Great job on the scans, I have decent similar era collection but wouldn't have the first idea how to scan them all in like you have. I salute your efforts Sir.
Takes me back to eagerly awaiting the next issue and learning every thing I could with my relative skill level and being able to go back to the difficult ones when I grew more.
I miss the days when Guitar mags made an effort and actually had many great transcriptions each issue. These days they really only bother doing 3 songs and there is so much lazy ass rehashing from the old issues ( I guess they think wouldn't recall the tabs being printed years before) and then only so many rubbish guitars songs at that. I glance at the recent years editions and don't bother wasting my money on the weak efforts. Make Guitar mags great again. I wonder if they wonder why sales have dramatically dropped in the toilet. The younger generation don't give a crap about old fogey magazines and I bet they will die off completely. If only the magazines targeted their main demographic, the guys that grew up with them. I get that there is a plethora of sources for tabs these days, but I'd always had more trust in the guitar magazines versions over the years.
I've got a cloud to go yell at now.