Ronni Le Tekrø

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Ronni Lé Tekrø (born Rolf Ågrim Tekrø on October 5, 1963)[1] is a Norwegian guitarist best known for playing with the Norwegian hard rock band TNT and as a solo guitarist.

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[edit] The Le Tekrø sound

Ronni tends to play his guitar at a very fast pace with more emphasis on distortion and pace than volume. He often uses arpeggios, like in the solo in "Intuition". Ronni is known for improvising and is known as a creative person among people surrounding him.

He covered Alice Cooper's "Welcome To my Nightmare" in his solo album Extra Strong String. He is known for pioneering the "machine gun" guitar playing style (without the use of a pedal). Le Tekrø has collaborated with the Norwegian guitarist and composer Terje Rypdal and has released three albums featuring the fruits of that collaboration. Ronni's vocals tend to be deep, with emphasis on vibrato and falsetto. His inspirations as a guitarist include Steve Hillage, Brian May, Jimmy Page, Brian Robertson, Jimi Hendrix, and Ted Nugent.[citation needed]. He is also credited as the inventor of the "Machine Gun Style"

In the '80s he was rated one of the best guitarists in the world,[citation needed] and several webpages state he is also on of the most influential ones.

[edit] Equipment

The most known of Ronni's guitars must be the so called "Holocaster". A heavy personalized Fender Stratocaster. The head is signed by close friend Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy and formerly Motörhead. It is said that the guitar is insured for around NOK 1,000,000 (US$200,000) and will not be sold to anyone by any means.[citation needed]

He is also known for pioneering the use of the Quarterstepper Guitars. This guitar has twice as many frets as normal guitars do below the 15th fret. Normal guitars have frets like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..., but this Quarter Stepper has frets of 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5... This guitar was invented by Hamburger Guitars and Ronni himself.[citation needed]

He uses a wide range of pedals:

  • OD-1 Overdrive
  • BF-2 Flanger
  • CE-2 Chorus

For live performances he often uses:

  • Roland RE-150 Space Echo Tape Delay,
  • Dunlop CryBaby
  • Digitech Whammy II[2]

[edit] Trivia

  • He has a masters degree in Wikka witchcraft
  • George Lynch of Dokken states Ronni's solo for "Caught between the Tigers" is "a real face-melter. It's spine-tingling."[citation needed]
  • He owns his own studio located in the woods of Toten, Norway called Studio Studio.[3]

[edit] Discography

[edit] TNT

[edit] Solo and collaborated records

  • Wonderland (Embee Normann) (1993)
  • Dedicated to Thin Lizzy (Bad Habitz) (1993)
  • Vagabond (Vagabond) (1994)
  • A Huge Fan Of Life (Vagabond) (1995)
  • Rypdal & Tekrø (Terje Rypdal) (RCA 74321 242962) (1997)
  • Rypdal/Tekrø II (Terje Rypdal) (1997)
  • Starfire (Jorn Lande) 2000- Guest on "The Day the Earth Caught Fire"
  • Extra Strong String (2000)
  • Magica Lanterna (2002)
  • Under the Misteltoe (Evil Elf Band) (2002)
  • The Radiosong (Terje Rypdal) (2002)
  • Camouflage (Wild Willy's Gang) (2005)
  • Unlocking the Past(Jorn Lande)(2007)(guest on "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" rerecording)
  • Kingdom of Norway (2007)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Official website
  2. ^ 4
  3. ^ www.studiostudio.no