Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
Ron " Bumblefoot " Thal ( born September 25, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY, actually Ronald Blumenthal ) is an American rock guitarist, composer and producer. He is a member of Guns N 'Roses and divides there along with DJ Ashba and Richard Fortus the lead and rhythm guitar.
- 3.1 Signature and Custom Vigier Guitars Vigier Excalibur 3.1.1 Bfoot Signature
- 3.1.2 Vigier Fretless Guitar Surfreter
- 3.1.3 B.B.F.S.C.G. ( Bumblefoot Swiss Cheese Guitar )
The artist name
Bumblefoot has after bacterial infection, called Bumblefoot, named. This term he heard at his wife, who was trained in veterinary medicine.
Music
Ron Thal began at the age of six years to make music. At first he wanted to play bass and drums, but it was not as successful and therefore started to play guitar. His first band he founded at the age of seven years with his brother Jeff. At the age of eight, he first received private guitar lessons. He played in several bands, the interpreted mainly familiar songs from bands like Kiss, Guns N 'Roses and Led Zeppelin.
Albums
Ominous Guitarists From The Unknown
His first release on a major release was on the published by Shrapnel Records work " Ominous Guitarists From The Unknown " to which he interpretation of Chopin's " Fantasie" contributed an electric guitar.
The Adventures of Bumblefoot
The first own album was released in 1995 on Shrapnel Records also. The album called The Adventures of Bumblefoot, which he published under the name Ron Thal, has already shown his diverse, experimental play. The music style can best be described as a mixture of hard rock and progressive metal are described with funk, jazz and flamenco influences.
Hermit
His second album Hermit, which was also released on Shrapnel Records, is very different from his debut album. In contrast to the album Bumblefoot, which is mainly instrumental and completely without melodic vocals, you can hear him on " Hermit " sing for the first time. With the emergence of Hermit Ron let go of many different styles of rock music and some of hip-hop influence.
Hands
The first album he was his third album called Hands published under his pseudonym " Bumblefoot ". After the separation of Shrapnel Records, he produced and released the album in 1998 on his own label Hermit Inc.. , The main influences on this album were genres such as hard rock, metal, grunge and Shredding.
9:11
Published in November 2001
Uncool
Published in February 2002
Forgotten Anthology
Published in April 2003
Normal
Published in December 2005
Abnormal
Published on 1 July 2008
Barefoot
Published in December 2008 The acoustic album with five tracks that have been re-arranged for the acoustic version, plus 5 instrumental versions, the radio version of " abnormal" and a version of " Delilah " for guitar and vocals.
Guitars
Bumblefoot is known in addition to its progressive, virtuoso music for its exceptional guitars. At the age of twelve he began to change the look of his guitars, in which he glued with reflective films and images or parts of the body edited / removed. Known models einstanden this as the "Hand Guitar" and the " Swiss Cheese Guitar". He currently plays models of the French luthier Vigier, who designed him several "signature " models and built. For the recordings and concerts with Guns N 'Roses, he used guitars by Gibson, as the Les Paul and Flying V.
Signature and custom Vigier Guitars
Vigier Excalibur Bfoot Signature
In January 2006, the Excalibur Bfoot signature guitar came on the market. This guitar is based on the Vigier Excalibur and was expanded by Ron with a " Roland guitar synth " pickup. In addition, a thimble is integrated into the guitar, which can be easily removed and can be used as a bottleneck. Ron uses this among other things in his song " Guitars Suck" to play higher notes than are permitted under the fingerboard.
Vigier Fretless Guitar Surfreter
Since January 1999, Ron plays regularly Surfreter Fretless Guitar. He has used on numerous original songs, such as " Raygun " and as a guest musician with works of other musicians This unfretted guitar.
B.B.F.S.C.G. ( Bumblefoot Swiss Cheese Guitar )
In January 2005 Vigier made ten copies of Bumblefoot Swiss Cheese Guitar modeled after the Swiss Cheese Guitar, Ron has made in the eighties, even from a " Ibanez Roadstar RS135BK " and to 1997 the guitar was that he used the most. Of the ten guitars are still two pieces owned by Ron Thal. One of them he wants to auction off for charity once the announced Guns N 'Roses album Chinese Democracy will appear.