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His Name is Ronny North and He is Simply Among the Best Guitar Players in the Country.

It Doesn't Require Drugs to Be a Hero, a Star and a Friend. A Special Olympics Hero Ronny North.

So Cal guitarist Ronny is fast becoming a local Southern California Guitar Hero.He plays his own signature brand of instrumental guitar rock.He regularly opens for national acts throughout Southern California and even opened for Yngwie..He also managed to play and record with a few other big name players as well such as Rikki Rocket, Eric Singer, CC Deville to name a few.Ronny also gets airplay,press and sells CD's in Japan,Europe and in the U.S. .If that wasn't enough the music from Ronny's CD "Smeared" was licensed by MTV and was used for their Real World reality show.Ronny currently has full endorsements from Laney guitar amps,Stan Hinsley Guitar Pickups, SIT Strings,Presonus Audio products,

Carvin Products, Levy's Straps,Seymour Duncan guitar pickups,GraphTech Saddles,Sustainiac Infinite Sustain Devices, Brazen Guitars,TonePros Bridges,TC Electronics,Draven Shoes,Coffin Cases,Minarik Guitars,Light Pick,Zaolla Cables,Morley Pedals,Sik World Clothing,Guitar Wheel,Femme Metale Custom Jewlery,Roadie Rench,Tennesse Acoustic Guitars,Wedgie Products,Doc's Pro Plugs,Floyd Rose Trems, Black Kross Pedal Boards, Axe Trak ,Atomic Amplifiers,AMT Pedals,Pedal Snake Guitar Audio Snakes,Freelok trem stablizers,Guitar Force Products,Celestion Speakers,Groove Tubes and Feiton Tuning Systems.Ronny has been featured in several ad campaigns for his sponsors and also regularly performs at clinics and trade shows for them including the annual NAMM show.If that wasn't enough Ronny also finds time to play several charity events each year and has been playing the Special Olympics Summer Games for the last several years as well as events for the troops ,Toys for Tots and events for musicians in need.Ronny states, it's always great to use your talent to help others in need. It's what it's all about! Ronny had a great 2006 that included winning Best Male Guitarist in the 2006 All Access Magazine Music Awards in November.Ronny also played all over America and did a ton of Music trade shows for his sponsors including the Chicago Guitar Show (where he also did some Shred Clinics),The Arlington Guitar Show (where he also played in the All Star Jam), The Ink Slingers Ball at Anaheim Stadium,Summer NAMM in Austin (where he was interviewed by the Texas Music Cafe cable show and interviewed by Las Vegas Magazine Connection alongside his friend Gary Hoey.),The LA Guitar Show,and The Nick Stock Festival to name a few.He also did tons of press and was interviewed by All Access Magazine,Indy Guitarists Magazine,Guitar Jam Magazine, Connections Magazine from Vegas where he was interviewed with his friend Gary Hoey at the world famous Antone's Club in Austin, Tx.He also did a bunch of Radio interviews including interviews with Radio Metal Storm,VM Underground Radio,The Primespot Radio, Maximum Threshold Radio to name a few.He kicked off 2007 by headlining the Best Buy/Minarik Guitars event on Jan 4th.He also played at the Winter NAMM show in Anahiem California on Jan 18-21st for his sponsors and headlined a NAMM Showcase on Jan 18th.Before he went on Ronny called in live to the VM Underground Radio show. Ronny's DISCONNECTED CD was also world premiered during Ronny's live interview on the show from NAMM. Ronny is also be featured in a promo video for Guitar Wheel. If all that isn't enough Ronny currently writes a weekly column called Adventures in Guitar with Ronny North for Guitar Jams Daily Online E-Zine (www.guitarjamsdaily.com ) The column talks about all of Ronny's weekly guitar adventures and has been getting a great response.Lately Ronny has been busy doing press for the DISCONNECTED CD and has done more than a few Radio shows including playing live on the Billy Moses Radio show, several appearances on VM Underground Radio and a appearance on Maximum Threshold Radio to name a few.Ronny was featured in the March 2007 issue of Guitar Player Magazine (where editor in cheif Michael Molenda said some very nice things about Ronny's playing including "Ronny's one of those rare cats who can lay down a dumb