I'm arrivin'... On a jet plane
Downtown LA
Coming in to land at LAX
Once again we make the trek up Convention Way to get to Hall D
Taking in some of the flora and fauna along the way
Once inside and at the Hohner Booth
The Force 3007 Display
The new 7x13 Force 3007 snare
The new Force Extreme Kit
I want one of those rugs
The Steve Smith 30th Anniversary Kit
Side Snare
The Cast Steel Steve Smith Snare
Delite Toms
S-Classix and Force 3007 toms
The 600 series 2-leg hihat stand and holder
SQ2 Walnut kit
Check out the cowbell holder
S-Classix Kit
Delite Kit with Artist Cottonwood Snare
Latino, Champion and Global congas, bongos
Artist Maple Snare
S-Classix Snare with new double lug
Andrew Mamaliga - Alien Egypt, holding an Artist Bronze Snare
I think he needs a hernia truss
Dav Langguth playing the SQ2 Stratawood kit
Jerry Goldenson introducing Steve Smith
Steve Smith introducing the 30th Anniversary Kit
Karl-Heinz Menzel in profile
As usual, I snapped dozens of pictures that didn't come out , missed lots of shots waiting
for my ancient Olympus camera to snap, and I only went on Thursday and Friday missing many more.
It was great to see Sonorholic, AlienEgypt, Storsav, Kanbasher, Dave Kurdelak, Derek Roddy
(though I didn't get to see him play this year), Shane and Chris from The Drum Shop
(congratultions on being named top independent Sonor dealer, BTW)
Kelly Brady, Marcus, Ronn, DED, Paul Mason, Danny, Bermuda and the rest of the Drumsmith gang
and of course my man Sean Cox, Karl, Jerry, Andy, David and the rest of the staff from
Hohner and Sonor.
That's all folks