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Winter NAMM 2009 For every new NAMM Show our family of friends is growing, and we are just in awe of the tremendous musicianship and talent of the artists visiting with us. To all of you that made the NAMM Show 2009 another memorable event, with your music and friendship, we extend a heartfelt "thanks!", and we hope to see you again at next year's show. Hans & Amanda
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Legendary Tony Newton was busy signing autographs before the press conference about his upcoming bass library on the Art Vista label. |
Sheldon Reynolds (Earth Wind & Fire) and Thomas Dawson (keyboards for The Commodores) came early the first day. We were so glad to see them. |
Tim Carmon was heading to the inauguration concert in D.C., but came by to say hi. Thanks Tim! |
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It was a joy to once again see Clarence McDonald, L.A. grandmaster keyboard player. |
Keyboard player Rhonda Lancaster and John Blackwell.
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Grand Mixer DXT, Amanda Seward, and Richard Simmons. |
Bill Steinway and Håkon Graf, two keyboard wizards in one shot, and saxophonist Paul "Shilts" Weimer. |
Tracy Carter walked in, sat down at the piano, and just blew my mind with his playing. |
Composer Andrew Keresztes, producer of "Los Angeles Scoring Strings", flanked by me and Gabe Shadid. |
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Three aces: Tracy Carter, Larry Goldman, and David Blumberg, the Motown master arranger/composer. |
Composer Maarten Spruijt, creator of Symphobia, Patrik Larsson, and me. |
Composer Scott Greer, Christine Adzich, Amanda and me. |
L.A. veteran composer/arranger Jay Asher came by to say hi. Thanks Jay! |
Sheldon Reynolds and me. |
Gabriel Yaiva, Somana Yaiva, and Kelvin Long - Native American hip hop artists. |
Tony Newton at the press conference announcing the bass library he is making on the Art Vista label. |
Arne Schulze, the grandmaster of sampling, came by to see what was happening. |
Hans Adamson, composer Danny Lux and Andrew Keresztes. |
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Wes Hambright and Michael Reola checking out the latest. |
Tom Hopkins and Amy flew in for just two days, and we were very glad to see them. |
Yuval Shrem, film director, composer, sample developer extraordinaire, had not slept for three days. He was happy all the same. |
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It is always a pleasure to see composer Jose Herring. |
Keyboard player Rhonda Lancaster is like family. Here with Sheldon Reynolds (right). |
Composer/sample developer Nick Phoenix during a break from demo'ing his new "Silk Road" lib. (Andrew, Hans, Nick) |
Pierce, Meiling, and Amanda. |
Yuval Shrem of FableSounds, Andrew Keresztes, and me, having a good time. |
Andrew demonstrating the "Los Angeles Scoring Strings" library. |
Saturday was party-time. Here's Amanda in bad (good) company... |
At the Hilton we hooked up with Maarten Spruijt and.... |
...Yuval Shrem - here showing his unique "Broadway Big Band" to Meiling Seward. |
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Meiling and Amanda, having fun in the Hilton Foyer. |
We saw a great blues band that included violin and pedal steel...
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...they were grooving with a stew of influences like Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker. We liked them a lot. |
Sunday came, and it was really quiet... |
...until Garth Hjelte of ChickenSys came by... |
...as did Sir Spike Marlin, Recording Engineer, here in a heated discussion. |
The one-and-only Mel Morley came by to say hello. |
Björn E Olsberg from the Swedish "Studio" magazine and I had a nice conversation in Swedish. |
It was good to see Akihito Okawa of Prominy LPC Guitars. |
Sunday was so quiet that I got a chance to slip away...
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...with my camera to snap a few pictures...
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...here a series of the amazing Bill "Buddha" Dickens in action.
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Dinner after the show. Amanda was snapping away. |
Chris Hein, Yuval Shrem, Alex Burke, Andrew Keresztes, and Amanda Seward. |
That's all folks. Thanks for visiting!
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Copyright 2009 Hans Adamson
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