rock rhythm and shred like a mother"..) and Music Connection Magazine.Ronny will be doing some Guitar Clinics for Guitar Center and various other music stores.He did a clinic for Guitar Center on April 14th at the Pasadena,California store.Ronny's DISCONNECTED CD was released in May on NBN Records .The CD is available on the Ronny North website (www.ronnynorth.com ) and Amoeba Music (www.amoebamusic.com ) and will be available at several other music outlets soon.On that Note, Ronny just signed a Distribution Deal with Nightmare Records (www.nightmare-records.com ) .The agreement will get Ronny's new DISCONNECTED CD in stores all over America and in Europe.Ronny just did a Shred Guitar Clinic at Verde Valley Music in Cottonwood Arizona on May 19th.On that note, Ronny also did a big interview with the Az paper Verde Valley Independent . The interview hit the stands in AZ on May 16th (You can see the interview in Ronny's Blogs..).Ronny's clinic was packed and went over great.The AZ crowd was great Ronny states..On that note, he has already been invited back to do another clinic and some shows. (Stay tuned..).After Ronny's clinic he did a live radio interview at 8pm that night on WFLM.com (www.wflm.com )with DJ Rage Goddess. They were on the air for two hours and talked about everything including a few things that Ronny has never talked about in interviews ever. Ronny will be doing a bunch more clinics in the coming months.He will also be doing a Guitar Shred Clinic at Sam Ash Music in Canoga Park, Ca on July 9th.On May 24th Ronny attended the Seven Deadly Sins Vanity Charity event. It was a great event for a great cause. Ronnys endorser Femme Metale Jewelry was one of the sponsors of the event. Ronny had a blast hanging with FM owner and buddy Leslie Homan. He also got to meet the very funny comedian Dana Eagle (there's a pic of Ronny & Dana in the photo gallery). She was hosting the event and was very funny.Ronny just played the Special Olympics Summer Games again for the 6th year in a row on June 16th at Cal State Long Beach.It's a cause that Ronny really believes in.He headlined Martini Blues Club in Huntington Beach, Calif (The OC!) on June 23rd and then headlined the Avalon club in San Diego on July 14th...On July 21st Ronny did a guitar clinic at Tone Merchants (www.tonemerchants.com ) in Orange, Calif. Ronny is currently recording his acoustic CD Acoustify and will be doing a few acoustic shows soon.You can see a sneak preview of some of the songs when Ronny plays at Fenders Bar & Grill on August 9th. Ronny will be doing the show solo without his band and will be playing songs off his Acoustify CD as well as stuff off his other CDs..If all that wasn't enough Ronny is currently featured on the Buzz Feiten Website (www.buzzfeiten.com ) Ronny has been endorsing the company for over 10 years....He is featured on the website next to Scott Henderson and Michael Thompson (Great company to be in..) He will also be featured in the company's promo video and will be in a future ad campaign as well (Stay tuned!) Ronny also just performed at the Heart of Gold Charity Concert that was held at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood on August 9th. The event featured several child guitarists from all over the world.The best thing is that it was all for Charity.Ronny also did a guitar clinic with the kids on August 8th at Hot House Studios.He will also be doing clinics for Laney,Presonus and Brazen guitars later this summer.On August 14th Ronny and his band played at the House of Blues at Disneyland in Anahiem, California.The show went great and Ronny was shot by a local paper who is doing an article on Ronny that will be featured on the front page (Stay tuned..)On that note, Ronny will be featured in the Sept issue of European Music magazine Fireworks (www.myspace.com/fireworks_magazine ) Ronny will also be performing at the LA Amp show in October for Minarik guitars and Villex electronics. Ronny is also working on a Christmas song called "A Moment to Remember".It will be released in November 2007.Of course Ronny will also be performing at Winter NAMM in January. This year he will be playing for Laney Amplifiers,Presonus Electronics, Light Pick among others. Ronny is tomorrow's guitar hero today!!!!!