Back in the day, indeed. Cynthia at Cyndustries (see previous post) has been busily uploading scanned back issues of vintage late-70s electronic music magazine Synergy. There’s tons of vintage Oberheim, Moog, ARP, Yamaha, Korg, EMS and other gear, of course. But you’ll also find some great music: Allen Strange, Eno, Larry Fast (on the brain today), DEVO, Moody Blues, Jan Hammer, plus “serious” composers like Stockhausen, Meredith Monk, and Terry Riley — even Craig Anderton’s music (as well as writing) makes an appearance. I could go on . . . Great stuff.
Synapse Magazine Back Issues (thanks, Lee, and Matrixsynth
Now if only someone would do this for the early back issues of Keyboard — sorry, make that Contemporary Keyboard. (FYI, this trippy image is an ad for the Korg VC-10 vocoder keyboard.)
Would be cool to have back issues archived online, but is it legal for someone to scan and post the content without permission from the magazine, even if it is vintage material? I read that authors are sueing Google for their new online book indexing service, Google Print.