The String Quartet Tribute
| Vitamin String Quartet | |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | VSQ |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Vitamin |
| Website | www |
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Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) is a musical group from Los Angeles, California, that is widely known for its series of tribute albums to rock and pop acts. Their albums are released through Vitamin Records and primarily performed by a string quartet, though other instruments have been used. "Vitamin String Quartet is about applying rock n' roll attitude to classical technique," says Tom Tally, a violist and arranger who has performed on and produced over fifty Vitamin String Quartet albums.
Their albums honor a wide variety of genres, including pop and rock, metal, emo, punk, techno, country, and hip-hop, and a wide variety of groups, such as Oasis (band), Simple Plan, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Offspring, Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Senses Fail, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, the Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Modest Mouse,
The group began in 1999 "as an experiment in transforming rock songs with classical instruments." It later expanded to include a variety of popular music.
Their music was played 24 hours a day on FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, New Hampshire.
In 2008, VSQ contributed a recording of "Jack and Sally Montage" to Nightmare Revisited, on which the Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas original score was reinterpreted by bands like Tiger Army, All-American Rejects, Plain White Ts, Rise Against, and DeVotchKa.
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