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Bass Player RIP...
- Thread starter Jeff Scott
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I don't know anything more than that jobs were cut. Just a guess, given how lousy BP has been for several years, I could see the guitar side nixing the bass side.
It was still in print????
Interesting. Who knew?
Interesting. Who knew?
I'd been getting the print magazine ever since the very first test issue back in the '80s.
I like having a physical bass-related magazine, especially for when flying or traveling. But it's tough to see how it could continue successfully. The internet has put all print media on its back heels in the first place, and BP has TB (among other things) to compete with, frankly. The musical instrument market isn't growing, which has got to put pressure on subscription and advertising revenue both. Besides which, it pretty much started as a spinoff of a Guitar Player section for bassists, didn't it? - and it seems like it struggles to find enough new content to justify issue after issue decades later.
Tagging on for more info.....I just renewed for another two years.
I missed the first (Geddy Lee) issue but had all the others through subscription until three or four years ago. The content just quit speaking to me.
I did not renew my subscription for the lack of new content; it all seems to be regurgitated over and over and over and............ I still have one issue left to go, IIRC, and there is a couple years worth of unread issues piling up on a table.
I wonder what the reaction would be if they just folded it back into GP. Is it Guitar World that has the "Frets" section for acoustic players, that used to be an independent magazine and they just folded it in?
EDIT: no, that must be GP. I have a copy of GW here and it's not there.
EDIT: no, that must be GP. I have a copy of GW here and it's not there.
Funny, I have about 5 issues pending. Not sure how much longer my subscription runs, but I am not interested in an internet-only subscription.
I'm more of a page flipper, than a screen swiper...
... smell is important, too. Take a big huge whiff of an older book, not subjected to moisture... to me, it's like heaven.
Now do it to your phone, tablet, or computer, without anyone seeing you...
... not even close. Don't forget the antibacterial wipes, as well.
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When I started playing just over two years ago, I found over 100 BP mags for sale at a local music store - as early as their very first issue, and up through the 90's. Someone had sold them to the store. I got them for a buck apiece, and have read each of them cover to cover (more than once) since then. My wife got me a subscription for X-mas this year, and I have to say the quality (or lack thereof) of the latter day BP isn't even close to the earlier publications..
I love finding old music mags at thrift/book stores. They're just as entertaining, sometimes even more than new ones. I like reading about artists and technology that have been forgotten over the years.
