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Night of the Living Blues!

 

A group of drumsmith.com members gathered for a night out or two during the show. On Saturday we attended a very special evening with Blue Man Group coutesy of our pal and BMG kit drummer Jeff Quay who treated us to a tour of his "office"

 

Thanks much Jeff!
 
Mr. Rob Cook: Author, drum historian and our host showing off one of the many prizes raffled off - in this case a very special Craviotto creation.
Cool shirt...where are ya Hal9000?
A spectacular wide angle view of the entire show floor. Spot the celebrities!
Ronn Dunnett sits at the second of four Dunnett jazz / bebop kits finished in piano black.
Photo courtesy of Nick Amoroso.
Jerome D. takes a test drive as Jeff Quay looks on. Note the new patent pending rail mount system. Very slick. Photo courtesy of Nick Amoroso.
A stunning 5.5 x 14 MonoPly® Rosewood. Photo courtesy of Nick Amoroso.
Vaughncraft
The Maryland drum company had this ristic finished jazz kit. Nice.
Some cool Maryland offerings.
Drumsmith moderator Phil Galante fulfills a dream - a beautiful Ludwig snare signed by The Chief himself.
Mr. Bill Ludwig signs off on another piece of history. No one was sure Bill would make it after dealing with some health issues, but he was certainly up to the task of sugning a lot of great Ludwig drums, heads and sticks.
This was interesting - Johnny Craviotto sits down for an bio / interview with Rob Cook.Great idea Rob.
Bill Ludwig III packs up the famous collapsing metal bass drum.
$3700 worth of gray glass glitter.
MASONITE! Paul Mason rides one of his creations into the sunset...or sunrise...or sunburst.
Great deals on sparkle shells!
Master symphonic percussionist (and Billy Gladstone student) Arnie Lang on one of his famous Gladstone creations.
Great colour on this one.
Greg Gaylord. A case study in why it's not always good to be a vegitarian.
Greg is off to Tibet for 6 weeks. Godspeed Greg!
All of Greg's Drum Solo drums went home with someone!
Randy Rainwater took home this fancy Craviotto snare drum in a raffle win.
Steve Smith gave one of his trademark clinics. It was long, relaxed, informative and very entertaining.
Clicxk on each picture of Steve to watch a great MPEG clip.
What is a drum show without Mike Curotto, the collector's collector. Mike took home this wondeful one of a kind Ludwig anniversary model.
RRRRogers!
You don't have to put on the red light....
Smith drums. Just fantastic work from some great guys.
DW - long time supporter of independent drum shows. Love them for that!
Wells Custom from Canada.
Potyondi.
And what are you girls up to this evening?
Some sweet vintage lits to be had - some at very good prices.

Drumsmith.com sponsor Slug percussion did well and also shared some great news with us!
Congrats Eric.
Nice.
You know you want it.
Nice Groutsch kit.
Ludwigold under glass.
Orphans
oK!
spang-a-lang!
Crown Jewels.
Brass with Class
Do-it-yourself Tivoli kit.
Is Nigel Olson in the house?
So many drums, so little $
We could say Leedy but we'd get sued.
Where was this kit on ST. Patrick's day?
Orlich - chandeliers for your kit.
Makes you wish you'd never seen a Pearl tom mount.
Not for sale...*sigh*
Silver Keys.
Lots of Rogers at this years show.
Home entertainment center redefined.
Very rare - an aluminum Camco piccollo.
CC drums. Abalone like you've always dreamed.
REAL marine pearl!
Tables of great old stuff.
Todd Trent brought some great Ludwig prototypes and one offs. They sold as fast as Bill could sign them.
A stockpile of parts.
John Aldridge of NSMD
Wall to wall snare drums!
Rat Trap.
I mean really...what can you say?
Drumsmith.com sponsors Vintage Drummer - great guys doing a great magazine!
Only in Chicago would you see one of these...
...or one of these.
Proud as a ....
Johnny Craviotto brought lots of the best.
  
From front left to right: Jeff Quay, Giovanni Chiarini, Markus Kamp, Nick Amoroso, Phil Galante, Mike Henry, Paul Mason.
Jeff's office.
It was Nick's bithday so we celebrated by getting him free deserts wherever we ate.
Serious fun!
From the left: Ronn Dunnett, Giovanni Chiarini, Markus Kamp, Phil Galante, Paul Mason, Mike Henry, Nick Amoroso.
Best caption wins $20. ;)
And yet another free desert...all we had to do was sit through the singing!