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[DrKev]

I don't like their German Distributor. They are pretty uncooperative, and always want you to go through a registered Retailer.

Please understand that almost the entire music industry in Europe and indeed much of the world is set up this way - the distributors are wholesale only, i.e. they only deal with the stores, and only very rarely do they deal with public directly and those rare cases are usually only for CS/warranty issues.

Back to NAMM stuff please.

 

[kestrou]

No, the burl is only offered on the Axis Supersport and the Koa on the Axis w/ Floyd.

Which is why there's not burl and Koa Morses already on order... Yes, I asked!

Come on, BP - you build it and I'll buy it!

Kevin

 

[Fender_Champ]

This is a great NAMM moment. I love how BP hi-jacked the interview and assembled the EBMM High Council (though I do hope that they do a follow-up vídeo with products!)

Paul Gilbert, Steve Lukather, John Petrucci, Steve Morse Crash Ernie Ball at NAMM - YouTube

 

[look_at_her]

This is a great NAMM moment. I love how BP hi-jacked the interview and assembled the EBMM High Council (though I do hope that they do a follow-up vídeo with products!)

Paul Gilbert, Steve Lukather, John Petrucci, Steve Morse Crash Ernie Ball at NAMM - YouTube

Man , the best NAMM video ever ! Cpt. Lee had his best 20 mins in life , all those stars rolling by .... Amazing !!!

 

[xjbebop]

Fabulous spontaneous video... one of my top guitar heros PG doing most of the interviewing, BP being the character he is, and JP talking about food samples in Costco.... priceless!

btw - SBMM Valentine ordered!!

 

[agt]

This is a great NAMM moment. I love how BP hi-jacked the interview and assembled the EBMM High Council (though I do hope that they do a follow-up vídeo with products!)

Paul Gilbert, Steve Lukather, John Petrucci, Steve Morse Crash Ernie Ball at NAMM - YouTube

Awesome interview! Thanks for posting the link.

 

[GoKart Mozart]

Here's a NAMM vid of Luke that I ran across:

 

[Albake21]

Since both Ernie Ball and SBMM is being so weirdly secretive about their booth, here is a full rundown of their guitars at NAMM by youtuber Guitar Factory Parramatta. For what ever reason it took until the show was over (4 damn days) to finally see everything from Sterling by Music Man.

 

[Fender_Champ]

No problem.

 

[Fender_Champ]

Since both Ernie Ball and SBMM is being so weirdly secretive about their booth, here is a full rundown of their guitars at NAMM by youtuber Guitar Factory Parramatta. For what ever reason it took until the show was over (4 damn days) to finally see everything from Sterling by Music Man.

Thanks for posting.

 

[Johnny Alien]

They are oil and wax!

So is that for all of the Korean line models or just a few of them?

 

[BJ Price]

Since both Ernie Ball and SBMM is being so weirdly secretive about their booth, here is a full rundown of their guitars at NAMM by youtuber Guitar Factory Parramatta. For what ever reason it took until the show was over (4 damn days) to finally see everything from Sterling by Music Man.

It was odd there was hardly any coverage for Sterling and there are some amazing releases coming up. Would love to have a release date for the new JP157 Neptune Blue.

 

[edhalen]

Now we wait (im)patiently for SBMM to update their site with the new info for 2017. Should be interesting. Hopefully Mr. Martin will be along soon with a new thread to give us complete information on the new stuff. Lots of questions....

 

[tristan klein]

I never had a chance to talk to sterling directly. I mean I saw many short posts ( we all know he's overbusy ) but I could never imagine he is so funny !!! After all these years in a competitive business, always innovative and growing up, being responsable of so many employees, when it comes to music he's not the CEO anymore but just the funniest and happiest man in the world...!!!

I LOVED the sory about his dad asking kids wich color they prefered...that's a nice piece of histrory !

 

[Big Poppa]

YOu guys need to sit back and read this ending of the thread. Amazing. I posted on my facebook some one offs. I did 50 Video interviews myself...we had 100 guitars on the wall and we are secretive? We had two camera crews and posted a ton of videos during the show...videos where the talented staff shot during the day and edited until the wee hours of the morning only to get up and do it again. Check you tube Check our Instagram and the new one music-man Check our facebook. More content will be rolling out along with full videos of the 10 q and a's I hosted.

