Official NAMM thread
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reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
They were selling passes to the public this year.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
It’s was great to see @Mark Wein and @baimun yesterday. Show was much small than in previous years but still fun. The parties and shows last night were entertaining in so many ways.
You'll have to share.
frunobulax
Gak Pernah Cukup!
OK. You can't just leave it at this.
Who are you playing with?
What's the deal with that J bass?
Who is the dog?
Mostly the Slim Freaky band guys from last week. The builder had a shop fire and that bass was burning when he pulled it out. They fixed it up and it sounds great. Not fender but one of their builds
The dog was just came with one of the guests.
BlockInlay
Octavate.band
so much sparkles!!
Chad
Slender Hobbit
Hate the finish and would prefer a different pickup combo, but love it overall.
But I just bought 2 guitars, so I'm out for a while.
Jbird
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Was Caparison at NAMM?
I just saw on facebook they have a new Horus model: an Australian blackwood body w/walnut top.
Australian blackwood is basically koa that grows in Australia
$3,300 for the hardtail version though 
pre-beer virus, hardtail Horus were like $2,400...they went up almost one thousand dollars!
I just saw on facebook they have a new Horus model: an Australian blackwood body w/walnut top.
Australian blackwood is basically koa that grows in Australia
$3,300 for the hardtail version though pre-beer virus, hardtail Horus were like $2,400...they went up almost one thousand dollars!
Rev and I were wondering if they were still in existence, actually.Was Caparison at NAMM?
I just saw on facebook they have a new Horus model: an Australian blackwood body w/walnut top.
Australian blackwood is basically koa that grows in Australia
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Yesterday's travel day was interesting.... typical LA traffic from hotel to airport, typical airport delays.... but my Son In Law and the other Apollo guys are flying to Vegas for a different convention, and I was going to drive us home from Chicago.
Flash forward to mid-flight when we realize that he never gave me the KEY to the Suburban parked at Ohare. For some reason my daughter didn't bring her keys... they're hanging on the hook at home... 2 1/2 hours from Ohare.
Apparently the phone app and Onstar can both unlock the car remotely... but can't start the car. I suggest we take the El train to downtown, then take the South Shore back to South Bend, but we are getting in late enough that we might miss the last train from Millenium station, and while the three year old grandson with us has been an exceptionally good traveler to this point, we didn't want to risk that.
Pick up the bags from claim and are dragging all this shit (down two extra pairs of hands from the trip there), through the airport, trying to get to the vehicle (why they make rows 1-8 of every floor of the parking garage completely separated from rows 9-16 by a cloverleaf and road, while maintaining the same naming convention is a mystery of stupidity for another day). So outside again... past the bus pickup... into a different entrance to the other half of the parking structure on the other end of the terminal (huge horseshoe shape), I leave the girls, the kid, and the bags inside the airconditioned bus depot.... while I go to the vehicle with the locksmith so he can open the vehicle and make a new key.
GM owners.... I wouldn't feel safe because your car is "locked"... it took maybe 1 minute for him to put a bladder in the door frame by the window, open a little gap, reach in with essentially a coat hook, pop the door open.... the alarm went off, and he reached under the dash and there's a reset switch that silenced the alarm immediately.
$550 later we are on the road in rain... that progressed to full blown monsoon.... the kind where the trucks slow down or pull off the road.... so it's 45-55 mph much of the way instead of 70-90... rest stop chicken sandwiches along the way.... I think we met in the hotel lobby at 7:30 am... and I didn't get home until 12:30 at night (granted we lost 3 hours in flight time change) but that's still 14 hours, even after a non-stop flight. 
Flash forward to mid-flight when we realize that he never gave me the KEY to the Suburban parked at Ohare. For some reason my daughter didn't bring her keys... they're hanging on the hook at home... 2 1/2 hours from Ohare.
Apparently the phone app and Onstar can both unlock the car remotely... but can't start the car. I suggest we take the El train to downtown, then take the South Shore back to South Bend, but we are getting in late enough that we might miss the last train from Millenium station, and while the three year old grandson with us has been an exceptionally good traveler to this point, we didn't want to risk that.
Pick up the bags from claim and are dragging all this shit (down two extra pairs of hands from the trip there), through the airport, trying to get to the vehicle (why they make rows 1-8 of every floor of the parking garage completely separated from rows 9-16 by a cloverleaf and road, while maintaining the same naming convention is a mystery of stupidity for another day). So outside again... past the bus pickup... into a different entrance to the other half of the parking structure on the other end of the terminal (huge horseshoe shape), I leave the girls, the kid, and the bags inside the airconditioned bus depot.... while I go to the vehicle with the locksmith so he can open the vehicle and make a new key.
GM owners.... I wouldn't feel safe because your car is "locked"... it took maybe 1 minute for him to put a bladder in the door frame by the window, open a little gap, reach in with essentially a coat hook, pop the door open.... the alarm went off, and he reached under the dash and there's a reset switch that silenced the alarm immediately.
$550 later
we are on the road in rain... that progressed to full blown monsoon.... the kind where the trucks slow down or pull off the road.... so it's 45-55 mph much of the way instead of 70-90... rest stop chicken sandwiches along the way.... I think we met in the hotel lobby at 7:30 am... and I didn't get home until 12:30 at night (granted we lost 3 hours in flight time change) but that's still 14 hours, even after a non-stop flight.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Was Caparison at NAMM?
I just saw on facebook they have a new Horus model: an Australian blackwood body w/walnut top.
Australian blackwood is basically koa that grows in Australia
That new Ibanez Abasi double cut actually has a pretty great neck feel... the 6 string is surprisingly rounded, and the 8 string doesn't feel as much like a flat plank of wood like the previous.
Chad
Slender Hobbit
Shit.... Every time I look at this guitar... it just makes me get all weak in the knees.
Its funny, you and I like a lot of the same guitars, we also aren’t close on some
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Its funny, you and I like a lot of the same guitars, we also aren’t close on some
part of it is I can love a single pickup guitar with half the paint cracked and falling off…. A spaceship shaped doubleneck with holoflake sparkles, and an exotic wood carved top that costs more than many people’s cars… love them equally for different reasons.
The relic I would want to thrash and sweat on profusely like a piñata on a hot summer day…
… the sparkle spaceship would make me laugh and make funny faces…
… and the carved top I would be in awe of Nature’s splendor along side the craftmanship… while being afraid I’d scratch it (because I’m the same clumsy doof from the first two guitars).
