Jo Jo Mayer playing at NAMM 2009. More pics right here. Jo Jo Mayer and Nerve put on a great show at the Sabian Live event. The Drum Channel was streaming a live show from outside with an impressive production setup. Various name drummers would show up and get interviewed. Of course the now famous […]

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Hey gang. As usual the forum has been serving up healthy doses of drum geekery. NAMM is around the corner too! I’m planning on going with camera in hand. I’m no Ron Dunnet, but I’ll get some good pics for us anyways! I recently aquired a new drum lockout on the West Side of LA. […]

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Well NAMM has come and gone, thanks to Danny Kim for sharing his pics with us Set 1, and Set 2. Also check out the return of the colon pipe! There are also videos from Yamaha groove night with clips of Dave Weckl, Antonio Sanchez, and Russ Miller. Thanks again Danny!

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The North American Music Merchants convention is happening this weekend in Anaheim California. All the music companies are wearing their Sunday best and showing off their new gear. I managed to take some photos this year of some of the new offerings from the usual suspects. I met up with some of the HOD forum […]

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I hope everyone’s holidays were safe and enjoyable. News bits from the forum: Thanks to “Drum News Guy” for pointing us to this PDF listing the complete schedule of events for NAMM 2007. Discussion on who’s going and possible gatherings is happening right here. Some people are interpreting this news item on Sting’s site as […]

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There’s some good pictures from NAMM up already. Lots of pictures of gear here on Mike Dolbear’s site. Our friend Joe “Pocket Player” has some good pics of who was at the show this year. The guys in the first picture look suspicious. More soon!

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It’s that time of the year again. The official NAMM chat thread is here on the forums. Looks like Dave Weckl and Joel Rosenblatt will be doing some gigging during the show, all that info available here I will be playing with Electric Violinist Dorian Cheah on Wednesday January 18th at 9pm at 14 Below […]

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Our friends Randy Walker and Derek Defields have posted a monster NAMM report HERE on the forums. Randy and Derek will be helping out here at HOD posting news now too, a welcome addition. They’re both GREAT players so check them out if you have not. Randy’s site is here. Derek’s is here.

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A little birdie has told us that Jing Chi may be at the Hilton the Thursday of NAMM week. Keep an eye on the forums for other NAMM happenings.

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Thanks to Eaglebeat for his post on the forums about a Vinnie Colaiuta audio interview available here on REMO’s web site.Also NAMM is upon us again soon and so the obligatory Baked Potato gigs are on the 18th with the Mike Landau trio and the 19th with Greg Mathieson. Also for those who may have […]

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