RockScotland

Anybody else noticed that Classic Rock magazine has turned into Kerrang?

I got this mag from the first issue and it used to be aimed at a mature audience and had a good cross section of actual "classic rock" news and reviews.

Since the current editorial team came (headed by Scott Rowley) in it's now turned into a Led Zeppelin fanzine backed up by crude reviews that seem to be aimed at sniggering schoolkids.

I actually cringe at the Mick Wall section where he pretends to have "hung out" with various "rockstars" and boasts about how he was so "out of it" and about the constant drug taking. Funny how when he's "so out of it" he manages to write clearly about what was supposed to have happened many years later?

Sad, very sad and this type of irresponsible journalism isn't what a mature and genuine rock readership want as we've seen this completely unoriginal fantasy rock journalism so many times over the years from these saddos so desperate to be seen as part of the rock "scene".

The UK badly needs some new rock music magazines!

gb

glesgae_boy wrote:I got this mag from the first issue and it used to be aimed at a mature audience and had a good cross section of actual "classic rock" news and reviews.

I cancelled my subscription this week and to be fair I would have cancelled it long ago if I had remembered.

I agree 100% with all the comments above.

The only reason I let it go for so long was for the gig adverts and listings but from now on it''ll fall into the "read in ASDA" category along with Kerrang! as the content is really just regurgitated stuff from elsewhere on the net.

Billy

glesgae_boy wrote:The UK badly needs some new rock music magazines!

I'd say it needs at least ONE rock music magazine that actually writes about the music and provides information.

Nobody's interested in these twats like Wall and Rowley and they're nothing more than wannabees who quite obviously couldn't do anything musical themselves.

gerry