Live Gear: Tregan Ronny North signature guitars with Original Floyd Rose trems and Seymour Duncan pickups. Guitars strung with SIT (9-42) for standard tuned guitars and (10-52) for guitars tuned down to D. Ronny currently uses the Tregan prototype RN signature guitar for all down tuned stuff. The guitar also features a D-Tuna to drop the Low D down to C. The prototype was built by Greg Back for Tregan guitars. All guitars equipped with the Feiten Tuning System for perfect intonation. For live acoustic work Ronny uses a Hohner Eclipse electric acoustic guitar (strung with SIT Light acoustic strings). Amps are Laney VH-100R and Laney GH-100 Tube heads through Laney 4x12 cabs with Celestion G-65 speakers. Effects are a TC Electronics G-System with a MXR Phase 90, DOD Chorus, Alesis Parametric EQ (For tweaking clean patches) and a Morley Tremonti Wah. A Pedalsnake Custom audio snake connects the rack to the pedal board and another one to hook up the stuff in the rack. The pedal board with the Wah and the TC Foot controller is by BlackKross .All effects switching and amp channel switching is handled by the G-System. An Axetrak unit is used hooked up to one of the speaker outputs for FOH sound. Stage cables by Zaolla (Ronny uses a custom 50 ft cable..). Ronny also uses a Laney TT-100 tube combo for smaller shows with a Black Kross pedal board that has a Morley wah, Digitech Digidelay and a Boss Chorus. When Ronny does clinics and trade shows when his normal rig can’t be used he uses an AMT Extreme III distortion pedal into the clean channel of what ever amp is available, A Morley Wah and a Digidelay pedal. Picks are InTune 121mm with Ronny’s Logo on them. Guitars are transported in Coffin Case Guitar trunks. Black nail polish by Hot Topic. Yes, Black is the fastest. Oh yeah, don’t forget the Ace Frehley action figure that always sits on Ronny’s live rack. It’s all about Ace….
Bryan Talbot
Bass, Warwick basses various amplification
Charles Wiley
Drums, Ludwig Drums
Videos
Sifl & Olly
The X Scale Exercise
In-Store at Rock n' Roll Emporium 2007
Heart of Gold Charity Event, Knitting Factory, Aug 2007
With Greg Vaughan in San Diego 2007
Performing "Hollow" at the Randy Rhoads Tribute Show 2006
Influences
My influences are all over the place since I'm a fan of all kinds of music (You should see all the different CD's in my car!) When I was young we my Dad always had music playing in the House (Lots of Beatles!!) He actually plays a little guitar and pushed my brother and I into lessons (Which neither of us were into at the time!,playing baseball and football were much cooler!!) It all changed when I got a KISS record for Christmas when I was 13.Then a few months later my Dad took the whole family to a KISS concert during their 1977 Love Gun Tour at the LA Forum (It was my first concert!).You could say that KISS is the only reason I play music today.Once I saw their live show in 1977 that was it..I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life (I'm still trying....)When I first started playing my influences were the guitar heros of yesterday when players could really play. Ace Frehley was my first guitar influence (To this day,I have an Ace action figure standing on my live guitar rack at every show I play!). After Ace I got majorly into EVH (I even got an original one pick up Charvel that I still own!!!),Shenker,Alex Lifeson ,Joe Perry,Warren Demartini,Neil Geraldo and George Lynch.I'm also a major fan of Yngwie,Bucket Head,Paul Gilbert,Steve Vai,Satch,Ron Thal (aka Bumblefoot), John Sykes and Nuno Bettencourt. My first good guitar was a brand new Ibanez Iceman that my stepmother bought me (Once again the KISS influence!) I still have the guitar to this day ,even though I have since blow torched it! I believe that it's good for your playing to be open minded about different styles of music.That's what gives you an original style of your own.That's what it's all about isn't it???
Sounds Like
Even though it's hard to compare yourself to anyone recently the press has compared me to a few players time and time again, The players I get compared to more often than not are EVH,Satch, Vai,Poison,KISS, and even Blackmore.I'm a big fan of all of the above so I guess that's a good thing!!!
The Ronny North Channel is all about Ronny North and his musical adventures. You will see behind the
scenes stuff at his shows, performances and cool never before seen insights to his recording studio and how
he creates his trade mark sound.
