by Frank Butler So here at barefootmusicnews.com, we are gearing up for the 2011 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. It is in January on the west coast and in the summer in Nashville. So what is NAMM?  Well it is not a Vietnam War memorabilia convention.… more »

Take It From Me by Edward Lapple: I'm a bass player, at least I've been playing at it for four decades now. I've tried playing guitar but I have never even been beginning good at it and I always blame my lack of competence on my fat fingers. My finge… more »

My buddy Catfish and I were hanging around the Seymour-Duncan booth at NAMM 2010 and ran into HeXx Henderson. I had never met him before but he and Catfish did a cool interview a year ago or so and they have stayed in touch. We had fun laughing, talking… more »

I am having so much fun making these videos. What a thing it is to walk around this event with hundreds intruments playing. Guitars jammin' and drums drumming and horns blowing, amps crackling, a flute, a cello, a guy with a wacky pedal sound, a delightful cacophony… more »

That’s it… It’s all over Barefoot and a little sore, we walked to the car in the rain. It was cool, the rainwater on my feet and the whole experience of NAMM 2010. I would like to thank the entire population of the convention for putting up with my antics… more »

That made me look at the video I have in a different light and here we go; a selection of tasty licks from the floor of the NAMM convention. Tucked into corners, playing little booth stages and sometimes in the aisles among the new gear we found some amazing players. Some were somebodies, some were nobodies and all of them were awesome.That made me look at the video I have in a different light and here we go; a selection of tasty licks from the floor of the NAMM convention. Tucked into corners, playing little booth stages and sometimes in the aisles among the new gear we found some amazing players. Some were somebodies, some were nobodies and all of them were awesome.Everywhere you turned at NAMM 2010 there was somebody ripping it up on something. Walking from booth to booth it was amazing to me how well they all went together. That made me look at the video I have in a different light and here we go; a selection of tasty licks from the floor of the NAMM convention. Tucked into corners, playing little booth stages and sometimes in the aisles among the new gear we found some amazing players. Some were somebodies, some were nobodies and all of them were awesome. more »