BTW I didnt hijack the interview...it was really good fun but my dear friend paul crashed mine and we love Andertons and I sort of had fun and one by one the guys joined. Was not planned and I hope it showed that in spite of the Thousands asking for pics autographs and wanting a piece of each of us we still had a blast.

Sterling by Music Man should have launched a new website friday one that cost a ton and mirrors our site.

Understand that namm was especially crazy this year because of the things we have been doing on product and marketing have taken off.....we were red hot. But NAMM is for the industry and we have one shot to meet with the big dealers and international, pump hands with endorsees....entertain the public that got a badge somehow...Its not as easy as you may think

 

[Samoht]

I personally could have stood about 20 more minutes of the "crashed" Anderton's video.

 

[TripHazard]

How does a normal member of the public get into NAMM? Or is it not really meant to be open to the public?

BTW - who thinks Steve Lukather should do a Sitcom where he plays himself -or an exaggerated version of himself - Curb your enthusiam for the music industry That would be killer

 

[Big Poppa]

its actually a joke I wish it was public..its 90% public but not supposed to be....dealers give badges....some people fake a business and join...its very hard to manage and from this thread hard to meet a lot of expectations Understand that there is no room to expand. We have prime space because we have exhibited since the 60"s new companies start in the worst locations. WE have to show and tell everything we make on that stand and accomodate the 100 countries that come to film content with owners, artists and content There are only so many hooks on the wall


the show has outgrown Anaheim. The parking, food...you name it they are expanding and adding an extra 200,000 square feet and reducing the parking...even with the addition we cannot add space.

Now to the cost....not counting the overtime in advance our NAMM show is the most expensive thing we do. WE are budgeted at $300,000 but went over to 325K Thats over a thousand dollars a business day throughout the year to pay for it.

 

[TripHazard]

its actually a joke I wish it was public..its 90% public but not supposed to be....dealers give badges....some people fake a business and join...its very hard to manage and from this thread hard to meet a lot of expectations Understand that there is no room to expand. We have prime space because we have exhibited since the 60"s new companies start in the worst locations. WE have to show and tell everything we make on that stand and accomodate the 100 countries that come to film content with owners, artists and content There are only so many hooks on the wall


the show has outgrown Anaheim. The parking, food...you name it they are expanding and adding an extra 200,000 square feet and reducing the parking...even with the addition we cannot add space.

Now to the cost....not counting the overtime in advance our NAMM show is the most expensive thing we do. WE are budgeted at $300,000 but went over to 325K Thats over a thousand dollars a business day throughout the year to pay for it.

Holy crap - i had no idea the scale and cost involved for exhibitors. We have a guitar show here in the UK, at Birmingham at the end of Januray, but it won't compare to the size and scale of NAMM i'm sure. Think the Birmingham one is purely a public affair though - lot of people go and purchase stuff directly at the show, and a lot of the UK shops are there selling their wares.
Does the cost get offset by the benefits for promotion and interaction with distributors and the press etc?

 

[Magic Jason]

its actually a joke I wish it was public..its 90% public but not supposed to be....dealers give badges....some people fake a business and join...its very hard to manage and from this thread hard to meet a lot of expectations Understand that there is no room to expand. We have prime space because we have exhibited since the 60"s new companies start in the worst locations. WE have to show and tell everything we make on that stand and accomodate the 100 countries that come to film content with owners, artists and content There are only so many hooks on the wall


the show has outgrown Anaheim. The parking, food...you name it they are expanding and adding an extra 200,000 square feet and reducing the parking...even with the addition we cannot add space.

Now to the cost....not counting the overtime in advance our NAMM show is the most expensive thing we do. WE are budgeted at $300,000 but went over to 325K Thats over a thousand dollars a business day throughout the year to pay for it.

325k... wow. We, mortals, couldn't imagine that. Hope you have some rest now. That BBQ must have been worth it though. ��