GP mag (was Re: tibbetts&frisell)

[Mark Hamburg <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>]

A recent reference here to the Fripp interview got me to pull out that 1986
issue (the only particularly old issue I've got). Wow, there was a lot of
text in those days. I had to start wondering whether this is the fault of
desktop publishing and Photoshop. When you've got color on every (or almost
every) page, photographs become a lot more attractive to include than text.
When a magazine is mostly going to be simple black & white printing, text
makes a lot of sense. Or maybe guitarist's attention spans have just fallen
dramatically.

(Sorry for wandering off-topic, Kim. I'm preparing some very on topic posts
about looping techniques to make amends.)

Mark

on 1/8/03 6:46 AM, Scott Hansen at scott-a-hansen@uiowa.edu wrote:

> ted-thanks for the heads up on your letter (and the edited out version).
> i've been going through my old GP mags, and back in the early 90's they
> had a short section on "underground" guitarists ("notes from the
> underground" i think it was called). always interesting stuff to
> read. i stopped my subscription to GP in the fall, b/c i found that i
> barely read any of the articles, was generally uninterested in most
> of the stuff in there. to me,
> the articles/magazine in general was more interesting 10+ yrs ago.
> guess the classic scenario happened, the second i stop subscribing,
> the articles
> got better? happens to me all the time.
> s---
> ps-guess i'll have to head down to the library to check out the
> previous few issues.