The annual pilgrimage to NAMM has passed on by, my favorite pix have been up on Flickr for a couple weeks, and now finally the website gets them. It was especially fun noticing Alan Parsons on the exhibit floor selling his new "Art & Science of Sound Recording" DVD set. If you want to meet [...]
Jason Mraz in the Taylor Guitar Suite This year's NAMM show was pretty quiet - no doubt an impact of last year's economy - with an exhibit floor that was missing major players (Apple and ProTools), a dearth of Rock 'n' Roll booth babes, and no line at the complementary hearing test trailer in the [...]
Built from plans in Make Magazine with a couple mods. Made from a sprinkler valve and PVC (and of course duct tape!), compressed air fires the rocket high into the sky. Our rocket is make of the foam cylinders you wrap around hot water pipes (and duct tape!). It's connected directly to our air compressor [...]
NAMM, the interNAtional Music products association M (go figure) had it's winter convention in Anaheim last week, and as usual Jason, Ryan and I headed down. We changed our strategy this year, and headed first to the Taylor Guitar suite to get their performance schedule - Taylor sets up a stage with top notch sound [...]
After the NAMM show in Anaheim this week (post and pictures coming soon) Jason and I headed up to Hollywood to catch the Alan Parsons Project at the House of Blues. Alan led the band from a riser at the back of the stage. In addition to being great musicians, each member of the band [...]
My buddy Tom lent me this book over the summer. It's a wonderful read - you get to know Wayne Henderson, one of the world's premiere guitar builders, as you follow the process of him building a guitar for Clapton. Wayne only builds a handful of guitars a year, and if you happen [...]