I know some guys who are setting up FOR the NAMM show (they work for the company that sets up the booths and the other construction-related things) and they will then be getting into mischief on the convention floor after they are done working (they are also musicians), but I won't be in the middle of that madness, thankfully. A friend of mine was even going to come and stay with me just so he would be in town to work the NAMM show with the other guys, but changed his mind...I think. I still may get a last minute call next week!
NAMM keeps jumping around. Two years ago, it was in Santa Monica, in kind of a different format/layout, and last year it was a smaller event at the L.A. Convention Center.