Anyone going to LIMS?

[ailean]

Good DLR service but yes, Jubilee line's down at the weekend so only sensible interchange to get on is Bank (as Canary Wharf & Canning Town interchanges are on the Jubilee). Waterloo & City line's good from Waterloo but it doesn't run on Sundays and closes 8ish on Saturday. From the East you can get on at Stratford, South Lewisham/Greenwich (10 mins from London Bridge stn) but otherwise that's it.

Was looking at this the other night, there is some stuff going on at Bank as well, might not be able to change there either. We are going to chance it and change at Bank, if not it will be back to Waterloo and an overland to Lewisham to pick up the DLR.

[FELINEGUITARS]

thanks for the heads up feline...
may give it a miss this year...
im sure vigier will be there as i contacted the uk distributor about a guitar yesterday and he claimed he was setting up his stand...

Maybe I just missed Vigier when I trolled round......

It's odd - I did enjoy myself and was good to catch up with people, but I cant see it carrying on in its current format

I find it odd that a lot of the changes that were made were to get the likes of Fender and Gibson etc to exhibit, and this year neither of them (and others) did leaving a wird half full feeling in the hall.

I feel that they are so desperately trying to make it a big corporate event - and look and feel like NAMM that they are losing the essense of what made it really great in past years.

It is a shame they cant roll the clock back and use Wembley again, which was a lot cheaper venue to hire.
Run it for 2 days only and ram the place full of guitar makers from all over the UK and abroad too.
MAke itinteresting and exciting for all concerned.

[morgasm]

going to be there most of the day 2morrow with a mate. hope its not as bad as feline makes it out to be lol. also diezel wont be there which is a shame... would have liked to hear the schmidt (however u spell that...)

[ailean]

Yeah I was hoping Diezel would be there, but they are at Download this weekend. (with one of my cabs I should add, if anyone goes please be gentle with the front loaded V30!)

[Johnny Mac]

Had a good day at the IMS. It is like Jonathon says a lot smaller than previous years. Its a shame its gone that way as there are so many companys missing, however I still enjoyed it.
I had a go on two Vanquish guitars. They're gorgeous instruments and play really well. The ones I tried had a pair of MQ's which sound fantastic as always and a pair of Crawlers.
I sat in on a Q&A session with some guys from Sound on Sound which was great. Demo'd Superior Drummer which looks really good. Plus watched lots of demos of various recording software things. the demonstrators were knocking up tunes in minutes. Hopefully I may even be able to do that soon!

Edit, I had a go on a Moog guitar too. Its a mad thing. The infinite sustain is great fun, in a decent cranked amp it would be evil!!

[ailean]

I wasn't that impressed really. It was ok, but I won't go again unless I have enough money to snap up a bargain. PRS had some good deals on offer.

[FELINEGUITARS]

I was there again today
Yes - I missed the Vigier and also the Washburn/Randall stand last time - must have missed an aisle when going round

Again I enjoyed myself and bought a cool guitar strap from an Australian company called DSL - one with a lightning bolt on it
Really liked what they had on offer
They had some nice Lemmy/Motorhead Signature straps which looked cool
I'm not a Motorhead fan but liked the Iron Cross and Ace of Spades designs (typical Lemmy)



Think I allowed myself to have my guitar player head on rather than my businessman head and had some fun trying out a few guitars.

That was fun but ultimately what it reminded me was how much I love my own guitars.

But I did come home wanting to play guitar so it was a good show from that point of view alone

I will have to review my ideas about showing stuff next year as it is fun doing the show (wish it came without financial considerations)

[Gizmo]

I was a little shocked at how much smaller it felt. Even though it was half of the building, alot of that side was; the stage, shops like andertons/guitar village etc and up the other end, colleges and schools etc.. so basically it was much smaller.

i also thought the stands were more sparse. ie more spread out to pad it out a bit. its wierd how its changed in one year.

aside from that i had a good time. Lots of nice gear to try and hear.

I also thried the MQ and crawler vanquish guitars. They are very well made and sound great.

I thought the Rob williams guitars also look amazing. They are like the UK equivilent Suhr guitar i think.

The amps i liked were:

The Vox Night Train. Very impressed with the range of sounds from Jazz to dirty.
Blackstar. The new range are very good value. They were demoing the 200W one with Jamie Humphries. They had it with the dial set to 20W so it was epic at lower volumes with such versitility having 4 channels.
The nicest clean amp I heard was a little 1x12 two rock jet. Very bluesy and so warm.
Nicest Sustain and crunch by far came from an 18W Buddha super drive. The bass response on this little thing was amazing considering its size.

Also.. the show had a slight Max Power feel with quite a few women walking round in not much and on stands giving out leaflets. Not going to complain!

Met the PRS guy from the Youtube demo ads. He was demoing the PRS's each hour and Simon McBride who I really like was playing and was very good.

Also got a signature from Jim Marshall. He looked pretty old but was determined to please the fans and did a good job.

[Philosoful]

Diezel at Download?

I went Download Friday and this Saturday :lol:good times.

I lost a lot of respect for Vai at how much he charged + what has been said in this thread. That's quite sad.

It was my first time so I utterly loved it but my friends said last year was way better. I loved checking out all the small companies though, I think I do more than the big ones as I know what's going on with them most of the time anyway.

Highlights for me = playing an octave Mandolin + Harp; such wonderful sounding instruments, definitely going to get both in time. There was some Taylor acoustic in the middle section that had 1 pickup visible but under in it's body which produced one of the nicest clean tones I've ever heard and Organic guitars + the people on the stand were awesome! Don't know if anyone caught me living there for quite a while touchstyleing away but the guy was really friendly/shown me Piezos which I'd always wanted to try (And utterly loved) and upon me playing for a bit he said they were going for a fag break but that I could stay and play as long as I liked :lol:I briefly became a salesman.

So yeah, had a wonderful time! :)

[Johnny Mac]

i only took a few pics at the show. Here's one of Guthrie Govan and Oli who is demo-ing the Vanquish Guitars.

[Lew]

Nice one Johnny, Guthrie needs Palpatines robes"COME TO THE SHRED SIDE"