NAMM primer--EB can't help commenting...

[Eric]

>b) see who can get the most porn star autographs

The CES is more popular for this. They have
an "Adult Entertaiment" exhibit in the Sands Center.
(CES starts this Saturday in Vegas, in fact.)
All kinds of fat sweaty little 30-ish guys show up there, 
often with forged badges. (fyi, I am not fat or
sweaty, nor have I ever gone into the adult exhibit.....)

Not to say there aren't some hot wimmen wandering
around at NAMM. Just that they're usually either $30/hr
booth babes, or the bored girlfriend/wife of some 
metal guitarist or somesuch. Male nerditry extends to all
fields of technical endeavour.

>f) try to go all day without buying a $6 Coke and a $9 sandwich

Last year at the LA convention center, the hamburgers were $13.50.
I am not making this up. A no-cost warning--brown-bag it if you can.

>i) bother Bob Moog

More like "brown-nose Bob Moog".
(yo! we know who been doin' that, don't we? heh heh heh)

>n) dealers try to see gear to actually purchase

Oh hell, I've NEVER seen that happen....impossible....

Eric Barbour
METASONIX