“Absurd amount of talent”: Andy Timmons is in the studio with Joe Bonamassa – and the two melody masters are cooking up a virtuosic solo storm

“Absurd amount of talent”: Andy Timmons is in the studio with Joe Bonamassa – and the two melody masters are cooking up a virtuosic solo storm

Andy Timmons’ brand-new solo album is set to include a tasty cooperation with Joe Bonamassa, whose contributions to the upcoming effort have actually been teased in a brand-new clip published to Instagram by the record’s manufacturer, Josh Smith.

Previous Danger guitar player and Ibanez signature artist Timmons is presently tracking the follow-up to 2022 solo album, Electric TruthThe just recently released behind-the-scenes clip reveals the 2 revered blues guitar players trade lightning licks atop a Hammond organ-spiced track.

While Bonamassa sets to deal with the freboard of his Gibson Les PaulTimmons, equipped with his Ibanez ATZ10P-STM, can be seen bounding about the studio complete of energy.

It’s a cooperation that has actually currently got blues guitar fans hot under the collar, with one commenter just specifying: “Absurd quantity of skill”.

“40 seconds is all you get,” checks out Smith’s caption to the video, we think of in referral to the solo JoBo gets to let loose on the upcoming record. “Such a happiness dealing with my good friend, the legend Andy Timmons once again today. If you ‘d have informed 13 years of age me I ‘d be producing my 2nd album for somebody who is such an impact and hero, he ‘d have never ever thought you.

“Can’t wait on you all to hear the product Andy gave the table on this one, killer things,” he includes. “Special thanks to my bro Joe Bonamassa for making the hang and having some enjoyable with us on a tune.”

The other clip published by Smith reveals Timmons and his put together band going through another tune. Throughout the clip, Timmons wields what seems his ’65 Fender Stratocasterin a not-too-common action far from his dependable Ibanez designs. He utilizes the guitar to unfurl a gently driven and extremely emotional solo.

Timmons is back in the studio following the NAMM 2024 launch of his brand-new Keeley Electronics overdrive pedalthe Muse Driver.

“I do not have anything in my sonic world that’s anything like it,” he exclaimed of the pedal, which includes germanium diodes for “full-scale” fuzz tones along with using transparent tidy increases.

“Holy shit, that’s crazy!” he beamed in a demonstration video. “When we crank that increase with the germanium engaged it’s an extremely smooth, singing lead tone. I do not have anything in my sonic world that’s anything like it.”

The launch of the pedal topped a hectic NAMM for Timmons, with a brand-new signature Ibanez ATZ300 model on screen. He likewise rubbed shoulders with Tim Henson of Polyphia, mentioning the Texas-based set will get together for a “tone mission” in the future.

In a surprise to definitely nobody, Joe Bonamassa has actually been rather hectic himself. He’s continued to team up with Epiphone, with the collaboration’s newest development can be found in the type of a signature 1963 SG CustomLast month, Guitar player hailed it as “a stunning-looking guitar that covers practically any musical base”.

The diligent bluesman likewise took Guitar World readers to Nerdville last month throughout a video in which he disclosed the information on an extremely unique “bronchitis” StratocasterIn his GW column, he describes the back story of the 1969 “maple cap” Strat and why he’s called it after a not-very-sexy swelling of the respiratory tracts.

There disappears info about the upcoming Timmons record as things stand, with production still in the works. Anticipate to hear more news from Guitar World as quickly as we have it.

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