About Ronny
So Cal guitartist Ronny is fast becoming a local Southern California Guitar Hero.He plays his own signature brand of instrumental guitar rock.He regularly opens for national acts throughout Southern California and even opened for Yngwie..He also managed to play and record with a few other big name players as well such as Rikki Rocket, Eric Singer, CC Deville to name a few.Ronny also gets airplay,press and sells CD's in Japan,Europe and in the U.S. .If that wasn't enough the music from Ronny's CD "Smeared" was licensed by MTV and was used for their Real World reality show.Ronny currently has full endorsements from Laney guitar amps,Shrine Clothing,Seymour Duncan Guitar Pickups , SIT Strings,Bouder Creek Acoustic Guitars,Presonus Audio products,Digitech,Carvin Products, Levy's Straps,GraphTech Saddles,Sustainiac Infinite Sustain Devices, Mbrace guitar stands,TonePros Bridges,TC Electronics,Draven Shoes,Coffin Cases,Minarik Guitars,Light Pick,Zaolla Cables,Morley Pedals,Sik World Clothing,Guitar Wheel,Femme Metale Custom Jewlery,Roadie Rench,Tennesse Acoustic Guitars,Wedgie Products,Doc's Pro Plugs,Floyd Rose Trems, Black Kross Pedal Boards, Axe Trak ,Atomic Amplifiers,AMT Pedals,Pedal Snake Guitar Audio Snakes,Freelok trem stablizers,Guitar Force Products,Celestion Speakers,Groove Tubes and Feiton Tuning Systems.Ronny has been featured in several ad campaigns for his sponsors and also regularly performs at clinics and trade shows for them including the annual NAMM show.If that wasn't enough Ronny also finds time to play several charity events each year and has been playing the Special Olympics Summer Games for the last several years as well as events for the troops ,Toys for Tots and events for musicians in need.Ronny states, it's always great to use your talent to help others in need. It's what it's all about! Ronny had a great 2006 that included winning Best Male Guitarist in the 2006 All Access Magazine Music Awards in November.Ronny also played all over America and did a ton of Music trade shows for his sponsors including the Chicago Guitar Show (where he also did some Shred Clinics),The Arlington Guitar Show (where he also played in the All Star Jam), The Ink Slingers Ball at Anaheim Stadium,Summer NAMM in Austin (where he was interviewed by the Texas Music Cafe cable show and interviewed by Las Vegas Magazine Connection alongside his friend Gary Hoey.),The LA Guitar Show,and The Nick Stock Festival to name a few.He also did tons of press and was interviewed by All Access Magazine,Indy Guitarists Magazine,Guitar Jam Magazine, Connections Magazine from Vegas where he was interviewed with his friend Gary Hoey at the world famous Antone's Club in Austin, Tx.He also did a bunch of Radio interviews including interviews with Radio Metal Storm,VM Underground Radio,The Primespot Radio, Maximum Threshold Radio to name a few.He kicked off 2007 by headlining the Best Buy/Minarik Guitars event on Jan 4th.He also played at the Winter NAMM show in Anahiem California on Jan 18-21st for his sponsors and headlined a NAMM Showcase on Jan 18th.Before he went on Ronny called in live to the VM Underground Radio show. Ronny's DISCONNECTED CD was also world premiered during Ronny's live interview on the show from NAMM. Ronny was also featured in a promo video for Guitar Wheel. If all that isn't enough Ronny currently writes a weekly column called Adventures in Guitar with Ronny North for Guitar Jams Daily Online E-Zine (www.guitarjamsdaily.com ) The column talks about all of Ronny's weekly guitar adventures and has been getting a great response.He has also just started writing a second column for the magazine called Ronny North's"Chatting with the Pros".Ronny inerviews top Pro guitar players in the industry and asks the questions that players want to know. The first interview came out on 10/18 and featured Ronny's friend Gilby Clarke.He also interviewed Keri Kellie, George Lynch and Marcus Henderson (Guitar Hero) as well.Lately Ronny has been busy doing press for his new Christmas song "A Day in the Moment" the song was released on Nov 10th ,2007 and Ronny went on the air live on Maximum Threshold Radio for the world premier of the song.The song has been getting a lot of airplay and recently got a great review from Radio Basile in Europe.He has also been promoting his current CD DISCONNECTED and has done more than a few Radio shows including playing live on the