Guitar World PDFs

[Chris6870]

I have a data dump in my basement, by that I mean 2 big ass totes of guitar mags from 1986 until early 2000's

 

[Techdeth]

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They sorta looked like these. The magazines holder I could squeeze 12 in there easily for the year and the actual metal cabinets were deeper than the one pictured but this is the general idea. I got the metal cabinet from a school that was just tossing stuff out. Had it setup in my garage.

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Thank you

 

[Wheelbirds]

Instead of sending a PM with that link to everyone who's asking I might as well post it here but I didn't have the time to go through it completely. Some issues are duplicates and I don't know how it differs from Jim's link because I don't know what he uploaded and this is what I've archived over the years until today. Size of my archive is 13-14 gb.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1miaZvthULGVfloQ93CjzBw6ATaAmAWOz

Just wanted to bump this, and thanks @cetanu and Jim for sharing these! Would you be able to provide access to this link again?

 

[Wheelbirds]

Also this forum group is a great place to find scans of the GW tabs that aren’t in these collections. You have to sign up for VK to view most of them, but they’re trying to archive PDFs of all the mags.

https://m.vk.com/club128224084

 

[Monkey Man]

Hey, welcome to the forum @Wheelbirds

 

[Wheelbirds]

Hey, welcome to the forum @Wheelbirds

Thanks @Monkey Man , love that this forum is still active and thriving.

 

[Techdeth]

Thanks @Monkey Man , love that this forum is still active and thriving.

Who were you before ?

 

[sytharnia1560]

I just had to burn a huge pile of guitar world mags, guitar for the practicing musician mags etc (would have been over 200) because we were moving house and I have know where to put them in the new place.... over 30 years of them being part of my life hahaha .. mind you I hadn't even turned a page on any of them for of 15 years so was probably time to let it go lol

 

[Wheelbirds]

Who were you before ?

Just a lurker without an account, but this site, GearPage, and HRI have been so helpful over the years.

 

[japetus]

Let's have some fun magazine posts. March 1981.

 

[japetus]

 

[japetus]

 

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[japetus]

 

[Techdeth]

I’ll get some

 

[311splawndude]

Also this forum group is a great place to find scans of the GW tabs that aren’t in these collections. You have to sign up for VK to view most of them, but they’re trying to archive PDFs of all the mags.

https://m.vk.com/club128224084

Thanks. I will do more research on that site before clicking on it. A quick Google search of 'is m.vk.com safe' is giving me feedback that this Russian based site "may" not be safe and has had a recent security breach where user data was stolen. YMMV

 

[UGP]

Thank you for sharing these - brings back memories!

 

[Cadd9]

I don't know what this data dump consisted of but I've several gigabytes of Guitar World PDFs from 1980 up to this year, so are you looking for anything in particular?

Edit:
Instead of sending a PM with that link to everyone who's asking I might as well post it here but I didn't have the time to go through it completely. Some issues are duplicates and I don't know how it differs from Jim's link because I don't know what he uploaded and this is what I've archived over the years until today. Size of my archive is 13-14 gb.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1miaZvthULGVfloQ93CjzBw6ATaAmAWOz

I would love to have the Metallic tabs.