All right, well took me a while but I finally got an original member of Danger Danger on the show, legendary guitarist Andy Timmons. He's also played with Olivia Newton John for 15 years. And he's done session work with everyone from Paul Stanley to pink. And he has a lot of good insight and great stories. In this episode, we talk about his new album, electric truth. It's coming out soon, so don't go anywhere. Stay right there
very nice. So where are you Chuck? Where am I? Where am I speaking to?
I am in the the city that you were born in a little trivia for you. Oh, Scottsdale, Arizona. Right.
I have the you're absolutely right. Yeah. I guess officially that the hospital was in Phoenix. But we I grew up in Scottsdale to the age to the age of five. Yeah. Okay. Very fond memories of wallets and lad Moe and Camelback Mountain and
yeah, that's what my girlfriend says waltz and lad know some kids show. And she knows everyone knows about this. I'm like, I don't really know about it. If I didn't move her until 2008. I lived in Seattle before
though it was very much a 50s and 60s and maybe into the 70s. But for for a kid in the 60s. It was a big deal. Yeah, definitely. I'm not they played cartoons. But it was. It was definitely a kid's a Kids program.
So that was before you moved. Like before age five. You still remember it?
Yeah, for sure. And I had a there was a there was a theme song by Mike condello, and it was like one of the first 45 has ever had. And it's it's the tune is called Whoa, whoa, ha ha hee hee ha. But it was a very Beatle sounding tune Wow, very fun memory that I mean, it clearly it's ingrained in my Yeah, that was close anyway. But yeah, it was just one of those things where I'm sure the 45 kept that memory alive because I still have it to this day. Right.
And that's so that's one of your first ones. And then you also love like you look a lot of the 60s music didn't you end up playing with one of the Beach Boys later in life?
Well, actually, that was there was a that there was something that happens where I went to a gig. This was just a one off. Okay, a one off thing that's that was the Beach Boys. It was the touring version with Mike Love and, and Bruce Johnson and a great, great band. You know, Brian Wilson wasn't involved. They were different factions at that point. So this would have been in the late 90s, something like that. But they're just playing at an outdoor
festival in in Texas. And I just went to the gig and the local the local promoter knew me recognize me. So he brought me just to the side of the stage to watch the show. This is great, you know, because I'm a huge huge Beach Boys fan and and as the as the band is coming off before their encore this promoter introduced me to the guitar player in the band. I'm so sorry. I can't remember his name right now. But he said Hey, you want it? You want to play? You want to sit in it? I'm like,
Yeah, you kidding? This is great. Well, it's we're playing BB ran. It's an F sharp. Oh, I'm good. So without that, that that reference is merely just like got to sit in with the Beach Boys. Which is you know, just one of those things where those fantasy things you go to a show like man I know all these songs. I wish I could play the next thing you know, you get invited up to
that's a math totally bucket list thing. Is there. Anyone else that's left that you want it that's still alive that you'd want to play with? Like Paul McCartney or Ringo?
Of course, anything Beatles Yeah, for Ringo would be a dream Paul would be a dream. Those two guys for sure would be would be bucketlist. So I've been fortunate to meet Ringo a couple of times. And it's just been a great experience and boy, but he's just my favorite drummer of all time. You know whether it'll ever happen or not. Who knows? But and Paul to just Good lord, but uh, but a dream that would be but so you know, never know. Never know.
Well, you got the tour with Alice Cooper and kiss I mean, separately, but that though, it's been fun memories too.
Oh, well, that was when I was in my that was in the band called Danger. Danger. Yeah, back in the day. That was uh, I guess late 80s. Or yet? No. Yeah, late 80s. Early 90s 8990 91. Oh, for sure. Because I mean, kiss was my that was ground zero for me as far as learning how to play the guitar. I'm McQuarrie grew up listening to all the 60s you know, the, you know, the Beatles and day part five and kings. But kiss was my you know, kiss alive. That's how I learned how to play
guitar. Ace really and Paul Stanley learning those tunes and playing those tunes. And the first concert I ever saw was the destroyer tour of Kiss 1976. So then, you know, fast forward to 14 years later I'm you know, opening for these guys and standing on the side of the stage every night watching them play. It was just a dream come true. And Alice Cooper too. We got to do some touring with him.
