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Winter NAMM 2018 (ultra Pic-heavy)

Love these.
 

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Request for anybody there this year:

Please take some shots of the LowDown Bass booth (if it's there this year). Those were my favorite of the show last year, and I'd live to see if there's anything new.

It was in the basement last year, maybe it'll be in the same spot.

Oh, and be sure to play them too :D the reason I loved em' so much was how perfect they felt.

Much obliged

Don't see them in the directory.
 
On to Rickenbacker:

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I go hunting for someone to ask about the 5-string, and I find this guy! Instead of kicking me out this year, he accepted my offering of carrots. This 5-string is wider at the nut than their previous version. It comes in natural and a very sexy matte black. Check out those crazy new pickups, too.

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Great job, @wintremute! Thanks!
 
It's enough to make your head spin just checking out all the beautiful photos here.
How do you handle looking/lusting over all those basses when they're right within reach?

Apparently not too well when that $150k bass was quickly taken out of my hands.
 
Hey, wintermute. Please give us a review of the Bass Bash. I know some artists prohibit photos but at least try to give a mini-write up of each performance if you can. Thanks!!!

Sadly, I was just too tired to stick around. I listened to TSK, then a couple of Julie Slick songs, then I left. My goal is to stay awake to get these photos up. However, the promise of Chicken and Waffles with @Passinwind in the morning is keeping this dream alive!
 
I'm thinking, it's a little after 9, I wonder if I can get into NAMM early again. I'll hit that Ernie Ball booth before it gets swamped. As I'm walking to the Hall D entrance, I decided to take an "artsy" shot of the front of NAMM with the fountain. As I'm taking the picture, music starts up...it's U2. They're up on the balcony! I was bamboozled though. It was a tribute band called Hollywood U2. However, they were very good (and they fooled a lot of people).

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