The Days of Lore

i dunno, the interviews in RS are actually pretty great, don’t know who does ‘em better…

I used to think the interviews were good…some recent ones have been pretty boring (the Brad Pitt interview immediately comes to mind).

On a related note, the magazine recently changed their actual page size to a smaller, more standard format. It’s the first change to the page dimensions at least since I’ve been paying attention (which would be around the early 90s). They may not be up to the quality of their earlier decades, but it’s sad to see any long-standing music magazine fading into obscurity in the present climate.

There have been some pretty good foreign reporting and some interesting news-y pieces within the pages of this rag, but otherwise, they are just trying to sell copies the only way they know how - provocative cover art and stroking the egos of record companies and bands who pay big bucks to advertise within its pages. I mean, what other magazine would run an ad trying to help David Crosby sell his yacht, then run a “news” item on the same thing in the next issue?

I’m mostly with you on this, Mark. RS prints a lot of tripe, especially when you consider the Hunter S. Thompson reporting during the early 70s. But Matt Taibbi’s article in the current issue, besides the fact that he’s always doing a bad HST impression, is a pretty good overview of the overview of the people and the decisions behind the financial meltdown.

Other than that: their paparazzi pictures drive me crazy, and every time I see David Fricke’s name, all I can think of are really big teeth.

The political pieces and the interviews are hit and miss. Just seems like they’ve been more miss than hit lately. I think RS tries too hard sometimes, and is having a difficult time figuring out what it wants to be.

Jann Wenner is a weiner.