And I was very familiar with all our system because I had an older brother my brother John bought all the all the early Alice Cooper stuff so big fan and so he had kind of childhood fantasy stuff that he just don't think. How does this even possible that though,
right? What do you learn from like, you know watching those two and then obviously you know you did 15 years with Olivia Newton John Yeah, people of that stature I mean they're such big stars what's what separates them is it just strictly talent or there's got to be a work ethic or some other things that they're doing differently
it's there's this there's a huge amount to all that you just said there's obviously there's there's a gift, there's there's hard work that got them to the point where they were in a position to have the opportunity to have a career but once they did have a career, they continue to work even
harder. And I can speak to what I how I know I live in and, and to the little bit of level that I know Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, you know, there was never any drugs, alcohol and all the partying and they they're they're there I was on the ball at all times. i That's one thing I really noticed in 1990, when we were on the Hot in the Shade tour, just you know, they knew how to communicate with a crowd, their professional ethic was was
huge, you know. And, of course, famously, Ace and Peter along the way were kind of contrapuntal and their behaviors. And you see how that worked out? It's just sad, really, that you know, that there's four equal opportunities there and two of them are still you know, doing great. I mean, I think ace is finally sober now and doing well and hope Peters doing okay, but I'm glad they did the reunion tour. But yeah, even then things could have been conducted better by a couple of
the members. And Olivia just think
it was drugs and stuff got in the way for those other people. Like you never really got into the drugs and out partying too much, did you
not really at all, I was very fortunate the only drug problem I had was prescription stuff, or through the years. That's done that's that stuff can be just as bad as illegal stuff. Right? So right, that's a story for another day. But no, I was very fortunate that there's no bands I was ever, ever in where there was any drug problem. There was some drinking and is minor stuff, but nothing, nothing out of control.
You know, it's hard enough being in a relationship, like a band without the exacerbating situations that come from abuse, you know, so it's hard enough, being a guitar player and a singer and a drummer, a bass player, a keyboard player, you know, there's personalities and personalities, that becomes difficult because you're living 24/7 with people. So I can't I can't imagine what it's like when there are those issues and when there are substance issues.
So thank goodness that I haven't been in any organization and wouldn't have lasted in any organization where that was a problem. Right? My prime, my prime driving factor is I just want to be the best at what I do you know, the best that I can be in those gigs, right? And what's gonna serve the music the best. So if if there's other stuff going on keeping from other people from getting to that point, and being on that level, then it would be it wouldn't be something I'd want to do.
Right? Well now, because I heard you talking about like, the first gig you did was this high school dance or eighth grade dance? And then you had this anxiety and you still to this day, the anxiety, find a way to channel it. Oh, do you channel that? Because that's, I mean, if you can do that, I think that's probably the key to your success in being a musician for so long. I'm serious. I think there's some musicians that I've interviewed. I think they have stage fright.
I really do because they have the talent, but they don't do the they don't tow tour, they don't do shows.
Yeah, well, there's, there's a lot to it. And it's in this interview that I did a gig yesterday where I went and spoke to a high school, you know, a friend, a friend of mines, a math teacher and an accelerated High School in, in
South Lake, Texas. And, I mean, it takes the same energy for me to do this now to to do a gig in front of some high school students or to play you know, when Wembley Arena, or whatever my beer, you know, the big gigs, um, it's just the desire to just to do the best that you can do. Within, fortunately, for me, from the age of 13, with a good gig that you referenced, that was I was at the age of 13/8
grade. But from that moment, I was never not in a band, I was always, especially that age, I was always a young member of a band of older people. So there was lots of gigs and even in bars from the age of 15 forward. So I was always I was always
doing it. And yes, very much a shy person by nature, especially then, you just learned how to channel that into hopefully a more positive energy and towards not it's not, you know, inhibiting you from from the best of your ability, you know, what the nerves like, overtake
you. But still to this day, I mean, there's just depending on gigs or, or who's watching or who's in the crowd, or there's always those feelings of not wanting to let yourself down, not wanting to let the band down, but also you want to do well for the crowd. So all those factors can be intimidating for people and I get it, I get it. But I guess from an early age, I was real fortunate that I had the opportunity to have, you know, lots of experience right
and still to this day. That doesn't stop me from being nervous. It just means that I really care. And then that's okay. You know what I mean? I'd rather I'd rather feel nervous than not as far as you know that that does. There's no appetite Is that snuck in on any level for me,
ever? No, absolutely. And I think another key to your success too was, uh, you know, I talked to a lot of musicians, and a lot of it is taking risks and being at the right place at the right time. And, and you leaving Indiana, that was a big risk. And you had this record store owner, Bruce Jeffries that convinced you need to get out of here. And that was some of the best advice you've ever gotten your life.
