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The Daddy’s Junky Music “2007 Product Preview Show” was a huge success and what a great time was had by all! Over 1000+ people came through the doors of Daddy’s Boston during the Friday and Saturday event to check out the latest in music gear and technology. Manufacturer reps, product specialists, rock stars and even “Daddy” himself made an appearance this weekend!

Saturday was “Guitar, Amps and Drums” day, and there was some VERY cool stuff on hand…Check it out….

This Gretsch kit is a prototype direct from the Winter NAMM Show and is the ONLY one in the country and is ONLY available at Daddy’s!

Some of the latest that Fender has to offer….

Remember that Ibanez 8 String guitar we mentioned? Here it is!

The amazing Mike Mangini stopped by to rock out on the latest Pearl Drum Kits!

We finally have Mapex! This is the new M Birch!

The Marshall booth was a hot spot over the weekend!

Mr. Robert Godin of Godin Guitars also made an appearance

This was one of my personal favorite pieces of the weekend. Check out this VERY cool Tama snare. There are actual Swarovski Crystal’s in there!

Ibanez/Tama Rep Marcel Lessard and Fred “Daddy” Bramante

It’s amazing how many months it takes to put something like this together and it feels like when the event arrives - it fly’s by! Thanks to all who made it out - we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Be sure to keep checking back this week - I have a few announcements to make!

Candi

The first day of the Daddy’s Junky Music “2007 Product Preview Show” is over and it was a HUGE success! Man, you guys love gear, huh!?! You kept our manufacturer reps and product specialists on their toes!

The day started with Chris Gleason - Daddy’s Sr. VP and Daddy’s Boston GM Hirsh Gardner taking a few minutes to speak to over 40 reps that were on hand today…

First stop for everyone before getting to see the new gear was the prize table where folks were registering to win everything from T-shirts, to hats, to gift cards and everything in between. The grand prize of the weekend, and you will still have time to register on Saturday during “Guitars, Amps and Drums” day is the new and beautiful “BFG” (Barely Finished Guitar) from Gibson! (We will be announcing the winner on Monday)

Next up….all the fun!

Tom Glenn and Robert Marcello from Roland/BOSS prepare for their presentation!

Things are getting busy at the Yamaha booth!

Who doesn’t need the hottest new microphone’s from Shure?!

Is that Eric Clapton hanging at the Digitech booth? Weird….

The M-Audio presentation.

I certainly hope to see you all tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 24) at Daddy’s Boston as we finish up the “2007 Product Preview Show” with the latest in guitars, amps and drums! I got a sneak peek at some of the stuff tonight - WOW!

See you all tomorrow!

What a LONG day we had at Daddy’s Boston today. We were nailing down the final details for Fridays start of the Daddy’s Junky Music “2007 Product Preview Show” and it looks like it going to be great! Gear was being shipped in all day long from the manufacturers, drum kits were being set up, tables ready to go, and in some cases the manufacturers brought in actual booths! Very cool! Hope to see you all this weekend!

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There are only 8 more days until the Daddy’s Junky Music “2007 New Product Show” and there is still soooo much to do - minor details, but still lots of them!

So far we are getting some great feedback from you guys about your excitement to come to Daddy’s Boston to be the first people to get a look at some the new musical instruments and technology expected to come out this year!

There are going to be over 50 manufacturer reps and product specialists on hand throughout the course of the two day event (Fri. 2/23 “Hi-Tech Day” & Sat. 2/24 “Guitars, Drums, Amps and more”) with product presentations going on throughout the day.  In fact, if you want to download the brochure that has all the presentations times, participants etc, check it out here - click me!  . 

And of course, everything in the store will be on sale - including any of the new 2007 items you want to special order!  Plus, there will be prizes from a gift card to a brand new guitar throughout the course of the two days…So much fun!

In the process of getting all of that done, we still have a ton of other events to look forward to including:

*  FREE Roland/Boss clinic at Daddy’s Portsmouth with Robert Marcello on Thursday, February 22 at 6pm 

* The amazing Stu Hamm will be joining us at Daddy’s Boston on Thursday, March 1st for a FREE Hartke clinic.  FREE tickets are available at ALL Daddy’s locations - YOU MUST HAVE A TICKET to get into this event - seating is VERY limited

* Hey drummers - have you ever wished you had a drum tech?  Well, here’s your chance (sort of) - Sabian Cymbals is having a FREE Cymbal Cleaning event at Daddy’s Boston on Monday, March 12 and at Daddy’s Manchester Tuesday March 13!  Bring in your cymbals - doesn’t matter what brand, and the fine folks from Sabian will be cleaning those things up so good, you could use them for mirrors!  Both of these event are also FREE!

* And we round out March with another “6 O’Clock Hang” at Daddy’s Boston, on Tuesday, March 27 with the Jon Finn Band!  The “Hang” is always free!  Great place to hang out with other musicians, here some great live music and have some FREE coffee courtesy of our friends at Dunkin’ Donuts!Š

We have a bunch of other events for the spring coming up…but I’ll let you digest the above first

See you all next weekend!

