I took nowhere near as many pictures as I had hoped to (I get sidetracked by good music and talking very easily) but here are the few I have.
First off, Ray W. in front of his Indignias. Finest $104 speaker you'll ever hear.

Kamikari and friend and Army.

AK member of the year Mark the Fixer. Great acceptance speach Mark. You are truly deserving. :thmbsp:

Here's my vote for the purdiest system at the Fest. :D

Here's members Cosmos and Retro Stereo (my musical nirvana moment came in Cosmos room but more on that later).

Squidward picking out a few tunes.

Here's Ray W., Fisherdude, Ozmoid and Copper. Copper got the doorprize I lusted after the most, the Black Sabbath album. :music:

Cableguy in the act of snapping a few.

Ed!! It was great to see you again, and hopefully we'll get together again soon.

I'm always happy to make further Anthony Phillips recommendations too :yes:

Dwojo. Dave's smiling because he's just subjecting me to a second straight year of Christmas music torture. :D

Member Whell and friends.

Here's Celt and Ozmoid.

And part of the Minnesota mafia (the nicest group of guys you'll ever meet), Doucanoe.

And Big Mac, wherever you are, thanks for the finest musical moment of the fest; In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida on Cosmo's huge JBLs. Keep on rockin' my friend. :rockon:

Ed!! It was great to see you again, and hopefully we'll get together again soon.

I'm always happy to make further Anthony Phillips recommendations too :yes:

Thanks Walker and back atcha. I'll send my reviews!

Ed, it was great seeing you again and thanks so much for the cds.

Thanks for the faces to the names shots those are great!

Thanks for the pics!
Regards,
Jim

Very cool... thanks for the pics!

Damn are you guys gettin old :D Just kidding all, good to see you since I couldn't have the pleasure this year of being there.

Thanks for the pictures!!

Great photos, Ed. Missed AKFest again. Maybe next year.

Looks like a great group of folks to hang out with. Thanks for the pictures!

Great photos, Ed. Missed AKFest again. Maybe next year.

Then it's confirmed! :thmbsp::D

Dwojo. Dave's smiling because he's just subjecting me to a second straight year of Christmas music torture. :D


How'd you know why I was smiling?? :D

Great pics, so nice to put a name with the face, thanks!! :thmbsp:

Member Whell and friends.


If I remember correctly, the "friend" closest to the camera is AK member FiddleFye.

Great to see you again, Ed. That's twice so far this year. Hopefully the number is going up.

Ray

It was really great to finally meet and shoot the bull with you Ed!

I was mentioning to Greg on the way home, that walking back into the room and see that you were back for another visit always put a smile on my face :thmbsp:

RC

Yeah, thanx for the "people pics"- they mean much more to me than gear pics do...Altho I DO enjoy lookin' at those, too...

Yes, thanks for posting the pics with names. For those of us who couldn't make it to the Fest, it's nice to at least see pics of some of the people we wish we could have met.

It's reassuring to know that some of these guys I've been "chatting" with on AK for all these years aren't really fifteen year old punk freaks winding me up; they're actually a bunch of OLD guys ... just like me! :D

Joking aside, it is nice to put names to faces. Just wish I could make it to one of these (hint to Grumpy: don't stop 'em yet! :no:) and actually meet all these nice folk. Looks like everyone had a good time, as expected.

If I remember correctly, the "friend" closest to the camera is AK member FiddleFye. Ray

That's correct. He had some pretty wild, but great sounding, music that he wanted to play through the Econowaves. If you heard Grogorian chants on Sunday afternoon, it may have been one of his CD's!

Ed,

Thanks for your photo effort. It's great to see pics associated with all these post messages we see.

Great pics, and very thoughtful to identify the culprits