My NAMM experiences.

As stated in another thread Old55 and I (with Old's friend Scott) attended panel discussion on MIDI. The panel was comprised of Tom Oberheim, George Duke, Craig Anderton, Alan Parsons, Dave Smith and Jordan Rudess.

Jan and I saw Jeff "Skunk" Baxter roaming the aisles.

Fun Cakewalk story. Jan and I were chatting with Seth and he mentioned that the next presentation was on V-Vocal. I admitted that I only used V-Vocal for the first time just last week. So, Jan and I sit in the front row (and I'm directly in front of the presenter). Seth introduces TC aka Spitfire as the presenter. I'm looking at the guy half thinking he looks like somebody but I can't place it. About 30 words into his presentation TC looks directly at me and say "Are you Jason's dad? **" to which I say "Jason Kocol?" and he says "Yeah, it's me Tony". Tony asks me what DAW and I use and I say "SONAR" and he says "Why Am I sitting up here teaching you something, you should be up here teaching me something".

Small world? 

** My son was in a band with Tony in 1998(ish). Jason played bass in that band. I recorded their 4 song demo for them on Alesis ADATs. I have those tracks converted to SONAR projects. I'm going to send them to TC aka Spifire (that's Tony to me).




OK, I'm no bitflipper when it comes to NAMM so here a few of the pics I shot:


Interesting basses:




Jan had BECAN!!!!


Tamed down "Schecter Girls"


One of them may have lost and undergarment:


Steven Slate's Vision (Raven):


A drool picture:


Jan Smiles for Daryk:

Thanks for sharing.

Dem some good looking pictures. The burger looked so good I licked my ipad screen and starting humming Kiss songs. 

Oh MY Goodness... is that a touch screen floating there in the middle.


That would be AWESOME!

Cool story Ed :)

Have fun!

craigb


Hey, wait a minute...  Those two girls look like Erica and Audrey! 

Ya, but did they know the specs of those new Schecter amps inside and out.


Neither would fess up had a clue about the undergarment though. I 'spose it's left up to our imagination.

mike_mccue


Oh MY Goodness... is that a touch screen floating there in the middle.


That would be AWESOME!

It would have to use a touchscreen. Where would you put a mouse?

cool story bapu!

Did you give the 'raven' a whirl?

I miss the NAMM shows. I haven't been to one since 94'. 

P.S. -  more girl pictures! 

Seeing the fully-clothed Schecter girls makes me feel less bad about not attending this year, so thanks for that. In past years many of the booth babes appeared to have come straight over from the porn convention in Vegas. Not that I ever complained. But apparently somebody did.

That's one of the things I need to do this week.  "Two Schecter girls.."  Thanks for reminding me.