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Other Musical Equipment => General Discussion => Topic started by: tacklebox455 on July 21, 2011, 12:15:48 am
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Summer Namm anyone from the board here going to summer namm in nashville TN?
or the Nashville amp expo thats in august?
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You know you can't just "go" to NAMM, right?
It's a trade show, not open to the public. You have to be a member manufacturer, a legitimate music equipment retailer/distributor or a guest, employee or sponsored artist of one of those two to get a badge that lets you in.
The Nashville Amp Expo is a different thing altogether, it's meant for the public.
Both are great shows, but I probably won't be attending either one this year. I usually go out for the primary NAMM show in Anaheim, it's a lot bigger and it's a good tax deductable excuse for me to visit my homies in So. Cal. in mid winter.
The Nashville amp expo is usually a must go event, it's only a 5 hr drive for me, but this year my "sponsor" is on the fence about exhibiting because the new hours this year are probably a deal breaker; Fri. 8pm-12am; Sat. 12pm-1am; Sun. 12pm-12am.
That means instead of shutting down his shop Friday afternoon - Monday morning, he would be closed Thursday afternoon - Tuesday morning and he thinks he could probably be more productive keeping the shop open Friday and Monday.
I still might go, as I said IMO it's a great show and Nashville is a great town. I would much rather be paid to go rather than have to pay to go though... :wink:
Here's a "Where's Waldo?"; there are pictures of me at previous Nashville Amp Expo's on their website. Here's your chance to see what the "man behind the curtain" looks like! :-D
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actually anyone can go into namm the last day of the show its called wanna play music day and itsd open to the public i went last year as well
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Gee, Ed, I kinda thought we'd see you standing next to a giant vacuum tube! :-D
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actually anyone can go into namm the last day of the show its called wanna play music day and itsd open to the public i went last year as well
That's cool! I didn't know they did that. The last "Little NAMM" I went to was in Indy in '05 and I don't think they did the public thing then, but I was only there the first day. I think it's a good idea, most public guitar shows are more boutique oriented than mainstream.
Are you going this year?
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Yes I am going this saturday as a matter of fact :)
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Gee, Ed, I kinda thought we'd see you standing next to a giant vacuum tube! :-D
Did you find me? At least I'm around a bunch of tube amps! I had a conversation with "the man" about this year's show about 45 minutes ago, but regretfully it is looking like if I go it will be as attendee this time rather than a participant.
It would be a tight schedule though, I'm going to Vegas, Area 51 (well, very close. It's a long story) and on to LA the weeks before the Nashville Expo weekend so I would be away for a big chunk of August and things have a tendency to get a little "lackadaisical" back at the salt mine when I'm away more than a week at a time...
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The nashville amp expo is more than likely gonna be the better show this year I got a bud who's carrying his amps up there swamp works amps. They have a website btw I'm gonna go for the cool the werid and loud lol
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whats real cool about summer namm (some merchants arent so keen to the public day ) is that they dont wanna have to load all this crap back up so yo ucan get some killer deals i'm talking like 50% to 80% off
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You know you can't just "go" to NAMM, right?
It's a trade show, not open to the public. You have to be a member manufacturer, a legitimate music equipment retailer/distributor or a guest, employee or sponsored artist of one of those two to get a badge that lets you in.
The Nashville Amp Expo is a different thing altogether, it's meant for the public.
Both are great shows, but I probably won't be attending either one this year. I usually go out for the primary NAMM show in Anaheim, it's a lot bigger and it's a good tax deductable excuse for me to visit my homies in So. Cal. in mid winter.
The Nashville amp expo is usually a must go event, it's only a 5 hr drive for me, but this year my "sponsor" is on the fence about exhibiting because the new hours this year are probably a deal breaker; Fri. 8pm-12am; Sat. 12pm-1am; Sun. 12pm-12am.
That means instead of shutting down his shop Friday afternoon - Monday morning, he would be closed Thursday afternoon - Tuesday morning and he thinks he could probably be more productive keeping the shop open Friday and Monday.
I still might go, as I said IMO it's a great show and Nashville is a great town. I would much rather be paid to go rather than have to pay to go though... :wink:
Here's a "Where's Waldo?"; there are pictures of me at previous Nashville Amp Expo's on their website. Here's your chance to see what the "man behind the curtain" looks like! :-D
um you in front of the guitars,with kingdom amps,or naylor amps which would be dude with the side burns!
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There also is an "Ed Murphy" on the NAMM web site (there's a video of him talking about the music publishing business, among other things) but he clearly was an impostor. I didn't see any gear behind him at all, tube or otherwise!