How YouTube Killed Guitar Magazines | The Rise of Digital Guitar Culture
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- In this video, we dive into the reasons why UA-cam has become the dominant platform for guitar players and enthusiasts, effectively killing off traditional guitar magazines. We explore how the shift from print to digital media has transformed the guitar community, offering more accessible, diverse, and interactive content. From gear reviews and tutorials to artist interviews and live performances, UA-cam provides instant access to information that was once exclusive to magazines like Guitar World, Premier Guitar, and Total Guitar.
Join us as we break down:
The decline of print guitar magazines in the digital age.
How UA-cam's guitar community offers real-time, visual content that magazines simply can't compete with.
The rise of influencers, gear demos, and personalized guitar lessons that cater to every skill level.
What the future holds for guitar media as the industry continues to evolve.
If you're a guitar lover who misses the old days of flipping through glossy pages, or if you've fully embraced the digital era, this discussion is for you! Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and comment with your thoughts on the future of guitar media.
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I definitely miss magazines and catalogs. Much better than looking at a damn screen all the time to read.
I always looked forward to getting Musician Friend catalog. ❤
Words are words no matter where you read them 😂
Agree looked forward to the arrival in the mail
My highschool library had Guitar Player magazine in the 80's. The librarian used to save the floppy records for me. This magazine was such a huge part of my life.
I do hope Vintage Guitar magazine can hold on.
I collected every guitar magazine including foreign for ten years, put them in the recycle bin over several weeks, took ten years off, and started following you guys. ❤️ You read my mind!
I still have about four years worth of magazines from late 90s through early 2000s
My grandkids will probably think they’re cool
Still hanging on to my guitar worlds from the 80s and 90s
I still have April '94 Guitar World with Dimebag on the cover.
The internet killed magazines in general. I loved a indie music mag called Blitz back in the 80s. There's nothing like that any more.
Only certain ones still survive off being in doctor's offices and other waiting rooms.
I used to love Paste magazine it was mainly focused on Americana music. Their album reviews were phenomenal. It’s still online, but it isn’t the same as the print magazine.
For a long time every year, my sister would buy me a subscription to Guitar Player Magazine. It was something to look forward to every month.
Vintage Guitar magazine still alive. I don’t know how, but it is.
Just ordered a back issue of Acoustic Guitar Player off eBay a couple days ago. Out for delivery today!
You know what I miss from fire print era? Sweetwater CATALOG! Filling up the whole damn mailbox. That was good for like a month of bathroom reading.
A friend turned me on to musicians friend in the mid 90's. My son was 7 or 8 and he just loved it. All of those guitars were fascinating to a little guy. It was always a great day for father and son when it showed up in the mail. 30 years later, both of my boys are still playing their respective instruments and dad's been rocking the drums since 1968.
I guess I'm old because I still have a subscription to Guitar Player magazine. I also remember before getting the magazine Guitar for the practicing musician.
This reminds me of the old video game magazine guides too. I remember looking at these in stores and learning tips about new games. Started to die out when UA-cam came around and tips, gameplay, and reviews were readily available from so many different channels.
In a similar vein, online forums. I used to be part of several different forums and chat rooms for specific hobbies. Social media, UA-cam, and other apps kind of killed those off as well!
Iv'e been a subscriber to Guitarist for 10 years now and used to buy it occasionally for a couple of years previous to that. The thrill of popping the CD into my PC and watching Simon Bradley review gear on the CD made it an eagerly waited occasion.
Steve Vai and the Flexible sound page...record! THAT was cool!
I used to get in trouble in middle school having my musicians friend catalog out during class
Read mfs read! Books and mags. Printing companies need to see sales to keep things going.
A big part of the problem is nobody has any time now. Everybody is busting their ass to survive. A video you can watch while you do other things.
A few years ago I discovered all the guitar videos on UA-cam and that was a primary motivation for me to take up guitar again after decades without. When I was young I learned cowboy chords, a few riffs, and how to pluck out a basic melody. I had a cheap department store acoustic guitar and my only learning resources were music books from the public library. I forced myself to learn to puzzle out musical notation in order to learn a few actual songs. In my early 20's I gave up guitar when I no longer had the time even for the rudimentary stuff I was able to play. Then much later in life I discovered that there were guitar lessons on UA-cam. Wow, I could relatively easily learn all those classic riffs that I had been hearing my whole life. I quickly went out and bought a new guitar, and the rest is mystory.
I miss obsessing over the newest issue of guitar player magazine.... I think I had more guitar magazines and catalogues than actual books in my backpack on any given day in middle school and high school. I remember stewmac before the website!
