Musikmesse 2010: From The Basement
Photo gallery: The strangest sights of Frankfurt
Without a doubt, the best band at Frankfurt
T-Rex Engineering beer
Plastic Fabtastic Four
A massive orange ear
Could they be any whiter?
It's always Christmas on the Sandberg stand...
ESP Natural Angel
The merch stand was excellent this year
Guitar Sofa...
...to go with the Piano Table
Wrong Moog
Mit einen Vorwort von Brian May
Union Jack Explorer
Wowsers
Animal print keytar
Vinyl floor
Vinyl record drum kit
The dancing pink JCB
Peace out
Tom Porter worked on MusicRadar from its mid-2007 launch date to 2011, covering a range of music and music making topics, across features, gear news, reviews, interviews and more. A regular NAMM-goer back in the day, Tom now resides permanently in Los Angeles, where he's doing rather well at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).
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