Namm Show in Anaheim, California

May 18, 2023

Namm Show in Anaheim, California

No where else except the NAMM Show can you find a gathering of this magnitude relating to the music world.

If you want to learn, earn, buy, sell, listen to, and touch, the NAMM Show is for you. You can count on four days of viewing every kind of musical instrument and/or piece of related equipment in one gigantic place, namely the Anaheim Convention Center. Although this year's event was a condensed version from the pre-pandemic of January 2020, it still possessed a generous helping of workshops, training sessions, and an easily accessible way to connect with contemporaries and also keep in the loop regarding new technologies.

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EPS Guitars (booth 208A ) added 12 new signature Series guitars that made a positive impression on the attendees. The new guitar models launched at the NAMM Show were for Mastodon's Bill Kelliher, Animals As Leaders Javier Reyes, Rancid's Lars Frederiksen, Behemoth's Nergal, Deftones Stephen Carpenter and Gary Holt of Exodus and throw in three new Kirk Hammett models, and a slick new white finish for the James Hetfield Vulture guitar.

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Seymour Duncan - HyperSwitch – an app-controlled selector switch that lets you create custom pickup wiring configurations via Bluetooth

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The MOHO Magmatic Fuzz Station - allows players to radically shape the sound of the pedal using the Mood control but adds a new Electricity knob.

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Sound Particles - Brings the power of the computer graphics to the sound world. It generates up to millions of sounds via a virtual 3d Audio world.

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Music for Life Award

On hand was John Fogerty to receive the esteemed Music For Life Award (see images below). He has been touring and will continue to do so thru August 15th. As of late John Fogerty acquired publishing rights for his Creedence Clearwater Revival songs from Concord Music. He finally owns his own song rights again! It has taken 50 years to do so, but now brings a renewed excitement for Fogerty at the ripe young age of 77 to be in control of his music.

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"Producing and Uncovering the Artist in the Studio"

On Thursday April 13, Joe Lamond CEO/President introduced the wildly popular artist, Brandi Carlile. Dave Way producer/engineer was the moderator for the aptly named session "Producing and Uncovering the Artist in the Studio". The nine time Grammy winner, producer, engineer, singer, songwriter shared stories of her recent time with living legend Joni Mitchell, performing at The Joni 75 tribute. Some of her time running into other notable music royalty Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan during Joni Mitchell's recovery. She spoke of the documentary The Return of Tanya Tucker, featuring Brandie Carlile. She also co-produced Tanya Tuckers 2019 comeback album. She talked about her beginnings in a rural town in Washington and the LGBTQ+ community.

Looking forward to the return of the full-fledged NAMM Show. Be ready for January 25-28, 2024.

Hope to see you all there!

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PHOTOS BY Steve Anderson

This was one of my favorite meetings that I attended at NAMM. Here's the story...First of all I didn't want to be late and not get a seat up front (like I did for Brandi Carlile) so I got there early and there was only one other man sitting at the front center table. I sat down at the table and said hi to him and we started talking about music and NAMM, etc and then I noticed his name on his Pass: Will Calhoun of the band "Living Color"!!! Where else but NAMM could I end up sitting next to and talk to a famous musician?? The Grammys??? I was lucky enough to be able to talk with him during the whole session!! Also, Jeff Beck was and still is one of my favorite guitar players. I first heard him in 1969 when he released "Beck's Bolero" which also featured fellow Yardbird bandmate Jimmy Page. That song blew my mind!!! After listening to the song "Louie Louie" my mind wasn't prepared for two lead guitars full of feedback!!! The people chosen to provide the truth about Jeff Beck were also musical stars in their own right. Jennifer Batten played guitar on tour with Michael Jackson before playing on tour with Jeff Beck. Rhonda Smith played Bass for Prince before joining Jeff Beck on tour. Nara Michael Wheldon played with many famous bands before touring with Jeff Beck and Robert Adam Stevenson played keys on Jeff Beck's last album besides playing on tour with JB!! Pretty heady group of people and their stories about what JB was like on tour and as a person were heartwarming.. By Steve Anderson

HAILEY FISHBERGER

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