There's a direct parallel to radio, too. When everyone was reading the same articles and listening to the same music, the recorded music world was much smaller and focused. Mega bands were the norm. Now it is incredibly nuanced/fractured/diverse, so no one group will ever be as popular as those older groups, but on the flip side, practically anyone can record some music and get it out there, which is super cool. There's so much great music that very few people know about... but at least it is accessible. Back in the 1970s there were probably some incredibly creative and talented musicians that never even got recorded and it is forever lost now. I'm happy with the current state of accessibility, even if discovery is more challenging.
I dunno, I remember when computer music became a reality, all the recording magazines featured bands who were going on about how great Internet promotion was, and how they refused record company offers because they were doing it for themselves. I went through a whole bunch of magazines, ALL of those bands got NOWHERE and are FORGOTTEN. Yet I can pick up a CD from the Nuggets or Rubble collections and hear countless 60s garage bands who got their 10 seconds of fame. It sucks now, it wasn't great then, but there will be more forgotten from this era than any time scince the dark ages in terms of creative output.
Sad to say, I'm old enough to have started playing guitar before the rise of dedicated magazines with tabs etc. It had its advantages, though, because it really taught you how to listen and to analyse what you heard on records to figure stuff out.
I had to learn by putting cds in my big ass cd player stereo sound system. Not patting myself on the back but learning that way made it super easy playing live. I wasn't focused on numbers or tabs. It was all in the ears and fingers. 18 years later I'm loving the access UA-cam has given us.
I still get the print version of "Premier Guitar". Love the rig rundowns.
Growing up on GW & GP was a great time!
Magazines like you mentioned are all about politics and not music .
They needed to stay in their lane .
I don’t need rolling stone telling me who to vote for .
UA-cam IS great for guitarist, but there was a cool connection to learning a 1 - 4 -5 chord progression from another guitarist who learned from a magazine, not to mention just staring at new guitars that would have taken an entire summer of part time work to get. EDIT (Actually I cut grass for 3 summers from 1971 to 1973 to buy an Epiphone...and NO I did not walk barefooted in the snow to school, but I DID walk to school LOL) I still sub to Acoustic Guitar and GW and still love them. Great topic and video, thanks!
I was shopping the other day and stopped to check out the magazines, thinking if there were any guitar mags I'd grab a copy. I was bummed there was absolutely nothing anymore.
All of the early guitar "aha!" moments of my beginning days as a player came from these magazines. I still have a huge stack of them in my closet. The first time I worked out a complete Pink Floyd song was courtesy of a Guitar World magazine, and that gave me the confidence to really put the effort in to improve my playing. It's the end of an era, but it was inevitable.
Internet killed the magazine business..
I just keep most physical media in general. CDs, vinyl, blue ray, dvd, BOOKS (I have so many books❤) and magazines. And I’ve been dragging some of them around since the 90s.
14:33 I would never be able to pitch a tent again after that. 🤣🤣
For me it was "Guitar For The Practicing Musician". All you could find back then was Hal Leonard and Mel Bay "Teach Yourself Guitar" books with songs only your grandma appreciated, fake books that were terrible and no tabs just standard, and "Guitar World" (which took years to finally get tabs) and "Guitar Player" had interviews and if you were lucky a column with some theory that was way over your head and 3 chord charts and nothing to apply it to. GFTPM had 4-5 songs, a couple with bass lines (a lucky and big deal then) and now I was off the races. My first issue was like their 2nd or 3rd and I think it had Priest, Def Lappard, and Rush and a couple others I don't remember. I miss having something I can hold or set on a stand and doesn't require batteries.
Baxter, you're mom's a brave woman if she's touching the porn of a teenage boy.😳
Same here. GFTPM came out a year after I started playing. These guys in this clip are younger than me, since Guitar World took years to get tabs. I always thought that Guitar Player magazine was ‘snobby’, compared to the others that came after.
@@KoolKatDave GP was way snobby, indeed. It seemed like they only did interviews with guys that played 335s and the like.
I don’t miss magazines. Still have a stack from way back when that just gather dust.
I gave away several stacks of mine.
I wish I kept all of those "record pages" from my 80's guitar mags. Perforated floppy 45s in the middle of every edition. It's where I found Tony McAlpine, Adrian Belew, Wes Montgomery, and Roy Buchanon. Stuff I would have no chance of finding on the radio or even know what it was if I saw it at National Record Mart.
Baxter and Jonathan - you kids and your CDs in a magazine! I remember when they STARTED to put in those cheap records into a magazine!
You have to remember that these guitarists weren’t on tv., weren’t on video yet other than a few Hot Lick tutorial vhs, not in the cinema, and certainly weren’t playing locally. You couldn’t just look up what gear they were playing or how. You worked out songs by ear or used the mag’s tabs. These mags were a gateway into that world, they werethe only place you could find out about these guys.
