Friday, January 22, 2010

back from NAMM...

where I saw a host of new colors for my palette
and ran into many old friends I hadn't seen in a while
including stu hamm, the drummer for wings denny seiwell,
terry bozzio, bootsy collins, vernon reid, saul zonana,
david torn, and herbie hancock whom I haven't seen since
the 80's when I played on his record magic windows.)

NAMM is one big party. I hung out with the usual suspects:
johnny vitale and the gang from parker, tony and pat, seymour
duncan, tim godwin from line-6, bob borbonus from taylor,
madman zachary vex, bassist bryan beller, and julie.
(eric was home rehearsing with his new band dr. dog.)

of course the reason to be there is to see all
the new gear and there was plenty of that.
the list of manufacturers I met with is astounding:
parker, roland, korg, line-6, yamaha, eventide, tech 21,
taylor guitars, digitech, fender, apogee, preSonus,
ultimate support, t.c. electronics and t.c. helicon,
pigtronix, james trussart guitars, hofner guitars,
eastwood guitars, gig-fx, lakland basses, fritz brothers
guitars, dave smith instruments, gretsch guitars,
d'addario, soundblox, paiste cymbals, and my old
buddies lane ostrow at g&l, peter janus at radial,
and paul reed smith.
even more astounding is that I use products
from almost all of these companies.

NAMM sounds like a busy saturday at guitar center x 50.
it would be difficult to discern from the NAMM show
that there is an economic downturn, there are so many
things to buy and so many interested buyers.

my favorite new item I tried is called tenori-on.
it's a brand new instrument in fact; a hand-held
sequencer/looper invented by media artist
toshio iwai and made by yamaha. very exciting.
it's an excellent time to be a modern musician.

7 comments:

  1. Can't wait to hear abt the new toys!! Good catching up a bit today. Did you see that KORG is now making the WaveDrum again.....?? Exciting times indeed for the sonic explorers..

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  2. I can't paste a link here, but search youtube for "monome". It's a contoller very much like the tenori-on.

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  3. Hello Adrian, greetings from Ecuador, a small country in South America. My name's Carlos and I was checkin' on a youtube video this amazing ad where you perform some sort of animal sounds, it is a "Daikin" ad. Just wondering, is there a guitar pedal that enables musos to do such amazing noises?

    Greetings from an Ecuadorian fan :), currently listening the "Guitar as an Orchestra".

    Have a wonderful day!

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  4. i saw this video of the misa digital guitar :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2eiP12hQQY

    pt2.

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  5. Wooooooohooo... yeah the Misa guitar seems pretty cool :). Thanks for the suggestion!

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  6. I'm trying to imitate cleverers,so not sure;bespeak yet?It's very expensive for me,therefore I'm thinking about it the whole time.Thanks for suggestion.
    Max Stumm

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