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Bumblefoot

An accomplished independent solo artist, experimental and extremely technical guitarist and front-man of his own band, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal is what you might call the complete musician. So much so that he caught the eye of one W. Axl Rose and shot to superstardom as part of the triple-guitar line-up of one of the World’s greatest rock bands, Guns N’ Roses. With seven albums to his name since 1995, not including the forthcoming GN’R opus to which he has contributed, the regular guitar magazine cover artist, complete with his unique custom-made Foot guitar, has had his presence felt everywhere from the spanish guitar on Jessica Simpson‘s Irresistible to music for TV shows like The Osbournes, The Real World and Spike TV’s MXC theme song.

Bumblefoot wrote one guest column for Jukebox:Metal in 2007.

Favourite band(s): KISS, Van Halen, The Beatles

Links: Website / MySpace / Guns N’ Roses / Guns N’ Roses @ MySpace / MS Research Foundation

Heather Lee
Reviewer May 2010-June 2010

Location: USA

Favourite band(s): Savatage, Overkill, Megadeth, Y&T, Angra, Edguy, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, Gamma Ray, Dio, Candlebox, Flotsam & Jetsam, Tesla, L.A. Guns, Cinderella, Andre Matos, Jon Oliva’s Pain, Avantasia

Best gigs:

• Megadeth @ Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA 1995-02-03
• Cinderella @ TLA, Philadelphia, PA 1995-04-26
• Dio @ Birch Hill, Old Bridge, NJ 1998-06-19
• Iron Maiden w/ Queensryche & Halford @ E Center, Camden, NJ 2000-08-12
• Overkill @ The Paramount, Asbury Park, NJ 2002-03-23
• Y&T @ Jaxx, Springfield, VA 2002-12-06 & 07
• Criss Oliva Memorial Concert @ The Masquerade, Tampa, FL 2003-10-17
• Edguy w/ Tad Morose @ BB Kings, New York, NY 2004-09-15

Soundtrack of my life:

• ‘Blackout in the Red Room’ by Love/Hate
• ‘Face the Day’ by Great White
• ‘I Hate’ by Overkill
• ‘Peace Sells’ by Megadeth
• ‘Swatting at Flies’ by Flotsam & Jetsam
• ‘Take What You Can’ by XYZ
• ‘November Rain’ by Guns N’ Roses
• ‘In My Darkest Hour’ by Megadeth
• ‘Point of View’ by D.A.D.
• ‘Me Against the World’ by Lizzy Borden
• ‘I Could Have Been a Dreamer’ by Dio
• ‘Believe’ by Savatage

Ricky Warwick

Ricky is the lead singer of British hard rock band The Almighty, guitarist in Circus Diablo and an accomplished solo artist. With The Almighty Ricky has toured the World several times, both as headliners and supporting bands like Iron Maiden, he’s played several major festivals and released ten albums and 13 singles. As a solo artist he has released two albums and an EP and played several successful tours, most notably supporting Bryan Adams, Def Leppard and Cheap Trick in the USA. With Circus Diablo he completed the recording of their first album alongside guitarist Billy Duffy (The Cult), drummer Matt Sorum (Velvet Revolver) and singer Billy Morrison (Camp Freddy).

Ricky wrote two guest columns for Jukebox:Metal in 2007. He now fronts Irish rock institution Thin Lizzy

Favourite band(s): Stiff Little Fingers, Steve Earle, Motorhead, Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, MC5, Johnny Cash, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Drive By Truckers, Unsane

Links: Website / MySpace

Sheldon Tarsha

Best known in the rock World as the former singer of Steven Adler’s Adler’s Appetite, Sheldon Tarsha has always been a much more accomplished song-writer and performer than Adler’s tribute band really needed. Prior to catching the former Guns N’ Roses drummer’s eye with a live cover of Welcome To The Jungle Tarsha had won Male Vocalist of the Year in a US singing competition, securing himself a performance slot on the nationally syndicated ‘Mark and Brian’ show and enabling him to record an EP which won him seven songwriting awards from Billboard, Independent Music Awards and Song of The Year.

Sheldon wrote one guest column for Jukebox:Metal in 2007. He has since officially changed his name to Seann Nichols and continues to front his band Tarsha.

Favourite band(s): AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alice in Chains, The Beatles, The Doors, Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Van Halen

Links: Website / MySpace

Thomas Vikström

Currently Swedish multi-discipline singer Thomas Vikström is one of the vocalists in world famous opera-metal outfit Therion, but previously he became known in the metal community as the front-man for doom metal legends Candlemass on their 1992 album Chapter VI and then as lead singer of power metal outfit Stormwind for three albums, as well as appearances on three of Nikolo Kotzev’s star-studded Brazen Abbot albums. Thomas maintains a steady schedule of projects which include his covers duo Lovers of Covers with Pierre Breidensjö and music covering pop, opera, rock, dance and the occasional musical.

“Hi there!! I have the honor of beeing asked by Mr Lye to write in this column. And I think its gonna be fun!! My writing will be in Swenglish (My way of write and speak English).”

Thomas wrote two guest columns for Jukebox:Metal in 2008.

Favourite Bands: KISS, Queen, Judas Priest, Dio, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, The Sweet, Aerosmith

Links: Website / MySpace / Therion / Therion @ MySpace