As a kid in the 90s I couldn't get enough of hit parader, revolver, circus, guitar world. All those classic magazines. I miss it!
I have a thick folder of lessons I pulled over the years ("How to play like Peter Green") and it will be missed.
Just the other day I was kicking myself, because I wanted to look at an old article abut somebody, and I remembered I had thrown out most of my old mags. I wish now I had kept them all. I had pretty much everything going through the 80s/90s. I also wish I had kept all the old brochures and stuff like Carvin catalogs. Hopefully publishers will release digital archives at some point. I would totally buy that.
I started with first issue of Guitar Player back in the 60’s. I still love the magazines but understand the challenges of publishing a paper magazine. Magazine’s work when the power is out or no internet. The main difference is that anyone can put drivel on the internet/youtube. A magazine company at least filtered some of the junk out.
Sitting on the crapper trying to read articles off a cellphone screen just ain't the same as having a magazine to read!
I’ve never seen an Acoustisonic hanging in a guitar store. Then, I don’t live in the big city but I do go to real world every now & then & I always stop at the real music stores to see what real guitar players are playing.
Guitar Magazines have been recycling the same 10 or 15 blues, metal and Rock tabs for the Last 40 years and they have ignored us Country Pickers. Vintage Guitar Magazine is the only one worth subscribing to!
Something that bugs me is that some of the stories in those old magazines turned out to not be true, rumors that proliferated during the pre internet dark ages. Can’t think of a specific example, but just info about guitar rigs or about recording techniques that turned out to be wrong
I feel the same way about school. Half of the stuff I learned before I was 20 turned out to be wrong, or science decided to reclassify and rename stuff
"Here's a photo of a pedal we'd like you to buy for $300" vs "Here's a demo with sound that you can watch."
Still get Vintage Guitar magazine, and with people who aren't even players buying them as investments, don't see how those folks can function without it.
I love magazines. All sorts. Especially a good guitar mag. But American guitar mags have gotten thinner, more expensive and filled with more and more ads. I love Fretboard Journal (best US guitar magazine ever) and Guitarist from the UK. 🇬🇧 ❤
And when Fretboard Journal issues show up at our local massive used bookstore they are NOT CHEAP. LOL
I am old enough to be in the Medicare guitar club and grew up on paper magazines and catalogs. I do not enjoy the online guitar magazines and feel they are missing something. Maybe it was that I was younger and absorbed everything I could get my hands on related to guitar vs. it being an overload of info now.
Don't forget Guitar for the Practicing Musician........they rocked
Any Gen Xers remember Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine? I had a letter to the editor published and was a freaking rock star at my high school after that....
So what is the Guitar World of UA-cam? Rick Beato's channel? Premier Guitar's Rig Rundown?
I read almost every issue of guitar player and guitar world until about UA-cam time.
Then I gave away huge stacks of them about 15 years ago.
yup, do not buy magazines anymore.... except...found a "Guitar Player" magazine from 1978 with Rory Gallagher on the cover and interviewed...so that was actually a cool find in a Vintage shop.
I still buy the mags , love the videos
Man.> Great topic
I MISS the guitar magazines so much... Used to learn about cool guys on there.. Or relate and pick up fandom for guitarists I heard of.. But didn't realize I loved they're approach till reading they're take in the Guitar World.
Great point... Miss the Guitar Magazine!!!
My wife and I were wondering who still buys those magazines at the store recently.
I miss picking up a mad a rolling stone and guitar mag on a weekday after school, I actually just got rid of 5 laundry baskets full of all my guitar mag's last year . sad days . and i just miss saying mags.
Just old dude'n over here.
I will miss the magazines myself however it is easier to look it up online sign of the times
Guitar world is still around. Just bought two issues at the airport which is about the only place I get them cause I see them there. Our local grocery store doesn’t carry guitar mags in the magazine section anymore. But to be honest I still buy some when I see them. I am almost 48 though. I also feel like almost every UA-cam review is also this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And “we just don’t review stuff we don’t like”. But I feel like most of them are pretty biased
I bought Guitar Player and Guitar World yesterday.
I read a lot of these via kindle unlimited and I hope the stay on those platforms
Guitars and amps and pedals described using useless buzzwords instead of being able to actually hear them, and articles about all the things I don't care about in musicians' lives. What are we missing again?
Three hour weekly Guitar World podcast with mostly the same stuff but in a more functional format? Guess it's like Sears not pivoting to internet sales.
Betcha can't play this! Miss that. Also remember looking at rig rundowns in Guitar World, they were like cartoon drawings.
Like Netflix killed Blockbuster
when I tried learning in the eighties, Guitar mags only had tabs of some sucky REM song
Everything alright with your audio set up? Sounding distorted
I still subscribe to Fretboard Journal, Acoustic Guitar Magazine and Guitar World
I miss when magazines were a thing. You can still buy them but they’re not as common like they used to be.
