{"id":8038,"date":"2011-10-17T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2011-10-03T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T13:47:51","slug":"read-all-about-it-remembering-the-days-of-rock-magazines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=8038","title":{"rendered":"Read All About It: Remembering The Days of Rock Magazines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in 1984 when I first started listening to hard rock and metal music, magazines were the only real source for music news in my life. \u00a0I didn\u2019t have MTV and there was no Internet, no YouTube, no message boards, nothing. \u00a0I\u2019m sure that most of my younger readers couldn\u2019t even begin to imagine what that life was like. \u00a0I would save up my allowance and once a month I would hit the newsstand eager to see what kind of news the magazines would have for me. \u00a0I would pick up Hit Parader, Circus and Faces Rocks. \u00a0I would take them back home, lock myself in my room and read them from cover to cover.\u00a0 All I ever wanted to know about Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, RATT and many others was right there at my finger tips, page after page.<\/p>\n

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As I got older, I started to grow out of Hit Parader after hearing that they were using left over\u00a0\"\"<\/a>interviews and that they even at times fabricated stories just to have content. \u00a0I also started to discover other magazines that offered some pretty amazing content. \u00a0In addition to Circus and Faces Rocks, I started to pick up RIP Magazine and Metal Edge. \u00a0Metal Edge magazine was awesome because it served a dual purpose. \u00a0It was almost the National Enquirer of hard rock covering mainly glam metal and hard rock bands like Skid Row, Poison, Motley Crue and the like. \u00a0I would also hear about great up and coming bands in their \u201cRock On The Rise\u201d column. \u00a0The thing with Metal Edge is that once you were done reading it, you could rip the shit out of it and have enough posters and pin ups to cover an entire wall with one issue. \u00a0I even remember reading the Metal Edge issue that confirmed that Vince Neil and Motley Crue had parted ways. \u00a0It was huge to hear that first hand from a magazine. \u00a0These magazines were also where you would get the tour dates of your favorite bands on the Concert Calendar. \u00a0You would scan the list praying to see your hometown on the list and if you did, you called all your friends.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Once I got into high school, content started to become much more important to me than pin ups, posters and reader polls.\u00a0 I found myself out growing the need to read about which drummer won the reader\u2019s poll or what band had the sexiest singer. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t give a rats ass about that shit. \u00a0It was the interviews with these bands that I found the most intriguing. \u00a0In 1989 I started reading RIP Magazine and this was when I remember feeling like I was growing up a bit as a fan of heavy metal and hard rock music. \u00a0Lonn Friend (RIP Magazine Editor) was the man to me. \u00a0RIP Magazine interviews were way cooler than those other magazines. \u00a0The interviews always seemed to be more thought out and intelligent. \u00a0None of that \u201cwhat\u2019s the craziest thing you did on tour.\u201d \u00a0Lonn and Co would really get to the meat of things and talk about recording processes of albums, what inspired songs and it just seemed to have a lot of credibility. \u00a0The other thing I loved about RIP was that instead of being all glam\/hard rock like Metal Edge or all thrash like Metal Maniacs, RIP would cover everyone from Motley Crue and Guns N\u2019 Roses to Megadeth and Slayer. \u00a0In addition to Riki Rachtman from MTV\u2019s Headbanger\u2019s Ball, Lonn Friend and RIP magazine pretty much inspired me and paved the way for me doing what I do now with my blog.<\/p>\n

As much as I love and have embraced modern technology, a piece of me died when the print \"\"<\/a>medium died away. \u00a0I still miss reading interviews and reviews in magazines but this is where the Internet didn\u2019t fail me. \u00a0I can still read these interviews, reviews and stories while sitting in bed with my laptop. \u00a0It\u2019s a different kind of reading but it\u2019s as close as it\u2019s going to get. \u00a0I get asked by a lot of people why I don\u2019t post audio or video interviews on my site. \u00a0The answer is simple. \u00a0I don\u2019t like them. \u00a0I honestly don\u2019t believe that people would much rather listen or watch than read. \u00a0When you\u2019re watching or hearing an interview, you can be doing other things that take your attention away but when you\u2019re reading it, you are focused and the article, interview or review gets your full attention. \u00a0Every now and then I get feedback from my readers thanking me for doing print interviews and editorials on my site because they enjoy reading it. \u00a0This really makes me feel awesome and it makes me think that it\u2019s the older fans remembering the days of old and the younger fans experiencing a medium that has long died since they have been around.<\/p>\n

Thanks for \u201creading.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 1984 when I first started listening to hard rock and metal music, magazines were the only real source for music news in my life. \u00a0I didn\u2019t have MTV and there was no Internet, no YouTube, no message boards, nothing. \u00a0I\u2019m sure that most of my younger readers couldn\u2019t even begin to imagine what that life was like. \u00a0I would save up my allowance and once a month I would hit the newsstand eager to see what kind of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-editorial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t