NAMMbulating 2008
 These
photos, taken while NAMMbulating this year's winter convention in Anaheim,
took on more of this celebrity paparazzi thing. Here's one of Slash as
I "thread the needle" between the pushing throng of people and the shouting
security guards.
Cool stuff not pictured: ADAM Audio Monitors: Super accurate and amazing monitors. Thank you, Dave Bryce!!! Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08: Sweet analog synthesizer. Hot Hands Motion Controlled Guitar Effects: Hot Hand embeds an accelerometer into a ring you wear on your picking hand. A control box allows you to dial in various "wah" filters and frequencies, and a sensitivity control determines the effects via picking, strumming, or "flailing." Special thanks to Gustavo Lozada / M-Audio for the generous donation for The Tibet Connection, a unique monthly program exploring the world of Tibet—its people, its culture, its politics and philosophy. |
 Herbie
Hancock.I was fortunate enough to see Herbie Hancock perform last summer in New York at Carnegie Hall (photos of the trip here). |
 Nice
tie. |
 Lashbrook
guitars. The absurdly thin but resonant LTH-1 is touted as the world's
most innovative and versatile solid body electric guitar. Weighing
just 4-5 pounds, this guitar can get anything from more assertive
single-coil electric sounds to big arch-top jazz guitar sounds.
Beautiful tone on any setting. It's also the nicest, smoothest neck
I've ever played. Will only set you back $6500-12,000, depending on
which guitar you want. |
Guitar lamp. |
Craig Anderton, audio guru and guitarist for '60s band Mandrake Memorial,
creators of the psychedelic masterpiece "Puzzle", here videotaping Eric
Persing about his new sound library, which featured samples of tennis balls
rolling around in Tibetan singing bowls and someone playing a piano lit on
fire. No, really. |
 Drumagog
allows you to replace bad drum sounds...even drum sounds as bad as the ones
from this "drum set". I like the damping blanket in the "kick drum". |
Guns 'N' Roses bassist Duff McKagen. |
Danny Gottlieb, Larry Coryell, and Jeff Berlin performing. Amazing how much
mileage Gottlieb can get from just one cymbal. |
Billy Corgan. Although he looks intense here, he was actually joking
with me as I was taking the photograph, making a face and pumping his fist
for the camera. We both cracked up afterwards. |
 Back
to the paparazzi-style photography, as I squeeze past some of the surging
crowd and wall of security to photograph Stevie Wonder. |
 Just
after I took this photo, one of the security guys yelled at me, "NO FLASH
PHOTOS!!!"
Think about this a moment. |
 Experimental
electronic explorer and percussionist Mitch Brown of Sonelle manipulates
sounds at Analog Haven's booth. |
 The
Keyboard Corner people hang out in the patio of Steamers before the Joey
Defrancesco show. |
Chris hangs out with the Keyboard Corner folks. |
 "Whaddaya
mean, you don't know the chords for "On Broadway"?Master organist Joey Defrancesco treated us to an amazing show at Steamers with special guest George Benson. And as it turned out, Joey D did know the chords for "On Broadway." And everything else. His organ mastery and dramatic flurries had our whole Keyboard Corner table shaking heads in disbelief.
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George Benson playing some gorgeous guitar at Steamers in Fullerton, part of
the Keyboard Corner post-NAMM festivities.After two full days of NAMMbulating, shouting above the din of the convention, eating, and drinking, I had sore feet and a sore throat. I find it funny that going to NAMM seems to be the most physically demanding thing I do all year. |
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