Newark Airport 5am… Landing in L.A.!!! Big beautiful NAMM! Ibanez hooked a brutha up! Had been 6 years..how I missed this! First day of the show Met up w/Sphynx of Xno L-R: Scott Eames (Nevalra), yours truly, and Sphynx (Xno) Scott Eames and I representing Spectraflex! Ah! New Steve Vai PIA guitars!!! ORANGE AMPS! Think my family will mind if I take this rig home? L-R: some guitarist, Jen Majura (Evanescence), Debbie Pearl and Rachel G! My buddy Alexx Calise!! More NJ peeps! Me w/Tina Brand We finally met! Hangin’ with Rusty Cooley Ibanez brutha Bjorn Englen Fancy bumping into Maleny Morfen! This is one of THE coolest dudes ever, the one and only Cliff Cooper (CEO of Orange Amps!) Woke up to this every morning…no complaints hre! Modeling the PIA guitar (hope Steve Vai doesn’t mind!) One of my heroes and glad we’re good friends for 30 years, Vernon Reid (Living Colour) The super-cool Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper); both repping Ibanez! CLAMMY!! Another Ibanez brutha for many years, Rob Balducci Ariana Cap, fantastic bass player! You may swoon now…that is Glenn Hughes in the flesh. dUg of King’s X blowing smoke…for real! Courtney Cox (Iron Maidens) loves NAMM…can you tell? Chris from Taylor’s Music (West Chester, PA) in the house!! The very tall/low-voiced Jason McNamara Nik West rules!! 🙂 Pete Fry strolled by and I finally had his ear for a minute! Purple sistah Melia!! Mitzi Lane…Shawn Lane’s sister!! Pic taken by Robert Johnson of Capital City Guitars (Olympia WA) Ola Englund holding an invisible orange. My buds in Carnivora! Cody Michaud and Mike Meehan are clearly more metal than I am! The amazing Abby K! Hell of a bass player! This is not goodbye but see you soon (even though 2021 NAMM is cancelled!!)
Chris Broderick at Music Zoo (Long Island, NY) October 2009. I look like such a dork! Hanging with Vernon Reid after a killer Living Colour show at Irving Plaza, NYC (April 2013) Another Living Colour hang, this time with Doug Wimbish at Summer NAMM (Nashville, TN) July 2015 Guitar pals Scott Gailor and Mark Claytor…hair for days! Yep, this is Rex Brown of Pantera from Summer NAMM, July 2015 Got to jam with Nik West at Club Bonafide, NYC September 2015 Opened for Joe Lynn Turner at the old Mexicali Live (Teaneck, NJ) Feb 2016. This is his most excellent drummer Charlie Z! Don Jamieson telling people that my cd MARBLEHEAD kicks ass and they need to buy it. They did!! Dingbatz (Clifton, NJ) September 2018 Opened for King’s X at Stone Pony (Asbury Park, NJ) November 2016. Ty Tabor and I have matching Orange gear Hangin’ with Dave Crum and Roger Manzo of Sixty Miles Down; we are all Spectraflex artist endorsers My cat Linus The one and only Billy Sheehan! Saw him with Winery Dogs at Starland Ballroom (October 2013)