Inducted March 25, 2015, Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal is an award-winning vocalist, songwriter, producer, and world-renowned guitar virtuoso, with 30 years of released music, international festivals and headlining tours, and magazine covers as a solo artist.
Bumblefoot’s band credits include lead singer / guitarist of the legendary progressive rock band ASIA (featuring Geoff Downes, Carl Palmer, and Billy Sherwood), and guitarist of progressive rock band SONS OF APOLLO (featuring Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan, Derek Sherinian, and Jeff Scott Soto). Formerly a member of rock groups ART OF ANARCHY (2011 – 2017, including STP/Velvet Revolver vocalist Scott Weiland, Creed vocalist Scott Stapp and Disturbed bassist John Moyer) and GUNS N’ ROSES (2006 – 2014), Bumblefoot toured sold-out shows all over the world, headlining festivals with crowds up to 150,000. Bumblefoot’s unique ‘fretless guitar’ can be heard throughout Guns N’ Roses’ 2008 Chinese Democracy album.
Bumblefoot is also an accomplished composer whose music is often heard in TV, film and video games, including the theme song to VH1’s “That Metal Show”. Bumblefoot is an Adjunct Professor at SUNY Purchase College teaching music production, runs international ‘Bumblefoot Music Camps’, works with U.S. Embassies around the world on cross-cultural music programs, has his own line of award-winning hot sauces (BumblefootsHotSauce.com), and has worked with dozens of international charities visiting orphanages and children’s hospitals around the world with guitar in hand.
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Bumblefoot (Ron Thal)