It was, it was something that I didn't realize at the time how kind of epiphany it was, I mean, I was really struggling with because I was, you know, I was I was very much a homebody because I hadn't been outside of Evansville much at all growing up. So kind of growing up in a bubble in a band that was kind of like a big fish
in the small pond. And, you know, um, it took some courage, but it was that comment from Bruce that one day, you know, recognize them, and you really need to do this, or you're gonna regret it the rest of your life, and whether that was the actual straw, but that would have helped me go towards something I needed that encouragement, you know, not that he was a father figure in any way. But he was older, and I respected his, you know, his, whatever experience
he had. And he was right, you know, I recognize that had I stayed in town, I'm sure I would have had a fine life. And there's nothing wrong with that. But had I not I would have had nowhere near the exposure and, and just just going to University of Miami, which is, that's what I left Evansville to go do my third and fourth years of college, just the level of players that I was around, because, you know, I was I was a really decent player at the
time. Because at that age, I would have been 18 or 19, maybe, you know, as I was a fully formed, I was a, you know, a good player. But you get to Miami, it's like the best of the best. So I really was I was kind of like the the really good rock player in school. But there's all these other jazz guys in fusion. And we all learn from each other, it was really a great environment to really get your butt kicked and but it sink or swim, you know, you could have gotten discouraged or you
just work harder. And I obviously just wanted to work harder and try to keep true. Trying to keep improving. And it's still to this day, can look back on those couple years that I was there as to the biggest years of my musical growth. So I was very, very fortunate that I got to do that. And that is one thing to another led me on a path of how I ended up in
Danger, danger. And then all the other things that I've I've done in my career, it's really just been honoring whatever gift I have working really hard and just treating every gig like it's the most important gig that I'll ever have. That way people recognize Oh, yeah, that guy, you know, I remember. That's how I got the gig with Olivia was through Simon Phillips. You know, Olivia needed a guitar
player. And she was managed by the same management as toto and in you know, I've been working with Simon quite a bit he knows my work ethic. He knows preparation study can play. You just recommended me to management they call me see I can do that great. And I didn't realize it'd be 15 years of the bigger part of my income. And this in this wonderful relationship with a woman that I
love dearly. That's a great friend and and we're still we're still great friends, do we ever work together and while she's pretty much retired now, but yeah, we're in touch. And I've I look back on those years very fondly and very fortunate to have had that in my life. You know? Yeah, I could have planned that he plan that you know, this stuff happens and so just Yeah, that's the only advice I can give to all the players. I treat every gig you do like this is the most important gig ever.
Because right because it is that's all you got is right now you don't know what's gonna happen, you
know? And before before Olivia Newton John before Danger Danger that you flirted with a couple other bands, tower power and bad English, which so you were kind of taking over for Neil, Shawn for like a couple of weeks before then.
It was about a week. Yeah. So that was that was the gig that proceeded it proceeded Danger Danger and the tower power thing happened around the same time. So this is this is 1988. So it's kind of a big year for me. But it was buddy blaze that just passed away last year rest in peace buddy. He was an Artist Relations guy for Kramer guitars. And he had found me through a mutual friend of his a journalist named David Huff. Looking for a guitar player for bad English. They had done some
demos. It was John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Phillips. They had done demos with Neil, to do a rector for a band do a record. But Neil had done the demos, but was gonna then go on. He had a solo record coming out on Columbia called late night. And he was going to focus on a solo career and so they sought out a guitar player. Ricky was a spectrum bass player, which was Kramer Kramer reached out to David Huff David said Andy Timmons, is the guy in Dallas, sent my tape to Jonathan Cain.