Billy Moses Radio show, several appearances on VM Underground Radio and Net Rock 101 Radio to name a few.Ronny was featured in the March 2007 issue of Guitar Player Magazine (where editor in cheif Michael Molenda said some very nice things about Ronny's playing including "Ronny's one of those rare cats who can lay down a dumb rock rhythm and shred like a mother"..) and Music Connection Magazine.Ronny will be doing some Guitar Clinics for Guitar Center and various other music stores.He did a clinic for Guitar Center on April 14th at the Pasadena,California store.Ronny's DISCONNECTED CD was released in May on NBN Records .The CD is available on the Ronny North website (www.ronnynorth.com ).Ronny did a Shred Guitar Clinic at Verde Valley Music in Cottonwood Arizona on May 19th.On that note, Ronny also did a big interview with the Az paper Verde Valley Independent . The interview hit the stands in AZ on May 16th (You can see the interview in Ronny's Blogs..).Ronny's clinic was packed and went over great.The AZ crowd was great Ronny states..On that note, he has already been invited back to do another clinic and some shows. (Stay tuned..).After Ronny's clinic he did a live radio interview at 8pm that night on WFLM.com (www.wflm.com )with DJ Rage Goddess. They were on the air for two hours and talked about everything including a few things that Ronny has never talked about in interviews ever. On May 24th Ronny attended the Seven Deadly Sins Vanity Charity event. It was a great event for a great cause. Ronnys endorser Femme Metale Jewelry was one of the sponsors of the event. Ronny had a blast hanging with FM owner and buddy Leslie Homan. He also got to meet the very funny comedian Dana Eagle (there's a pic of Ronny & Dana in the photo gallery). She was hosting the event and was very funny.Ronny just played the Special Olympics Summer Games again for the 6th year in a row on June 16th at Cal State Long Beach.It's a cause that Ronny really believes in.He headlined Martini Blues Club in Huntington Beach, Calif (The OC!) on June 23rd and then headlined the Avalon club in San Diego on July 14th...On July 21st Ronny did a guitar clinic at Tone Merchants (www.tonemerchants.com ) in Orange, Calif. Ronny is currently recording his acoustic CD Acoustify and will be doing a few acoustic shows soon..If all that wasn't enough Ronny is currently featured on the Buzz Feiten Website (www.buzzfeiten.com ) Ronny has been endorsing the company for over 10 years....He is featured on the website next to Scott Henderson and Michael Thompson (Great company to be in..) He will also be featured in the company's promo video and will be in a future ad campaign as well (Stay tuned!) Ronny also performed at the Heart of Gold Charity Concert that was held at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood on August 9th. The event featured several child guitarists from all over the world.The best thing is that it was all for Charity.Ronny also did a guitar clinic with the kids on August 8th at Hot House Studios.He will also be doing clinics for Laney,Presonus and Brazen in 2008.On August 14th Ronny and his band played at the House of Blues at Disneyland in Anahiem, California.The show went great and Ronny was shot by a local paper who is doing an article on Ronny that will be featured on the front page (Stay tuned..)At Winter NAMM Ronny played everyday of the show for his endorsers Presonus, Laney Guitar Amplifiers and IK Multimedia.Ronny had a great NAMM.He also played the opening of the show.Ronny also signed a new endorsement deal with Tregan Guitars (treganguitars.com) .The company will be producing a Ronny North signature guitar in 2008.Ronny is currently playing the prototype instrument (The guitar was built by Greg Back for Tregan guitars..) Ronny used the guitar on March 29th to record his new single "Permission to Land".The song will be released in June 2008.The guitar was designed by Ronny.Tregan will be debuting the guitar at Summer NAMM in Nashville in June 2008.Ronny will be playing at the Tregan and AMT Electronics booths everyday of the show. Ronny also has a new signature guitar pickup coming out from Monster Tone pickups.The pickups are custom hand wound in the U.S. and will come standard in Ronny's signature guitars and will also be available seperately.On May 17th Ronny was invited to be a VIP guest at the Freedom Hill fashion runway show and was photographed walking