Did you read it in the 80s or 90s?
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― Steven Ward, Friday, 18 June 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― tk, Friday, 18 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Right now, I'm looking at the cover of the July 2004 issue.
A cover story on Korn, plus stories on Slipknot, Godsmack, Incubus, A Perfect Circle, The Darkness, Fear Factory and Black Sabbath.
And the publisher and editor-in-chief of Circus has been the same since it's inception in 1968 -- Gerald Rothberg.
I think the only other two longrunning rock mags that still exist today that have published longer than Circus are Rolling Stone (1967) and Hit Parader ( I have no idea how long they have been around but it's been forever)
― Steven Ward, Friday, 18 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)
1942, IIRC.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Err...I have issues from the 70s.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)
The first copy of Hit Parader I got in 1984 had a tiny paragraph about a new band called Slayer, I bought the Haunting the Chapel EP shortly thereafter, and my 14 year-old world was changed. That's the one good thing that lousy mag did for me.
And yeah, Rip was good, but nothing compared to Metallion, the Canadian bimonthly from the mid-80s. Used to pick it up at the old A & A Records chain...they were one of the first metal magazines to put Metallica on the cover, and they had terrific, often funny, concert and album reviews.
― abegrand, Saturday, 19 June 2004 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.ussmag.com/multimedia/images/Alternative-Press-187.jpg
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)
I've heard that's pretty much what they were, but in its defense the magazine was basically put together by one person!
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 19 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)