Andy Timmons

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Andy Timmons (born July 26, 1963) is an American guitarist known for instrumental rock, hard rock, blues, and jazz fusion. He grew up in Evansville, Indiana, studied jazz guitar at the University of Miami, and played in bands like Taylor Bay Band, Danger Danger, Pawn Kings, and the Andy Timmons Band (ATB). He is also a successful solo artist and in-demand session guitarist. Ibanez has been making signature guitar models for him since the 1990s.

Timmons rose to fame with Danger Danger, touring worldwide and opening for Kiss and Alice Cooper. The band sold over a million records and had two MTV number-one videos. He released two Favored Nations albums, That Was Then, This Is Now, and Resolution (May 2, 2006). He has worked with Olivia Newton-John, Kip Winger, Paula Abdul, and Paul Stanley, and has played with guitar greats such as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Eric Johnson, Steve Morse, Mike Stern, Ace Frehley, Ted Nugent, Reb Beach, and Pierre Bensusan. With Simon Phillips, Timmons put out four jazz-fusion albums (1997–2015). The Andy Timmons Band released Sgt. Pepper in 2011, and he contributed Grabbag music to the Duke Nukem Forever game in 2011. He joined the G4 Experience guitar camp in 2014 with Satriani, Gilbert, and Keneally, and Danger Danger celebrated its 25th anniversary at Firefest in Nottingham in 2014. The ATB album Theme from a Perfect World appeared in 2016. His 2022 solo album Electric Truth was named the 6th best guitar album of the year by Guitar World readers. He lives in McKinney, Texas.