the Red Carpet.Ronny had seats right on the runway at the event. On that note, Ronny was featured in the Feb 2008 issue of Italian Music Magazine Fireworks (www.myspace.com/fireworks_magazine ) Besides a featured interview with Ronny in the magazine there is also a review of Ronny's current CD DISCONNECTED and Ronny's song "A Day in the Moment" is featured on the free compilation CD that comes with the magazine. Recently Ronny has been doing some major press to promote both his new signature guitar and his upcoming new CD's.He has appeared on the VM Underground Radio Show,Take 12 Radio (www.take12radioshow.com) show,The Saturday Night Free for All Radio Show,Net 101 Radio, The Billy Moses Radio Show and Maximum Threshold Radio.He also did an interview with Flash Magazine (myspace.com/flashmagazine ) in Italy (He was featured in the Feb 2008 issue). The issue sold out almost immediately (We're told that's a great thing..) .CD Baby has also started selling Ronny's DISCONNECTED CD and the ringtones from the CD as well.In 2008 he was also featured in the May issue of Music Connection Magazine.He has also been interviewed and or featured in Indie Guitarists.com,MMR Magazine,Guitar Player Magazine,Rock Music United,Premier Guitar Magazine,Performer Magazine Guitar World Magazine and many more. In June he will be playing the Special Olympics Summer Games for the 7th year in a row and then he's off to play Summer NAMM.In July 2008 He will be putting out a new greatest hits CD of sorts on Eonian Records (www.eonianrecords.com) called "Then & Now". The Cd will feature material from Ronny's past bands with singers all the way back to the 80's including a brand new 2008 track as well as a couple songs from his current instrumental project.There are a few special guests on the CD too.If that wasn't enough later this summer Ronny will be releasing a new instrumental CD as well.Ronny is tomorrow's guitar hero today!!!!!
CDs by Ronny North:
Going Pysko released January of 2006 on NBN Records. Distributed by Nightmare Records.
DISCONNECTED released May of 2007 on NBN Records. Distributed by Nightmare Records.
A Day in the Moment, Ronny's Christmas song, is available at
www.zoomoozik.com.
Magazine Ads
Buzz Feiten Ad in Guitar World Magazine, June 2008 Issue
Ronny North in Music Connection Magazine, 5/12/08 to 5/31/08 Issue
Tregan Ad in MMR Magazine, Summer NAMM 2008 Issue
Tregan Ad in Up Beat Magazine, Summer NAMM 2008 Issue
From Premiere Magazine, June 2008 Issue
Summer NAMM Preview: New Guitars from Ibanez, Tregan
by Premier Guitar
Rumors of an Ibanez reissue, plus a Ronny North Signature Guitar from Tregan
Nashville, TN(May 23, 2008) -- With less than a month until Summer NAMM, news is starting to pour out of
Nashville. First up, we have it on good authority that Ibanez is planning to roll out a high-end re-issue in the
RG family. Though that's about all we have to share at the moment, we'll keep you updated as the details come in, and
look for videos with Ibanez from the Summer NAMM floor.
Confirmed for June is the Ronny North Signature Guitar from Tregan Guitars. The long-time Southern California
instrumental rocker chose Tregan Guitars to create his signature guitar due to the company's reputation for exciting
new designs and reasonably-priced quality instruments, along with luthier Greg Back’s ability to tweak a guitar to fit
the player perfectly.
With its lightweight body, super fast neck and great looks, the guitar will offer features unheard of on guitars
in its price range, including an original Floyd Rose Tremolo, Buzz Feiten tuning system and custom Ronny North Monster
Tone pickups hand-wound in the USA by Performance Labs. The guitar will also feature a mahogany body with a maple cap
and flame maple top, and a bolt on maple neck with a birds-eye maple fretboard and custom inlays. The pickups have been
custom-designed for Ronny North’s Signature guitar and offer the perfect blend of tones so each note rings out true and
clear. MSRP is yet to be determined.
Ronny North will be demonstrating his signature guitar in the T. G., Inc. booth 1436 at this year’s Summer NAMM.
Also Demonstrating Tregan Guitars in TGI’s booth will be Flash Bathory and Skunk from Quartershackle. For more
information, visit treganguitars.com,
ronnynorth.com, and gregbackguitars.com.
Remember, Summer NAMM is from June 20-22, and we'll be there bringing you ongoing coverage of everything new.