He calls me going, Hey, we love your playing, come out and audition, went to audition in San Francisco got the gig jonway drives me at the airport. Well, let's you lose a finger but you got the gig. And so they flew me up a following week to LA to do like a Trial Week. Within that week, Neil Sean had called him saying I look I'm, I'm thinking about doing the band again. And so at that point, it was like Well, half a journey or this
unknown kid from Texas. So that fell apart for me but right after that was when buddy bliss and I got this other band Danger, danger, they they're they're already signed. They've got a record coming out, they need a guitar player. Okay, I auditioned for that. But it's right about that time where my friend Steve Grove was a tenor
player with our power. He was coming through Dallas to play and then a guitar player was leaving to go to the Lord Brannigan tour of all things and they needed somebody to come in and join the band. And I went and play it as sat in a did squib cakes and what is it? And it went great. And they were say, yeah, come out to Oakland
and come. But it was like, right at the time of choosing between Danger Danger and tower power that I had to make that decision and went for the the glitz and glamour of MTV, I suppose instead, instead of fusion e funk cool band. So who knows how things might have turned out differ but that's, you got to choose those forks in the road sometimes.
Yeah, well, that was so fun. I mean, even today, I look at those Danger Danger items, and they're good. I realize you didn't play a lot on the first one. But the second one you did. I really liked the song monkey business. I
mean, I love that it's a good rock and roll riff. Yeah, it's so I think it is so catchy too. I like that record. I like beat the bullet a lot. I thought that was a good team. Yeah. And I still I still think about using the the the power ballad you know?
And slipped are the big one is the one that you co wrote right
and beat the bullet I didn't write the lyrics to slip to the big one Yeah, we we've been on tour with extreme so that's definitely it was a new no funky, funky groove influenced, I think right.
Yeah, they did the background vocals on
it right there on something I forget. Yeah, there. Yeah, cuz we did. We did the we did all the overdubs at New River studios. I think they came to town at one point. Yeah, but we have done a tour with them in 1990. When our first records were both out, they had pornography, we had the first hKg record. And they were great. Great guys, of course, new nose killer player enjoyed hear him
play every night. Just great. So yeah, I mean, very fun, very fun memories for me, just because it was kind of what I'd already kind of put away. It's like well, meaning that being in that kind of bands is like winning the lottery or something. So that's why I went down the path of, you know, learning how to read and gearing myself for studio work and that kind of thing. But then that that opportunity came up I thought,
yeah, why not? And it really was a great time for me, but it was, you know, after that I think I you know, much happier doing my own thing. It was fun to be a part of a band like that. But I enjoy you know, pursuing my work as a guitar player and writing my own music. Oh, yeah.
I love the new album. You've got it's called Electric truth. Is that correct? That's correct. Truth. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So it's, I didn't realize there's some vocals there's some singer, vocals by Corey. How do you say his name fertile is partielle? Yeah,
Cory is a guy that I met through another guitar player friend of mine, Nick Kimura, who's a great guitar player. They've done some, a couple of dual records. And this guy's just a wonderful soulful singer. And I had a couple of tunes that were kind of I'd written in C might be might fit the record fanatically. And I could sing about man, I love this guy's voice. Let's get him to sing. So he came in did a
beautiful job. And actually, he helped he helped co write the lyrics to I had the I had the tunes in the melodies and some of the lyric ideas in place. And he came, finished them out and just a dream to work with you. We we had done a couple of games before that where I'd done a bunch of 70s covers, like, do you feel like we do and, and do some funkier stuff too. And yeah, so great. I look forward to do more stuff with Corey too.
So it's nice to kind of have a couple of vocal tunes in there with all the instrumental tunes.
