Frankfurt 09 gallery: Musikmesse in pictures
While much of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009 was caught on video, sometimes it’s a single picture that can paint a thousand words. So here’s an entire book’s worth: a gallery of gear, rock stars and, er… pizza.
Musikmesse in pictures

Coffee fail: what happened to the humble kettle, bag of unidentified brown granules and fully-meltable plastic stirrers you used to find in hotel rooms?

A Stoneboard leopard-skin keytar? 30 minutes into the show? Only in Frankfurt…

Akai Miniak synth: photographed, filmed, wanted…

Fender Custom Shop… mmmm, Fender Custom Shop

The Reactable. It’s going into production, don’t you know?

When Peavey met Jaws…

Alesis DM6 electronic drum kit…

…and the e-Practice Pad

The Marshall limo arrives – this is how Dave Mustaine rolls in Frankfurt…

And believe it or not, that is Dave Mustaine demoing his new signature Marshalls… it was loud. And dark

Intrepid reporter Chris Wickett says “sleeping is cheating.” Is that TWO empty glasses?

Klanginitiative cube kit: they’ll be all the rage next year (maybe)

A row of sheer Raw Power courtesy of the Gibson stand

While checking out Open Labs’ DBeat, we couldn’t walk past this Opensynth without snapping

Ludwig Liverpool 4 drums: a faithful recreation of Ringo’s 60s kit

A wall of Orange

More Orange. But then again, not orange

This pizza was called The Fire. It was very hot. There was no tomato in it. Just cheese and Jalapenos. And black olives

Green pedal, red pedal, orange trainers. It can only be…

…Joe Satriani at the Vox Q and A. Notice MR’s Chris Vinnicombe stage left

Yamaha NX: nylon strings are all the rage, you see

Here’s a picture of a Roland Ax-Synth. Just because…

A Vox Phantom: a proud member of MusicRadar’s Guitar Porn Series

Spooky fireball guitar thing
Tags: Akai, Alesis, Drums, fender, Frankfurt, Gibson, Guitars, Hi-Tech, Marshall, MusicRadar, Orange, Peavey, pedals, star, Synth, video, Vox, Yamaha
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