Candi

Since I last spoke to you guys (all of 2 days ago) - remember, we discussed the possible train wreck that will be the Van Halen tour, The Police getting back together, rock star babies, the VERY cool Daddy’s Junky Music 2007 Product Preview Show at Daddy’s Boston and I left you with me running out the door to drop of Tama Beaters to a certain someone (we’ll get to that in a second). Well, in the all of 2 days since we discussed such topics - a few more things have come up, so let’s get to it.

Let’s begin with the HUGE announcement from Sharon Osbourne that Ozzfest is FREE this year! Are you kidding me! No matter what you think of the woman, good or bad, there is no denying that she is a marketing genius! She can now raise the price of sponsorship based on the fact that, on top of the obvious benefit to being an Ozzfest sponsor, she can now guarantee that their (the sponsors) respective websites will be seen by MILLIONS based on the fact that its the sponsor websites people need to go to to get their free tickets! The woman is freakin’ brilliant!

Then, I finally got the email that I had been waiting for from the folks at Mapex Drums - Daddy’s will be hosting 3 Gregg Bissonette clinics in the spring! YAY! Those of you who have been regulars at Daddy’s clinics have been asking me for years to get Gregg in and unfortunately at the time we were not a Mapex dealer. But, we are now and what a way to kick off Mapex clinics than with Gregg Bissonette himself! We are currently in the booking stages, as soon as the dates are official, we will certainly let you guys know! There are some very cool details that we are working on for these clinics that I can’t wait to tell you about! So excited….

And lastly, just when you think things couldn’t get any cooler at the 2007 Product Preview Show at Daddy’s Boston - you know, the 2 day event (Feb. 23 & 24) where you can check out the latest in gear and music technology before anyone else, plus you can put orders in for said new gear at a great discount, and where there will be product presentations all day long - turns out that the folks at Pearl have enlisted non other than the amazing MIKE MANGINI to do the Pearl Drums presentation and the Roland/BOSS folks have enlisted masterful guitarist Robert Marcello! (Robert will also be doing a FREE Roland/BOSS guitar clinic at Daddy’s Portsmouth on Thursday, February 22 @ 6pm - give the boys in Portsmouth a shout for more details 603-436-1142). It’s going to be an increadible 2 days and best of all - it’s FREE to everyone! Check it out here www.daddys.com

Oh yeah, those Tama Beaters, I dropped those off to Daddy’s pal and Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose Morgan and the boys were in the area for a week doing tour rehersals. So I dropped off the beaters and stuck around to catch some of the rehersals, listened to some new tunes off their upcoming “Alpha” record and had a fantastic dinner with them at this great little place called “A1″.

That’s it for now…

RIP Anna Nicole Smith

There is so much stuff happening I don’t know where to begin!  Do we begin with what is sure to be the biggest nightmare tour of year?  You know who I’m talking about - the long awaited return of David Lee Roth to Van Halen!  WHAT?!  You’re kidding right?  While I’m sure there is and will be excitement for this tour for us ol’ school Van Halen fans, please tell me that you guys at least have your eyes wide open and your expectations low for inevitable clashing of DLR and the brothers Van Halen.  I’ve got a pool going on how many shows deep they get in before they are in opposite buildings…nevermind dressing rooms and busses.  How many shows deep can I put you guys down for?

Next up…THE POLICE ARE TOURING!  YEE HAW!  Now, I know what you are saying, “those guys can’t get along any better than Van Halen!”  While that may be true, at least Sting and Co. were never caught walking around looking like this…

 

 

Ok, who am I kidding…I’ll be at the Van Halen show rockin’ out with the rest of ya! 

Anyway, a HUGE congrat’s go out to Godsmack bassist Robbie Merrill and his wife Heather as they celebrate the birth of their first child, a daughter named Nianni Chay Merrill, born on January 18. She’s VERY cute! 

Also a HUGE congrat’s (I can’t believe I am going to say this) goes out to Kenny Aronoff for his team, The Colts FINALLY winning a Superbowl!  Kenny and family were down on the 40 yard line cheering on the team that came back from an 18 point lead to crush us (”us” meaning us NE Patriots fans) in the playoff game, which got them to the Superbowl.  Happy now Kenny!?  Jeez…

Ok…what else…Oh yeah, don’t forget to tune into WAAF because they are hosting a very cool contest right now that Daddy’s is participating in.  WAAF is asking people to register on their website at www.waaf.com to win a chance to have ZAKK WYLDE perform in your work lunchroom!  That’s right, Zakk is going to come to your work and perform for you and your co-workers!  If you ask him real nice, maybe he’ll talk to your boss for you about that raise!  I mean c’mon…who’s going to say no to Zakk! :)  Also, you can win a Zakk Wylde signature series guitar, courtesy of Daddy’s! 

And last, but certainly not least, please make sure you come to Daddy’s Boston on February 23 and 24 for the “2007 Product Preview Show”!  If you are a gear head, THIS is place to be!  Every year a bunch of us head out to the NAMM show in California to check out the latest in gear and music technology - basically, we get to see all of it before it becomes available to the public.  And since NAMM is not open to the public, we decided to ask the manufacturers if they would bring it to us to show you guys!  You can check out full details here www.daddys.com

That’s it for now…I’m off to go drop off some Tama Beaters to….well…check back tomorrow and you’ll see who they were for

LATER!  Candi