Andy Timmons

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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

Andy Timmons
Andy Timmons

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

  1. ↑ It's Official: Ibanez To Re-Issue AT100 !! ( Memento from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.jemsite.com/forums/f18/ibanez-2013-who-has-the-inside-scoop-124112-21.html
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xTLVJZ5ls
  5. ↑ http://iheartguitarblog.com/tag/andy-timmons#sthash.ab6F4s1U.dpbs
  6. ↑ AT10RP ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ http://www.mesaboogie.com/artist/andy--timmons.html
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CDklxuTS0E
  9. ↑ http://www.daddario.com/DaddarioArtistDetails.Page?ActiveID=3777&ArtistId=10227&sid=54975d9c-b5de-433f-9b0f-bbbde214948e
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFo4OWYMMU
  11. ↑ http://www.jimdunlop.com/blog/guitarist-andy-timmons-talks-about-the-tortex®-jazz-pick/

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personal data
SURNAME Timmons, Andy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Evansville, Indiana