Loni Specter

........................For immediate release: PREMIERE GUITAR MAGAZINE is our new "Presenting Sponsor" Look for great things to happen in the very near future. www.premierguitar.com2nd Annual NEW YORK AMP SHOW When; Sat, May 10, 2008 Hours; 10:AM-6:pmLocation; Embassy Suites Hotel 121 Centennial Ave, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 The consumer event will adhere to the same format as the three highly successful Los Angeles shows. Manufacturers will demonstrate within their own private rooms with the ability to regulate and control volume at their discretion. Musicians are encouraged to bring their favorite guitar or bass, and play through the largest gathering of tone machines ever assembled on the East Coast.“Tone Wizards” seminars participants include; Obeid Kahn (Reason),Mark Sampson (Star), Richard Goodsell (Goodsell), Moss Hudson (Brown Note), Alan Phillip (Carol-Ann) Biil Yates (Venice Amp Repair), Myles Rose (G.A.B.) A popular feature of the LA show will make it’s east coast debute; “The Pedalboard From Hell”, with over 25 state of the art effects. Over 40 exhibitors including; Fender, 65amps, Marshall, Vox, Celestion, Metro, Electro-Harmonix, Line 6, Cameron, Fuchs, Goodsell, Hoffman, Valvetech, Tube Wonder, JCA Circuits, Reinhardt, Gadow, Egnater, Fargen, Pure Sixty Four, Industrial, Fluxtone, Top Hat, Goodtone, Mad Professor, Louis Electric, Doug’s Tubes, Antique Electronic, and more.Prizes from; Line 6, Brown Note, Marshall, Fender, Fuchs, Goodtone.Open to the public, $20. at the door, free parkingSponsores include; PREMIERE GUITAR MAGAZINE (presenting sponsor) Guitar Jam Daily, Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting, Music Connection Magazinewww.ampshow.com for registration form, updates and information Produced by Loni Specter Productions [email protected](818) 992-0745The show will have over 60 companies represented. Mark your calendars and make your plans to attend. I promise you a day you will remember if guitar and bass amplification is your interest. We also always have a few of the finest pickup,pedal and guitar makers on hand. The show is about NEW equipment only, so please understand that it is different than all the regional vintage and used gear shows that are everywhere, every weekend! OLD NEWS............. The show was a blast and next year will be 2 DAYS!!!!!!!!! 3rd Annual LA AMP SHOW Oct 6th, 2007 "Tone Wizards" two panels Guitar and new seperate Bass open forum! over 70 exhibitors (EXHIBIT SPACE SOLD OUT) details on the web site www.ampshow.com D'Addario strings to the first 100 people!!! Live on stage-BAD HAGGIS, www.badhaggis.com -presented by HOFFMAN AMPS Live on fire - The Drills, www.myspace.com/thedrills-presented by KASHA AMPS--- For those flying in, arrive at LAX and take the "Fly-a-Way" shuttle to Van Nuys ($6. round trip) The terminal is less than a 1/4 mile from the hotel. If you are staying at the Airtel Plaza Hotel, they will even pick you up for free!._______NEWS The PEDALBOARD FROM HELL is coming together and its something not to be missed!_____________________________________________________ ______________________...................................... ............................................................ ...................................................Loni Specter, born Bronx, N.Y. during the McCarthy hearings on un-American activities.Milestones: at the age of seven, while watching "The Lawrence Welk Show" with Grandma Ethyl, Loni became enamoured with the guitar. (he is still trying to figure Out what the strings are for). .....................................................At age nine Loni invents the skateboard! While riding His homemade scooter Loni rear-ended an ice-cream truck, knocking the wooden crate off the front of the 2x4 wooden beam. With no tools to facilitate repairs, he was forced to leave the crate portion where it lay and proceeded to balance himself on the metal skate-wheeled monster with no hands! the rest is history. Hell on wheels-- Loni sets new Pierce College to Topanga Beach, record on his trusty Yamaha twostroke motorcycle. His canyon carving crazy buddies bestow the moniker "The Dean of Lean"; if God wanted man to go slow, he wouldn't have given us black beauties and gasoline!"The year 1969- Loni goes to "Newport '69" in Northridge California (pre Woodstock) there he sneaks onto the sound and light platform high above the crowd. Later that evening, the guy who handles the follow spot light has to take a "dump" just as the headliner is about to go on stage.(we had been pissing in empty wine jugs all day, avoiding the crush of the crowd) the lighting guy gives Loni a crash course in carbon arc adjusting and abandons the "super trouper" spotlight to Loni---just as Jimi Hendrix hits opening chords to "Foxy Lady". ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- 1972 Loni trades his triumph motorcycle for a pentax camera for the day. He hops a bus chartered by his pals at KPPC radio in Pasadena and heads off to chino prison to shoot pictures of BB King. Within three months he has sold pictures to "Rolling Stone", "Crawdaddy", and the "LA Free Press" he decides to become a photographer.1979 Loni is looking for pretty girls to photograph for an ad for a hair salon in the San Fernando Valley. One of his regular girls brings along a friend to the session. Long dark hair, classic ballerina like beauty. Her name is Demi Moore. He invites her to return for her first ever solo studio session, another night. She brings her fiancée Freddy Moore (you can't win 'em all). We all become fast friends and Loni shoots Freddy and Demi's wedding and numerous pictures of The Kats, Nu-Kats and Boy Next Door, and after a while writes some outside tunes with Freddy and the gang (1983) "Tatoo", "Waltzing Through Life", "Show You How", and more that were performed a few times (See: BFM Live at Wilshire Fine Arts) . ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- 1983 Loni creates the first annual LA Guitar Show establishing the blueprint for consumer music equipment events that still flourish today. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- 2005 The LA AMP SHOW debutes in Los Angeles to industry wide praise. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- 2007 AMP SHOW scheduled for May 5th in New York.