Alterbridge Namm 2005 Report!!
 

Well guys, I'm back from NAMM, boy was it tiring, I must have walked close to 20 miles within the convention center. I have to admit the that trip was worth while because Alterbridge DID play at the PRS party on Friday night. I have tons of shot's too many to count right now. I also video taped the entire show but unfortunately the sound quality is very poor. The video quality is A+!! The reason the sound quality was bad was because I was standing underneath Mark so the sound is all distorted and you don't really hear Miles's voice beacue Brians bass drew it all out. I did film the first 3 songs from further back so those came out ok and the best one is prolly "In Loving Memory". The video is awesome!

The party started with Carlos Santana at 7:30 , then Dave Navarro , Alterbridge didn't come on until about midnight, they played what seemed to be a pretty long time, about 3 covers also and they invited a couple of friends onstage to Jam with them. One of them was his friend Michael Angelo.

Victoria was standing next to me on the floor, she looks very pretty, she has a very natural look to her which is common in mother's to be She looked like she was having agood time but i can tell she was getting a bit tired too.

OK, I have to tell this funny story now. I wanted to tell Mark this story but he wasn't at NAMM on Saturday, I think they were playing a show that night somewhere else, so Mark , if you ever read this, send me a PM or something cause it's funny.

I was right up front, it was late and most of the crowd had gone home already, Alterbridge was playing to a crowd of no more than 150 people of which maybe 35 were up front, large gaps inbetween everyone, it felt like I was watching a new band that no one knew about, anyways, there's this guy standing behind me, rockin out with Mark, then he shouts, "Mark, you rock"!! , Mark looks over at him , smiles, grabs a pic from his mic stand, and throws it at the guy. I see the pic fly over my head. Next thing I know the guy is looking for the pic everywhere behind me and he can't find it, he must have looked for about 10 minutes, he never found it. Hmmm, what happened to the mysterious dissapearing pic? Guess What. Later on that night, I reached into my back jean pocket and there I found the Alterbridge pic that Mark had thrown at this guy!!!!!! The chances of something like this happening are close to non-existent!! I couldn't beleieve that this pic landed in my back pocket, what a trip!!! I gotta say, that along with everything else, made my night.

Alterbridge rocked the house, they played awesome and everyone had a great time, a very very intimate show.

Here's Mark trying out a Kustom amplifier. He was rippin it up for about 5 minutes on the guitar, pretty neat to watch.

Dude, I can't believe you caught that pic that way. That's amazing.

here's another for ya :)

http://www.fototime.com/9FEBAA2AB6B9A27/orig.jpg

That is friggin awesome, musicman. Glad you had a great time and got the pic. Very cool!

Thanks, I'm going to post a video in the next few minutes of "In Loving Memory" filmed live at the PRS party last night by me ;)

Sweet. Who all else did you see? I saw a bunch of pictures of Vinnie Paul, Zakk Wylde and Jerry Cantrell :wub:

Yeah, I saw all those guys, typical NAMM show, same guys every year, I saw Malmsteem this year so that was cool.


OK, here's the video, I'm not sure how much bandwith I have available so I guess first come first serve :)

http://www.fototime.com/CC6BA7FAD27A8C8/orig.wmv

Damn firewalls at work. I can't see it :(

here's another stage shot


http://www.fototime.com/1E1EA5B8CE184C1/orig.jpg

you mentioned Jerry Cantrell:


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musicman,

So glad you had such a good time man. Thanks very much for the pixs, are AWESOME and the clip.....thanks for share those. :D :D :D

Did you try right clicking the link and saving it as? That's what I did(and I have ZoneAlarm firewall) and it worked fine for me.

Anyway, sounds like you had an awesome time!

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. Thanks!! I love that man in shades! Plus, he was wearing an Alice shirt, a very cool one for the Dirt album.

Here's Myles, he was great. Seems like a really nice guy, before the show at NAMM I was sitting outside by the curb and he pulled up right next to me with a girl, I looked at him and he looked back, I was tired and didn't say anything to him, the only thing that would have come out of my mouth was "you rock man!" but I'm sure he's heard that before so I just left it at that.

http://www.fototime.com/876549F7C2C9300/orig.jpg

Are you a photographer or did you just snap photos for yourself? Those photos are great. What kind of camera did you use?

And do you happen to know what the full setlist was?

Here's another Mark shot, giving it his all!

http://www.fototime.com/9DA9E5BB332E806/orig.jpg

Hi Steve,

I'm an aspiring freelance photographer, I just got into it so I'm just starting out. This show was great practice for me. I wish I would have shot more but my flash was getting exhausted because I was using the same batteries the whole weekend, I got about 50 shots of the show.

My camera is a Canon EOS 10D digital.

I usually don't pay much attention to the setlist. I should have grabbed the setlist, it was on the floor within reach. I'll have to go over the entire video an write the songs down.

I have a cool segment where Mark invites 2 other guitar players onstage and has them shred as fast as they can, then Mark finishes off by shredding himself, I'll post it soon.

Paul

Here's Myles looking onto Tremonti's guitar, yeah, we're in tune alright!

http://www.fototime.com/AB72A1C8A54B65F/orig.jpg

Here's a B&W

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Rockin out!!:


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OK, here's the last one , this is Mark and Dave checking out a guitar being held by Paul Reed Smith.

Dave has a new signature PRS out, also PRS mentioned that they are not shipping anymore Tremonti PRS's right now due to legal reasons from Gibson, Mark told Dave that it "broke his heart".

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dude, those pics are awesome! thanks for sharing!!!

He Made an Extended Intro! Tight!

Which Guitar is that? It looks like a Natural Flame Top in the B&W... is it the Wine Red Flame Top mark has? It Doesn't Look like it has a burst to it so it can't be the Charcoalburst Can it?

Here's a piece of Broken Wings Video:


http://www.fototime.com/9E089D9AC38125A/orig.wmv

Here's the guitar top your asking about in color.

http://www.fototime.com/0D434D5464AE9E0/orig.jpg

I see your a Zakk Wylde fan, I didn't get any good shots of him, I know that he played on Friday night, I think at House of Blues, here's the crummy photo I got of the side of his head :)

http://www.fototime.com/DCE3B4A83D1EFA8/orig.jpg

Oh ok... Tigers Eye

Hah... thanks... I saw pics of the Dean Booth... Seems like a pretty Fitting Tribute to Dime

Here's the video of the guitar solos, Mark solos last.

http://www.fototime.com/52443D351AFAF4B/orig.wmv

Those pics rule. Excellent job. I love the b&w of Mark :D

those pics are amazing! i'll watch the vids as soon as they're done downloading. i can't wait!

Thanks for all the great stuff, Musicman! The pictures were amazing and I'm downloading the videos right now. I wish I could have gone.


H-D :pimp:

No rush at all but if and when you get a chance musicman, can you go through your video and write down the setlist? I'm trying to keep an archive of setlists the band has performed...

Thanks!

Wooowww Musicman, i loved your videos...speechless. I specially loved the one with Troy Stentina on it. I wish i was there, it must be awesome and so intimate. You can see Mark so happy, tho.
Thanks again,beautiful pixs too. :D :D :D :D

wow ,those videos are great. looking forward to the complete one :D !
Thanks a thousand times for them , Great JOB !!!

Musicman, those pics are fantastic!! Thanks for sharing them!!

****damn, Mark's got some pretty teeth. :D

Beautiful pics!!! Thank You! :smokin: