New BASS PLAYER Format

[Aqualung60]

The physical size of the magazine has gotten smaller also.

 

[JimmyM]

I always like BGM better than BP so this will probably be a good thing.

Ya, exactly!

 

[roller]

With a change in publication comnpanies, I wonder how existing subscriptions will be handled. I recently signed up and already sent my check.

And for anyone asking, "Why did you subscribe to a printed publication?", have you seen how cheap magazine subscriptions are these days? Why not?

 

[Lee Moses]

Mike Inez is on Octobers issue of Bass Player, picked it up last week.

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Correct. I'm talking about the November issue.

 

[Lee Moses]

With a change in publication comnpanies, I wonder how existing subscriptions will be handled. I recently signed up and already sent my check.

I'm apparently continuing to receive my subscription as always.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

The physical size of the magazine has gotten smaller also.

I think that was a mistake from the get go and think it's better back in the smaller format. All they did by going to the larger format what have bigger margins and empty space. You think they would have been able to have more content, but it seemed mainly to give advertisers bigger pictures.

Even though some of the content quality has waned over the years, I think it's still worth the subscription price.

 

[Nephilymbass]

Cool I didn’t know they were still around. I used to have a subscription years ago and used to buy them at Barnes and noble when I wasn’t getting them at the house. But lately I haven’t been seeing any bass Magazines and I thought they all gave up and just went digital. I’ll have to look into getting another subscription

 

[JakobT]

Correct. I'm talking about the November issue.

Hmm...does that mean that articles in BGM will be in BP a month later, I wonder?

 

[BobDeRosa]

The new Bass Player looks way too much like the UK's Bass Guitar Magazine for me. Unless they bring back John Goldsby and add American content, I'm going to let my subscription lapse. I spend way too much time reading when I should be practicing anyway.

 

[Lee Moses]

Hmm...does that mean that articles in BGM will be in BP a month later, I wonder?

 

[whero]

You guys still read magazines?
I blame BP for the GAS which kicked in about 1987.

My memory might be off, but I don't remember BP being around quite that long. My old issues are long gone, but I was thinking they started around '89, maybe even '90.

1988. Just checked, I was close.

This is weird. I used to read a bass-oriented magazine when I was a teenager. I distinctly remember my mother bringing home my first ever issue when I was off sick from high school for a few weeks with glandular fever/mononucleosis when I was in my (old-school New Zealand naming convention) sixth form year of high school, which would have been mid-1976. I bought it myself every month after that for a few years, probably until late 1979 or early-mid 1980, when I had left home and was living by myself every cent was suddenly very important. It was a British magazine - not US - but I would have sworn it was called Bass Player.

Google-foo, however, tells me that Bass Player is an American magazine that stared in 1988 and Bass Guitar is a UK mag that didn't start until 2003. Suddenly, I feel feverish all over again.

W T F was I reading in 1976? Any UK bassists in their 50s out there who can verify whether my imagination is stronger than my memory?

 

[Vanceman]

...new format reminds me of those HIGHLIGHTS magazines from the '60s.
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Remember Goofus and Gallant?

Goofus turns it up to 11 and slaps his way through the Star Spangled Banner.
Gallant asks permission to change the EQ before playing.

Goofus fires the drummer before trading his bass for drugs.
Gallant turn his guitar amp down so no one complains.

Goofus boinks Gallant's girlfriend before the show.
Gallant hires a lawyer.

 

[Jeff Scott]

With a change in publication comnpanies, I wonder how existing subscriptions will be handled.

Interesting you should point this out. The only reason I stopped getting BGM is because the media company that owned them (Oyster House, IIRC) changed the way to resubscribe and made it too difficult for me (an overseas subscriber) to bother trying anymore.

Remember Goofus and Gallant?

How about Garant? As in, Ron Garant of the defunct Bassics magazine. I had all of those issues too until he went belly up (the magazine, not sure about Ron, himself). He still owes me some issues.....................

 

[Snibborwocky]

I've been a long time subscriber since 1992 and this unfortunately will be my last year subscribing after getting this current issue in the mail today. Most of the things I enjoyed about the magazine are now gone and I really don't like the new format at all. Very disappointing.

 

[jerry]

Rolling Stone has also changed their format to a larger size too.

 

[Skybone]

Interesting you should point this out. The only reason I stopped getting BGM is because the media company that owned them (Oyster House, IIRC) changed the way to resubscribe and made it too difficult for me (an overseas subscriber) to bother trying anymore.

Oyster were bought out by Future Publishing a few years back. It's Future Publishing that have now taken over BP, and as they already owned BGM, I guess it's more of a "rationalisation" process to combine the two.

TBH, I much prefer hard copy magazines to reading online content. Printed, hard copy is a way to get away from our already screen dominated society, and online supply/demand culture. Yes, it's a step backwards in a way, but it's also a way of "recharging" yourself, and stepping away from connectivity.

 

[Spidey2112]

Plus, for me, there's just something about reading in print that staring at a screen can't touch.

Agreed.

 

[Dave Siff]

The new BP is terrible. I didn't even know what I was looking at. I hate it. I'm a subscriber so I'll keep getting it but I'm not sure I'll renew. I have every issue since #1. This is definitely the end of an era.

 

[JimK]

What I do like...some of the content -
There is something called "Classic Bass Albums". This one is Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.

There is something called "Star Bass".
Each month they celebrate the great - and rather less great -work of an acclaimed bass player...this one is Lee Sklar.

Nice articles on Stanley Clarke, Tracy Wormworth, Darryl Anders, Michael Rhodes, & Jim Lea (of Slade). Jim Lea?!?!
Nice eclectic group of players.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Oyster were bought out by Future Publishing a few years back. It's Future Publishing that have now taken over BP, and as they already owned BGM, I guess it's more of a "rationalisation" process to combine the two.

I have not seen the latest version of BP, yet, but do want to see what changes have occurred; I'll have to stop by my, not so local, book store.

TBH, I much prefer hard copy magazines to reading online content...

...for me, there's just something about reading in print that staring at a screen can't touch..

When is the print version of TB coming out?