So how will you play those songs live? Will you do some live shows a tour? Will you bring a singer
yet? Well? Yeah, well, luckily, I have the fortunate to get Cory lives there in town, so I'll probably do I'll do a gig. I think we're gonna play a gig on April 15. The guitar sanctuary as a band called Electric. There'll be separate from the Andy Timmons band, and Austin, Texas. Yes, I live in McKinney, Texas, just north of Dallas. Okay, that guitar sanctuary is a incredible guitar shop, but they also have a venue that attaches the store. And that's pretty much my home
turf here. I'm also doing a gig with the AD team has been in Dallas at the Kessler Theater, which a beautiful old restored, you know, old theater old time theater on March 18. And yeah, so no, no other two days right now, we're still kind of waiting for things to settle down to we're not having to worry about stuff too much. You know,
is this your main focus right now is the solo band. I know you have so many other things going on jingles and things. And I think you have some thing with Paul Gilbert guitar teaching thing or there's yet
Paul Gilbert and I have done a bunch of camps together. He's got a camp called the great guitar escape, and that's coming up in end of July, early August. And it's where, you know, bunch of guitar players get together and do concerts and teach and be in players come from all over the world to come hang out and learn. But it's Paul myself, George Lynch, Greg caulk red cow, wretched man and Jared James Nichols, some friends of
mine and incredible players. So we get to hang and meet people from all over and do our thing and hang with each other and it's a blast, right? So Yes. And obviously over the last couple of years, nobody's been touring much. And yeah, I've got pretty prolific doing live stream gigs on a platform called stages. So from the beginning of the pandemic, I did about 150 gigs now, just sitting where I'm sitting now for my studio got really good. Really good signal
path here. backing tracks on my record, so, you know, 150 listen
to that stuff. I love listening to guitar. I suck at guitar.
I love listening. You guys are fortunate to have people like you that like to listen to us play. You're one of the best.
I mean, you play with you play a little bit with CI three. You kind of hopped in there. Well,
yeah. I've been friends with with with Sirianni and even longer with vide is a lot of associations through I've been it's been I've been playing Ivan as guitars like they do since the early 90s. And yeah, anytime that they've come through the Dallas area, they've always invited me out. Just about every tour that they've done, come play with them sit in and hang so I've been very honored to that they invite me they feel as though I'm one of them. As I have as far as I have aspired to be you know,
Do you guys ever do like the duels? Did you ever see that movie? crossroads with Ralph money on Sci Fi? And he's like the devil and Oh, cool. Now movie do you are trying to do one of those kinds of duels with him?
It's well, it's basically it's fate. Every show every G three kind of turns into that at some point. At the end of the night everybody's on stage playing together. It's not necessarily the diabolical you know, Steve Vai, Ralph maggio battle, but everybody's playing to the best of their abilities. You know, but it's a blast because it can be doesn't have to be competitive. It could be very musical. And that's that's what I prefer. There's a there's
a couple of clips. There's a great clip of Joe Satriani and I plan to call one of his called House of bullets from the Dallas guitar show a few years back. And it's it's really cool to hear us. It's not a guitar battle, but it's a conversation. You know, and there's another there's another night where you can see Steve Vai hand me his guitar. I'm in the crowd, not even on stage. I'm in the crowd. He invited me to come to saying at the show talk afterwards.
He's finishing and somebody walks in the crowd with his wireless he sees me he didn't know where I was sitting, randomly runs into me and somebody is videoing. You can see his expression. He just hands me his guitar. And he's a you play. And so I'm in the middle of this crowd, you know, playing Steve Vai his guitar here. It's a beautiful moment. So it's not it. There's this competition in some ways, I
think. But a lot of times, you know, we're just really inspired to be playing next to some of the great guitar players that happen to be our friends. You know, it's just, it's, it's, it's humbling and it's always it's always a blast.
Who's the best guitar player out there right now. You think?
I bought there's just not a best I have lots of favorites. I love Derek trucks. I love Eric gales I love my buddy Josh Smith who produce my record I love Eric. Eric Johnson I love Sachin via you know, I just I couldn't possibly name the best because that I don't think that exists. Right. But i i Have you have your favorite and you're the people that inspire you know, and that that's a huge list for me. Very, very long list.
Right? Yeah. I mean, you've played with so many of them. That's what's so cool.
