The biggest day of them all is always Saturday at NAMM. Its always a “pick your poison” day as there are many events going on at the same time. The highlight of the day was catching Joe Hottinger and Lzzy Hale from Halestorm do a 3 song performance in the Gibson showroom. Afterwards we caught up with the entire band for an interview.
Later on we stopped by the Orange booth to catch up with one of the axeman of Slipknot, Jim Root. Orange was unveiling a new amp and Jim gave us the entire lowdown on the amp. We also got photos of Ray Luzier of Korn with a fan, John 5 of Rob Zombie and Steve Stevens of Billy Idol at the Red Monkey booth, Dale Stewart and Shaun Morgan of Seether at the Schecter booth, and JD Deservio of Black Label Society at GHS Strings signing photos for fans. We also took photos of Tommy Thayer of Kiss at the Hughes and Kettner Booth, Matt Sorum of Velvet Revolver at the KB Audio Pro International Booth, Mike Mangini of Dream Theater’s drum set and Robert Kearns of Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Clayton Booth.
The most insane lineup for any artist in the 6 years I have been attending NAMM was for Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee. Fans started lining up at 10am and only a couple of hundred got to meet Tommy before the line was cut off.
Stay tuned for a complete video retrospect of the sights and sounds of this years NAMM expo as well!
All Photos by BackstageAxxess.com Correspondent Miss Shela except the photos of Tommy Lee are by our BackstageAxxess Correspondent Sylvia Hart.
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!
