Anyone going? I went to 8 or 9 in a row, but it's been 7 or 8 years ago. I'm thinking about going. It's May 2,3 and 4. Back at Fair Park.

guys from my church band usually go after church on Sunday.
 
but I'm a keyboardist...I have never gone! :)

Beagle
guys from my church band usually go after church on Sunday.
 
but I'm a keyboardist...I have never gone! :)

Ah, that's right, you play keyboards.  That explains soooo much.  
 

 
(Note that I didn't make this and, yes, I play guitar!)

you didn't make the red X?

Beagle
you didn't make the red X?

Nope.  Neither the red X nor the puddle on the carpet in the corner. 
 
Now be a good pooch and go to the guitar show with your camera (since you won't be drooling over the exhibits you'd be able to take pictures that aren't fogged up - heh). 

lol, yeah, but aren't there "sales reps" at these guitar shows???  reps who in their former profession might have been called "actresses" or "models"???

Now that gave me a smile...well done.

There were four of us pals that used to go to at least one of the Dallas shows every year (eons ago).  It was our official boys weekend out.  But every year the show got worse and worse in two ways.  First, the "vintage" stuff just kept getting more and more outrageous.  The final straw the last year we went was seeing a 56 or so strat BODY...just the body, no neck or any hardware at all...that had been singed in a fire and was riddled with gouges, etc... for $3500 semolians.  In other words a charred, scarred piece of ash or alder about the size of a large cutting board for $3500.  Second, (we started going in the early days of the shows) all the major retailers started having a presence at the show and it finally just became a giant music store/GC type affair.
 
Haven't been in over a decade...has anything changed?
 

If I can break away early Friday afternoon, I may try to drop in on my way home.

I don't think it is one of my companies shows this year, if it was I could make up an excuse for checking it out.

Funny story, I went a couple years ago thinking that it was one of the shows that my company General Contracts, because it has been in the past. I walked up to the back dock and flashed my company badge to one of the dock guys and just walked right on in. He looked at me a little weird, but nodded and as I walked by. I didn't find out until the next day that we lost the show to a competitor that year. I guess it just goes to show, that if you look like you know what you are doing......

I used to make the 5 hour drive every year. Eric Johnson would play pretty often (he's my favorite guitar player) and they had new gear really cheap. Now they charge for some of the shows. The last year I went (around 2006) I was looking for a 50th anniversary Strat. They had them, but they were all priced the same as everyone else, so I came home and ordered it. I drove 5 hours, paid $22 to get in and then they wanted to charge me the same as Sweetwater. I was just wondering if maybe it was better now. I have a friend who says the show in Arlington in October is better, but I've never been to that one.