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Vigier DoubleFoot Ron Thal
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Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal has always been an outstanding guitarist, whether playing with Guns n’ Roses, Sons Of Apollo, Art of Anarchy, or his solo project. When he played with the Guns, he needed to be able to quickly switch from a fretted rhythm guitar to a fretless one, which he used for some solos. To overcome this problem, Vigier designed the DoubleFoot for him; the only fretted/fretless double-neck guitar on the market. Since then, Ron has played it on stages all over the world and it has become his main instrument, which he plays almost exclusively.
This superb Gold Top is one of the two gold-finish DoubleFoots played by Ron. It is the one we see in the video for the track Alive (Sons Of Apollo), and was used to record the albums of Art Of Anarchy and Sons Of Apollo. Indeed, it became their iconic symbol in the same way as Billy Sheehan’s double-neck bass. An instrument that is modern, cool, and iconoclastic, just like its former owner.
Bumblefoot
(1969)
Group : Guns N’ Roses
Main guitar : Vigier Double Foot
An absolute “must-hear” track : Hands
The world of music is full of artists as strange as they are brilliant. Bizarre characters whose discography is not necessarily easy to follow. Bumblefoot started his career under his real name, Ron Thal, with the famous Shrapnel label, the recording house that discovered the cream of the shredders in the eighties. However, his 1995 album The Adventures Of Bumblefoot is not a torrent of sixteenth-note runs, but rather an unidentified musical object somewhere between Zappa and Van Halen. His taste for unusual guitars is no secret to anyone, as he has often appeared with an Ibanez Roadster painted yellow and riddled with holes, the famous “Swiss Cheese Guitar”. He then discovered the Vigier brand, and in particular the Surfretter, at the time of Uncool in 2000, and became the ambassador of the fretless guitar.
In 2006, he radically changed his status when assumed the position of lead guitarist in the world’s biggest rock band. Bumblefoot replaced Buckethead in Guns N’ Roses, and he was not looking to merely replicate Slash. He brought his own crazy universe to the band and contributed to making Chinese Democracy (2008) the complex and avant-garde album it has become. He shines particularly brightly on a solo like Shackler’s Revenge, probably the largest possible exposure of the fretless guitar to the general public ever recorded.
To meet the demands of the long Guns N’ Roses tours, Bumblefoot had a double-neck fretted/fretless guitar built by Vigier, which would become known as the Double Foot. He finally left the band in 2014, and now devotes himself to the groups Art Of Anarchy (with John Moyer from Disturbed) and Sons Of Apollo (with Mike Portnoy and Billy Sheehan), in which he continues to combine traditional hard rock guitar and innovative research.
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