nice to hear I was missed! I started back in 84 or 5 with the first New York show and have done a ton of them and even ran my own show for 10 years. Yes e bay has put a damper on them but it is sure a hell of a lot nice to physically touch an instrument before you buy it. Pretty soon, the show will be havens for heavy stuff that no one likes to or can afford to ship or large bulky items like drums that ship for high dollars. with all that said I still like to go, at every show I see different people, I have made many lifelong friends in columbus (Kim Keller being one of them, I think we met in 89 or something like that) everthing evolves, that one constant is that there will be change.