Guitar World is still continuing print. It’s only Guitar Player that is stopping print
Magazines have always existed to sell advertising..that's where the REAL money comes from.....that influence is undeniable. No difference for UA-cam guitar related channels....no matter how hard they may insist otherwise....most are influenced by manufacturers money at some level. Everybody needs to pay the bills, just a fact of life.
Im 38. Ive been playing guitar since i was 15. I've never purchased a guitar magazine.
Online tab websites and harmony central/guitar forums destroyed guitar magazines before youtube ever existed.
12:45 like Blanche from the golden girls 🤪🤣🤣🤣
I had to give up on that stuff in the mid 90's. Articles mentioning pickups that sound like they were dipped in Billy Gibbons P!!s, or every other pic being some grease ball flipping off the camera. I was clearly not the target audience. Meanwhile gear catalogs were sending me free gear media a couple times a month. Discussion pages offered endless gear banter. Guit mags just made themselves to easy to walk past. Camera gear media did the same thing in the mid 2000nds. Garbage amateur advice felt more frustrating if you paid to get it.
Guitar world is not closing its doors. That’s guitar player. They made that announcement a while ago.
Love Travis! One of my faves.
I still subscribe to the print version of Guitar Player. Still like it and it’s a distraction from distraction.
We have a small shop in our state that boasts they were voted by Guitar Player Magazine as one of the beat indie stores in the country and the only one listed in our state. They’re an ok small shop. I drive 4 hours to a couple other stores in the state to shop some decent inventory. It’s laughable to call them one of the best in the country or even in our state. I’m guessing they spent some dollars advertising and magically got voted as one of the best stores in the country. In the days of UA-cam store tours, anyone can see it’s a joke.
Do you remember when NME and Sounds were newspapers and not magazines early 80s
Still buy and enjoy Guitarist from UK. BUT…. they give every single product an 8,9 or 10! You just can’t trust the reviews when 8 is the lowest score. Anyway…physical copies are still great. Shame so many have folded.
wish i had more of these! tried to buy 50 of them off a lad on craigslist one time but it didn't end up happening 😂😂
Just a cost beyond what people are willing to pay, but I do worry that kids today learning will all learn from exactly the same Guitar UA-camrs and learn correctly. Having a small amount of information and making the rest up gives your playing character.
Oh, and a wonderwall is a fairground ride that spins around and holds the occupants to the wall with centrifugal force.
Started with mags in the early 70's then stoped by the mid 80's. Still get vintage guitar magazine😂
Because i am vintage...js
Taylor 8 string is really great.
The internet didn't kill anything. Old school magazines failed to adapt. Just like gibson when they made fun of les paul when he showed off the guitar for the first time. They thought they were too big to have to worry about the new kid on the block. Then look like surprised Pikachu when they start losing money hand over fist. Then have to humble yourself and beg les to come back. I don't feel bad them.
I still get Vintage Guitar mag in print. Guitar porn!!!
Awesome
I thought that video killed the radio star....
Guitar World, Guitar for Practicing Musicians, Vintage Guitar. 3 songs w/ bass. Only Vintage Guitar is still alive.
I have a small, roughly ten-year, collection of a variety of guitar magazines. Guitar Player, Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, and a few offshoots. Even a few Bass Player magazines. From about '89 through the early 90s.
Always nice to have a physical reference. Maybe nostalgia.
I think they lost me when the magazines turned into company shill rags. Gear manufacturers bought the magazine, and it seemed to become a monthly catalog.
I still look for guitar magazines on the magazine rack. I might buy one on occaision. I'm old...
Thanks, y'all 🙏🏻🤍
I'm sure that you guys got good quicker because you actually had to figure the tabs and listen to the songs as opposed to someone teaching the song on the internet. But seriously, if 5 people teach the song, you get 5 different versions
How is it that people don’t know the difference between ‘how’ and ‘why’? It’s getting really annoying. Or should I have said why is it because I’m extremely super dumb…
I stopped subscribing to Guitar World when the editor's letter praised Nickelback for saving the concept of the guitar solo 🙄
Well, Video Killed the Radio Star, so I guess it's fair that Video eat all the Paper in the world too. Oh Video, when will you be satisfied?! lol
Gear reviews can be so beige... Siskel and Ebert were vicious but fair. (No offense to beige)
Guitar world still on the newsstand?
These last years review article seem like all paid advertisements.
Digitar: is it a digital guitar or simply an Asian man trying to say "digital"?
I mean its fair to say the internet killed all paper publications isn't it?
Your guys audio on your vids has turned into a huge pile ass lately. Able to get that fixed? Thanks.
CYA