the turntable now outsells the guitar

I just ordered a new mixer and am eagerly awaiting its arrival.

Its much cooler coming home after the pub and picking up a guitar and playing it rather than getting on your decks . (unless you can scratch!!)

The amount of vinyl reissued in the last three years or so is insane. You can get Miles Davis' back catalogue of single LPs, ditto Sly Stone, and a whole lot of other Columbia and Epic. Mercury reissued both NY Dolls LPs, the first three Velvets (plus Live 1969) LPs, a slew of James Brown/JBs LPs, Parliament LPs, Kurtis Blow. Sundazed is getting acclaim for it's Dylan and Otis Redding/Stax 180 gm mono reissues, and just reissued Love's first three LPs, Kick Out the Jams and a million other things. Get Back! out of Italy has released ESP Disk's catalogue, BYG's Actuel series, Pere Ubu's early albums, Modern Lovers, live Joy Division and Lou Reed collections, Last Poets, and on. You can get all of Captain Beefhearts' LPs up to the Virgin ones on vinyl. Early Gil Scott-Heron LPs on Flying Dutchman were all reissued, along with Lonnie Liston Smith and Ornette Coleman. Scorpio Records reissued all of the Meters LPs, some Dr. John, the first five Curtis Mayfield LPs, Blank Generation, the first five Ramones LPs, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Wilson Pickett, Loaded and Live At Max's Kansas City by the Velvets, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane's Atlantic output Sugar Hill Records full lengths, and a bunch of other records from WEA. 4 Men With Beards was created to release 180 gm analogue pressings of classic Atlantic titles by Art Ensemble of Chicago, Aretha Franklin and others. Mute just reissued classic Can albums on vinyl. WEA Germany keeps Television's two Elektra LPs in print, and I bought some Herbie Hancock LPs they reissued recently.

Surely someone is buying this stuff (other than me), because if they weren't I doubt lables would be releasing them (a lot of them are suped up 180 gm vinyl pressings, and of stuff not on CD) like they are.

As for the topic at hand, I heard years ago that "in Europe", turntables outsell guitars. Given the current "cult of the DJ" that appears to be in bloom, that wouldn't surprise me, but I think MP3s might change that. It's easier to lug around an iPod than crates of records.

And since I cannot post to ILM without mentioning Detroit in some way, shape, or form; Detroit has one of the busiest pressing plants in the US, Archer. Archer has been around since the 1960's when they were one of the local Detroit pressing plants that handled Motown pressings when the demand for records was greater than Motown's usual pressing plants could accomodate. They got through the lean years of the late 80's and early 90's, and today they press more records than they did in the 1960's.

For more info on global vinyl production:

Pressing Plants

Eh, yer regionalist 'ere would certainly dispute thiz statement. I saved up for a roland monophonic synthesiser

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Woah

tuomas must be pleased

This is the March issue? I don't see it either on the GP site or the magazine's FB page.

I guess early magazine leaks are a thing now

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'how do we keep young players rocking out?'

this man's vital youth-outreach work must continue

http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn381/guitarist_19_42/Joe%20Bonamassa/IMG_5584.jpg

was gonna say the kid on the cover looks like a young Bonamassa

http://www.swaves.com/Back_Issues/Nov07/Joe%2520Bonamassa%252011_30.gif

also lol at 'hack pentatonic shapes'

COOL STEELY DAN CHORDS DECODED

also lol at 'hack pentatonic shapes'

Like, yeah, why aren't kids picking up guitars anymore? Now, on the other hand, let's be totally elitist.

Ha, I guess it depends on whether "hack" is a noun or a verb there.

Hack at them with your axe.

If that Steely Dan article isn't titled 'Justified Ancients of Mu Chords', I'll be greatly disappointed.

be disappointed

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lol

can't imagine why such references would fail to appeal to today's teens

I had no idea anyone used that terminology to refer to add9 chords. Rock players can be so weird sometimes.

Guitar Player is such a desperate dumb magazine, but I assume this will sell copies despite being baffling and false.