At 11:59 AM 4/21/94 -0400, Darshan M. Jesrani wrote:
quoted 6 lines I agree with you on certain points - especially the issue you raised> I agree with you on certain points - especially the issue you raised
> about Keyboard featuring other artists who are far less innovative and
> talented than those featured in their 'techno' article. Sometimes
> I think that their criteria for the selection of 'featured' artists
> is as basic as what kinds of gear they use, and how much of it - Keyboard
> has always seemed to have a gear fetish
Isn't that excactly what a magazine called 'Keyboard' is all about? For
the short time that I read this magazine I was looking specifically for
information about gear, how to use and configure it, and what was
available. The same goes for sister publications Guitarist and Drummer (if
I have the names right)- these are information magazines about music
equipment, not music magazines.
I generally laugh at the music articles and reviews in these magazines,
because the publications as a whole have no focus on any music scene, but
try to walk some fictitious middle ground that expresses very little while
paying lip service to the various audiences that might be reading the
magazine.
Articles and reviews about a particular style of music are best left to the
magazines that cater to that style, or to a real genre-crossing magazine
like Option.
Phil Z