Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal --- Appreciation Thread v3.0

[PurpleHaze]

Yeah, back to the Ron love...

BBF tends to employ 2 specific guitar techniques:

1. The "I just punched you in the face with my awesome weapon of rock" style.

2. The "I just made you less of a man with my beautful crisp solo" method.

I believe the later is employed on CD, whilst both are combined on Nightrain, often leading to hither to unknown levels of fretless pwnage.

[RiffShredder]

I love his work and in fact i cant get enough of his 2006 nighttrain solos BUT the soundboard guy should be shot (at download)

You can see him shred on the video and theres only the rythm part audio for like 30 seconds then the guy goes "OOPS, forgot BBF"

turd.

[Dark Angel]

Have been looking for this thread 

And think i know what to ask da man on Friday now. Wanna know what is going on with foot v.2!

I love that man. His playing, the sound he can make out of his guitars, his playing (what cant that man play?) and his voice too. Damn unique!! And not just that but also what he does for the fans and others too. Just look on what he have just done a few days ago and soon going to... a man with a big heart of gold!

And his work in gnr... cannot get enough of his Nov. Rain and Nightrain from rar and his little wing n´don cry solo from Inland Invasion (fun enough listening to that solo atm. too)

Love that mans work!

Ron = very unique 

Keep on rockin´ Mr. Thal

[Rampton Hospital]

Have been looking for this thread 

And think i know what to ask da man on Friday now. Wanna know what is going on with foot v.2!

I love that man. His playing, the sound he can make out of his guitars, his playing (what cant that man play?) and his voice too. Damn unique!! And not just that but also what he does for the fans and others too. Just look on what he have just done a few days ago and soon going to... a man with a big heart of gold!

And his work in gnr... cannot get enough of his Nov. Rain and Nightrain from rar and his little wing n´don cry solo from Inland Invasion (fun enough listening to that solo atm. too)

Love that mans work!

Ron = very unique 

Keep on rockin´ Mr. Thal

AMEN to that

[Dark Angel]

I think I know how much you love Ronnnn! lol.
he is just truely awesome. Love his work (not saying i love him, that sounds so gay) as well. he is a great guy, his heart is just... a golden heart.
Damn i wanna download june 2th show already, lol. i want to hear his nightrain/dont cry/chi dem/ycbm/rocket queen/i.r.s./better/nr solos. 

I think I know how much you love Ronnnn! lol.

Thx!  There is one who have notised

Damn i wanna download june 2th show already, lol. i want to hear his nightrain/dont cry/chi dem/ycbm/rocket queen/i.r.s./better/nr solos. 

And download that... ohhhhh jeez! Think you should see the smile on my face when i just read that.   
I cannot wait! Wanna hear something new from da man! Have been too long time ago! Cannot wait to hear his dont cry and nov. rain solos especially

[Dark Angel]

I can at least imagine your smile. 
I guess you already heard nov rain/dont cry! 
These 6 months without tour just made me download and wait for more bootlegs. This new tour will bring us much more, and new ones. 

by the way i'm not a good english speaker/writer or whatever, lol. So... sorry. 

well i understand ya... and im not that too!

And hell yeah i was smiling. Donno how many times i ahve seen em and heard. Need his new dont cry and ringtone... or nov. rain solo. The one i ahve atm. is the rar06 one! And dont cry from inland invasion!!!!!!

Want MORE from him. Sad he scrapped what he first had made for album. Cannot get enough of his playing!

 

His new flying V 

[Robman]

why dont we start an appreciation thread for every single good guitarist?

jk

[Malakian]

why dont we start an appreciation thread for every single good guitarist?

jk

I agree, make called the like, Malakian thread! (joke)

[Dark Angel]

oh, the RAR one is good, but the inland invasion one is better imo (NR solo).
He scrapped what for what album? didnt understand this part. Oh, and later on, if you want and if you can, we can talk about his solo work. which musics you like, which solos. i've got 6 albums, lol. I couldnt order any of his albums yet, so i downloaded them. but now i got a credit card... cant use it yet, though.
and we can also share some stuff, i also want to hear anything the guy played.

The nov. rain solo just keeps on getting better. The once from Mexico 

he was making an album but scrapped it! Dont remember the reason.

"Oh, and later on, if you want and if you can, we can talk about his solo work. which musics you like, which solos" guess you donno me.  OFCAUSE I WANT! I have been a fan of him for 10 years... cannot get enough! The more bbf chat the better  If i can? 

Only 6 albums? What do you miss??
Seaching for some with bbf... just ask. Might have it! 

You do know where you can order em? (www.baldfreak.com) and hermit and adventures... have to order em from amazon or ebay.

That man have play many things!!!

ps. downloading mf

first notised now that its you from the bbf forum 

[Bruno Poeys]

*I EDITED/DELETED SOME POSTS, NOT GOING TO CHAT HERE*

The nov. rain solo just keeps on getting better. The once from Mexico 

he was making an album but scrapped it! Dont remember the reason.

"Oh, and later on, if you want and if you can, we can talk about his solo work. which musics you like, which solos" guess you donno me.  OFCAUSE I WANT! I have been a fan of him for 10 years... cannot get enough! The more bbf chat the better  If i can? 

