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 »

by Frank Butler While hitting booth after booth at the 2010 NAMM show, we came across EKO Guitars. EKO Guitars, an Italian company, puts out some really nice guitars with bodies that look like fine art.  The best artisans in Europe build them with th… more »

The Fender room at NAMM is a spiritual experience for a guitar player. In that room is every kind of Fender, Gretsch, EVH, Guild, Squier and Charvel guitar made. An amazing display of some of the most popular guitars on the planet. … more »

The NAMM show is a particularly daunting show. The crowd there is made up of the cream of the crop of players and music-industry professionals. Mobility commanded the stage and owned the room with a confidence and drive that energized the morning crowd… more »

The more I watch these, the more I wish I had turned a camera on and just left it on while walking around. As I think back over the sheer number of guitar players in the room I wish I had specifically collected riffs from the aisles. There were so many g… more »