Winter NAMM Show Day 3 – CoverBand Performance

Jim — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:42:00 +0000

Saturday was a very busy day at the NAMM show. We had many guests including Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater, Joey Castillo from Queens of the Stone Age, Bashiri Johnson who is playing with Whitney Houston, touring and studio master Ron Powell and Karl Perazzo from Santana.

However, I have to say that the hit of the day came from the CoverBand 2010 winners and their performance on Saturday night at the Hilton. Check the two clips below for a taste of what happened and for drum phenom Didi Negron’s killer solo.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVgyXk4wHo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2_sL8-VsnQ

WNAMM Show Day 2 – CoverBand Rehearsal

Jim — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:59:09 +0000

LP was a sponsor of the CoverBand 2010 amateur musician contest this past year. The winners were flown to the NAMM show and will perform on Saturday night here in Anaheim. I was lucky enough to catch some of the first rehearsal. I will say there was some trepidation. When you put 7 musicians, who have never met before, in one room and tell them to play, anything can happen. What makes this even more challenging is when your only knowledge of their is abilities is from a 2 minute video clip. I was lucky enough to catch some of the first rehearsal and I will say there was some trepidation as to what might happen. After a bit of tuning and noodling around they jumped into their first song, it was a bit clunky as they tried to connect with each other. Then, it happened. The groove was laid down and they started to lock in. Here is a quick clip of some of that rehearsal.

Latin Percussion Official Blog Site » Cover Band Contest

Winter NAMM Show Day 3 – CoverBand Performance

WNAMM Show Day 2 – CoverBand Rehearsal