She just posted this on her Twitter Account
https://twitter.com/rebecca_dirks/status/364526597866815488
https://twitter.com/rebecca_dirks/status/364526597866815488
Rebecca Dirk is leaving Premier Guitar Magazine
- Thread starter tazzboy
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jjkrause84
Poster Extraordinaire
Well, let's face it: her job was pretty mind-numbing at times....especially during "rig rundown". Having to look interested and ask questions about STUPIDLY complicated and technical set-ups? No thank you. Hopefully her next gig, whatever it is, is a little less demeaning.
Boubou
Doctor of Teleocity
Mmfff
cowboytwang
Poster Extraordinaire
How is that demeaning? Those questions about the technical set-ups were my favorite part of what she did.
tweedtone
Tele-Afflicted
I would like Samantha Bee to replace her.
Cat MacKinnon
Friend of Leo's
that's not all she did. she was a print and web content editor as well. i think people sometimes forget that Premier Guitar puts out, y'know, an actual magazine too
.i'll miss her though. i always appreciate seeing other women in the guitar field, especially when it's not in an antiquated sexist way (like that other guitar magazine i won't name.) PG's diversity of writers, editors and content is what makes it one of the few guitar magazines i think is still worth reading.
Duncas
Friend of Leo's
+1 plus she used to ask the questions i wanted to ask. Not like the dude he always reverts to "and what strings are these?"
gitold
Poster Extraordinaire
+1
jjkrause84
Poster Extraordinaire
Perhaps demeaning was the wrong word. Awkward might be better. In most videos I saw she REALLY did not care about the "rig" (heck, neither did I, my buddy wanted to watch some). You could visibly see her trying to think of something interesting to say or ask about what is, at the end of the day, a pretty uninteresting topic. Combined with the pressures that always come with being a cute woman in a largely male field...I can imagine a pretty hectic and stressful environment.
Of course, I could be completely wrong.
I find those rig rundown videos interesting but super awkward to watch. Usually you find the tech guy is some timmid dude with no social skills, mumbling about stuff unscripted, which leads to awkward silence or the guy giving little to no help. Sometimes (Kings of Leon spring to mind) they have some random stoner who knows nothing about guitars. At times I can imagine Rebecca is screaming in her head "its a Kahler trem you idiot!" whilst techboy mumbles "well he likes to put one of them '80s whammy stick things on there", or she clearly knows if a guitar is vintage or reissue and trying to coax the answer out of the tech...
emu!
Doctor of Teleocity
She probably got tired of musicians ignoring her when a guitar was in the room.
gitold
Poster Extraordinaire
Shes so much cuter than Phil X!
She'll be hard to replace.
agree.
Say it isn't so! I'll miss her.
Average_Joe
Tele-Holic
Her rig rundown of Steel Panther was entertaining, she seemed rather enthusiastic about it ;-)
