In 1993, Guitar World boldly tried to enter the German market by having each issue translated into German and then shipped overseas. Without the benefit of the computer firepower we have today, getting each issue translated back in 1994 was no easy feat.Basically, we had two German editors (who we lovingly referred to as "the Germans") who would come in each night after we left for the day, and they would spend the next few hours translating all the copy in the magazine from English to German. And each morning I, a lowly Senior Editor back then, would come into work and clear the used coffee cups and food wrappers from my desk...they were not the neatest editors on the planet, to put it mildly. Here you can see the cover of one of those issues from May 1993...click it to see a larger version. You can also see the opening page of German text from the Eddie Van Halen interview in that issue, as well as Diamond (yes, he was still known as Diamond back then) Darrell's "Riffer Madness" column that month. R.I.P., Dime...and the short-lived German edition of Guitar World.JK
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