Andy Timmons
Encyclopedia
Andy Timmons is an American guitarist
who has played in the bands Danger Danger
, Pawn Kings, and Andy Timmons Band (ATB). He has also released several solo albums and has worked as a session guitarist. As a session player, he has been featured on CDs by drummer Simon Phillips
, a live CD with Olivia Newton-John
(Timmons has been her music director-guitarist for several U.S. tours), two albums by Kip Winger
, recording sessions for Paula Abdul
and Paul Stanley
, and radio and television jingles. He has also played alongside Steve Vai
, Joe Satriani
, Paul Gilbert
, Eric Johnson
, Steve Morse
, Mike Stern
, Ace Frehley
, Ted Nugent
, Reb Beach
, and Pierre Bensusan
, as well as some of his favorite 1960s singing stars such as the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, and Gordon Waller.
He has released two CDs on Favored Nations
, the first being That Was Then, This Is Now and Resolution
on May 2, 2006. Resolution
is actually listed as being recorded by Andy Timmons Band and features Mike Daane on bass and Mitch Marine on drums.
, he toured the world opening for Kiss
and Alice Cooper
, sold over a million records worldwide, and had two #1 videos on MTV
, plus amassing a discography that includes seven solo releases that range from guitar instrumentals, to blues, and even a Beatles/Elvis Costello
-inspired collection of pop tunes.
As a session player, he's been highly featured on CDs by drummer Simon Phillips
, a live CD with Olivia Newton-John
(Timmons has been her music director-guitarist for several U.S. tours), two internationally acclaimed CDs by Kip Winger
, recording sessions for Paula Abdul
, Paul Stanley
, and countless radio
and television
jingles. He has also played alongside many of his heroes such as Steve Vai
and Joe Satriani
(as a regular guest on their G3 tours in Dallas), Eric Johnson
, Steve Morse
, Mike Stern
, Ace Frehley
, Ted Nugent
, and Pierre Bensusan
, as well as some of his favorite '60s singing stars such as the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore
, and Gordon Waller
.
According to his website, Timmons's hometown is Evansville, Indiana
. However, he currently resides in Dallas, Texas
.
The Andy Timmons Band released their new album, entitled "The Andy Timmons Band Plays Sgt. Pepper" on October 24th, 2011.
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
who has played in the bands Danger Danger
Danger Danger
Danger Danger is an American glam metal band, formed in 1987 in Queens, New York. Despite enjoying moderate success in the U.S. with their debut album Danger Danger, the band vanished from the radar due to legal problems and changes in its line-up....
, Pawn Kings, and Andy Timmons Band (ATB). He has also released several solo albums and has worked as a session guitarist. As a session player, he has been featured on CDs by drummer Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...
, a live CD with Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
(Timmons has been her music director-guitarist for several U.S. tours), two albums by Kip Winger
Kip Winger
Charles Frederick Kip Winger is an American rock musician, both a member of the hard rock band, Winger, and a solo artist.-Early days:Winger was born in Denver, Colorado to parents who were both jazz musicians....
, recording sessions for Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits...
and Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen , better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's...
, and radio and television jingles. He has also played alongside Steve Vai
Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....
, Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
, Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...
, Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson is an American guitarist. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, gospel and country and western music into his recordings...
, Steve Morse
Steve Morse
Steven J. "Steve" Morse is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his work in the hard rock band Deep Purple since 1994. He began his career to form the unique styled instrumental rock band Dixie Dregs in the 1970. Morse's musical inspiration comes from country, funk, jazz fusion, and...
, Mike Stern
Mike Stern
Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he landed a gig with Billy Cobham and then broke through with Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983, and again in 1985. Since then, he launched a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums...
, Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics...
, Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
, Reb Beach
Reb Beach
Reb Beach is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake...
, and Pierre Bensusan
Pierre Bensusan
Pierre Bensusan is a French-Algerian guitarist. As a sephardic Jew, his family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria. The genre of his acoustic guitar music is often characterized as Celtic, Folk, World music, New Age, or Chamber jazz. He has also published three books of music and...
, as well as some of his favorite 1960s singing stars such as the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, and Gordon Waller.
He has released two CDs on Favored Nations
Favored Nations
Favored Nations is a record label started by guitarist Steve Vai and former Guitar Center owner Ray Scherr in 1999. The first album ever released by Favored Nations was Frank Gambale's Coming to Your Senses in 2000...
, the first being That Was Then, This Is Now and Resolution
Resolution (Andy Timmons album)
-Track listing:#Deliver Us – 4:02#Helipad' – 4:47#Ghost of You – 5:07#Resolution – 5:39#Redemption – 3:42#Lydia – 3:43#Gone – 3:49#Move On – 2:58#Beware Dark Days – 6:06#The Prayer / The Answer – 4:52#Headed For The Ditch – 3:18...
on May 2, 2006. Resolution
Resolution (Andy Timmons album)
-Track listing:#Deliver Us – 4:02#Helipad' – 4:47#Ghost of You – 5:07#Resolution – 5:39#Redemption – 3:42#Lydia – 3:43#Gone – 3:49#Move On – 2:58#Beware Dark Days – 6:06#The Prayer / The Answer – 4:52#Headed For The Ditch – 3:18...
is actually listed as being recorded by Andy Timmons Band and features Mike Daane on bass and Mitch Marine on drums.
