NAMM 2012 Review Day 1 @ Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California 1-9-12

Ken Calliat at the Shure Booth during the 2012 NAMM tradeshow @Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California 1-19-12

­     Welcome to NAMM 2012! We start at Day one on Thursday where we were off and running. We did 3 interviews within the first 3 hours of being there with Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Rikki Rockett of Poison and Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden.

­     NAMM is 4 days of the music business right at your fingertips. Every year NAMM brings out the latest in musical innovations. It also brings out the artists, which mostly are there to peddle their new gear or sometimes they just want to say hello to the fans.

­     We posted photos photos from Thursday of Ken Calliat at the Shure Booth, Dave Ellefson of Megadeth at the Intelligent Player Systems Booth, Kenny Wayne Shepherd at the Agile Partners Booth, Rikki Rockett being interviewed at the Rockett Drum Works Booth, Nicko McBrain being interviewed at the Paiste booth, and Dave Amoto from REO Speedwagon, Craig Goldy and Rudy Sarzo from the DIO Band at the Dean Markley Booth. Some assorted shots of our Video Engineer Jason Satterfield with Dave Ellefson and in front of a Mick Thompson of Slipknots guitar display.

Photos by BackstageAxxess.com Correspondent Miss Shela

We would like to thank Paki Newell and the entire staff The Lippin Group for allowing BackstageAxxess.com to take part in this years NAMM Expo. For more information on NAMM itself, please go to: NAMM

We also would like to give a special thank Joesph Wagoner from AKG Acoustics. Please check out their site for the best in audio innovations: AKG

BackstageAxxess are already looking forward to 2013!