Old rockers never die,but they do look stupid sometimes. (Classic Rock)

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Product:	Classic Rock
Date:	19/12/01 (33 review reads)
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Advantages: Great rocktastic stuff mate, Glossy, Great chart

Disadvantages: Cost

For all those aging metal heads out there or the younger ones who prefer a little bit of rebellion over banal moronic dance music, or the Indy depro sound, theres a rock magazine out there that will feed your first for the good old days. Days when men where girls and bullet belts were essential rock fashion.

Alas the days of tight jeans on the ladies as well as men has long gone with bands preferring to strum college depressing rock riffs over noise and screeching. Do you long for the days when the lead guitarist would see who could get their balls to touch the floor first doing the splits and a ear piercing riff.
Hair everywhere as the boys competed for the groupie’s lipstick.

Kerrang was the original mag for metallers in the OR eighties and the Grunge mid nineties. But not the magazine has gone soft for skateboard rock and post prog rock Indy music with the bands with silly pretentious names brigade.
A lot of the dinosaur journos from that once great publication of pitched up at the fairly new Classic Rock magazine to try and rehabilitate the world’s greatest and fun genre.

Classic rock is in truth for guys over thirty who wont cut their hair and look like an old salt n pepper garden brush. They have waistcoats that don’t fit with equally uncomfortable Levi’s of different starchiness for levels of movement at gigs or concerts.
The NEC jean can be fairly taught as know one can see your beer gut in the masses. The tighter denim is reserved for smaller venues for musicians and fans a like who can be lost in the fog of pyrotechiques and real ale.

This mag is for hardcore rockers or youngsters ready to move on from the skateboard. Guys and girls getting into or reveling in some of the greatest music ever in the standard. Its catalogued nicely in the all time top one hundred albums of all time in this Christmas edition of classic rock.
Number one is of course the mighty Gods Led Zeppelin followe
d by pot smokers of the world unites for The Floyd and The dark side of the Moon.

Sabbath get three with Zeppelin back at four. Like girls in Newcastle on the town Saturday night, these guys definitely got fellow band members and roadies to iron their hair.
The world’s best rockers ACDC at five (Back in Black, wow) with the more contemporary Mettallica, Guns n Roses and Nirvana freshen things up.
Bon Jovi are pops first entry at nine with the great Hendrix just making ten with Electric Ladyland.I think we can safely say that the order is a little out of sink.

The rest of the hundred is a mix of new and old brilliant rock with Radiohead somehow sneaking in. To me that sort of stuff is the complete opposite to what metal is all about, (far too serious). If you want that middle class student angst you can f**k of out of it!.

Page one is unusual in that its letters. Next chunk is an in depth interview on Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, quite interesting especially after the documentary on BBC2 on the guy from the band who went mad.
Briefs on up and coming tour news followed by a classic riffs section, in this case”Stay with me “by the Faces.
Where are they Know has been teleported from the Kerrang as we are told all about some Rock dinosaurs who disappeared years ago, probably up their own ass. Or as the movie Spinal Tap put it”That was Spinal Tap, who are currently forsiding in the scrape of a nail file”.

A plug for the next big thing followed by the inevitable paragraph on that bizarre world of “prog rock”. A cartoon that resembles Jimmy White Robert Powell, who it clearly isn’t unless they have just joined up with Tangerine Dream.
We have a double spread of the year in rock 1973 followed by a lengthy interview with the now weird Richie Blackmore and his weird medieval rock.
Theres a rock chart with a mix of new and old selling near Christmas.The excellent Linkin
Park are at number seven so you can see the eclectic mix here in the publication.

Some photos for the ladies of cute longhaired guys followed by interviews with the newer skate board rock stuff. Saxon who were the Blacklace of British rock twenty years ago have four pages to flog their latest dross.
After the most excellent chart you have tons on new albums and coming tour dates. Star ratings for each CD.Some rock related DVD and video releases are reviewed to. A quick plug on the final pages for their rival in Metal Hammer as the final leaves dissolve into record shop ads and concerts.

This is a glossy magazine primarily aimed at older rock fans or the small younger minority looking to escape the banal chart dross or student sounds. Its well set out and well worth getting this month, just for the comprehensive top one hundred album chart.
It’s a pretty definitive list of CDs if you want to know the best stuff to get and the review section is good for a rock magazine to. Well worth a look for old rockers and baggy trousered skaters.

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