Andy Timmons
Andy Timmons (born July 26, 1963 in Evansville , Indiana , United States ) is an American rock or fusion guitarist and studio musician.
Andy Timmons released a considerable number of albums and worked for his own projects or as a studio musician with numerous well-known American musicians. He became better known through the release of the first album of the American hard rock band Danger Danger , with which he recorded two studio albums.
At the age of thirteen, Timmons became interested in playing guitar, which is why he formed his first band, Taylor Bay . He later started reading books about studio guitarists like Steve Lukather and Larry Carlton . Following the studio scene, he studied classical concert guitar for two years , but later completed a music degree in jazz at the University of Miami .
Andy Timmons is known for his particularly virtuoso lead guitar playing and his harmoniously well-composed instrumental titles .
The guitar company Ibanez , for which Timmons acts as an endorser , developed a special model ("Signature Guitar") adapted to his needs: The Ibanez AT-100 SB was built in 1999 in a limited edition of 175 pieces. After a short break as an endorser, Ibanez announced at the end of 2008 that they would be working again with Timmons. The Ibanez AT-100 CL has been manufactured in unlimited quantities since 2009. At the American music fair NAMM in January 2013, a cheaper sister model of the AT-100 made in Indonesia, the Ibanez AT-10P, was presented. Encouraged by the positive response to a rig tour video, in which a live white AT model with a rosewood fingerboard was presented, another signature model followed in 2014, the AT10RP-CLW. Timmons prefers to play Lone Star amplifiers from the US manufacturer Mesa / Boogie , EXL110 guitar strings from the D'Addario brand and Tortex Jazz III picks from Dunlop .
Discography
With Danger Danger
- Same (1989)
- Screw It (1990)
- Cockroach
With Kip Winger
- This Conversation Seems Like a Dream (1996)
With the Simon Phillips Band
- Another Lifetime (1997)
- Out of the Blue (1999)
- Protocol II (2013)
- Protocol III (2015)
solo
- Ear X-Tacy (1994)
- Ear X-Tacy II (1997)
- Orange Swirl (1998)
- And-Thology: Lost Ear X-Tacy Tapes (2001)
- The Spoken and the Unspoken (1999)
- That Was Then, This Is Now (2002)
- Resolution (2006)
- Andy Timmons Band plays Sgt. Pepper (2011)
- Beach Blanket Ringo (2015)
- Live Resolution (2016)
Videos
- Official Bootleg (2002)
- Live Resolution (2008)
Individual evidence
- ↑ It's Official: Ibanez To Re-Issue AT100 !! ( Memento from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.jemsite.com/forums/f18/ibanez-2013-who-has-the-inside-scoop-124112-21.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xTLVJZ5ls
- ↑ http://iheartguitarblog.com/tag/andy-timmons#sthash.ab6F4s1U.dpbs
- ↑ AT10RP ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ http://www.mesaboogie.com/artist/andy--timmons.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CDklxuTS0E
- ↑ http://www.daddario.com/DaddarioArtistDetails.Page?ActiveID=3777&ArtistId=10227&sid=54975d9c-b5de-433f-9b0f-bbbde214948e
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFo4OWYMMU
- ↑ http://www.jimdunlop.com/blog/guitarist-andy-timmons-talks-about-the-tortex®-jazz-pick/
Web links
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Timmons, Andy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Evansville, Indiana |