Designing my masthead

Here I was trying out different fonts and started to experiment some ideas on my favourite one.  I've done this to make the masthead look a bit like a guitar tab which will help to represent my magazine as a rock magazine.  However I didn't really like the red dots as I thought it started to look a bit too busy and to me, is reminiscent of 1950's cartoon style lettering; the kind of design that might go on the front of a 1950's modern art cartoon strip...

see the way the colours over lap
the same way the red dots do on my design...

i couldn't find any really relevant examples
 but this is the style i mean...

you get the idea.  (I hope???)

So in the end I stuck to a more simple design that still emulates rock music as it looks like the letters are placed over the strings of a guitar.  

The font is bold and blocky like others that I've seen on the front of existing magazines.  

I've also chosen to use capital letters to make the title look 'loud'; relating to rock music once again. 

I may develop the design further if I'm inspired by anything.  For now though, I'm happy to use this design for when I start my drafts very shortly.  If I like the look of the design on my first few drafts, then I'll keep it like this.  I think it's pretty effective because it's bold, easy to look at, and represents rock style fairly well; pretty much all the things a masthead need do.