I'm very humbled that yeah, I've gotten I've gotten I've played with Eric Johnson several times and another hero of mine, Mike Stern. We've done some stuff. One time I played with both of them on stage at the same time because they did a tour together. Mike stern and Eric and so
yeah, you didn't get to play with Keith Richards but then you get to meet him once
I did. I've met him a couple times. We have a mutual friend. My friend, Pierre de Beauvoir is keast, longtime guitar tech. So we'd met a couple times. And then I did get to I spent my birthday. With the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger actually shares the same birthday but I was with my wife on vacation in Toronto, we'd actually flown up to see Ringo Starr. And we were at a hotel and I've just ran into Pierre my friend randomly had no idea that he was in town. But the stones
were rehearsing. He just invited me Oh, come to rehearsal. Tomorrow night. I'm, like, in my mind is Oh, that's my birthday. And sure enough, they was just it was just my wife and I and the Rolling Stones rehearsing. It was incredible. I mean, to get to hang with Ronnie and Keith like that. It was it was I mean, again, it could have tried to make that happen. It just, it just happened, you know?
Yeah. Well, it starts like that. They're so down to earth. That's what I've noticed with interview. Oh,
no, I think I you know, I think there can be some folks that might get quirky because of their fame but my experience has been 99.9% Very, very positive with just all my heroes that I've gotten a chance to meet even if it's just to shake a hand and say thank you at a meet and greet or whatever. It's been really really beautiful and so I'm fortunate that I've gotten a chance to to say thank you to so many of these guys. And yeah, and And ladies, too.
I was gonna ask you about this one because I saw I thought I saw this list as a credit but I couldn't figure out if it was legit or not. Did you play a song with pink?
Yeah, I did. In fact, it was. The song is called runaway and what's on the track. He This is a couple of bits where you might recognize it as being me but her Artist Relations Manager lived across the street from where I recorded the resolution record with Mike Dane and you neighborhood. And just I guess she was a ignoring that record and thought that that track needed some more guitar. So she just sent it to me and Mike so so pink wasn't involved. He wasn't in the room.
We just had the raw tracks to work with. And I'm a huge fan of hers. I freaked. Yeah. So I was really happy to get to play on on one one track. I wish they would have us more or what I played because it was pretty cool. But it's one of those things where there was already there was already enough guitars going on. We just added some things to it just to make the
Artist Relations folks happy. So yeah, one little blip on the screen, but I finally got to see her in concert here in Dallas, a friend of mine, Ava Gardner plays bass. With her. It was tremendous show. She's a real deal. Male, I like pink a lot.
Yeah, no, that's a good one. I thought this was interesting. I gotta ask you about this is kind of a non music question. But your brother is a philosophy. Yeah. That's so fascinating. You read his books? Is it? What's your philosophy on
life? I don't know how to narrow any of this down. Yeah, my brother is Mark Mark Timmons, and he's quite well known in the philosophy world. He's written many books, and teaches in Tucson at the university. And no, I, you know, when I was in Miami, I took an intro to logic course because I need to find I need to learn about my brother's, you know, field of knowledge, his profession, and it was so over my head, dude, you know, Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. I found myself having having a lot of
trouble with it. So our, you know, our conversations tend to sit around music. He's a big influence on me musically, because it was music tastes. And still to this day, we still, whatever he's into, chances are all resonate with. We're both the Elvis Costello fans, the new Elvis Costello record is stunning. I think it's his best record. That's his best record, I think. But yeah, as far as general philosophy, I mean, that this is the lengthy conversation. There's so many
levels to that. But in general, it's what I told my son who's now 18 says, It's not that hard to be nice to people. It's just not that hard. And
I think that's probably a key to your success. Like you said, with Olivia Newton, John, you know, the guy that recommended you knew that you're a good guy, and you're not going to be an asshole to work with?
Oh, well, yeah, I mean, this just a general life, you call it a philosophy or just a way of living, but it's very much it's very much how I treat music is the same way I treat life. And it's taken me a long time to kind of recognize that how I live and how I function musically is really the same
thing. I'm very aware of everything that I do, whatever action I'm taking is affecting, not just me, in my immediate small area, that sends ripples out everywhere, you know, it's the same in a band, it's like, well, if you're only focusing on yourself, it's maybe maybe fitting in with what's happening, and maybe not, but like it, like I had the relationship with the band on the electric truth record, there was very much you know, a feeling in the room, we were all really listening to each other.
