Andy Timmons – Electric Truth

At :25s, Andy plays us his AT100 which he claims is his main guitar. His main guitar is a prototype AT100, which was built in 1994. Used on the album "Electric Truth". Source:

Yeah, the centrepiece of almost everything I do is the old Ibanez AT100. This is the prototype from 1994 that I’m still playing. This was particularly on solos like on Shuggy or Apocryphal, or the entire track of Take Me With You. [...] Well, prior to Ibanez, I was a Kramer endorsee. It was when I was with Danger Danger, and at that point, we were getting a lot of MTV video play so we were getting a pretty high profile. We were in all the teen glam metal magazines and all that. Strangely, in 1991, Kramer went out of business, after being on top of the heap with Eddie VanHalen and all of these great players. So, I was in a spot where I needed a company to work with and I was in a good position with a high profile band getting lots of exposure, so most companies at that point wanna work with you, regardless of your band or how you play, it’s about that exposure! For me, I knew I was headed towards where Vai and Satriani were. Ibanez was a likely choice, just because so many of my heroes and eventual friends were already there. The Ibanez A&R guy said, ‘We love you but we don’t like your band. Our program’s kinda full but I’ll see what I can do’. He came back and said they’d like to have me on, so that began a process. This was the first time in my life that somebody said to me, ‘We want to build you your ultimate guitar. What is it?’ And I went, ‘Six strings….I dunno! (laughs) I was always fortunate to have a guitar, and that’s not hyperbole. But to have a company ask that, I was like, I dunno, because I really didn’t know what that is. I’d owned so few guitars and really hadn’t experimented much, so they really went through the process with me, sending me all of their higher end guitars, like the US Custom line, which were really beautiful guitars with 24 frets and Floyds. Those were cool, and we did a Custom RG, a Black guitar with purple pickups, but I remembered a Strat copy that Kramer had put together for me. That was my favourite neck, so I sent that to them and said ‘make it look like Eric Johnson’s ‘54 ‘Virginia’ Strat, I thought that was the most beautiful classic look. Some might think it’s boring because it’s not hot pink or cracked mirror or whatever! Those are all cool guitars but I’m very fond of vintage and classic like that. So that neck and the RG was essentially what it was all about, It was the feel. We kept it with little to no finish on the neck, so it already felt like a guitar you’d played for years. Everything was kinda based on that.

Andy Timmons stopped by Sweetwater Sound HQ with his full pedalboard

Andy Timmons stopped by Sweetwater Sound HQ with his full pedalboard

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