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Michael P. Hughes, Ph.D. wrote: > > At 11:17 AM 12/11/97 -0800, you wrote: > >NAMM is not open the public, actually. (Frankfurt musik messe is on two > >days, and boy does it suck.) > > Why? Because it demands that manufacturers come face to face with the > paying public, rather than have a big holiday with rock stars and, er, > people with silicone? I understand that one reason NAMM has never had a public day is that a lot of manufacturers don't want the general public to know what price they're selling their products to retailers for, as that would conceivably undermine the position of said retailers in a real-life sales situation. THere's also the sheer audience issue. The show there on the weekend days is a bit of a mess, with all the people milling about. I can't easily imagine how they'd be able to regulate a way of maintaining any sort of order if they sold tickets to the thing to the general populace. On the other hand, a lot of genuinely informed and interested musicians wind up getting shafted becuase they don't have the right connections, so it's a problem for those of us at the bottom of the proverbial totem pole. I was abole to go last year (thanks to the very kind auspices of a fellow LD subscriber -- I won't "out" him for fear of his recieving unsolicited letters requesting entry passes, but thank you once again!) and personally found the whole experience very disturbing. I liken the sensation to that of eating far too much of a really good kind of food -- after a certain point of saturation, the sight of all of that musical gear just got to be a bit sickening for me, especially as it dawned on me that I was surrounded by millions and millions of dollars' worth of musical instruments, and thousands of musicians -- yet the event going on had almost nothing at all to do with music. Somebody once said, "NAMM is something you should go to -- ONCE." I'm inclined to agree. All just products of my increasingly warped perspective, of course. --Andre