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RDeraz

RDeraz

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That magazine is 25 years old, might be an interesting read. $2.95 WITH a free Hendrix record inside!
 
Ha, yeah those floppy insert records were a trip. I remember Satriani had a pre-release of a track from his new album once. It was Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing. I still Have that issue in the picture also.:).
 
RDeraz said:
Ha, yeah those floppy insert records were a trip. I remember Satriani had a pre-release of a track from his new album once. It was Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing. I still Have that issue in the picture also.:).
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I believe it was the April '88 issue or thereabouts that had the vinyl insert for "Crush of Love." I put it on my turntable and was turned onto Satriani for the first time, then discovered the Surfing With the Alien cassette. :emmersed:
 
mnwst said:
I believe it was the April '88 issue or thereabouts that had the vinyl insert for "Crush of Love." I put it on my turntable and was turned onto Satriani for the first time, then discovered the Surfing With the Alien cassette. :emmersed:
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Yes me too, it also had this arpeggio spacey sounding piece that I had to learn. I wore out Crush of Love, such a great track.
 
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Yes me too, it also had this arpeggio spacey sounding piece that I had to learn. I wore out Crush of Love, such a great track.
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I wore mine out too that summer, very inspiring. I came home from my freshman year in college and played guitar night and day. Great, carefree times!! We didn't have cable, so that fall I returned to school to see that MTV was playing SWTA videos. A guitar buddy said "check out this guitar player, he's amazing!!" I realized it was the same guy as that vinyl insert. I felt cool because I thought I knew about him before everyone else. Hahahaha.
 
Also, to get back to the original post- old issues (70's- early 90's)of Guitar Player, Guitar for the Practicing Music, Guitar World, Guitar School, etc, etc... are hilarious for the ads. The "state of the art" in technology, the hair styles, clothes, the on-the-verge-of porn photos of girls selling the features and benefits of an electric guitar were particularly tacky during that period.

Which makes me think how great the Axe is. I can't really imagine seeing the Fractal ad 20 years from now and thinking how lame and obsolete. The ad is sleek and classy, to the point, and doesn't need the fluff. Just like the box itself.

70's
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80's
http://www.guitarworld.com/files/imagecache/gw_imagegallery_slide/gallery/zappa and axsak.jpg

90's
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I actually remember that issue, only because I went through a large stash of guitar mags a year or so ago and finally cleaned house. That issue caught my eye and gave me a laugh thinking about the Axe FX..
 
mnwst said:
the on-the-verge-of porn photos of girls selling the features and benefits of an electric guitar were particularly tacky during that period.
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LOL, yes they were. My teenage self did not mind too much. :)

Dean guitar ads in particular.
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Holy crap! That's a Digitech GSP5! I owned one of those!

It was 1992 and I was playing in a metal band. We weren't very good, but we had dreams and a lot of passion. I had a cheap Peavey Bandit amp and some second hand or borrowed pedals. One day I saw one of these at a pawn shop for $250. I knew I must have it, so I put it on layaway and for the next couple of months saved up with my $3.50/hour dishwashing job.

It was a digital fizzbox. Cheesy distortion and speaker simulation, but acceptable time based effects from what I remember. It was difficult to program, basically useless without the manual. I remember listening to this digital fizz that would come as the delays decayed out. This was probably due to cheap, low end DSPs. Oh, and the unit was noisy as hell and had no built in noise gate.

Compared to our other guitarist's GSP-21, it was night and day. Basically like comparing a POD to an AxeFX. I chuckle when I see this ad imply it could be a complete rig replacement. Um, not quite :)

I wound up selling it a few years later, but at the time my 20 y/o self thought it was like Christmas come early when I pulled it out of layaway.

In the end, it didn't make the band sound any better :-(
 
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I still have the Eric Johnson cover story with Cliffs of Dover as the floppy insert disc. I took it to one of his shows in Arkansas back in 2006 and he looked gobsmacked when I asked for his autograph. He enthusiastically signed it for me. Ironically, I didn't listen to that disc at the time, and it wasn't until a few years later when I saw his Austin City Limits performance that I became a fan.
 
I had that issue! I remember thinking they did a nice job of sawing the guitar in half. And GP costed like three times the sticker price in Holland.


I also remember the flexidisc of Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan blowing my mind. Awesome stuff and no chance I could even figure out what they were playing... Cacophony, same thing.
 
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