Frankfurt 09 gallery: Musikmesse in pictures

Tom Porter / Blog, Blog, Blog, Drums, Guitars, Tech, Top Post / Mon 6th Apr 2009 15:55 pm

coffee-machine1While 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-machine

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?

leopard-skin-keytar1

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

akai-miniak

Akai Miniak synth: photographed, filmed, wanted…

fender-custom-shop

Fender Custom Shop… mmmm, Fender Custom Shop

reactable1

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

peavey-jaws

When Peavey met Jaws…

alesis-dm6

Alesis DM6 electronic drum kit…

alesis-practice-pad

…and the e-Practice Pad

marshall-limo

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

dave-mustaine

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

chris-wickett

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

klanginitiative-cube-kit

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

gibson-raw-power1

A row of sheer Raw Power courtesy of the Gibson stand

openlabs-opensynth

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

ludwig-liverpool-4

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

orange-wall

A wall of Orange

orange-amps

More Orange. But then again, not orange


pizza2
This pizza was called The Fire. It was very hot. There was no tomato in it. Just cheese and Jalapenos. And black olives

joe-satriani-feet

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

joe-satriani

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

yamaha-ncx

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

roland-ax-synth

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

vox-phantom

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

spooky-fireball

Spooky fireball guitar thing

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