Timo Somers: Seymour Duncan interviews the Aristides rising star



Many players who are known worldwide are often American or British, with some notable exceptions. The Scorpions’ six-string hitters Matthias Jabs and Rudolf Schenker are German and Henrik Freischlader is a Swiss guitar player who’s slowly yet steadily rising to fame. But there are many amazing players from my country, too. In 1973, Jan Akkerman was awarded the title of Best Player of the Year, and in the beginning of the 1980s Adrian Vandenberg climbed to the top of the charts with his band Vandenberg and from the mid-80s with Whitesnake, not to mention the living legend Eddie Van Halen, who was born in the Netherlands too! Unfortunately, since the beginning of the 90s not many Dutch players managed to punch through to mainstream audiences, which is quite a shame in my opinion.

As a way of promoting upcoming artists, Seymour Duncan offers this platform to showcase these artists. In this interview I want to introduce my good friend Timo Somers. Timo, born in 1991, started playing when he hit the tender age of 12. His father put a guitar in his hands; who could have imagined he’d build himself such an already impressive career? As a guitarist of the Dutch progressive metal bands Delain, Tri-head and Vengeance, not including his many side projects, Timo is an extremely busy and productive player.

How did you start playing guitar?

I never really was into music at all until I was 12. A friend of my dad gave me this CD-R with Linkin Park, KoRn, Limp Bizkit, etc. I loved the CD, particularly ‘In The End’ by Linkin Park. I listened to that song like 20 times a day. One night when I was blasting it in the living room my dad (who was a great guitar player himself) asked me if I wanted to learn the song on guitar. I said yes, and that was the beginning of the end.

Complete Interview: http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/artist-interview/rising-dutch-guitar-slinger-timo-somers/


Timo Somers, guitarist of Delain, gave a short demonstration during the guitar clinic at the Aristides Factory. He plays the Matt White and Aluminium Aristides OIOTimo Somers, guitarist of Delain, gaTimo Somers, guitarist of Delain, gave a short demonstration during the guitar clinic at the Aristides Factory. He plays the Matt White and Aluminium Aristides OIOve a short demonstration during the guitar clinic at the Aristides Factory. He plays the Matt White and Aluminium Aristides OIO


Timo Somers Aristides OIO Demo @ Factory Clinic

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