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| From | "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Re: Too Rolling Stoned |
| Date | Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:52:32 -0700 |
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> Perhaps I'm the last hold out
> I still read every issue
> Spin and Mojo are much better of course
> but I've been reading since it gave away Rolling Papers and was a real newspaper
> It's relevancy left the building
> when they moved to new york city imo
I can see your point, Morley, and if I'd been in a band that got a review or some kind of
nice mention in Rolling Stone, I might feel as you do.
I remember when my buddies in the Pontiac Brothers (an 80s band on Frontier) got an album
review for their very last album, in the pages of RS, and how excited they were about it.
And I think RS is trying to at least make an attempt at being relevant, on some level,
even if it's only David Fricke leading that particular charge, but I don't know.
I also agree with those who say that it really isn't the same magazine it was then. I'd
even agree with those who say it changed too drastically and dramatically when the RS HQ
moved to NYC, to Avenue of the Americas.
But then again, SF's scene was dying, and they knew it. All the bands were moving to Marin
County, why not get the hell outta town along with everyone else. Everything was changing
at the time.
But I get what you're saying, it's nice to have the support of a major music magazine,
even if it's a corporate publication that seems like it focuses on what is mostly bad
about the music scene, the record biz and its "product."
Bryan
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