Many of the music magazines I used to subscribe to, Guitar Player, Keyboard, Electronic Musician, PC World, and others were always vehicles for advertising. Many of the feature articles/reviews were always covert advertisements, but as time went by, more and more of the featured articles became advertisements, and the informational/instructional articles became fewer and fewer.

One month, many years ago, I think it was Keyboard magazine, they reviewed my BiaB styles and recommended buying them. I didn't ask for that, but I suppose because I was giving them hundreds of dollars in ad money, they thought it was a good idea to help me in return. The review was fair, but I don't think they would have done it if I wasn't a regular advertiser.

As the mags became more ad oriented, I went from reading cover-to-cover to scanning. Many of them I got for free because I used to run classified ads promoting my Band-in-a-Box aftermarket software, and as time went on, I would have dropped my subscription if I was paying for them.

Then came the Internet, where you could get the information you wanted, when you wanted it, and the tree-ware mags started disappearing.

Some of the old mags have Internet presence now, and others are just a fond memory.

Times change.

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Bob "Notes" Norton smile Norton Music
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