Hey pavementtune
I don't recognize your username, but hey!
Do you mean Guitar World Magazine specifically? In that case, I recommend searching "Guitar World" in the search bar in the footer and you will get this: http://bystarlight.org/interviews/?s="guitar+world"
It's important to use the " " so the words guitar and world are not searched as separate items.
I would only search things by year if you're not looking for anything specific, but are interested in knowing more about that particular time.
Someone just sent me a scan of the January 1997 article, so I will try to get that on the site as soon as I can. In the meantime, you can read it here:
http://www.starla.org/articles/gw5.htm
The interviews section is by no means comprehensive at the moment. There are only 185 articles up right now.