What happened to the "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" mag?

[outsider73]

When I was yound and in europe, sometimes there was this excellent magazine in stand: Guitar For The Practicing Musician.
What happened to it?
Does it still exist?
The tablatures were the best (Cherry Lane as I remember) and columnists were so good (Petrucci, Friedman, Malmsteen, etc.). I also liked when they analyzed and decrypted solo in songs.

Are there any other magazines which do this and also as good as this one?
I've got a membership to Guitar World, but honestly it is so-so. 4 songs on behalf 5 are old and have already been transcribed several times before...

So... What do you read?

[Super_shredder]

i used to read guitar mags but now the songs and articles are just repeated over and over again.

i may pick up the odd copy of guitar techniques for the jazz section or if it has a cool song transcribed

[toejam]

Guitar For The Practicing Musician changed it's name to Guitar Magazine. Though, I think they stopped production within the past couple years.

[CharvelRocker]

Guitar For The Practicing Musician changed it's name to Guitar Magazine. Though, I think they stopped production within the past couple years.

I thought they got incorporated into Guitar One, which was then in turn bought by GuitarWorld (craptastic mag if there ever was one)?

[toejam]

Maybe they did get incorporated into Guitar One. That kinda sounds familiar.

[MikeStrat]

I thought they got incorporated into Guitar One, which was then in turn bought by GuitarWorld (craptastic mag if there ever was one)?

It was pretty bad. I guess that's why it's no longer in publication. I still every single GFTPM since 1983-1984. I still read them. It's scary to see how old some of these guys are looking as compared to the pics from the early 80's.

[CharvelRocker]

I have a couple Gutiar One's. It was a pretty boring magazine. GW comes in the mail and almost instantly goes in the garbage. It's the center of what I can't stand in a lot of guitar today; "Oh look, who is the fastest and most br00talz metal player out there this week". I really like Guitar Player, though the very broad topic matter of their magazines means there is pretty much going to be an article you won't really be interested in with every issue. Premier Guitar is cool too, but it's a gear head magazine as opposed to a technique one.

[KevinDguitar]

GFTPM got merged into what is now GuitarOne and to me there's no comparision.. GFTPM was a much better mag.

[Bengal]

Guitar One is rather boring.

Guitar Player had way too many articles on guitarists I could care less for so I cancelled that one too.

The only one I have is Guitar World and it is rather stale. Very ad driven. Articles on "guitarists" that shouldn't even be called that. But once in a while they come out with something decent. But only once in a while.

[texasfury]

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[Trem]

i used to love that magazine, i had stacks and stacks of them GFTPM and some Guitar Player and Guitar World mixed in, from 1985 on most copies, i threw them all out about 6 years ago, i shouldn't have but i was sick of lugging them around, pretty sure i have some keepers in a box somewhere, i know for a fact i never threw out the ones with randy and becker on them.

[slash]

After GFPM got merged into Guitar One...It got merged into GW about this time last year. So Guitar One is also gone now.

[Snoogans]

GFTPM was the greatest guitar mag of them all. That's where I first discovered tablature. It was quite difficult to find in this neck of the woods, very few newsagents could get hold of it. Still have a stack of them at my parents' place. I'd love to score another copy of the first one that I bought - It had Yngwie and Bill Sheehan on the cover.

[Endrik]

I have a couple of Total Guitar mags.... I think they are pretty ok... cover a lot of different music styles and players

[Bengal65]

GFTPM was the greatest guitar mag of them all. That's where I first discovered tablature. It was quite difficult to find in this neck of the woods, very few newsagents could get hold of it. Still have a stack of them at my parents' place. I'd love to score another copy of the first one that I bought - It had Yngwie and Bill Sheehan on the cover.

+1 I had every one from the original issue. I also had every Guitar Player from the 2nd issue (like 1971). With moving around and college, they were all thrown away in the early 90's