This was a great day to kick back a little starting it off by watching Steve Vai and Sterling Ball talk about music and the guitar.

SIXX AM signing that people waited forever to be a part of.

Nita Strauss and Chuck Garric at the KORG booth playing some Alice Cooper and a little Iron Maiden.

Mike Orlando

Armand Sabal-Lecco and Robert Trujillo

STU HAMM CLINIC

Saturday night then involved a trip back to the M3 to see Randy Rhoads Remembered:

That completed a full 3 days at NAMM…

Day 2 started with sore feet and a quick tour of the Les PaulBig Sound ExperienceTruck. Ray Luzier did an interview upstairs in the Vic Firth Boothand his new VIC FIRTHsignature sticks, his music career, playing with David Lee Roth, being the original drummer for Steel Panther, Army of Anyone, KoRn, Madame Mayhem, KXM, jam nights, tribute concerts, playing all 3 shows at Bash Fest (Hurry – A Celebration of Rush Music, Bonzo Bash, Randy Rhoads Remembered), being a drug-free musician and other cool stuff.

Dennis Chambers

Phil Anselmo with a mob of people waiting for autographs. He’d go onto cause a lot of controversy later that day.

Phil Anselmo Alastair Greene at the Hughes&Kettner booth Mike Keneally

Spector basses

Doyle Dykes Madame Mayhem We interviewed Madame Mayhem later on in the day at the Samson Booth. She had also played at the…

NAMM started off early with a breakfast and a performance by Jake Shimabukuroand presentation with NAMM president Joe Lamond.

Next was hitting the convention and seeing as much as possible before it got too packed.

JOHN PETRUCCI

GREG MARRA

CONRADO PESINATIO TODD VINNY VINCIGUERRA at LUDWIG TODD VINNY VINCIGUERRA at LUDWIG ALEX’ VAN HALEN’S KIT

ROTODRUM drums are cool. You can remove the drum heads andspace out the toms and the bass drums. The hardware also swivels on a ball joint, which was quite impressive

Satchel from Steel Panther did a guitar clinic at FISHMAN

Bill Hudson of TSO and Savatage did a clinicover atESP

Eric Singer of KISS at Pearl Drums.

Then it was off the the RUSH TRIBUTE SHOW at M3to end the evening.