Does Anyone Here Subscribe To Rock's Back Pages?

http://www.rocksbackpages.com/join.html

Six Monthly Subscription
$30.00 £15.00
Yearly Subscription
$50.00 £25.00

NEW in the Library this week:

Bullfighting! George Best! Keith Altham swans around Majorca with Jimi Hendrix (NME, 1968)

The album that names an entire genre: Pete Wingfield loves Smokey Robinson's A Quiet Storm (Let It Rock, 1975)

Cameron Crowe watches a triumphant show from Eric Clapton (NME, 1975)

Chris Charlesworth introduces Tower Of Power (Melody Maker, 1975)

Caroline Coon tries her hardest not to enjoy AC/DC (Melody Maker, 1976)

Chris Salewicz gives Nils Lofgren a second chance (NME, 1976)

Chris Welch sees a progtastic show from Camel (Melody Maker, 1976)

Harry Doherty gets a sersious dose of nostalgia from The Hollies' Tony Hicks (Melody Maker, 1976)

Mick Farren is floored by the great Fats Domino, live (NME, 1976)

Chas de Whalley sinks pints with Meal Ticket (Sounds, 1977)

More schisms than British Trotskyism: Danny Baker tries to make sense of Alternative TV (ZigZag, 1977)

Ira Robbins profiles The Jam (Trouser Press, 1978)

Pete Silverton, down and out in Paris and London with The Clash (Sounds, 1978)

Jon Savage admires, with some reservations, Penetration's Moving Targets (Sounds, 1978)

A tired and emotional Kris Needs witnesses live ABBA (ZigZag, 1979)

As a poet, he could have been a contender: Nick Tosches on The Doors' An American Prayer (Rolling Stone, 1979)

A massive Penny Reel interview with Roy Orbison (NME, 1980)

Van Gosse is tickled pink by Reggae covers of R&B hits (Village Voice, 1981)

Mat Snow looks at the history of Drugs in Popular Culture (NME, 1986)

Charles Shaar Murray hangs out in Houston with bearded bluesers ZZ Top (Q, 1990)

Sheryl Garratt hears about grief, love and life from Neneh Cherry (The Face, 1996)

Matt Hanks reports on the renaissance of Fleetwood Mac (Memphis Flyer, 1997)

Paul Lester meets warped blue-eyed-soulboy Lewis Taylor (Uncut, 1997)

Charles Bermant salutes CSNY (Rolling Stone Online, 2000)

Stevie Chick puts the questions to the prolific Guided By Voices (The Stranger, 2002)

Greg Wilson tells the incredible story of dance pioneer David Mancuso (electrofunkroots.co.uk, 2003)

She sho' did strut her funky stuff: James Maycock on the life and times of Betty Davis (Mojo, 2005)

Jason Gross throws the spotlight onto Jason Isbell the newest member of Drive-By Truckers (Creative Loafing, 2005)

Rob Chapman remembers Syd Barrett (Mojo, 2006)

Jenny Valentish swaps pedal-steel tips with The Triffids' Graham Lee (Australian Guitar, 2006)

Fun!

After being made fun of by a friend for this thread (and for being so cheap), I subscribed. It's really great -- honestly a treasure trove of stuff that never, ever made it to the Internet in any other form.

For people like me who once read Rolling Stone reviews on microfiche at the library as a teenager, I'd recommend it VERY highly.

am tempted to join, just cos i see that they have audio interviews on offer now, and some of the emails i get advertising what they have each week sometimes seems so enticing. although how i can fit reading everything on rbp along with modern music writing im not sure.

i quite like their blogs, even though, or actually *because* they sound like old middle aged men.

eg - http://www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/2009/11/albums-schmalbums/

would like to subscribe again but fear i dont need that sort of extra cost at the mo.

I'd really love to be able to search for all articles, reviews, interviews for a band, like say, X-Ray Spex from 1978-79. I'd pay a subscription for that kind of service. My impression in the past was that Rock's Back Pages archives are just sort of random. Or do they now have complete indexed archives of content from the likes of, say, Trouser Press, Creem, NME, Melody Maker, RS, Option, Puncture, Maximum RnR, etc? If not, will such a thing ever exist?

You know you can search for stuff on RBP free of charge to see what they've got, so you should be able to judge for yourself.

I find it invaluable on big names FWIW.

Hrm, looks like they have more complete archives than I last looked 8 years ago, but are also far, far more expensive. $90 for 3 months, ouch!

http://www.rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=13862

anyone have a hack for this site? #informationwantstobefree

No. #journalistswanttobepaid

rbp badly need to give their articles titles so they show up on kindle. i have a bunch of the freebie articles all with the same 'rocksbackpages, article blah blah' title. soon as they fix this im signing up and instapapering the fuck out of it. mailed em about it and they said they were on it but not heard anything in a while

So when you subscribe, who gets the money? The maintainers of the site, the original publications, or the original authors?

I leave the tab open for months at a time threatening to subscribe. 90 bucks for three months. that's...like that's some money, for me. I'd get a lot of pleasure from it, but it auto-renews, chances pretty good I fuck up and end up spending 180 bucks, now we're into some money and I don't want in for research or anything I just wanna read cool old articles. anybody subscribe these days, what's the verdict on this site?

That's way too much for non-professional purposes, and even then, I'd want a grant etc. Think most of us would be better off subscribing to Creem (although I've got too many issues in storage to quite justify).

Check their list of institutional subscribers at

https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Pages/CurrentAcademicSubscribers

and see if you qualify for a card at any of these (e.g., any Ohio resident can get a free card at Cuyahoga County Library -- I login to RBP through the CCPL site and have full access).

ooh mrs. crawford might! thanks!

Think you can get it too if you’re a regular Wikipedia editor. Might have some hoops to go through if you go that route.

If you review regularly they may offer membership