Text, images and video by Ronn Dunnett copyright 2007
Use of images, text or video without consent is prohibited.

All images are watermarked.

The opinions expressed in this pictorial are those of the author

OK, who made this Messe?

A few weeks ago when I began compiling this pictorial and the companion travelogue, my wife came in to check on me, wondering where I had been for the past several hours (or was it days?...). I explained I had several hundred shots to go through, edit, color correct and format and that then these all need to be put in some sort of order that made sense, and that then I had to add captions, witty captions in particular as these have become a sort of trademark of the pictorials and were, well...they were expected. To this my loving wife asked 'Does it always have to be so elaborate?'.
If you know anything about me I assume you know my answer.

I managed to capture a pile of great moments from this years Musik Messe and spent several thousand moments trying to compile them into something that made sense.

Of course nothing really changed in Frankfurt from last year. The acrid blue fog still permeated every hall, every restaurant and every bar. My eyes were constantly red and I was hacking up like a cat at a Gund factory.

The selection of artists this year was exceptional -my friends Billy Ward and Dennis Chambers were outstanding as were drumming greats Dave Garibaldi, Ritchie Flores and Horacio Hernandez. I got a few good MPEG clips, so make sure you check those out.

At the end of the pictorial you'll find a little bonus - a pictorial travelogue of the post Messe trip that Paul Mason (Tempus drums) and myself made to Berlin. It may be TMI for some of you, but it is what it is. Maybe you'll learn something - I know Paul and I certainly did.

Vive la Drumsmith!

Enjoy the pics!

Ronn

We'll pick this up where I landed - at the Frankfurt train station. 9 hours on a very comfortable flight thanks to the little blue pill (no, Kelly, the other blue pill)

 

A common thief is captured in the background as Giovanni Chiarini (DRUMIT) is distracted by an accomplice with a camera.

It's always a good day when everything arrives and it's all in one piece.

 

The Dominator II : Revenge of Pig
Pork Pie's Dom goes through the preflight check list

 

Wall fo fame. I brought all of my favourite sounds including the 6.5 x 14 Glossy black Milkwood and some George Way pre-production prototypes.

George Way "Studio" model in White Marine Pearl with single flange hoops.

Paul Mason brought some great Tempus gear. This Copper / champagne number drew a lot fo attention.

Bill Detamore's Pork Pie percussion representing with this custom orange sparkle to black fade, sorta ike a burnt Creamsicle. These sounded great a drew quite a lot of traffic and test pilots. (More on that later)

Cool, but not quite what we had in mind.