Fender booth
Charvel Guitars at the Fender booth
Gretsch Guitars at the Fender booth
Fender Custom Shop booth
Fender Custom Shop Andy Summers Tribute Telecaster. This thing weighs a ton!
Fender Custom Shop Andy Summers Tribute Telecaster.
Eddie Van Halen Custom Shop model
New EVH model at the Fender booth
Fender press conference
Prashant Aswani playing at the ESP booth
ESP X-Tone series
ESP booth
ESP George Lynch model
Rick Springfield at the Dean Markley booth
Peavy Booth
Dean booth
Ernie Ball/Music Man booth
Ernie Ball/MusicMan booth
Steve Morse MusicMan model
Steve Morse at the Ernie Ball/MusicMan booth
Beautiful rosewood Axis Super Sport. One of my favorites of the show.
Rosewood Axis Super Sport
Lefty Ernie Ball/MusicMan Luke model
Ernie Ball/MusicMan John Petrucci models
Ernie Ball/MusicMan Luke model
Steve Lukather at the Music Man booth
Carl Verheyen at the Ernie Ball/Music Man booth
Schecter booth
Schecter Lady Luck model. One of my favorite guitars of the show.
Schecter Lady Luck model
Schecter Lady Luck model. Check out the distressed hardware.
Schecter Lady Luck model inlay
Check out the pearl binding on the Schecter.
Ibanez SV Prestige model
Ibanez Paul Gilbert model
Ibanez Joe Satriani 20th Anniversary guitar
Yours truly (on the right) with keyboardist Derek Sherinian.
Suhr booth
Suhr 2008 NAMM Show Special
Suhr 2008 NAMM Show Special specs
Jeff Kollman performing with Cosmosquad at the Fender Frontline Live stage.
Cosmosquad at the Fender Frontline Live stage.
Disneyland is across the street from the convention center.
Disneyland
PRS booth
Crazy Dean guitar
Peavy booth
Marshall booth
Ed DeGenaro at the THD booth
Shure booth
Yngwie Malmsteen
Joe Satriani press conference announcing a new line of VOX pedals coming this summer.
Joe Satriani press conference announcing a new line of VOX pedals.
Nuno Bettencourt at the Dean Markley booth
Phil Keaggy at the LR Baggs booth
Slash
Joe Satriani
Washburn Nuno Bettencourt model
Neil Zaza
Jimmy Haslip and Russell Ferrante
Jimmy Haslip
Carvin booth
Allan Holdsworth signing at the Carvin booth
My big moment
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth and I
Carvin Allan Holdsworth model
Ovation booth
Alain Caron
Jerry Cantrell
Hamer booth
Bassist Lee Sklar
Viger fretless model. Check out the brass fingerboard.
Viger fretless model
Viger guitar
Viger models
Dunlop booth
Paul Gilbert signing at the Dunlop booth
Adam Nitti at the D'Addario booth
Dean booth babes
Scott Kinsey
Dick Dale at the Dean Markley booth
Steve Lukather
Paul Gilbert getting ready for his Marshall booth performance
Paul Gilbert performing at the Marshall booth
Jesse Stern (Modern Guitars photographer) playing a six-string Wechter bass custom built for Jonas Hellborg.
Steve Morse at the Engl booth
Marty Friedman
Greg Howe at the Spectraflex booth
Vinnie Moore hanging out at Spectraflex
Greg Howe and yours truly
Mike Varney talking to Derek Sherinian on the left. Greg Howe on the right.