And that kind of musical empathy is the same as being in the world, you know, you'll walk by somebody, if they don't change their path, they're going to run right into you. And they may not care, right? But I'll be very, you know, I'll be aware of these movements. Or if I smile at somebody or not smile at somebody, you never know, what people are going through. And it's so easy to just say, Give somebody a nice word and try to uplift somebody because everybody's got their own
struggles, right? You just don't know what might be happening. So if that's an overall philosophy, whatever I just said, that's kind of it. You know, I mean, just it's just being aware being aware and, and realizing that it's not about you, it's it's about it may be about you, but in the context of everything else.
So who are more obnoxious, the guitar nerds or the Danger Danger nerds, because I'm kind of a Danger Danger nerd. I'm like, I
love them all. I love them. I just love nerds. I love anybody that has a passion for something. Because I'm the same way I'm, I'm a Beatles geek to the end. And I'm a guitar nerd to the end. And I love it all. And, and so yeah, I mean, obviously, I love talking to all the Danger, danger fans. And you know, I think early on after the band had shown and fell apart, there was a period where I felt like I needed to kind of distance myself to establish my own personality that was
important to me. But the more and more I traveled literally around the world. In there were always people coming up, no matter what I was doing. It's like, oh, danger, danger, that music, you know, I love it so much. Or it means it means this to me, or man that was cool, or this or that. And I had to start realizing well, it's bigger than
me. It's not, it's not about me, it's about the music that especially people that would have heard that music when they were in their teens, you know, because I recognize that the music that I you know, took into my heart and so at a young age is still there and it's different than anything else I'll ever listen to because it's just it's a very important time of your life and you're growing and you're learning about yourself and whatever you're
going through. I mean I've still got this huge bag of fan mail that I got while I was in Danger Danger these these girls right in mostly girls, some guys occasionally but they will just say Man, my life I've gone through so much stuff and your music is means this, you know and then sometimes people will tell very, very dark stories about their home life or
whatever was going on. So you got to realize that it no matter you know slip to the big one may not be the high mark for me as far as poetic license you know, but to some of the songs there's there's, there's, there's there's a deep meaning in there are some great songs Steve Steve West wrote some great lyrics on
some of those tunes. So, you know, I have high respect for that I love talking about those days because it's a man again, I was, I was old enough and I was young enough, I was, you know, early to mid 20s. I made I made relatively good decisions and but had it but still had a good time. You know what I mean? So I
look back on it finally. And I really I learned a lot about myself and what I wanted, you know, for my career and all that but a deep love for all the guys in the band when we're still all friends.
And never do like another I know, you've done some one off shows
anymore. Maybe there's nothing on the books, but I'm open to it, you know, if the if the situation was right, we did something. It's been five or six, or probably more years now because time flies, but we did a handful of shows in Japan and the UK. And it was fun. You know, I really I really enjoyed it. Right? So at some point if something happens and I get the call, never say never right? You know,
okay, awesome. I'd love to see you with Danger, danger or solo, whatever, whatever you're doing. Hopefully I want to make a trip because you know, I don't come to Arizona.
Not anytime soon, but I hope to know I'm not avoiding it.
Okay. I'm checking out. I gotta get going but episode with a charity. Is there one that you like to promote here at the end? Oh, wow. I was
not privy to that. Any any local food bank help, okay, help out your neighbors, right. That's the easiest way and probably the quickest way of doing something good or and or just go buy somebody groceries or coffee. Just go do something doesn't have to be expensive. Just do something nice and pay it forward. You know if you have the ability to to benefit somebody. Okay, yeah.
Yeah. After they buy your album, if they have a few bucks left over, they can donate it cannot? Can they buy a physical copy of the album? Or is it just streaming?
The physical copy will be available April 1, or they can go on Eddie timmons.com. There's a pre sale now they can go and preorder sign CDs and T shirts and all that. But it's all the singles already streaming on all the streaming platforms and it's available for saving and buying on iTunes. But there will be physical Yeah, April 1 When the record comes out.
Okay, great. Thanks so much. I look forward to seeing it. Music. All right,
Monkey Business Next time I see you.
Yes, absolutely. Well, that was just a blast. I wish we had more time, but hopefully I can have him on the show again soon. Make sure to follow Andy on Spotify or social media or check his website to get a physical copy of the new album electric truth that comes out soon. And I really think I need to see him live. So he's so talented, I might just have to take a trip to Texas to do it.
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