{"id":9,"date":"2018-09-01T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:10:39","slug":"my-back-pages-thirty-years-ago-in-guitar-player-august-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/2018\/09\/01\/my-back-pages-thirty-years-ago-in-guitar-player-august-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"My Back Pages: Thirty Years Ago in Guitar Player (August 1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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August 1988 was the last month I spent at home before moving to college where my life changed forever. I still spent my time working at a\u00a0Caldor<\/a>\u00a0store in Warminster, PA and nervously throwing up whenever I dwelled too much on the thought of moving away for the first time. Music wise I continued my lessons with Jim McCarthy, was still listening to a mix of jazz and rock on Philadelphia radio, and practicing with my Epiphone Sheraton. By then I also had an acoustic Fender Avalon (a parlor sized, cherry red guitar with a Strat style headstock) along with my Peavey T-15. That’s right: even at this stage of my life I had too many guitars for someone with too little talent to justify!<\/span><\/div>\n
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The August, 1988 issue of\u00a0Guitar Player<\/i>\u00a0is a typical for the time diverse mix, which I’m sure I devoured the first time, but re-reading it now I found much of it boring.\u00a0 The articles in this issue touch on Eric Clapton, the process involved in making the 6-LP Crossroads<\/i>\u00a0set, a photo-essay of rare classical guitars, an article about Norteno guitarist Lydia Mendoza and features on bassist Stu Hamm, Nashville guitar stalwart Fred Newell, more complex details about chord progressions and a primer on “copyright for guitarists”.\u00a0 There was also a very interesting article about the Fender “Nocaster” that is very complete.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The July issue marked the first of two straight months of heavy Eric Clapton coverage<\/a>\u00a0and this month’s cover story was actually two<\/b>\u00a0articles about Slowhand (and they gave away a signed Clapton signature Strat to boot). As I noted last month, I found a Spotify playlist that includes almost all of the content of the box set if you want to check it out.\u00a0<\/span>
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