Guitar Player magazine ends print run, goes online only

[Traxan]

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After nearly 58 years in print, Guitar Player magazine will cease publication with its December 2024 issue.

The magazine's editor, Christopher Scapelliti, will become digital editor-In-chief of GuitarPlayer.com, where he and the magazine's contributors will continue to serve the interests and needs of the guitar-playing community.

Founded in 1967, Guitar Player is the world's oldest continuously published magazine devoted to guitarists, guitar gear — including electric guitars and acoustic guitars — and instruction. Over nearly six decades of publication, GP has featured some of music's most important and iconic guitarists, beginning with its December 1968 cover story on Jimi Hendrix.

For its final cover, the magazine presents a brand-new interview with Jimmy Page, who discusses upcoming re-creations of the guitars and amplifiers he used on Led Zeppelin's classic recordings and tours. The issue comes out October 15 and can be purchased at newsstands.

[Turner Coates]

https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/guita ... t-to-cease

After nearly 58 years in print, Guitar Player magazine will cease publication with its December 2024 issue.

I happen to know it was printed in a place on Katella Blvd. in Anaheim.
In the early 80s, I had a gig that involved traveling there once a month, for about 9 months to pick up a rental truck full of magazines.
The magazines were for New Mexico, but the publisher wanted them printed on slick stock, which wasn't available locally.

One year, I picked up the magazines, and attended the NAMM show, which was down the street @ the Convention Center.

[Traxan]

Serious? I just moved out of the OC and spent a ton of time on Katella. Bought a few cars from Toyota of Orange, used to haunt Pepperland Music and Bookman, as well as the thrift store owned by Brandi and Jared from Storage Wars. Was the printer in that area?

[Gibsonite]

Always liked how Guitar Player continued covering all types of music in the '80s & '90s when Guitar World jumped all over whatever shit was trendy at the time. I still have a hundred or so issues in storage somewhere

[Turner Coates]

Serious? I just moved out of the OC and spent a ton of time on Katella. Bought a few cars from Toyota of Orange, used to haunt Pepperland Music and Bookman, as well as the thrift store owned by Brandi and Jared from Storage Wars. Was the printer in that area?

It's been a long time (early 80s), but it was not too far east of the convention center. The print shop I dealt with looked like a store front, but inside, with the presses, it was more like a factory.