Guitar mags celebrate Size & Bartel (and Flanigin)

When guitar magazines ruled the world, they naturally turned their attention to short features on The Red Devils.

Our 30-years-later takeaway? They could have double-checked the “Size” and “Flanigin.”

First up: A quick visit with Dave Lee Bartel and the unfortunately named “Paul Side” in the November 1992 issue of Guitar World:

A framed tearsheet of the Guitar World magazine page is for sale now on eBay. (Thanks to Tam McNulty for surfacing that clip.)

Size gets his flowers a few months later in the March 1993 issue of Guitar Player. This time, it is Mike Flanigin whose name gets sideswiped:

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