The Winter NAMM Show is this week. It's one of the biggest (is it the biggest?) music trade shows in the world. It takes up the entire Anaheim Convention Center which is enormous. The company with which I am employed exhibits at the show and it's always really fun. Of course, it's loud and chaotic and gives you a headache in about 10 minutes flat, but it is fun. We've seen all kinds of famous people there including, but not limited to - Steven Seagal, Gene Simmons, Stevie Wonder, Hanz Zimmer, Earth, Wind and Fire and Sinbad. (Steven Seagal is HUGE, by the way, I mean he's a giant).

Music merchants from software companies to instrument makers to music publisher to gear makers exhibit at the show. Roland always has a large portion of one of the halls where they exhibit and demo their instruments. Demos are always entertaining. Some are authentically "wow' type entertainment. Some are "cool" type entertainment. Others are "really?" type entertainment. HERE is an example of the "really?" type. Where the entertainment is more in watching the demo-er than in being impressed by the product.

This is what happens when my co-workers have a little too much time on their hands.


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