Biography
As guitarist for metal band Danger DangerDanger Danger
Danger Danger is an American glam metal band, formed in 1987 in Queens, New York. Despite enjoying moderate success in the U.S. with their debut album Danger Danger, the band vanished from the radar due to legal problems and changes in its line-up....
, he toured the world opening for Kiss
KISS (band)
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
and Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
, sold over a million records worldwide, and had two #1 videos on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, plus amassing a discography that includes seven solo releases that range from guitar instrumentals, to blues, and even a Beatles/Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
-inspired collection of pop tunes.
As a session player, he's been highly featured on CDs by drummer Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...
, a live CD with Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
(Timmons has been her music director-guitarist for several U.S. tours), two internationally acclaimed CDs by Kip Winger
Kip Winger
Charles Frederick Kip Winger is an American rock musician, both a member of the hard rock band, Winger, and a solo artist.-Early days:Winger was born in Denver, Colorado to parents who were both jazz musicians....
, recording sessions for Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits...
, Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen , better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's...
, and countless radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
jingles. He has also played alongside many of his heroes such as Steve Vai
Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....
and Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
(as a regular guest on their G3 tours in Dallas), Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson is an American guitarist. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, gospel and country and western music into his recordings...
, Steve Morse
Steve Morse
Steven J. "Steve" Morse is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his work in the hard rock band Deep Purple since 1994. He began his career to form the unique styled instrumental rock band Dixie Dregs in the 1970. Morse's musical inspiration comes from country, funk, jazz fusion, and...
, Mike Stern
Mike Stern
Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he landed a gig with Billy Cobham and then broke through with Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983, and again in 1985. Since then, he launched a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums...
, Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics...
, Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
, and Pierre Bensusan
Pierre Bensusan
Pierre Bensusan is a French-Algerian guitarist. As a sephardic Jew, his family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria. The genre of his acoustic guitar music is often characterized as Celtic, Folk, World music, New Age, or Chamber jazz. He has also published three books of music and...
, as well as some of his favorite '60s singing stars such as the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore is an American singer. She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit "It's My Party", which she recorded at the age of 16. Following the hit, she became one of the most recognized teen pop singers of the 1960s.- Biography :Gore was born in New York City, New York. She was raised in...
, and Gordon Waller
Gordon Waller
Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller was a Scottish singer–songwriter–guitarist, best known as "Gordon" of the 1960s duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was "A World Without Love".-Biography:...
.
According to his website, Timmons's hometown is Evansville, Indiana
Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the largest city in Southern Indiana. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 117,429. It is the county seat of Vanderburgh County and the regional hub for both Southwestern Indiana and the...
. However, he currently resides in Dallas, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
.
The Andy Timmons Band released their new album, entitled "The Andy Timmons Band Plays Sgt. Pepper" on October 24th, 2011.
Danger Danger
- Danger DangerDanger Danger (album)-Track listing:# "Naughty Naughty" - 4:50# "Under The Gun" - 4:39# "Saturday Nite" - 4:17# "Don't Walk Away" - 4:56# "Bang Bang" - 3:56# "Rock America" - 4:54# "Boys Will Be Boys" - 4:58# "One Step From Paradise" - 4:47# "Feels Like Love" - 4:52...
- Down And Dirty LiveDown And Dirty LiveDown And Dirty Live is a Danger Danger live EP. It contains five songs recorded live in 1989 during presentations at Bangles at Denver, Colorado and L'Amour at Brooklyn, New York.-Track listing:# "Boys Will Be Boys"# "Bang Bang"# "Groove Or Die"...
- Screw It!Screw It!Screw It! is Danger Danger's second full length album. It was released on October 1, 1991 on Epic Records. The album was recorded at New River Studios in Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
- CockroachCockroach (album)Cockroach is a Danger Danger album released in 2001 as a 2 CD set. One CD features singer Ted Poley and the other CD features singer Paul Laine....
Solo
- Ear X-TacyEar X-TacyEar X-tacy is a 1994 album by instrumental rock solo artist Andy Timmons.-Track listing:#"Carpe Diem" - 3:59#"Turn Away" – 2:13#"Remember Stevie" – 5:18#"Cry For You" – 6:56#"Farmer Sez" – 1:46#"Electric Gypsy" – 4:34#"I Have No Idea" – 5:36...
(1994) - I Still Have the Best Name Ever (1995)
- Ear X-Tacy 2 (1997)
- Orange SwirlOrange SwirlOrange Swirl is a 1998 album by instrumental rock solo artist Andy Timmons. The heavily Beatles/Elvis Costello-influenced disc features 12 original tunes and one Lennon/McCartney classic, "She's Leaving Home".-Track listing:# "Please Come Home"...
(1998) - The Spoken and the Unspoken (1999)
- Here Comes the Son - An Acoustic Christmas (2006)
- And-Thology 1 & 2 (2000)
- That Was Then, This Is Now (2002)
Andy Timmons Band
- ResolutionResolution (Andy Timmons album)-Track listing:#Deliver Us – 4:02#Helipad' – 4:47#Ghost of You – 5:07#Resolution – 5:39#Redemption – 3:42#Lydia – 3:43#Gone – 3:49#Move On – 2:58#Beware Dark Days – 6:06#The Prayer / The Answer – 4:52#Headed For The Ditch – 3:18...
(2006) - Plays Sgt. Pepper (2011)