Only 6 albums? What do you miss??
Seaching for some with bbf... just ask. Might have it! 

You do know where you can order em? (www.baldfreak.com) and hermit and adventures... have to order em from amazon or ebay.

That man have play many things!!!

ps. downloading mf

first notised now that its you from the bbf forum 

I got only these:
 
*Adventures of bumblefoot (1995)
*Hermit (1997)
*Hands (1998)
*Uncool (2000)
*9.11 (2001)
*Normal (2005)

got as well some live performances (pretty much everything I found from him on emule...  )

but well, i'll just write here some songs and solos I love from him, otherwise slipdisc will kill us for chatting here. 

And... i'm the one from bbf forum, yeah. I also have you on my myspace friendlist.

*breaking and its solo (I'm in love with... its perfect )
*Guitars SUCK
*T-Jonez
*Normal
*Real
*Turn Around
*Raygun (his fretless is just perfect here)
*Real
*Shadow (i'm in love with the music...  )
*I can't play the blues
*Awake

Oh, I really love his solo work... a lot and a looooot!

*I'll be adding some songs when I remember*

[Dark Angel]

I got only these:
 
*Adventures of bumblefoot (1995)
*Hermit (1997)
*Hands (1998)
*Uncool (2000)
*9.11 (2001)
*Normal (2005)

got as well some live performances (pretty much everything I found from him on emule...  )

but well, i'll just write here some songs and solos I love from him, otherwise slipdisc will kill us for chatting here. 

And... i'm the one from bbf forum, yeah. I also have you on my myspace friendlist.

*breaking and its solo (I'm in love with... its perfect )
*Guitars SUCK
*T-Jonez
*Normal
*Real
*Turn Around
*Raygun (his fretless is just perfect here)
*Real
*Shadow (i'm in love with the music...  )
*I can't play the blues
*Awake

Oh, I really love his solo work... a lot and a looooot!

*I'll be adding some songs when I remember*

No forgotten Anthology!? Its a great album by the way!

And guess you are right that he will kill us if we starts with all our bbf chat in here... but well theres always the dark angel thread! Its made for bbf spamming! 

Some of my fave solos from him

Guitars suck
Chopin Fantasie
The flying cows
T Jonez
Normal
Hermit
Real
Hands
broklyn Steakhous
Wasted Away
Girl Like You
She Knows
Fly In The Batter
i cant play the blues
q fever

ect. ect. ect.

[Dark Angel]

Looking at him today and what he was like a years time when he joined gnr. He have changed so much. Not hiding as much. More seen. cannot wait to see what he will be like on stage with gnr in lets just say 1 more year And if it keeps on going this way for him... 

[Bruno Poeys]

yes, Dark Angel. I like it a lot. He's feeling like... at home now. 


he altered a reality guitar... it's his vigier signature. Here is some info... from his own site.

VIGIER GUITARS RELEASES
BUMBLEFOOT SIGNATURE SERIES GUITAR

Nothing crazy, not a flying foot or a chunk of cheese - a 'Normal' guitar, customized with the pickups and wiring I use (split coil and out-of-phase settings,) non-floating vibrato (stays in tune when you break a string,) and a hole to stick your thimble when you're not using it :P More info at www.vigierguitars.c om


by the way, someone explained what's going on guitars SUCK (youtube video), but i can't be sure since i'm not a guitarrist, lol:

Also in case you didn't really know, what's going on in Guitar Sucks is he's playing huge legato stretches over 1 and a half steps, while using a thimble on his picking hands pinky to hit imaginary frets pass the fretboard over the pick-ups equaling to around the 36th fret. All this at 32nd quintuplets at over 160 bpm.'

[Dark Angel]

yes, Dark Angel. I like it a lot. He's feeling like... at home now. 


he altered a reality guitar. 

VIGIER GUITARS RELEASES
BUMBLEFOOT SIGNATURE SERIES GUITAR

Nothing crazy, not a flying foot or a chunk of cheese - a 'Normal' guitar, customized with the pickups and wiring I use (split coil and out-of-phase settings,) non-floating vibrato (stays in tune when you break a string,) and a hole to stick your thimble when you're not using it :P More info at www.vigierguitars.c om

He has gone crazy... ohhh oops too late... 

[war_of_the_roses]

yes, he's gone crazy lol.

someone explained what's going on guitars SUCK (youtube video), but i can't be sure since i'm not a guitarrist, lol:

Also in case you didn't really know, what's going on in Guitar Sucks is he's playing huge legato stretches over 1 and a half steps, while using a thimble on his picking hands pinky to hit imaginary frets pass the fretboard over the pick-ups equaling to around the 36th fret. All this at 32nd quintuplets at over 160 bpm.'

This is actually pretty accurate. I do play guitar, so I can vouch for it....however i cannot play guitars suck (yet...my tapping has got to get quite a bit better).
Legatto means he strikes the first note on the string with a pick, and then hammers on the rest on that string. Its was gives the song its slurred sound.

However...I dont believe this to be his best solo at all...its incredible, but the way he plays in raygun...its just phenomenal. I also enjoy the one in fly in the batter quite a bit.