Excellent guitarist Chris Poland is scheduled to appear at the NAMM (North American Musical Merchants) Show early next year (Jan. 15-18, 2009) at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. If you live in the area and have a connection to get you in, go check him out.

According to BlabberMouth.net, Chris will appear at a Yamaha Guitar signing at 1:00 and Eminence Speakers performance demo and signing at 3:30.

His band, OHM:, is a seriously kick-ass fusion of progressive metal, jazz fusion, and rock. Their new CD is called Circus of Sound. Based on Chris’s website, it looks like OHM: has a few club dates lined up. They’re definitely worth checking out.

Here’s OHM: playing Peanut Buddah (from OHM:).

Update: Dec. 29, 2008

Just found OHM:’s page on MySpace, which has some tunes to listen to.