
    inverting the date/month. I saw 02/01/97 on the GP web page...and took 
    it as meaning the 2nd of January!
    
    Dom

    About a year ago, I let all of my magazine subscriptions lapse. I 
    found I wasn't really reading the magazines. I would quickly skim
    through them and look at the pictures and perhaps read one article
    but it seemed like a waste to continue paying for subscriptions
    year after year. I have about 20 years of GP taking up space. 
    I may re-up with 20th Century Guitar or Vintage guitar (the one
    that's on newsprint), but my GP/GW days are over. 
    
    Mark
    

    It seems a lot of people are complaining about GP these days.  I dunno,
    for me the magazine is currently the best it's ever been.  The fairly
    recent "Sessions" section is consistently useful and entertaining; more
    so I think than the cumbersome monthly columns it replaced.  Agree with
    em or not, the product reviews are light years better than what they
    used to be; real opinions and (at least attempts at) objective
    evaluations, warts and all.  I like the occasional theme formats, like
    the recent psychedelic issue.  In fact, I wish they'd do more of these
    and do more coverage of a theme throughout the magazine.  Artist
    coverage is a bit narrow, but only compared with the very earliest
    issues.  And the writing then was pretty poor.  Writing quality is
    very high these days; compare it with "20th Century" and "Vintage
    Guitar" for instance, whose writing I find mediocre at best.
    
    A good example of what I like about the magazine these days is the
    feature on 30 guitarists from the fringe; interesting, informative
    and to the point.  
    
    On the other hand, I gave up on "Guitar World" a long time ago :-)
    
    /rick
    

    
    I'm still into GP as well.  I think Joe Gore is a pretty
    good writer, especially for a gigging cat. 
    
    And I must admit that I use the lesson materials to 
    practice.  But maybe that's not saying much since I 
    need to work on _everything_.
    
    I would like to see more jazz guitar in there, but
    what can you do?  
    
    Dave             

    As a charter subscriber, I agree with Rick C--I think GP is as good as
    it's ever been and I even find some of the lessons useful.
    
    I'd like to see more jazz too, but Just Jazz Guitar, which is true to
    its name, it still very amateurish, and the vintage magazines are
    inane. GP has some semblance of balance, though I'd wish they'd lose
    the "hip" language and silly metaphors.
    
    Danny W.

    I've seen some pretty funny letters from readers that take GP to task
    for their hip metaphor style; at least one of these got reprinted in
    the 30th Anniversary issue.
    

    I've pretty much given up on GP (I've been an on/off subscriber 
    for years).  I had started subscribing again when I realized I probably 
    bought enough issues in a year to justify the price of the subscription. 
    In the past year, I didn't find that to be the case, so I let my
    subscription lapse once again.  I don't think it has necessarily gotten 
    worse-- it's just that my tastes have changed.  Very little happening 
    in the rock/metal/alternative world is of interest to me these days,
    and GP's coverage of things outside that realm has always been thin
    (although jazz/classical coverage seems thinner to be than it was in 
    70's and early 80's, but that may be a false impression on my part).  
    
    I subscribe to both Acoustic Guitar and Fingerstyle Guitar.  I read
    almost every issue of both cover to cover.
    
    Jim

    GP is the only one I can stomach now.  To paraphrase Nigel Tufnel(sp?),
    the rest are too much of a monthly tribute to teenagers' guitar god of the
    month.  Nigel said he's guitar god #687.