litterally - issues 1 and 2 !!

57Deluxe

For those of you who (like me) absolutely bloody loved this Free mag that used to be available monthly in your fave music shop (or delivered to my door for free as I was in the biz) here is a chance to take a revisit to the 1st and 2nd ever issues back in 1986...

http://www.muzines.co.uk/images_mag/scans/mm/mm_86_04/l/mm_86_04-1.jpg




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http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/mm/86/04/177

http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/mm/86/05/178#

Funkfingers

I remember that Erasure cover but nothing of the contents.

Another thing that I cannot remember is whether I eventually gave the magazine away to a worthy recipient or it went to the tip.

desmond

Hi - mu:zines admin here. I also loved Making Music from back in the day!

This is the link to "Active" issues:
http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/mm

Or to see "All" issues:
http://http//www.muzines.co.uk/mags/mm/all

We've collected about 2/3 thirds of the full run of Making Music, and are working on getting the rest.

Issue 3 and 4 will come soon, and then some "International Musician" issues are next up in the publishing rotation...

Our long term aim is to completely archive all these publications online.

Funkfingers

@desmond Welcome to tFB. One of the long-term registered members on this forum is a notorious hoarder of all things musical. He has a shedload of magazine back issues stashed away. Perhaps, he can assist you?

Paging @HarrySeven

DiscoStu

I had a pile of these but binned them last year. Bother! Could've probably helped with the archive.
I liked this magazine. I was in one issue, I got my Ibanez PS10 valued by the Guitar Guru, who was very much out on his valuation compared to what I got for it!

mart

Great work @desmond  and thanks for the links @57Deluxe  I have very fond memories of Making Music as it was about the only magazine I could afford back then!

desmond

mart said:

I have very fond memories of Making Music as it was about the only magazine I could afford back then!

Me too! I blogged about my experience with the early days of MM:
http://www.muzines.co.uk/blog/making-music/26

Thanks all (sorry for slow replies, I'm still moderated at this stage)

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

@desmond Welcome to tFB. One of the long-term registered members on this forum is a notorious hoarder of all things musical. He has a shedload of magazine back issues stashed away. Perhaps, he can assist you?

Paging @HarrySeven

And here I am, like a curmudgeonly genie.

While I own many thousands of magazines, MM is one of those I’ve been seeking a collection of for some time...sorry!

Like many others, I jettisoned various magazines years ago and unfortunately, a full set of MM was amongst them.

Someone on here did promise me a collection of MM mags “when they found them”, but for the life of
me, I can’t remember who it was...

desmond

HarrySeven said:

While I own many thousands of magazines, MM is one of those I’ve been seeking a collection of for some time...sorry!
Like many others, I jettisoned various magazines years ago and unfortunately, a full set of MM was amongst them.

Previous post hasn't shown up yet, but it's not just MM we need:

http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/needed

(Although we do have access to a lot more IM's via a contributor which he's scanning bit by bit.)

We're also looking for Phaze 1, although it's not visible on the site yet...

Any help filling gaps is hugely appreciated!

desmond

*moderated dupe deleted*

Funkfingers

HarrySeven said:

Someone on here did promise me a collection of MM mags “when they found them”, but for the life of
me, I can’t remember who it was...

Not I. (I nabbed a few sporadic editions but, then, the local music shop stopped carrying the magazine.)

HarrySeven said:

here I am, like a curmudgeonly genie.

I imagine these words spoken in the style of Hugh Paddick as the character, Lotus Blossom, from Round The Horne.

desmond said:
http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/needed 

Any help filling gaps is hugely appreciated!

I have a large number of Music UK back issues. These are in reasonable condition thanks to being stored in the pukka blue binders. The later, larger format ones have enjoyed the usual fate of these things - stored in a box in an attic.

I probably have a few mid Eighties issues of IMRW.

I certainly cannot be arsed to scan them for nothing. I doubt that my domestic Canon scanner is of sufficiently high resolution anyway. 

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

HarrySeven said:

here I am, like a curmudgeonly genie.

I imagine these words spoken in the style of Hugh Paddick as the character, Lotus Blossom, from Round The Horne.

Hark at him! Isn’t he bold...!

desmond

Funkfingers said:
I have a large number of Music UK back issues. These are in reasonable condition thanks to being stored in the pukka blue binders. The later, larger format ones have enjoyed the usual fate of these things - stored in a box in an attic.

These would be great - the former editor doesn't have a collection of these anymore either. I've purchased a few via ebay for the site but we don't have too many issues, and they don't come up too often. If you'd be willing to lend us these for a time, I can scan and return them, and your donation on those issues will be credited to you. We have some budget to sort out postage costs if necessary or I can collect/return in person if not too far (I'm in Kent, btw) How many issues are we talking about?

Funkfingers said:
I probably have a few mid Eighties issues of IMRW.

For now, we're working through a large amount of IM so it's possible that we'll have those to do already - but I'll make a note and perhaps check in with you in case you have anything we don't? Either that, or if you could let me know what issues you have I can check here in advance.

It's only because of people like yourself maintaining collections that we're able to gather this content for archiving in the first place - thanks!

57Deluxe

I even have a couple unopened in the outer postage plastic...

Funkfingers

Bridgehouse said:

Hark at him! Isn’t he bold...!

That's Kenneth Williams' Sandy to Paddick's Julian.

The character, Lotus Blossom, appears during the weekly Kenneth Horne - Master Spy skit. Imagine, if you will, a big build up for the appearance about to be made by a geisha ... who turns out to speak like Ray Winstone and wears hobnail boots.

Jonathangus

I may have some copies of Making Music stashed away - I'll have a look and see if I have any you're missing.

desmond

Thanks!

desmond

Issue #3 is up now.

(Note: To be notified of new issues, follow @mu_zines on Twitter or you can subscribe to the RSS feed via the site.)

Jonathangus

@desmond - I have a few - but none that you don't already have, unfortunately.

desmond

No worries - thanks for looking!

mudslide73

Bloody loved this. I learned so much from it..  all for nowt an all. Sadly I binned all mine when I moved house about 12 years ago. Loved the B'day Files and chord of the month paricularly. 

desmond

Issue #4 is up now, and I'll be moving onto some International Musician issues for the next batch...
(I do a handful of issues from each publication in rotation.)