Ronni Le Tekrø

Ronni Le Tekrø
Background information
Birth name Rolf Ågrim Tekrø
Born 5 October 1963
Oslo
Origin Norway
Genres Hard rock,[1] Heavy metal,[1] Glam metal,[1] Pop rock[1]
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter
Instruments Guitar, Vocals, Sitar, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Guitar Synthesizer
Years active 1982–present
Associated acts TNT, Vagabond, Terje Rypdal
Website www.ronniletekro.com/
Notable instruments
Hamburgerguitar Quarterstepper guitar, Fender Stratocaster(H-S), ESP Holocaster custom guitar

Ronni Le Tekrø (born Rolf Ågrim Tekrø, 5 October 1963, Oslo, Norway)[2] is a Norwegian guitarist best known for playing with the Norwegian hard rock band TNT and as a solo guitarist cooperating with guitarists Terje Rypdal and Mads Eriksen as "N3".[3] Tekrø moved to Raufoss at a young age, and he has lived there all his life except between 1982 and 1985 when he lived in Trondheim.

Le Tekrø sound

Le Tekrø plays with more emphasis on volume and hard attack on the strings than distortion. He often uses arpeggios, like in the solo in "Intuition".

He covered Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare" in his solo album Extra Strong String. Le Tekrø has collaborated with the Norwegian guitarist and composer Terje Rypdal and has released three albums featuring the fruits of that collaboration. Le Tekrø'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.. He also claims to have invented the "Machine Gun Style." *George Lynch of Dokken states Le Tekrø's solo for "Caught between the Tigers" is "a real face-melter. It's spine-tingling."

Equipment

Le Tekrø's main guitar live is the so-called "Holocaster". Originally a light pink ESP guitar from the early eighties. The head is signed by close friend Brian Robertson formerly from Thin Lizzy and Motörhead. Le Tekrø uses his black early seventies Fender Stratocaster as a back-up for live performances. On the "Atlantis" tour Tekrø uses an Epiphone 1959 or a Morgan strat on the opening song "Hello, Hello".

He is also known for pioneering the use of the Quarterstepper Guitar. This guitar has twice as many frets as normal guitar, spread throughout the neck with quarter-tone intervals. This guitar was invented by Bernie Hamburger of Hamburgerguitar and Le Tekrø himself. He used the guitar for the solo in Wisdom from the Intuition album, and several others recordings. Hamburger also built a 12 string hollow body that Le Tekrø has used on various tours and recordings.

In the studio Le Tekrø uses a wide range of effects and amps.

His trademark Fender Stratocaster is notably unusually set up, with a Rockinger tremolo bridge and a Seymour Duncan pickup at the bridge position, no middle pickup, and an active custom made Magnetics™ pickup in the tail position.

For live performances Le Tekrø uses:

Wiccan witch

Le Tekrø has been practicing the nature religion Wicca since the 1980s, and he labels himself a witch.[5] He even has a masters degree in Wicca witchcraft.. He claims to know how to store energies in stones out in the forest and go out and charge up his batteries from them when he needs to. He says in a Norwegian newspaper interview in 2007 that Wicca helps him deal with such matters as death and guilt and that he prefers this to "fairytales from the Middle East which have thrown an entire world into war".[5][6]

Incomplete discography

TNT

Tekrø performing at Norway Rock Festival 2008
Main article: TNT discography

Solo and collaborated records

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Allmusic". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  2. ↑ "Ronni Le Tekrø Official Website". Ronniletekro.com. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  3. ↑ "Norwegian 3- Supergitaristar til Øvre Årdal". Porten.no. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  4. ↑ "Studio Studio". Studiostudio.no. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lund, Joacim (September 25, 2007). "Spiller på mange strenger" (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aftenposten. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  6. ↑ Gravem, Dag F. (September 21, 2007). "Metall-avhengighet" (in Norwegian). Oslo: Ny Tid. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
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