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1980's Rock Music Rags
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:33 pm
Remember these rags?
Circus and RIP were my favorites for rock news in the 1980's.
I had subscriptions to all of them at one point.
I had the covers and pictures from them all over my walls.
RIP
Circus
Hit Parader
Metal Edge
Creem
I'm bored and this is what I'm thinking about right now.
Circus and RIP were my favorites for rock news in the 1980's.
I had subscriptions to all of them at one point.
I had the covers and pictures from them all over my walls.
RIP
Circus
Hit Parader
Metal Edge
Creem
I'm bored and this is what I'm thinking about right now.
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Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:45 pm to CutTheCord
Do you even Metal Edge?
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:49 pm to CutTheCord
Read Circus, Hit Parader, and Creem all the time. When I attended LSU in the early 80’s it was exclusively Kerrang magazine and their focus on the rise of new wave of British heavy metal. BTW, I still have all my Randy Rhoads Guitar magazine covers.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:49 pm to shutterspeed
I was more of a Guitar for the Practicing Musician nerd. Going from Guitar Player (which gave you chord charts if you were lucky) to a magazine that actually had accurate tabs was a revelation.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:50 pm to CutTheCord
I bought all of these magazines to read about Metal and my mother hated it.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 9:09 pm to CutTheCord
HS in the early-mid '80s was pretty desolate for me re music reading. I couldn't afford to buy magazines & hate(d) heavy metal, so I seldom read the ones posted.
I'd go to the library - read tVillage Voice, though carefully ignoring Robert Christgau, who was invariably wrong about everything.
Occasionally a record store would have a copy of Trouser Press, & I'd peruse those onsite. On rare occasions I might even stumble over an imported copy of NME or Melody Maker, though this was the postpunk age of Synth, so those had little impact on me.
Fanzines really came into their own then. I got hold of one from a few years earlier called Kicks -- that one issue would have a profound influence on me. Rockabilly & '60s Garage were its things, & they became mine.
I'd go to the library - read tVillage Voice, though carefully ignoring Robert Christgau, who was invariably wrong about everything.
Occasionally a record store would have a copy of Trouser Press, & I'd peruse those onsite. On rare occasions I might even stumble over an imported copy of NME or Melody Maker, though this was the postpunk age of Synth, so those had little impact on me.
Fanzines really came into their own then. I got hold of one from a few years earlier called Kicks -- that one issue would have a profound influence on me. Rockabilly & '60s Garage were its things, & they became mine.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 9:16 pm to CutTheCord
It’s wild to recall how much we learned by reading these magazines in the days before the internet.
I sat in the break room working the graveyard shift at a grocery store in 1996 and read in Metal Edge that Metallica had cut their hair and were readying a new record called Load. I found all that out at 2 AM in a freaking magazine. Crazy times that will never be repeated.
I sat in the break room working the graveyard shift at a grocery store in 1996 and read in Metal Edge that Metallica had cut their hair and were readying a new record called Load. I found all that out at 2 AM in a freaking magazine. Crazy times that will never be repeated.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 9:23 pm to Hoodie
How out of touch were we -- well, me -- in t80s?
C. '86-8 I was listening to KLSU & heard a song I liked called (I presumed) "Lost Weekend".
They didn't announce who it was by, & I didn't find out who (The Beat Farmers) until about 20 years later.
C. '86-8 I was listening to KLSU & heard a song I liked called (I presumed) "Lost Weekend".
They didn't announce who it was by, & I didn't find out who (The Beat Farmers) until about 20 years later.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 11:37 pm to CutTheCord
I read Circus, Hit Parader, Kerrang!, and Creem.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 11:50 pm to tigermeat
quote:
When I attended LSU in the early 80’s it was exclusively Kerrang magazine and their focus on the rise of new wave of British heavy metal.
I knew I was going to mention Kerrang as soon as I saw the thread title. I also knew if my guy tigermeat had already seen it, he would beat me to it.
quote:
BTW, I still have all my Randy Rhoads Guitar magazine covers.
Nice!!!
Posted on 9/28/23 at 12:10 am to CutTheCord
There wasn't much available to me in the mid 70s, just what they had at the drug store. Same place I had to buy my Black Diamond guitar strings, because that's all they sold.
Those were just lyric only type things and mostly AM radio top 40 songs.
Those were just lyric only type things and mostly AM radio top 40 songs.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 8:54 am to CutTheCord
After early Crème, music journalism died.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:03 am to VOR
had a subscription to this back in the 80s when they actually tried to cover music.
also had a subscription to "Volume" (CD and mini-magazine) and still have most of them.
eta just looked it up...they produced EIGHTY-NINE Volume CD/mini-magazines
pretty good run.
also had a subscription to "Volume" (CD and mini-magazine) and still have most of them.
eta just looked it up...they produced EIGHTY-NINE Volume CD/mini-magazines
pretty good run.This post was edited on 9/28/23 at 10:08 am
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:15 am to CutTheCord
The only rock magazine that was worth reading:
I have a Boy Howdy pin stashed somewhere in the house.
I have a Boy Howdy pin stashed somewhere in the house.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 6:53 pm to Telecaster
I still have a bunch of cartoons I cut out of Creem mags.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 8:54 am to Kafka
quote:
I couldn't afford to buy magazines
That's why I'd spend hours at the K&B magazine rack.
I wasn't into metal but I'd read them along with everything else.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 11:06 am to Telecaster
quote:i posed for a picture in my HS yearbook wearing a Boy Howdy tshirt
I have a Boy Howdy pin stashed somewhere in the house.
Creem, for all its many flaws, was hugely influential on my musical tastes c 1976-1980. I even got a letter published in it one month
Posted on 9/29/23 at 12:43 pm to CutTheCord
This every month also
And occasionally something like this would show up at the drug store
And occasionally something like this would show up at the drug store
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 12:44 pm
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