Summer NAMM 2021 is happening – and it’s in person

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We’ve lost two NAMM conventions to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but take heart: Summer NAMM 2021 has been announced – and it’s in person.

Dates for the convention, to take place, per usual, in Nashville, are scheduled for July 15-17.

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Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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