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Yesterday was really NAMM day. We listened to so many great guitar players and got numb

I finished most of my business on Thursday so we could see what we want to see.

The view from our hotel room. These are all fender boxes. So many guitars were shipped.

The first thing in the morning (for us is 1pm

). Mr. Greg Howe

Luckily we got headphones! Audio is only from the headphones.

I thought this is his guitar case sitting where we were standing.

Then Frank came to pick the case up

Love his smile. He is one of the friendliest artists.

His pedal board. My friend who recognized me from facebook last year was happened to be next to me. He was checking Greg’s pedal board, so I took the picture, too.

Ken was saying Greg was giving a cold glance to the bass player for chord changes or something. I think he didn’t like the audio mixing. He had to give the up and down fingers to the soundman. From the headphone, the sound was so dry and hardly ever distorted. Every single note can be heard exactly the way he played. The sound from headphones were not preferable but he was perfect!

Then at the same booth, Mr. Frank Gambale! I like my two favorite artists are in the same picture. A few years ago, I caught Allan Holdsworth checking out Frank and caught the moment in the picture.

On the way, we caught Ethan demonstrating at ISP. Nathan was there, too. He recognized us first and gave us hugs. He is such a nice guy. I promised to catch his demonstration later.

After lunch, we caught another Frank’s demonstration at the different booth. We really love his guitar playing.

In these crowds, we still run into the same people. I think it is because we are meant to be in their lives and they are meant to be in our lives. Here is Ken’s band leader we ran into. Well we were gonna stay in LA longer and skip Monday rehearsal with him, but I guess we’d better make it

Later on the way we walked to catch a show, I saw Michael Angelo and Doug Aldrich talking on the street. We run into these artist all the time

I don’t wait in lines to take pictures with artists but I thought it would be a killer photo if I am between Michael and Doug! I tried not to disturb their conversation and waited too long. I almost missed two of them. I stopped Doug to take a picture together. I had a doubt that he was Doug first because he looked so youthful. Maybe because it was dark and I didn’t see his wrinkles. Facelift?!?

Top musician like him who played in Whitesnake still has to bring his own equipment just like a local musician

Well I want as less pictures as possible with my tooth retainer. I don’t know how to smile with it. Specially next to a tiny beautiful young lady.

At Elements of Sound show, Gretchen was behind of us in the line to get in. Since we played a gig together I’d better say hi to her

She was so friendly and nice. It was my mistake to take a picture with this beautiful lady

I look aweful next to her, so no pic here

She came to catch her friend, Nili Brosh. The first artist started playing at 6:20pm and NAMM closes at 6pm. Walking takes 20 minutes. Everybody thinks 6:20pm is door time, not a show time

Plus it took a long time to go inside the venue. We just missed Nili

Thanks for her Facebook posting so that we were the ones of the first people to get tickets. All seats are the same price! Might as well get the front row! Our seats were excellent! I have never seen a concert this close sitting with my dinner in front

Many manufacturers sponsored this concert. Many Suhr guitar artists played. We saw Andy Wood and Andy Timmons a few years back at Suhr factory tour at Namm time. We liked them. This time I specially liked Andy Wood’s music.

Andy Timmon’s guitar sound was the best. I was all numb to good guitar playing by this time, but when he played Bohemian Rhapsody with the very nice guitar arrangement, it woke me up again. All crowds stood up and applauded after the song.

He is one of the difficult ones to take a good picture because his complexion is so white and the face becomes all blur with the stage lighting. Touching the iPhone screen many many times on his face and finally got good exposures