The hard copy of Fireworks Magazine 31 has sold out! Yes indeed... The Fireworks office is
fresh out of copies, but if you would still like a copy, please search the stands at Borders stores in UK as well
as specialist retailers www.destinyrecords.uk.com or
www.aorheaven.com.
Or....even better - purchase the Digital PDF version right here...right now! FW31 PDF Online Version is the same as the print version - 96 pages, including interviews with the
following: Helloween, WASP, Dee Snider, Doro Pesch, Ted Poley, Gamma Ray, The Poodles, Work of Art, Bobby
Kimball, Tyla, Pagan's Mind, Richie Kotzen, Rob Rock, Rik Emmett, Big Cock, Crystal Ball, Tomy MacAlpine,
Jordan Rudess, SAHB, Epica, Xandria, Sonic Syndicate, Sieges Even, Lechery, Ronny North, Far-Less, Angel of
Eden, To-Mera and Laura Kaye.
Also included via MP3 (@192.kbps) is the following tracks: Catz N' Clawz - 1. Shauna Young - Given Enough, 2. Tarja – Ciaran's Well, 3. Jaime Kyle – World Of Crazy,
4. Imperia - Norway, 5. Glitzy Glow - Black & Sunny Day, 6. Sofia - Hangover, 7. Xandria - Save My Life, 8. Kelly
Padrick - Sometimes, 9. Eilera - Fusion, 10. Vanity Ink - Someone Else, 11. Rott - Out Of Time, 12. Toni Rowland -
I'll Be Waiting, 13. Clandestine - My Lord, 14. Skytah - Gypsy Mentality, 15. Barbe-q-barbies - Escort, 16. Vice
Squad - Voice Of The People, 17. Blind Shot - Haunted Heart, 18. Alexx Calise - Give It To Me, 19. Mystic Jayyd -
Girls Night Out, 20. Jaded – Lies.
The Rock Disk - 1. House of Lords – Come To My Kingdom, 2. Last Autumn's Dream – My Alibi, 3.
Avantasia – Shelter From the Rain, 4. Draconia - Seasons Apart, 5. Work of Art – Why Do I, 6. Laura Kaye – Under
a Cloudless Sky, 7. Circular Logik – Welcome Home, 8. Brant Pethick – It's Your Fight, 9. Angel of Eden – The
End of Never, 10. Atrocity – Smalltown Boy, 11. Ronny North – A Day in the Moment, 12. P:O:B: – Promises, 13.
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Poetic Pitbull Revelations, 14. S.E.X. Department – Revenge of Vampires, 15. Manzana -
Falling to Pieces, 16. Vindictiv – Caesar's Commentaries.
The Roll Disk - 1. Leverage – Stormchild, 2. Lechery – Your Fate, 3. Sandalinas – Fly to the Sun, 4.
Glyder – 'Dark Meets Light', 5. Biloxi – Here Alone, 6. Sieges Even – Eyes Wide Open, 7. Overdrive – Chasing
Highways, 8. To-Mera – Inside the Hourglass, 9. Redline – King of the Mountain, 10. Mattson – This Is Our Time,
11. Arthemis – Angels in Black, 12. 3 Wishes – Two Young Hearts, 13. Madron – Ever Remember, 14. The Bonesmen –
It's All Right, 15. Three Quarter Stone – Full Moon, 16. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge.
Music Connection Magazine 12/7/07 through 1/6/08
As the music industry continues to morph, and the internet looms larger every day with independent artists seeking
success on their own, the number of Southern California signings is slightly down from last year. Music Connection
received reports of just over 60 signings in 2007. It should be noted that responses to our quest -- especially from
the majors -- were notably subdued this year. Once again, we can't help but notice that the majority of signings
were indie deals. Additionally, the same factors that generally get acts signed were in play: driving ambition,
great songs, the right connections, and a strong live show.
Ronny North Zoomoozik A&R reps: Dan Behlman
Dan Dehlman contacted North after watching him for some time. Following a conversation
about the label and North’s needs, North decided to get on board. The label sells music almost exclusively
online, which North be-lieves is the future. His first label recording was a Christmas song, “A Day in The
Moment”, released on Nov. 10, 2007.
Click on the picture in order to hear Ronny's interview with Take12Radio.com!!
Sponsors of Ronny:
Ronny practices exclusively at Hot House Studios!!
