Summer Namm

[tacklebox455]

Summer Namm anyone from the board here going to summer namm in nashville TN?

or the Nashville amp expo thats in august?

[EdBass]

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... 

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! 

[tacklebox455]

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 

[CLD]

Gee, Ed, I kinda thought we'd see you standing next to a giant vacuum tube! 

[EdBass]

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?

[tacklebox455]

Yes I am going this saturday as a matter of fact

[EdBass]

Gee, Ed, I kinda thought we'd see you standing next to a giant vacuum tube! 

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...

[tacklebox455]

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

[tacklebox455]

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

[tacklebox455]

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... 

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! 

um you in front of the guitars,with kingdom amps,or naylor amps which would be dude with the side burns!

[CLD]

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!